Prime Minister Anthony Albanese or Australia has won a second mandate, completing an impressive change for his ruling Center-Labiente Labor Party that followed in the surveys for months when a Festring of Living crisis weighed in the voters.
The Australian broadcast corporation, the country’s public broadcaster, summoned the elections for Mr. Albanian just half an hour after the last surveys closed on Saturday.
It was a resounding defeat of the conservative opposition directed by Peter Dutton, who had addressed the campaign that leads to dissatisfaction with the status quo, but was hindered by a series of false campaign steps and an association with some of the messages and messages and policies of President Trump.
Dutton, the leader of the Liberal Party, also lost his parliamentary seat in the conservative strength of Queensland, which he had had since 2001. His loss echoed the expulsion of the conservative leader of Canada, Pierre Poilievre, he was defeated to the defeat of Trump.
Australia was the third important ally of the United States, after Germany and Canada, in celebrating elections since Trump’s second mandate was in January. The efforts of the Trump administration to influence the vote in Germany did not seem to bear fruit. In Canada, Mark Carny won another term on an anti-trump platform. Although Trump did not appear so prominently in the elections of Australia, the world agitation that arose from his trade and diplomatic decisions weighed in the voters there.
Just although Trump was not mentioned by name on Saturday night, the winks to his influence were clear. In his victory speech, an emotional Mr. Albanian said that the Australians had chosen “face global challenges in the Australian way.”
“We don’t need to beg, borrow or copy from anywhere else,” he said. “We don’t see our inspiration abroad.”
For many younger voters, the re -election of Mr. Albanese was not an approach to his first mandate, but a reluctant choice between two parts without bold ideas to solve the country’s problems, said Intifar Chowdhury, a government professor at the University of Flinders in Adelaide.
Giving the party of Mr. Albanese a second term, she said: “You are choosing the well -known evil about the unknown evil.”
With approximately half of the votes counted, the ABC projected that the Windel Labor expands its parliamentary majority in the 150 -seat representatives to at least 86 seats, from 78.
The voters who cast their vote on Saturday said they were fighting to get to the end of the month.
“Everything costs a lot,” said Judy Pula, a registered nurse and mother of two children who voted in the Liverpool suburb in Sydney making a break in her turn. Mrs. Pula, 29, said she had voted for the Labor in the past, but this time she opted for the Australian green. “I feel that a new leader would be beneficial for us.”
Cognizant de Citizens’ Pocketbook Conerns, Mr. Dutton went to more than one service stations boxes in the campaign, launching his party’s proposal to reduce a tax to reduce the price in the pump. Mr. Albanian repeatedly showed his card for Medicare, the Universal Medical Care System of Australia, highlighting the promise to reduce pocket costs.
However, both parties present mostly short -term relief proposals to a large extent instead of ambitious changes to address the fundamental roots of current trails. The candidates also greatly moved away from what many agree is the most challenging global environment for Australia in a generation: their great dependence on the United States for defense and its economic dependence on Witriy trade between tenable Flessx tenablex
“Companion, I have no confidence in any of them, to be honest,” said Debe Young, 54, who had gone to the polls near Brisbane in the native state of Queensland of Mr. Dutton with his 11 -year -old granddaughter. “They continue to address the same thing: cost of living. Keep going. Why don’t the other problems address?”
Mrs. Young, a mental health nurse, still cast her vote for Dutton’s Central Liberal Party, because she wanted to work without power.
Saturday’s victory for Mr. Albanese was a hard recovery of the low political point of his first mandate: the failure of a 2023 referendum to consecrate the rights of representation for the aboriginal Australians in Parliament. He had a great campaign promise when he was chosen the previous year.
Dutton, a former police officer, opposed the measure and continued taking a position against other symbolic awards of indigenous peoples, saying they were “exaggerated.”
At the beginning of the campaign, the opposition leader had adopted some fashion words or policies that echo Trump and some of the causes of his pets, including the complaint of what he characterized as “Wokess” and diversity initiatives. That strategy seemed aimed at assembling the worldwide and anti-consumbent currents that dominated last year. But as the first months of Trump’s presidency have been developed, the association Doló Mr. Dutton.
Grahame Don, 56, voted for the Liberal Party for decades, but began to support the Labor in recent elections. Trump’s tone to talk about problems was to bleed in Australian politics, he said on Saturday.
“This country has only won things like migration and international students who have tried to make divisive,” he said.
