Hipkins will be sworn in as prime minister on Wednesday.
Hipkins, the sole nominee for the position, will be sworn in as prime minister on Wednesday, he told a media conference on Sunday.
His deputy will be Carmel Sepuloni, the country's first Pasifika person to hold the position. She takes over from finance minister Grant Robertson."I want to acknowledge the significance of this for our Pasifika community. I am proudly Samoan, Tongan, and New Zealand European, and represent generations of New Zealanders with mixed heritage," she said.Sepuloni said it was"huge honour and privilege" to be offered the role.
Ardern's last event as prime minister will be the annual Rātana celebrations - a Māori religious movement which, in the late 1920s, also became a major political movement - on Tuesday. - dpa
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