The first way led Jacinda Ardern on Saturday to the people, your attention is most urgently needed: new Zealand’s Prime Minister traveled at noon from the seat of government in Wellington, to Christchurch, to the site of the terrorist attack. It was a visit, not a head of government in the world likes to do. But Arderns trip was not only special because they introduced the Prime Minister to a place where less than 24 hours before, 50, the new Zealander is the victim of a terrorist was to become the plot, but also because of the way they approached the trip. Ardern refused, your travel data to the media, and renounced any Publicity. Instead, you drove directly into the Canterbury Refugee Center, to a Meeting with representatives of the Muslim community in new Zealand. Only there, camera crews were able to accompany you.

appearance with head cloth

The Muslim community, they brought the visually clearest of all expressions of Respect: they wore a black head scarf, as she spoke of how important it is that Muslims in new Zealand can also exercise in the future without a Worry to their Faith – in a country chosen by most of them “voluntarily as their home”.

It was an emotional appearance by the Prime Minister, which says a lot about Ardern – and about the country she leads. In 2017, the then-37 was sworn in-Year-old as head of government, in June 2018, it was only the second Prime Minister in the world during their term of office a child. Ardern ruled in a coalition with New Zealand First, a nationalist party under the leadership of Winston Peters, wants to limit immigration to a Minimum and just under the liberal new Zealanders controversial change.

In the first one and a half years ago, the Prime Minister showed, however, that, at first glance, difficult government can operate a constellation, if not all, of the new Zealander of the strong downturn in immigration policy agree. That Ardern weiss read the public mood, your decision-making, in public with a headscarf. And indeed: What would have been widely discussed, at least according to strong, harvested in new Zealand large consent.

Major concern

The concern for the fate of the Muslim religious community, which accounts for just over one percent of the population is exceptionally large. In the capital Wellington about 10’000 people gathered on Sunday to a joint vigil, throughout the country, spontaneous memorial services were aligned to celebrate. On Saturday alone, the plant gathered in a green in the centre of Christchurch at the same time, a group of students from the island state of Tonga, and a group of Nepalese immigrants, to commemorate the victims.

On Sunday, the pastor of the Anglican Church of St. Michael the voice on the other side of the Park was that they would not only support one of these days the “brothers and sisters” of the Muslim community with full attention, but always.

In Christchurch on the way the Prime Minister handles the crisis situation is, good. Receives praise Ardern, in particular, to ensure that you take clear measures, and without action to act more macho. Already in her first Statement, she promised that the rules for gun ownership will become stricter, on Monday, to be taken in a Cabinet meeting, the decision for a change in the law. With your Occur Ardern known has become clear to the Muslim minority in new Zealand. It shows itself grateful. (Editorial Tamedia)

Created: 17.03.2019, 23:00 clock