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Carmel Sepuloni
Carmel Sepuloni (born 1977) is a New Zealand Labour politician of Samoan, Tongan and Pākehā descent, a former teacher and MP for Kelston since 2014.
- Born
- 1977, Waitara
- Party
- New Zealand Labour Party
- Education
- University of Auckland
- Website
- labour.org.nz
Centre-left · Where sources place the party (New Zealand Labour Party)
Wikipedia: centre-left (Labour Party)
Ideology: social democracy
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She is Labour's deputy leader and deputy leader of the Opposition, and was Deputy Prime Minister in 2023. She is named in the race for Prime Minister of New Zealand in the 2026 election.
Career
Born in Waitara in 1977, Sepuloni trained as a teacher at the Auckland College of Education and the University of Auckland, and later worked in alternative education and Pacific health research. She was a Labour list MP from 2008 to 2011, lost the Waitakere seat in 2011 by nine votes after a judicial recount, and has held Kelston since 2014. In government from 2017 to 2023 she was Minister for Social Development, and from 2020 Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage and for ACC. She was Deputy Prime Minister in 2023 and has been Labour deputy leader since November 2023.
- Minister for ACC 2020–2023
- Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage 2020–2023
- Minister of Social Development 2017–2023
- Minister for Disability Issues 2020–2022
Positions
As a Labour politician she belongs to a party that Wikipedia describes as centre-left and social democratic. Her portfolios in opposition are social development and Pacific peoples.
Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia · Wikipedia
Photo: New Zealand Labour Party, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons (cropped)
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Prime Minister of New Zealand?
| Outcome | Left – Right | Age | Probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Luxon | Centre-right | 56 | 56% |
| Chris Hipkins | Centre-left | 48 | 45% |
| Chlöe Swarbrick | 1% | ||
| David Seymour | Right | 43 | 1% |
| Carmel Sepuloni | Centre-left | 1% | |
| Winston Peters | Right | 81 | <1% |
| Nicola Willis | <1% |