# Jacinda Ardern is sworn in as prime minister of New Zealand after a Labour–NZ First coalition

Date: 2017

## The fact

On 26 October 2017 [Jacinda Ardern](/people/jacinda-ardern) was sworn in as prime minister after [Winston Peters](/people/winston-peters) chose Labour over National, producing a Labour–NZ First coalition with Green confidence and supply.

## Context

MMP arithmetic, not a presidential decree, made the government. NZ First extracted policy concessions. Later KiwiBuild and COVID files are other dates. Office is not authorship of every 2018 bill.

The 2020 election majority is a different date. Resignation 2023 is a different date. Do not convert a swearing-in into a housing coefficient.

A New Zealand prime minister chairs Cabinet and can recommend orders and bills. The House enacts. Police, DHBs, MIQ contractors, and platform companies implement. That office is not authorship of WHO guidance, Australian law, or a later successor’s repeal.

## Evidence and sources

DPMC carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

Procedural [democratic-resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience) path from a completed coalition transfer.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Ardern was sworn in as prime minister on 26 October 2017.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Winston Peters chose the partner. The Governor-General swore her.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Jacinda Ardern is sworn in as prime minister of New Zealand after a Labour–NZ First coalition, not a later speech about Jacinda Ardern is sworn in as prime minister of New Zealand after a Labour–NZ First coalition.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Jacinda Ardern is sworn in as prime minister of New Zealand after a Labour–NZ First coalition on 2017-10-26 is not a licence to treat every later DPMC communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Jacinda Ardern is sworn in as prime minister of New Zealand after a Labour–NZ First coalition into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to She led Labour into coalition with NZ First and the Greens’ confidence. Winston Peters chose the partner. The Governor-General swore her. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Jacinda Ardern: https://factrail.ai/people/jacinda-ardern

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-newzealand-election-idUSKBN1CV0Y20171026
- https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ardern-sworn-prime-minister-2017