The CEO Unilever PLC Unilever Plc and the director general of Air New Zealand led his national center-right party to 39% of the votes in the elections on Saturday, against 25.6% in the previous survey three years ago.
He must now enter into coalition talks, probably with two small parties, to form a central-law government and says that his business sense will be a force again.
“I did a lot of mergers and acquisitions and I made a lot of negotiations,” Luxon told journalists on Sunday in Auckland. “Obtaining chemistry and the property of the relationship is the platform and the basics of the possibility of making your way through transactional problems.”
National and its ally, the party of the Libertarian Law, between them, it holds 61 seats in the Parliament of 121 seats – the vast majority which could be lost when votes abroad and special are counted in the coming weeks. Luxon may therefore need the support of the first nationalist part of New Zealand, which has eight seats.
Luxon, 53, is a political novice, having served only one mandate in Parliament. He became fourth national leader in just over 18 months when he took over in November 2021 following a series of scandals and intestine struggles of the party.