New Zealand’s National party has chosen Bill English as the country’s 39th Prime Minister. He will be succeeding John Key, who announced his surprise resignation last week.
●    English’s name was confirmed for the role during a National Party meeting, which took place early on 12 December 2016. He was formerly serving the nation as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance (MoF).
●    While Paul Bennett will be replacing English as the new Deputy PM, senior Cabinet minister Steven Joyce has been named as the new finance minister.
●    He has been a politician for 26 years. 
●    He entered politics in 1990 when he was elected to the Parliament as a National Party candidate.
●    Prior to it, he was a farmer and a public servant with degrees in commerce and literature,
●    He was first appointed as the Finance Minister in 1999 but he couldn’t complete even a year in office, as his party got defeated in the elections held in the same year.
●    He replaced Jenny Shipley as the leader of the National Party in 2001. 
●    He was replaced by Don Brash in 2003 following the party’s worst election defeat in 2002.
●    In November 2006, he was named deputy under John Key’s leadership and after the party’s 2008 win, he was sworn in as both Deputy PM and MoF, a role which he continued to handle until 2016.
 

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