Jacinda Ardern bids farewell to New Zealand parliament in tearful address

Jacinda Ardern delivers emotional final speech to New Zealand Parliament: "You can be a mother ... you can lead, just like me"

Jacinda Ardern announced her resignation as prime minister in January after more than five years as New Zealand's leader – and now has her sights set on combating environmental issues and online extremism.

Video: Hear Jacinda Ardern's farewell speech to Parliament

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said farewell to politics with an inspiring speech that assured other "nerds, criers, and huggers" that they too could one day lead.

New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern gives rousing farewell speech: 'You can lead. Just like me'

By Helen Regan, CNN Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said farewell to politics Wednesday with a rousing speech that assured other nerds, criers, and huggers that they too could one day lead. “You can be anxious, sensitive, kind, and wear your heart on your sleeve, you can be a mother or not, you can be an ex-Mormon or not, you can be a nerd, a crier, a hugger — you can be all of these things,” she said, tearfully. “And not only c…

Ardern delivers final speech to New Zealand parliament

The 42-year-old, once the youngest woman leader in the world, choked up at several points during the speech, which she started and finished in the Maori language.

‘You can lead just like me,’ Jacinda Ardern says in final speech to New Zealand Parliament

All New Zealanders should feel politics can be a home for them, former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Wednesday, in a final address to parliament.

In final speech, Ardern reflects on leading New Zealand

In her final speech to New Zealand’s Parliament on April 5, Jacinda Ardern described in emotional terms how she’d navigated a pandemic and a mass-shooting during her tumultuous five-year tenure as Prime Minister.