Ongoing work to win the second term in the Australian election

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Anthony Albananese has set up a wave of feeling against Donald Trump to win a second term as Australian Prime Minister, only three months after the polls suggested that he faced a humiliating defeat.

The results of the first Saturday election indicated that Albananese became the first Australian Prime Minister in more than twenty years to claim a attached victory and the first labor leader to reach this feat from Bob Hawke in 1990.

The ABC broadcaster called the victory for work at the beginning of the count, with the Opposition Liberal Party that did not get the necessary balance to disassociate its rival.

The liberal leader, Peter Dutton, lost his Dickson’s place in Queensland and acknowledged that his party had lost the election. “We did not do well enough during this campaign. Tonight is evident and I accept total responsibility,” he told supporters of the liberal headquarters.

The work needs 76 seats to form a government. The number of seats he will win is still unclear, but the members of the work celebrated -Sydney’s wild, as the party approached the majority.

Support for the Liberals collapsed throughout the election campaign. Its platform, which included Trump -like proposals, such as plans to reduce government spending and public sector jobs and attacks on “awakening” agendas, did not achieve traction with voters who have been repelled by the United States President’s tariff agenda and aggressive foreign foreign policy.

James Patterson, a senator and a spokesman for the Liberals, said: “A factor we can all recognize is the Trump factor.” Described Trump’s impact on his career as a “significant”.

Australian survey comes days after voters returned to Canadian liberal party to the Government in a strong change to the polls due to a great deal of Trump’s intervention. The Liberals were disputing one second of the conservatives before Trump mocking Canada, threatened to attach the country and said he would impose rates.

Irene Kontominas, who was voting at Fowler’s marginal headquarters in the outside of Sydney, and supported the work, said that Trump had participated in his vote. But he also argued that Dutton had not been able to make a convincing case for work.

“It’s not enough. The devil you know is better,” he said.

The Albanians started the day of live broadcast from Melbourne Cricket Ground, where he said that the perspective of the return victories was the “Saint Graal”. He later appeared on stage at a working class social club in West Sydney to declare victory.

The election was largely fought in the suburban seats of Melbourne and Sydney, where discontent voters struggling with income and mortgages, as well as high electricity, food and gasoline prices, have had the two main parts.

In the west of Sydney, a traditional heart of work where 10 percent of the population of Australia lives, the Liberal Party hoped to gain significant ground.

But Sajedul Hasan, accounting to Fowler, said Dutton’s proposal To force thousands of remote workers from the public sector to the office if he were elected, he had triggered a “massive change” in the sense of voters, given the proximity of the area to the center of Sydney and the presence of many people working from home.

He added that Dutton’s failure to know the cost of food during television debates has also damaged his possibilities. “If you do not know the price of eggs, how can you represent us?” Hasan asked.