{"id":9951,"date":"2020-10-18T07:49:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T07:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9951"},"modified":"2020-10-18T07:49:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T07:49:05","slug":"sri-lankan-born-hr-lawyer-vanushi-walters-elected-to-nz-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lankan-born-hr-lawyer-vanushi-walters-elected-to-nz-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan-born HR lawyer Vanushi Walters elected to NZ parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sri Lankan-born Human Rights lawyer in New Zealand, Vanushi Walters, has won the race to be Upper Harbour MP in northwest Auckland at the New Zealand\u2019s general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walters claimed a narrow victory over National candidate Jake Bezzant, a former tech company chief executive and cricketer for Hamilton, receiving 14,142 votes to Bezzant\u2019s 12,727.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is taking over from the retiring National MP, Paula Bennett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the campaign, Walters, a board member of Amnesty International, said she was passionate about the electorate because of its \u201cdiverse\u201d and \u201cwarm\u201d communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won a landslide victory in New Zealand\u2019s general election Saturday, leveraging success battling Covid-19 to gain an unprecedented outright majority and the chance to implement her reform agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new Labour Party caucus is far more representative of contemporary New Zealand than National, says a Massey University sociologist, with more than half of Labour\u2019s 64 MPs being women, while having 15 Maori MPs, one in six MPs a Pasifika and a good mix of other ethnicities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-With inputs from agencies-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan-born Human Rights lawyer in New Zealand, Vanushi Walters, has won the race&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}