Former airline boss Christopher Luxon formally took office as New Zealand’s prime minister on Monday, vowing to tame inflation and bring down interest rates.
Luxon took over six weeks after his conservative National Party won national elections, ending a six-year Labour Party reign ushered in by Jacinda Ardern.
Luxon, 53, once chief executive of Air New Zealand, was sworn in as head of a new coalition government by New Zealand’s governor-general in a ceremony in the capital Wellington.
“It is an honour and an awesome responsibility,” Luxon told reporters.
