New Zealand: The prime minister described her political opponent as “not arrogant…” – he had an open mic

I heard an absolutely indecent word in her parliament New Zealand When New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, thought she wasn’t listening, calling her political opponent “No…

The offensive comment was heard over microphones after a question from David Seymour, leader of the opposition ACT party.

The Prime Minister disagreed when Seymour asked her to give an example of “a mistake she made and apologized for and was right and corrected”.

Ardern said there had been several instances where the Labor government had acknowledged that there were no “perfect answers”, including in its response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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“We have said frankly, for example, that – managing isolation and quarantine – was a very difficult thing at the time and that there were people affected by it and that we would do things differently if we were faced with that again.”

Ardern sat up next and, thinking she could not be heard, whispered: “What a snooty no…y.”

A spokesperson for the Prime Minister’s Office confirmed shortly afterwards that the prime minister had apologized to her interlocutor, according to the BBC.

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