{"id":33436,"date":"2020-09-21T22:20:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=33436"},"modified":"2020-09-21T22:20:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:50:52","slug":"new-zealand-prime-minister-apologizes-for-maskless-selfie-photo-i-made-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=33436","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand prime minister apologizes for maskless selfie photo: &#8216;I made a mistake&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New Zealand&#8217;s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, apologized on Monday after being photographed with supporters at a work site while not wearing a mask to prevent the spread of coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The New Zealand Herald reported that Ardern said she &#8220;made a mistake&#8221; after facing criticism from the leader of a rival political party over the photo, which depicts Ardern alongside several construction workers at a job site, none of whom are wearing masks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PM Jacinda Ardern admits she &#39;made a mistake&#39; with group photo<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zGGKmLZoM2\">https:\/\/t.co\/zGGKmLZoM2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SoCjrzSIft\">pic.twitter.com\/SoCjrzSIft<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Newstalk ZB (@NewstalkZB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewstalkZB\/status\/1307887274265251840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In that particular photo, I made a mistake,&#8221; Ardern told reporters, according to the Herald. &#8220;Yes, I should have moved further forwards and I should have asked them to step apart as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>National Party leader Judith Collins told reporters at a press conference that she was &#8220;staggered&#8221; to see Ardern maskless in the photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I was staggered to see the prime minister clearly not socially distancing with no mask just the other day in Palmerston North in a level 2 lockdown,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The headlines come as New Zealand&#8217;s two parties are set to face off in October&#8217;s elections, which were delayed by a month due to the coronavirus pandemic. Ardern&#8217;s party, the Labour Party, is leading Collins&#8217;s National Party in most polls of the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><em>With inputs from <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/asia-pacific\/517372-new-zealand-pm-apologizes-for-maskless-selfie-photo-i-made\">The Hill<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><em>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand&#8217;s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, apologized on Monday after being photographed with supporters at a work site while not wearing a mask to prevent the spread of coronavirus. The New Zealand Herald reported that Ardern said she &#8220;made a mistake&#8221; after facing criticism from the leader of a rival political party over the photo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}