The governing conservative coalition of prime minister Scott Morrison has a surprising victory achieved in the parliamentary elections in Australia. Bill Shorten of the centre-left opposition party, Labour has its a loss I admit and get on as party leader.
“It is clear that Labour are not the next government will be able to form”, said Shorten its militants in Melbourne. “I have Scott Morrison just called to congratulate him.” Shorten was for several weeks on top in the polls and also the first exitpolls gave him the victory.
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In his overwinningstoespraak said Morrison, a 51-year-old evangelical christian, that he “always believed in miracles”. Morrison was only since August to power after Malcolm Turnbull was left because of his own Liberal Party lost faith in him. Turnbulls predecessor Tony Abbott was in 2015 in the same way is pushed aside. the
Morrison promised lower taxes and a budget surplus before 2020. It was ago the global financial crisis of 2008 that that was the case. Shorten wanted more money to spend on child care, health and education, and promised higher wages and more taxes for the rich.
Term of office
in Addition to the question of who is prime minister is asking the Australians also questioned whether their next prime minister’s term of office this time, however, will sit out. In the last twelve years passed, six prime ministers of the revue, all of whom by their own party were aside. The last prime minister that his three-year term or properly finished, was John Howard, in 2007 the door behind him toetrok.
Both the Liberal Party as the opposition party Labour, meanwhile, has stricter rules that make it more difficult for a sitting prime minister. Analysts expect that the new prime minister of the three years will endure.
