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The contenders to replace Jacinda Ardern as New Zealand’s leader

The contenders to replace Jacinda Ardern as New Zealand’s leader

WELLINGTON: The race to replace Jacinda Ardern was on Friday shaping up as a contest between a safe pair of hands and a surprise candidate who could become New Zealand's first Maori prime minister.The next prime minister will be chosen from within Ardern's ruling Labour Party, which will meet on Sunday to discuss the contenders.Whoever is chosen will have less than 10 months to turn around the government's sagging popularity, before facing a resurgent opposition in an October general election.Chris HipkinsChris Hipkins, who became a household name when he led New Zealand's tough response to the Covid-19 pandemic, is being touted as the front-runner.The 44-year-old won plaudits for his near two-year term as the Covid response minister in a country that shut down its borders to keep the coronavirus out, only fully reopening in August last year.Widely seen as a safe pair of hands with more than 14 years in parliament, he conceded last year that people were fed up with the strict pandemic

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