Following on from other Young Global Leaders in the political jurisdiction in New Zealand, Simon Bridges (National Party) and Jacinda Ardern (Labour Party), the World Economic Forum announced that Golriz Ghahraman (Green Party) was going to be a part of its 2020 intake. I sent an Official Information Act request to Ghahraman about this in 2021 which she, of course, never responded to.
Bridges & Ardern both went on to lead their parties and of course we were lumbered with Ardern as our Prime Minister for just over 5 years from 2017 to 2023 despite her clear lack of ability. But she became the darling of the World’s liberals and those who think of themselves on the left. But in New Zealand due to her very illiberal Covid policies she became very much hated, so much so that when she returned for her wedding to Clark Gayford recently she basically hid from the New Zealand public, wearing a mask even to disguise herself, when out in public (only one instance of that it seems, to a hairdress…
