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The Liberal Party of Canada, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is expected to remain in power, but will remain in a minority government, local news channels show Tuesday (21). Trudeau’s Liberals will once again need the support of opposition parties to govern.
According to projections, the plan did not go exactly as planned. The Liberals are expected to win 155 seats, one more than they had. The Canadian House has 338 seats and a party must have 170 to gain a majority. If neither party achieves a majority in parliament, the winner is forced to sign a minority government.
Early elections did not work
Trudeau, 49, called an early election two years ahead of schedule. He believed he would be very popular because of the handling of the pandemic (Canada has high vaccination rates) and that the ballot box would give him a stronger mandate in Parliament. In 2019 he won, but the election left him with a minority government and he had to negotiate his support.
But after a very favorable start and encouraging research, Trudeau faces a particularly complicated campaign. The erosion of power was noticed and the “Trudeaumanía” of his first election in 2015 seemed far away.
He faced protesters angry at the health measures against the pandemic. During one event, a person even threw stones at the Prime Minister.
The main candidates voted on Monday morning after a complicated 36-day campaign.
During the campaign, Trudeau said the Tories’ return to power would mean stepping back, especially on the climate issue.
“I’m proud to vote today, make sure you do the same,” Trudeau’s main opponent, moderate conservative Erin O’Toole, said on social media with a photo in front of the ballot box next to her. wife.
O’Toole had promised Canadians he would be the epitome of renewal and had a strong campaign to take center stage.
“In the end, we can say that it was really a campaign for nothing,” said Félix Mathieu of the University of Winnipeg, noting that in several provinces the representatives “were systematically re-elected”.
During the campaign, candidates clashed over topics such as climate change, Indigenous reconciliation, affordable housing, mandatory Covid-19 vaccination and health passes.
O’Toole, 48, has been criticized for supporting an early easing of health restrictions in Alberta and other Conservative-led provinces, where there are now Covid outbreaks that are forcing overworked hospitals to send patients in other health care facilities in Canada. .
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