The opposition Labor Party, led by Anthony Albanese, won the elections in Australia on Saturday, according to projections of the recount of the votes that indicate that it will have to make alliances to form a government.
The projections of the Australian Electoral Commission grant 74 seats to Labor -close to the 76 that grant an absolute majority-, compared to some 54 that the liberal-national coalition of the Australian Prime Minister, the conservative Scott Morrison, who governs the country, would have obtained. oceanic since 2013.
"A Labor majority in its own right is, I think it is very clear, the most likely outcome of this election," Labor lawmaker Chris Bowen told the Seven Network. Former defense minister Chris Pyne, who stepped down from the Morrison government in the last election, also ruled out the coalition winning enough seats to form a majority government: "The coalition can't get there in its own right, no." The Morrison government was seeking a fourth three-year term.
Albanese's party ended the six-week campaign as the favorite to win its first election since 2007. But Morrison defied opinion polls in 2019 by leading his coalition to a narrow victory. His coalition has the narrowest majority: 76 seats in the 151-member House of Representatives, where parties need a majority to form a government.
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