In the elections in Australia, after the projections, the Laburists celebrated

In Australia’s elections, the ruling Labor Prime Minister celebrated Anthony Albaneseafter nearly 40 percent of the votes counted, show the first screenings of radio service ABC Newsaccording to the French news agency AFP. In the country, about 18 million voters today have voted for the new lower home of parliament and the majority of senators.

Laburists have 70 MEPs in the 150-member parliament, which requires 76 MEPs for most. Opposition conservatives received 32 after the first screenings.

Voters selected 150 MEPs of the Lower House of Parliament and 40 of the 76 members of the upper home, the Senate. According to the central election commission, about half of the voters cast their votes in early voting. Since voting is mandatory for all citizens over 18, turnout is generally more than 90 %.

The polls before the election indicated that a close match between Laburists of Prime Minister Albanese and opposition conservatives of his main challenger for the prime minister’s chair Peter Duttonwhich has been compared to the US President in the past Donaldom Trump. As the third party, according to polls, the Greens, who had only had only four MPs so far.

The central pre -election topics were, among other things, the rising prices of basic life supplies, a pressing housing problem, health problems, energy supply and environmental care.

The new Australian government will have to find itself in a much more unpredictable global environment, marked by Tump’s customs and trade war with China, with which Australia has strong trading ties despite its alliance with Washington.