Labor on course to win second term in Australian election

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Anthony Albaniz rode a wave of anti -Donald Trump’s feelings for the second time as the Australian Prime Minister, just three months after the survey suggested, he faced an abusive defeat.

The results of the preliminary elections on Saturday indicate that the Albaniz will become the first Australian prime minister for more than 20 years to demand back-to-back to achieve this fame since Bob Haque in the 5th.

Broadcaster ABC called for labor early in the count, the opposition Liberal Party failed to achieve the swing needed to unset his rival.

Labor requires 76 seats to form a government. It is not yet clear the number of seats to win, but in Sydney, labor members celebrated wildly because the party came closer to the majority.

During the election campaign, support for liberals was broken. Their platforms-in which Trump’s proposals such as government expenditure and public sector jobs planning to slash and “wake” agendas-like attacks-American President’s duty agenda and offensive foreign policy failed to achieve traction with voters.

Queensland’s Liberal leader Peter Doton’s own seat in Queensland is in a serious threat to his labor opponent.

James Patterson, a senator and spokesman for the Liberals, said: “One of the things we can recognize is the Trump Factor.” He described Trump’s influence in the competition as “significant”.

The Australian survey comes a few days after voters returned Canadian Liberal Party Basically, due to Trump’s intervention, the government made a severe change in the elections. Trump was running a second with the Conservatives before Trump enjoys Canada, threatened to connect the country and said he would impose tariffs on it.

Irene Contominas, who voted in the marginal seat of the Fawler of Sydney Outer West and supported labor, said that Trump played a role in his vote. However, he further argued that Dton failed to make a compulsory case for labor dumping.

“This is not enough. You know that the devil is better,” he said.

Albanes Melbourne started the day broadcast live from the Cricket Ground, where he said that the possibility of winning back-to-back was a “holy grale”. He later attended the stage at a social club in Western Sydney to declare victory.

The election was originally fought in the suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney, where the unhappy voters fought against growing rent and mortgage, as well as the prices of high electricity, food and petrol were encouraged by large parties.

In Western Sydney, the Liberal Party hoped to achieve a significant area in a traditional -related labor heart where 10 percent of Australia’s population lives.

However, Fawler’s accountant Sajedul Hasan said Doton When he was elected, thousands of government sectors forced to return to the office to return to the office, because of the closeness of the voters, because of the closeness of Sydney in the region and the presence of many people working from home.

He also added that Doton’s failure to find out the cost of food during the television debate also damaged his possibilities. “If you don’t know the price of eggs, how can you represent us?” Hasan asked.