The Prime Minister’s Liberal party Mark Carney He won the legislative elections held on Monday in Canada, although after hours of scrutiny it is increasingly evident than They will have to govern as a minority.
Carney, who appeared before supporters of the Liberal Party in Ottawa to celebrate the victory near 2 in the morning of Tuesday, promised to govern “with all the parties and all the territories and civil society” in addition to warning that he will negotiate with the president of the USA, Donald Trumpa New bilateral relationship.
“The old relationship with the United States, a relationship based on a growing integration, It’s over“Passy insisted.
When Carney pronounced her speech, almost five hours after the schools closed in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec -where the result is always decided by the accumulation of population and seats -the projections gave the Liberal Party 167 seats -The absolute majority is in 172-, in front of 145 of the conservatives.
Although the advantage was throughout the night for the liberals and the opposition conservative party obtained a Better result to the expected For the polls, the Liberal party He stayed provisionally Only five seats from the absolute majority.
The final number depends on several constituencies; Especially in Ontario, where the difference between the first and the second candidate is very small, of only a few tens of votes. In the Canadian system only the most voted candidate winseven for an advantage of a vote.
The sovereigntist Quebequés (BQ) block endures relatively, to whom the projections give 23 seats, 10 less than those in the previous legislature, but is barely saved from the debacle that some polls anticipated him.
The tremendous coup in these elections was given by the social democratic New Democratic Party (NPD) that of the 25 seats he had can happen only seven. The most notorious collapse occurred in Vancouverwhere I was stronger.
Your leader, Jagmeet Singh recognized in an emotional speech that will resign after eight years at the head of training Having lost his seat, since in his constituency he is in third place, below the conservative and liberal candidates. “I will resign as a party leader as soon as a provisional leader is appointed,” said Singh.
The electoral evenings that the matches had scheduled in different places in Ottawa were languishing as the hours passed, before the slow scrutiny.
With such results, No party has real reasons to celebrate: The liberals, because they will not achieve the victory that the polls promised them almost without exception; The conservatives, because they could not avoid the fourth consecutive victory of the liberals; and minority parties, because in both cases they lose support.
Los liberalsif the extrapolations are confirmed, will improve the result of the latest elections (From 160 to 167 seats), while conservatives would go up a lot of their previous 119 seats, without coming to power and break a cycle of 10 years of liberal governments.
Canadian journalists are already talking about Carney Victory as “An poisoned gift“, since it would not have the most appropriate strength to negotiate with the US president, Donald Trump, who has been attacking Canada almost systematically.
