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Anthony Albanese has rode in a wave of anti-donald Trump feelings to win a second term as Australian prime minister, just three months after surveys suggested that he face a humiliating loss.
The results of the early Saturday elections showed that Albanese was decided to become the first Australian prime minister in more than 20 years to claim a backward victory and the first work leader to reach that feat since Bob Hawke in 1990.
The ABC broadcaster called the labor victory at the beginning of the indictment, with the Liberal opposition party failing to achieve the swing needed to discover its rival.
Liberal leader Peter Dutton lost his Dickson country in Queensland and admitted that his party had lost elections. “We did not do so well during this campaign. This amount is visible tonight and I accept full responsibility,” he told supporters at the liberal headquarters.
Work needs 76 seats to form a government. The number of places that will win is not yet clear, but work members celebrated savagely in Sydney as the holiday approached the majority.
The support for the Liberals collapsed during the election campaign. Their platform-which included Trump-like proposals, such as plans to reduce government spending and public sector jobs and attacks on “smart” agendas-did not manage to withdraw withdrawals with voters that have been repulsed by the US president’s fees and aggressive foreign policy.
James Patterson, a Liberal Senator and spokesman, said: “One factor we can all know is the Trump factor.” He described Trump’s influence on the race as “meaningful”.
Australia’s survey comes days after voters turned the Canadian Liberal Party into a sharp turn in voting due to Trump’s intervention. Liberals were running a distant second for conservatives before Trump mock Canada, threatened to annex the country and said he would impose tariffs on it.
Irene Kontomin, who was voting in Fowler’s marginal place in Sydney’s foreign west and supported the work, said Trump had played a role in her vote. But she also argued that Dutton had failed to make a convincing issue of throwing work.
“It’s not enough. Bettert’s better the devil you know,” she said.
Albanese began the live broadcast day by Melbourne Cricket Ground, where he said the prospect of return-back victories was “Holy Grail”. He later appeared on stage at a West Sydney Workshop social club to announce the victory.
The elections were mainly fought in the suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney, where dissatisfied voters fighting growing rents and mortgages, plus high prices of electricity, food and gasoline, have poured into both major parties.
In Western Sydney, a traditional work heart, where 10 percent of Australia’s population lives, the Liberal Party had hoped to gain significant ground.
But Sajedul Hasan, a Fowler accountant, said the proposal dutts to force thousands of remote public sector workers in the office if he was elected had caused a “mass change” in the sense of voters, given the proximity of the area to Central Sydney and the presence of many people working from home.
He added that Dutton’s failure to recognize the cost of food during television debates has also damaged his chances. “If you don’t know the price of eggs, how can you represent us?” Hasani asked.
