Prime Minister Mark Carney won the Canadian elections on Monday, the local media screened, taking his liberal party to a new term in power after convincing voters that his experience in economic crisis management prepared him to face the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
The public broadcaster CBC And other media project that the liberals would form the next Government of Canada, but it was not yet clear if they would celebrate a majority in Parliament.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre did not become Prime Minister, but his party was on his way to forming a strong opposition in Parliament
Trump’s commercial war and threats to the Annex of Canada, which renewed in a publication on the social networks of the day of the elections, outraged the Canadians and made the US to deal with the US. UU. A main campaign problem.
Carney, who had never held an elected office and only replaced Justin Trudeau as prime minister last month, anchored his campaign in an Anti-Trump message.
He previously served as governor of the Central Bank both in Britain and in Canada and persuaded voters that his global financial experience has prepared him to guide Canada through a commercial war.
Carney, who also had a lucrative career as a banker of investments before joining the public service of Canada, promised to expand commercial relations abroad to stop Canada’s agency in the United States.
Carney descriptions of Trump’s threat have been marked.
“Donald Trump wants to break us so that the United States can own us,” he said during the campaign.
“They want our resources, they want our water, they want our land, they want our country. They can’t have it.”
When the CBC The projection was announced, the cheers of joy exploded in the place of Ottawa where the liberal supporters were observing the results.
“I am happy in the sense that we have someone who can talk to Mr. Trump at his level,” said Dorothy Goubault, 72. “Trump is a business person. Carney is a business person, and I think they can both relate.”
Before Trudeau resigned, Trump had mocked him from him, calling the “governor” prime minister when he urged Canada to become state 51 of the United States.
Goubault said he hopes that mockery stops.
“He is no longer the governor, he is the Prime Minister of Canada, and it is no longer the state 51. It is ‘we are Canada!'”
The Liberal Legislator and Member of the Carney Cabinet, Steven Guilbeault, linked the result with Trump.
“The numerous attacks of President Trump in the Canadian economy, but not only in the economy, in our sovereignty and our same identity, I think they have really mobilized the Canadians, and I think they saw someone who has experience in the world stage in Prime Minister,” he told The The The The The The CBC.
Trudeau’s departure
The departure of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was also crucial for the liberal victory, which limited one of the most dramatic changes in Canadian political history.
On January 6, the day Trudeau announced that he would resign, the conservatives led the liberals for more than 20 points in most of the surveys, since the anger of the voters for the very high coasts mounted after the decade of Trudeau in power.
But Carney replacing Trudeau, combined with national concern about Trump, transformed the race.
Carney, 60, was far from Trudeau throughout the campaign.
He said that the former prime minister did not focus enough on the growth of Canada’s economy and discarded a controversial Trudeau tax on carbon emissions that left many boiling voters.
For Pailievre, a 45 -year -old player who has been in Parliament for two decades, the result marks a sharp defeat.
He was criticized for the anger of the times he directed towards Trump, but said he wanted to keep the focus on domestic concerns that promoted Trudeau’s unpopularity.
He tried to persuade voters that Carney would simply offer a continuation of the failed liberal governance, an argument that fell short.
At the conservative surveillance party in Ottawa, said Jason Piche AFP He was surprised by the result.
“I hoped to have a great celebration tonight,” said Piche.
Almost 29 million of the 41 million people in Canada were eligible to vote in the mass country of the G7 that covers six time zones. A record of 7.3 million people issued advanced ballots.
The results were still pending in the form of the 343 members of the Parliament of Canada, with 172 seats necessary for most. The liberals won a majority in 2015, but have ruled with a minority since 2019.
World leaders react
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif congratulated his Canadian counterpart for his election as Prime Minister of Canada and the Liberal Party for his success in the recently held elections in Canada, in a position on X.
“Pakistan and Canada enjoy warm and friendly relationships, and we are proud of the vibrant Pakistani diaspora in Canada,” said the prime minister.
He said he hoped to work together with the Canadian Prime Minister to further deepen his association and create greater opportunities for his nations.
The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, also congratulated Carney for his elections, suggesting the hope of a possible restart of tense relations between New Delhi and Ottawa.
“I hope to work with you to strengthen our association and unlock greater opportunities for our people,” Modi said in a statement.
“India and Canada are obliged by shared democratic values, a firm commitment to the rule of law and the vibrant ties of people to people,” he added.
The ties between Canada and India tensed after the accusations of the participation of New Delhi in the murder of a Canadian Sij, says India denied.
Meanwhile, China said I was open to improving ties with Canada.
“China is willing to develop relations from China-Canada on the basis of mutual respect, mutual equality and benefit,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun.
Beijing stopped on Tuesday to congratulate Carney, but said: “China’s position on China-Canada’s relations is consistent and clear.” The ties between Beijing and Ottawa have been tense in recent years.
The arrest of a senior Chinese telecommunications executive in an order in the USA in Vancouver in December 2018 and the detention of Beijing’s reprisals of two Canadians due to espionage charges fell the relations with a deep freezing.
The ties were tightened more about the accusations of Chinese interference in the Canadian elections in 2019 and 2021, the charges have denied the charges.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, congratulated Carney for his electoral victory, expressing the hope that the two countries forge stronger ties under his prime minister.
“We are sincerely grateful for the leadership of Canada’s beginnings in the support of Ukraine … We trust that our association will only be strengthened in our shared search for peace, justice and security,” Zelensky said in an X publication.
The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, congratulated Carney for his electoral victory, saying that he believed that the leader of the Liberal Party embodied a “strong Canada.”
“You play a strong Canada in the face of the great challenges of our time. France expects to strengthen the friendship that unites our countries. Anxious to work with you,” he said in X.
British leader Keir Starmer also congratulated Carney and said he hoped to strengthen ties between the two countries.
“Congratulations to Mark Carney for his electoral victory. The United Kingdom and Canada are the closest to allies, partners and friends,” Starmer said in a statement.
“Our association is based on history and shared values, with a sovereign shared, and I hope to strengthen our ties.”
