Australia held its elections on Saturday. The Labor Party on the center-left beat the Liberal National coalition (conservative), with incumbent Prime Minister Anthony Albanese garnering a historic victory, accomplishing something that no PM has done in over 20 years–getting hired by the country’s voters for a second consecutive term. The Aussie chief executive position comes with a three-year term. But some are trying to blame President Donald Trump for the opponent’s loss to Albanese. I’ll get back to that in a minute.
First, here are the details
The Australian Electoral Commission’s projections gave Albanese’s ruling center-left Labor Party 70 seats and the conservative opposition coalition 24 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives, the lower chamber where parties need a majority to form governments. Unaligned minor parties and independent…
