Early parliamentary elections in Canada will take place on April 28, announced on Sunday new Prime Minister Mark Carney. He also declared that he needed a strong mandate to address the threat that the US President Donald Trump is for the Canadian economy. TASR reports on this based on Reuters and AFP reports.
The elections were to be held until October, but Carney is trying to take advantage of an increase in the preferences of its liberal party Since January, when Trump began to threaten Canada by introducing tariffs and the then Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation. Trump has also repeatedly declared that he wanted Canada to become a 51st US state.
“Given the unfounded business steps of President Trump and his threats to our sovereignty, we are facing the most important crisis of our time,” Carney said when he announced the date of the election and at the same time the start of the election campaign.
Carney, a former central bank governor without previous experience in politics or election campaigns, took over the liberal management two weeks ago after how He convinced the party members that he was the best candidate to deal with Trump.
Now he has five weeks to win voters. Surveys show that liberals who have been in power since 2015 are currently slightly led before the main opposition conservative party. In January, they were still lagging behind more than 15 percentage points. Analysts attribute this in part to Trump’s policy to Canada and changes in the leadership of liberals.
