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Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will remain in power after a nail-biter of a general election.
Trudeau’s Liberal party was projected to win the most seats in the 338-seat Parliament, giving it the best chance to form the next government.
However, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) said it would be a minority government, forced to rely on an opposition party to stay in power.
Projections indicate that the Conservatives, led by Andrew Scheer, will be the second-largest party, followed by the Quebec regional party Bloc Quebecois in third.
Still, the results were a victory for Trudeau, whose clean-cut image took a hit after ‘old photos of him in blackface and brownface surfaced last month.
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“You did it, my friends. Congratulations,” Trudeau told supporters in Montreal early on Tuesday.
Opinion surveys leading up to the vote suggested that neither of the two biggest parties would have achieved an absolute majority, as the Liberals had done in 2015.
Trudeau will have to rely on support from smaller parties, including the social-democratic New Democratic Party (NDP), led by Jagmeet Singh, the first non-white leader of a federal political party in Canada.
Singh, who will likely emerge as kingmaker, said he had spoken with Trudeau and vowed to “work hard to deliver on the country’s priorities”.

Like the Greens, the NDP is politically closer to the Liberals. Bloc Quebecois could also play a decisive role.
“Trudeau is going to have to command a caucus that will not be as grateful than it was in 2015,” said Robert Bothwell, a professor of Canadian history and international relations at the University of Toronto.
“A lot of them will say: ‘Look we won but not because of you’.”
The candidates for the Ottawa parliament are picked by direct election according to a first-past-the-post principle. Some 27 million people were eligible to vote.
Canada PM Justin Trudeau wears bulletproof vest at campaign event after threat
Polling stations in each part of the country were open for 12 hours and the vote timings were staggered across the different time zones.
Trudeau’s popularity has taken a hit in the latter part of his first term.
The 47-year-old made fighting climate change a central theme of the Liberal platform, but he has been attacked over his handling of a corruption case against Canadian construction giant SNC-Lavalin, his plan to tax carbon emissions and his decision to nationalise a controversial oil pipeline project.

On foreign policy, Trudeau has faced criticism from the opposition for allegedly giving too much ground to US President Donald Trump in the renegotiation of a free-trade agreement, for a cringe-inducing trip to India, and for his handling of the diplomatic stand-off with China.
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Trudeau, 47, who has championed diversity as prime minister, was endorsed by former US president Barack Obama in the final stretch of the campaign and is viewed as one of the last remaining progressive leaders among the world’s major democracies.
But the son of the late Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau also had to overcome a sense of fatigue with his government.
US President Donald Trump, whose relationship with Trudeau has been testy at times, congratulated him “on a wonderful and hard fought victory” via Twitter.

Congratulations to @JustinTrudeau on a wonderful and hard fought victory. Canada is well served. I look forward to working with you toward the betterment of both of our countries!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 22, 2019

During the campaign, Trudeau evoked the bogeymen of past and current Tory parties fostering “politics of fear and division” while Scheer called the prime minister a “compulsive liar”, “a phoney and a fraud”.
Outside polling stations, Canadians they had wished for a more positive campaign focused on issues.
“I deplored the cheap shots during the campaign. I think we’re better than that,” said Andree Legault in Montreal.
Trudeau had warned against Scheer’s pledged rollback of environmental protections, including a federal carbon tax that discourages the use of large amounts of fossil fuels.
The pair exchanged barbs while attack ads and misinformation multiplied.
At one rally, the prime minister wore a bulletproof vest due to security fears.
Scheer had lamented that Canadians “cannot afford” a Liberal government propped up by the third-place NDP.
DPA, Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, Reuters


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