Jacinda Ardern resignation: Karl Stefanovic asks Winston Peters if she jumped ... trends now

Jacinda Ardern resignation: Karl Stefanovic asks Winston Peters if she jumped ... trends now
Jacinda Ardern resignation: Karl Stefanovic asks Winston Peters if she jumped ... trends now

Jacinda Ardern resignation: Karl Stefanovic asks Winston Peters if she jumped ... trends now

Karl Stefanovic has dared to ask the question on everybody's lips after New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her shock resignation. 

The Today Show host asked former deputy prime minister of New Zealand Winston Peters whether Ms Ardern had decided to jump before she was pushed.

'Do you think perhaps she's gone before she was beaten?' Stefanovic asked. 

'You've put it in a way that was certainly a version, it is very likely the case,' he said. 

Mr Peters said it was likely that Ms Ardern had done the maths and 'walked' after realising she would potentially lose the 2023 election. 

'Some people do... a previous prime minister did a calculation - it was 60/40 that he couldn't win so just walked,' he said. 

'There will be a lot of statements now made in the passion of this moment but the question is whether or not it's a fact.'

Former deputy prime minister Winston Peters (right) said it was 'very likely' that Ms Ardern had done the maths and 'walked' after realising she would potentially lose the 2023 election

Former deputy prime minister Winston Peters (right) said it was 'very likely' that Ms Ardern had done the maths and 'walked' after realising she would potentially lose the 2023 election

Stefanovic's co-host Sarah Abo asked if the resignation had come as a shock.  

'I think it was an enormous surprise to the New Zealand people and the international audience, so to speak, but not to a number of us,' Mr Peters said. 

'I think it was very predictable. The second phase of her prime ministership post-2020 has not been good and the polls are tracking rather lousily, and everything was a problem, so not a surprise.'

Ms Ardern told reporters she simply didn't have 'enough in the tank' for another four years as prime minister despite having time off over the summer. 

Mr Peters said those energy reserves were related to the level of confidence a politician had in the lead-up to an election. 

In an emotional press conference on Thursday, the outgoing prime

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