“Un landslide”: This is how most of the Australian media describe the re -election of Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Saturday May 3.“The voters challenged the polls to offer the Labor Party a overwhelming electoral victory and give the government a second term”, Describes for example theAustralian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
“Retaining his tears when he addressed his supporters“Continues the Australian public television channel,”Mr. Albanese has sworn that he would be back to work tomorrow, first [ant] This task with new hope, new confidence and new determination. ”
Arrived in power in May 2022 with a short majority of 77 deputies (the bar being 76), the 62 -year -old manager managed to tear a dozen additional seats, facing a conservative, laminated coalition. Its leader, Peter Dutton, conceded the defeat after having lost his seat himself in his constituency of Dickson, in the north of Brisbane. “” “The conservatives face a disaster, and weeks of self -criticism await them”Comments the Bavarian newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
“Fear of an unstable world”
While polls published at the start of the year “showed that the government lost ground to voters, especially after the defeat of the referendum on the native voice defended by Albanese in October 2023”, Many voters returned to the Labor Party’s fold after the start of Trump’s second term, analyzes the Sydney Morning Herald.
“In this period of global uncertainty, the Australians have chosen optimism and determination”, The Prime Minister was therefore delighted, referring to the disorder in the opinion produced by the re -election of Donald Trump. The Australian version of the Guardian estimates that it is indeed “The fear of an unstable world”Which was at the forefront of concerns.
-“For months ”tells the daily life of the center left, the Labor has built their electoral campaign “around the cost of living and better health services”. Et “While the liberal-national coalition sought to demonize civil servants“, Anthony Albanese a”pressed“On the question of telework, threatened by the candidate on the right when she is very popular in Australia.
“Thorny file”
“First Canada, now Australia: the Trump effect gives a boost to another leader”, Title the Wall Street Journaldrawing an obvious parallel between these two countries of the Commonwealth which each re -elected their outgoing government, center left. “” “Surveys show that Australian, Canadian and British voters have had a more negative opinion from Washington since Trump’s arrival in power”Confirms the American financial daily.
“Donald Trump was perhaps not on the Australian ballot, but his shadow hovered nevertheless”, observe Politico. “Public opinion returned strongly against Trump after he reprimanded Ukrainian President Zelensky at a disastrous meeting at the White House at the end of February”, Says the political information site. It was even more”tense”After the customs duties episode in April.
Like Mark Carney in Canada, Anthony Albanese said he was “capable of showing firmness if necessary ”, reports it Wall Street Journal. But he must also “Make sure not to position yourself too much against Trump, the United States being the main trading and military partner in Australia”.
Among the “thorny files“Who await it are the negotiation of customs duties, but also the project to buy nuclear submarines from Washington,“While concerns grow as to the American shipbuilding capacity and the possibility that the Trump administration modifies the agreement”Recalls the conservative newspaper.
