At the beginning of the campaign, influenced by the way candidates could negotiate the tariffs with the US President, the labor were behind the polls, but managed to turn the game
Prime Minister of, Anthony Albanese, was reelected on Saturday (3), and his labor party should get the largest number of chairs in the House of Representatives, surpassing the conservative bloc of liberal and national parties, according to projections from the country’s main communication vehicles.
Victory marks another electoral turnaround in the world driven by an anti-TRump feeling of voters-similar to what happened in Canada, where conservatives led even in the US victory and its rhetoric of transforming Canada into the “51st American state”.
The turnaround was largely driven by anger over President Donald Trump’s trade war and its impact on Australia, a military ally and commercial partner near the US.
Trump’s rates – first 25% of Australia aluminum and steel, and then 10% of all other products – led voters to choose balanced albanese and move away from their conservative opponent Peter Dutton, whose policies and rhetoric echoed the US President Sean Kelly, a political columnist at Sydney Morning Herald.
“Trump totally dominated the trajectory of this election,” Kelly said, adding that Global Uncertainty triggered by Trump has made “Albanese’s boring a very attractive merchandise.”
The Trump factor in Australian politics
Albanese is the latest left -wing leader to achieve reelection thanks to the rebound effect of Donald Trump’s election. Australia’s liberal party also led the polls before Trump’s victory and the imposition of the president’s tariff. Peter Dutton, leader of the Liberal Party, a former police officer with a reputation for being a hard line with crime and immigration, was criticized throughout the campaign for being ideologically close to the president of the United States.
Dutton, who even praised Trump this year, calling him “great thinker,” acknowledged the defeat and said he had phoned to Albanese to congratulate him. Admitting the loss of his own chair as a representative of Dickson in Parliament, a position he held for two decades, Dutton said he also talked to the labor candidate Ali France.
“We didn’t go well enough during this campaign. This is obvious tonight, and I accept full responsibility for it,” he said, promising a reconstruction of the conservative block. “We were defined by our opponents in this election, which is not the true story of who we are.”
At the beginning of the campaign, influenced by the way candidates could negotiate with Trump on the rates, labor were behind the polls, but managed to turn the game, as estimates point out. With 68% of the votes counted, the website of the Australian Electoral Commission designed that the Labor Party would win 81 of the 150 chairs of the House of Representatives.
“Our government will choose the Australian path, because we are proud of who we are and everything we build together in this country. We do not need to beg, borrow or copy anywhere else. We do not seek our inspiration abroad. We find it right here in our values and our people,” said Albanese, under applause, at the Sydney work party.
*With information from Estadão Content
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