Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was re -elected during the vote on Saturday with an extended majority, show the projections, becoming the country's first leader in 21 years to win consecutive elections.
Albanese will enter his second mandate as a hero of work after having led his party to successive victories. Australian Broadcasting Corp. Provided at 10:05 p.m. Sydney Time that the Labor government would earn at least 85 seats against 77 in the previous quarter.
“Today, the Australian people voted for Australian values,” said Albanese after winning the victory in Sydney. “For equity, aspiration and opportunities for all.”
Albanese carried out an almost flawless campaign, overthrowing polls at the beginning of the year which had suggested that he was heading for defeat. On the other hand, the chief of the opposition Peter Dutton was struggling, frequently contradicting himself, recovering back on policies and even forced to excuse the Indonesian president.
Dutton conceded the defeat after losing his seat at work, telling the supporters of Brisbane that he had called the Prime Minister to congratulate him on his victory.
“We did not do well enough during this campaign, it is obvious this evening and I accept full responsibility for this,” said Dutton.
The Albanese Government Government had struggled during its first mandate with opposite winds such as sticky inflation, high interest rates and a tightening of housing which risked a reaction from voters. The government has sought to appease these concerns concerning additional tax reductions and discounts in a pre-electoral budget.
The resumption of work was helped by global volatility launched by the Price Program of American President Donald Trump, which he unveiled during the first week of the campaign. In Australia, offshore uncertainty tends to bring the voters to the holder and this condemned with a more targeted performance on the Albanian Husts.
The Prime Minister campaigned on a stability platform, while making comparisons between Dutton, a former Queensland police officer, and Trump, who is deeply unpopular in Australia.
“In this period of global uncertainty, the Australians have chosen optimism and determination,” said Albanese in his victory speech. “The Australians have chosen to face global challenges in the Australian way, taking care of each other while building for the future.”
The victory of work occurred a few days after the Government of the Center-Gauche in Canada obtained a fourth term, a result strongly influenced by the expectations that the new leader and former banker of Central Mark Carney would be able to manage the American leader.
Dutton, in his speech, told that he told Albanese that the deceased mother of the Prime Minister, who had raised him for a disability pension, would be proud of what he had accomplished.
The Albanians will have to tackle an economy at a crossroads, because its main growth engines – China, immigration and the housing sector – are all under pressure. The obvious response, according to economists, is a major reform program to revive economic dynamism and increase the standard of living, a successive task of Prime Ministers has moved away from the political risks involved.
The two parties sought to indicate that they had a solution to the tightening of the accommodation in Australia. Albanese has promised to pay billions of dollars into properties for new buyers, while allowing them to buy houses with deposits as low as 5%.
At the same time, the workforce has the opportunity to cement its clean energy policies and to offer greater certainty to investors.
The Government of the Center-Gauche introduced a series of decarbonization and renewable objectives during its first mandate and is committed to spending considerably in clean energy and manufacturing. On the campaign track, he announced a new cheaper home battery program to subsidize storage in the background to facilitate pressure from the cost of living.
The election was a rare example of offshore events that invade the campaign.
On April 2, five days after Albanese called the vote, Trump announced his plans of “reciprocal” prices, including a 10% accusation on Australian exports, aroused the concern of voters while markets around the world have plunged.
Then, during the fourth week, while the Australians began to vote anticipated, Pope Francis died, which led the two parts to briefly suspend their campaigns.
This story was initially presented on Fortune.com
