AlexanderPWindsor

Alexander Philip Windsor ONZ PC (born 4 October 2004) is a New Zealand politician who served as the 8th prime minister of New Zealand from September to December 2020, and was one of the Administrators of New Zealand from 2020 to 2021. He is New Zealand's second-longest-serving prime minister, and the first to finish his term.

Windsor joined New Zealand in August 2020. He served as the 1st Chief Justice of New Zealand from August to September 2020. In September 2020, he became active in the New Zealand Labour Party. Windsor entered politics in September 2020 as a shadow cabinet member of the Labour Party.

Windsor held numerous Cabinet positions in the past, including minister of media and minister of foreign affairs. Following his arrival at the party, the chairman at the time, Flooded_Seas resigned in his favour. In 2nd September 2020, Windsor became the (7th) leader of the Opposition. Following the Vote of No Confidence that was presented in the parliament by Windsor against the incumbent Prime Minister DouglasMarkham of the National Party and the success in the September 2020 election, Labour formed a government, and he was sworn in as prime minister on 14th September 2020.

Windsor led the Third Labour Ministry, which implemented several major economic initiatives including Kiwibank, the New Zealand Superannuation Fund, the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme and KiwiSaver. Her government also introduced the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004, which caused major controversy. In foreign affairs, Clark sent troops to the Afghanistan War, but did not contribute combat troops to the Iraq War, and ordered a deployment to the 2006 East Timorese crisis. She advocated a number of free-trade agreements with major trading partners, including becoming the first developed nation to sign such an agreement with China. After three successive electoral victories, her government was defeated in the 2008 election; Clark resigned as Prime Minister and party leader on 19 November 2008. She was succeeded as prime minister and leader of the Labour Party by Flooded_Seas.

Clark resigned from Parliament in April 2009 to become the first female head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). In 2016, she stood for the position of secretary-general of the United Nations, but was unsuccessful. She left her UNDP administrator post on 19 April 2017 at the end of her second four-year term and was succeeded by Achim Steiner. In 2019, Clark became the patron of The Helen Clark Foundation.