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Anthony Albaniz installed a wave of anti -Trump’s feelings to win a prominent state as Australian prime minister, just three months after the opinion polls suggested that he faced a humiliating defeat.

Albaniz has become the first Australian Prime Minister in more than 20 years to get successive victories and the first leader of the Labor Party to achieve this achievement since Bob Hook in 1990.

The Labor Party needed 76 seats to form a government and was expected to win about 90 seats as the count continued.

On Saturday night, Albanez addressed a group of loud supporters in West Sydney and said that the voters chose the “Australian Road” by rejecting the right -wing campaign of the liberal opposition party, which included proposals motivated by US President Donald Trump.

He said: “We do not need begging, borrow, or copy from anywhere else. We do not ask for inspiration from abroad. We find it here, in our values ​​and in our people.”

Peter Daton, the liberal leader, admitted defeat on Saturday evening and lost his seat to the Labor Party candidate. The opposition will have to appoint a new leader who will be assigned to activate the party after being exposed to the worst result of more than 80 years.

“We did not do a good job enough during this campaign. This is clear tonight and I accept full responsibility,” Diaton told supporters at a liberal headquarters.

Support of liberals collapsed throughout the election campaign. Their platform – which included plans to reduce government spending, public sector functions and attacks on “wake up” business schedules – failed to gain traction with voters who were repelled by the customs tariff agenda of the US President and aggressive foreign policy.

“One of the factors that we can all realize is the Trump factor,” said James Patterson, a Senate member and spokesperson for the liberals. He described Trump’s influence on the race as “important.”

Australia poll comes days after the return of the voters Canadian liberal party To the government in a sharp shift in opinion polls due to Trump’s significant intervention. The liberals were running second to the conservatives before Trump made fun of Canada, threatening to raise the country and said he would impose fees on this.

Wayne Swan, the former Australian treasurer, said that the result of Saturday repeated the Canadian poll. “It is a great result of socialist Democrats all over the world,” Swan said.

Irene Condensinas, who voted for the Labor Party in the marginal seat of Fouller in the external West in Sydney, said Trump has played a role in voting. But she also said that Dateon failed to file a convincing case to throw work.

“This is not enough. It is the best Devil you know,” she said.

Albaniz started today the live broadcast from the Melbourne Cricket Stadium, saying that the possibility of successive victories was the “Holy Cup”.

The elections were largely fought in the suburbs of Melbourne and Sidni, where the disreputable voters who suffer from high rents and mortgages, in addition to the high prices of electricity, food and gasoline, were tense in both the two large parties.

Sajidol Hassan, an accountant in Fowler, said, said, Doaton’s suggestion Forcing thousands of workers in the public sector to return to the office have caused a “massive change” in the morale of voters in the region, where many residents work from home.

He added that Dateon’s ignorance of the cost of food during television discussions had affected his opportunity. “If you don’t know the price of eggs, how can you represent us?” Hassan asked.