New Delhi: Australia’s High Commissioner to India, Barry O’Farrell on Saturday said that Australia’s new Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese is “no stranger to India” after Scott Morrison accepted defeat in the recently concluded polls in Australia.
“Australia’s Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese is no stranger to India having travelled the country as a backpacker in 1991 and led a parliamentary delegation in 2018,” tweeted the High Commissioner.
Barry O’Farrell further said that Albanese in his election campaign had “committed to deepen economic, strategic and people-to-people links” between the two nations.
Anthony Albanese-led Labour Party won at least 72 out of the 151-seat Parliament, whereas Morrison’s Liberal-National Coalition could secure only 52 seats, with independents and third parties grabbing up the rest of the seats, said the Australian Broadcasting Commission, reported Hindustan Times.
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Any party in Australia who wishes to form the government needs at least 76 seats in the 151-seat Parliament.
59-year old Albanese will be the 31st Prime Minister of Australia who has served as the Member of Parliament since 1996. Earlier in 2013, Albanese was sworn in as the country’s Deputy Prime Minister. Albanese, a career politician, held this role until Labour’s defeat in the elections in the same year.