Mark Carney’s liberals win a decisive Canadian choice

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Mark Carney has won Canada’s election, the national broadcaster projected, but his parliamentary majority hangs after a campaign that is dominated by the country’s relationship to the USA under Donald Trump.

Carney’s party was on the right track to win the largest number of seats and the right to form a government, since according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on Monday, in large parts of the country in a large meeting of the country.

Regardless of whether he could order a parliamentary majority or would have to rely on other parties to rule in a minority administration, remained too close on Monday evening to call it.

At 11:00 p.m. in Toronto, the liberals were in 159 seats in the House of Commons with 343 seats and the conservatives in 142, according to the CBC, and the Carney party enables at least one minority government to form.

The result marks a breathtaking recovery for the liberals who were on course to lose power until Justin Trudeau, almost a decade of Prime Minister Carney in March.

His victory is also welcomed as a sign all over the world Centralized, internationalist politics can be decisively successful in Trump’s age.

Carney headed the Canada’s central bank during the 2008 financial crisis and the Bank of England during the Brexit and, as preparation for the treatment of the economic turbulence caused by the US president.

The former Goldman Sachs and Brookfield Executive, the ones joined electoral policy For the first time in January, critical negotiations with Canada’s greatest trading partners have to manage and gather the global efforts to limit the damage from Trump’s trade policy.

The liberals used a patriotic increase in the face of the face of Trump’s tariffs In Canada and mocked that it is the “51st state” of the United States when Carney made a campaign topic despite Trump.

“This is Canada, and we decide what we are doing here,” the prime minister said in his final message to the country before the vote on Monday.

When Trump’s tariffs became the central theme of the campaign, Carney told the voters that Canada’s old relationship with the USA was “passed” and swore to enter a “broad new agreement” between the countries.

Carney will enter the parliament for the first time as a member of the Parliament after winning the Nepean constituency in Ottawa.

Pierre Poilievre, who led several years in polls until Trudeau announced and the US President intensified his attacks on Canada, has been fighting the liberal efforts as a Maga-like populist in the past few weeks who would not be able to face the US president.

The new Democratic Party, which Trudeau’s minority government had supported in parliament, was ready to suffer significant losses when voters switched to the two main parties.

The night also revealed a severe decline in support for the Bloc Québécois, the federal nationalist party of the majority French -speaking province.