Liberalon Mark Carney is winning the central Canadian elections

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Mark Carney won the Canada elections, and the national broadcaster expected, but his parliamentary majority is suspended in balance after a campaign dominated by the country’s relationship with the United States during the era of Donald Trump.

Carney was on the right path to win the largest number of seats and the right to form a government where the polls were closed in most parts of the country, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

However, whether he can lead a parliamentary majority or he will rely on other parties to rule in the management of minorities, she remained very close to contact Monday night.

The result represents an amazing recovery for the liberals, who were on their way to the loss of power until Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister for nearly a decade, resigned as a party leader earlier this year and was replaced by Carnic In March.

Its victory will also be received all over the world as a sign of this The middle, international politics can succeed Election in the Trump era.

Carney managed the central bank in Canada during the financial crisis and England Bank after Britain’s exit from the European Union – and pointed to his experience as a preparation to deal with the economic turmoil resulting from the American president.

Previous Goldman Sachs and Brookfield Executive, which I entered the electoral policy For the first time in January, monetary negotiations with the largest commercial partner in Canada must now be managed, and mobilized the global effort to reduce the damage caused by Trump’s commercial policy.

The liberals have benefited from a national increase in the face Trump’s tariff In Canada and the mockery of becoming the “51st State” of the United States, as Carney challenges Trump the issue of the campaign.

“This is Canada – and we decide what we are doing here,” the Prime Minister said in his closing message to the country before a vote on Monday.

When Trump’s tariff became the central issue of the campaign, Carney told the voters that the ancient Canada’s relationship with the United States had ended and pledged to enter the “extensive re -negotiation” of the commercial deal between countries.

Poilievre, who led the polls for several years until Trudeau resigned, and the US President has shocked his attacks on Canada, in recent weeks to shake the liberal efforts to draw him as the people of Maga, who will not be able to confront the American president.

The new Democratic Party, which supported the Trudo minority government in Parliament, was about to suffer from great losses, as voters moved to the two main parties.