Fists raised in front of the crowd of his supporters, eyes blushed by emotion, Anthony Albanese, the outgoing Australian Prime Minister, savor his victory on Saturday May 3. He comes back from afar. Given in difficulty by the polls, at the end of February, the head of the Labor Party finally won the legislative elections, with an advance whose magnitude surprised the whole country.
Mr. Albanese, who came to power in May 2022 with a short majority of 77 deputies out of 151, would have succeeded in winning nearly ten additional seats during the electoral evening, according to the projections of Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). A success he owes to an effective electoral strategy, to the desire for stability in a period of uncertainty, but also and above all to the collapse of the support provided to his conservative opponent, Peter Dutton, weakened by a failed campaign and by the shadow of the President of the United States, Donald Trump.
The chief of the Center Center right coalition (formed from the Liberal Party and the National Party), which lost in his own district, has de facto abandoned the leadership of an opposition which he leaves in disrepair. “Today, the Australian people have voted for Australian values: equity, ambition and equal opportunities for all; The strength to show courage in adversity and kindness towards those in need “welcomed Anthony Albanese at the gallery.
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