Australia held the federal elections on May 3

Australia will go to the polls for federal elections on May 3.

Prime Minister Anthony Albaniz, who will lead the Labor Party, which defends a small majority, announced the date after the visit The Governor -General in the capital, Canberra, on Friday.

Opinion polls predict the presence of a small margin between the two main parties in the country, and the possibility of either having to work with independent deputies or small parties – which collected a record share of voting in the last elections in 2022 – to form the next government.

The campaign is expected to dominate living costs, and the Labor Party is fighting to avoid the first unilateral government to lose the elections almost a century.

At a press conference on Friday morning, Albanz reiterated his pledge to address the cost of living – as it has already revealed plans to provide more doctor’s free visits and provide small tax cuts – and said that the election of his opponent Peter Daton would be a step back to the country.

He said on Friday, referring to the previous coalition government that defeated it in 2022: “It would always take more than three years to clean 10 years of chaos,” referring to the previous coalition government that he defeated in 2022.

“The choice of voters was not more important, or more clear,” he said. “

However, the opposition leader argued that the dairy government had failed to improve the lives of Australians, his party is solutions.

He is expected to speak later on Friday, but it was a promise to “restore Australia to the right track” and improve the economy by slimming public service, making fuel cheaper and improving energy security in Australia.

The ability to withstand the costs of housing and groceries falls on the top of the voters’ minds, as well as access to health care, although concern about registered immigration management and crime reduces increases significantly. Climate work – the last election feature – is still important for many Australians as well.

Politics in Australia – where voting is mandatory for adults – dominated by labor workers and the liberal national coalition. Each of the two parties needs to win at least 76 seats in the House of Representatives – where the Prime Minister sits – to form the majority government.

One of the tallest politicians serving in the country, Albanez took power in 2022 after a long period of political instability, as the country changed the leader six times in just eight years.

Unity and integrity promised – after a campaign that was angry with efforts to reduce emissions in Australia – pledged to “end climate wars”.

The Albaniz government has devoted the target of enhanced emissions, and introduced a mechanism that works as a carbon cover for the largest motive of the country – although experts say more ambition is needed.

However, Albanez’s main goal of achieving the constitutional recognition of people from the indigenous people of the Population and Torres residents, and the establishment of a parliamentary advisory body for them, failed in a referendum in 2023.

He has been pressured on the global economic conditions that exacerbated the pain of living in Australia-and played a role in the fall of many current governments around the world last year.

Last year, he was fire after it appeared that he bought a house at the head of the shelf of $ 4.3 million (2.9 million dollars, 2.2 million pounds) amid a national housing crisis.

The Australians have not chased the government of Canberra after only one period since 1931.

Datton – who was a police officer in Queensland before his election – has more than 20 years in Parliament under his belt, and many of them were a senior minister dealing with the main governor such as health, immigration, defense and internal affairs.

He built a reputation as a severe governorate known to supervise the controversial Australian policies of asylum seekers, and his role in the fall of former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnboul.

He designed himself as a cultural warrior – opposing the same initiatives of sex, diversity, integration and sound for the parliament’s referendum – but he recently tried to shake his harsh general character, who says he does not accurately reflect who he is.