New Zealand Conservatives Prepare to form Coalition Government

(AFP) — Christopher Luxon said it was a “tremendous privilege” to wake up Sunday as New Zealand’s incoming prime minister as he eyed talks to form a new coalition government. Voters ended the six-year reign of the centre-left Labour government on Saturday as Luxon’s conservative National Party won enough seats to govern in a coalition with liberal party ACT. Labour leader Chris Hipkins, who replaced Jacinda Ardern as prime minister in January, conceded defeat after his party lost nearly half their number of seats from the previous election in 2020....