Kathmandu: Anthony Albanese will become the 31st Prime Minister of Australia. New PM Anthony Albanese pledges to unite country after Scott Morrison concedes defeat. Australia’s Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese has said he wants to unite the country after leading the opposition to power for the first time since 2007.
He made his comments after Scott Morrison conceded defeat in the election, ending almost a decade of conservative rule.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he had conceded defeat in a national election today, saying that while vote counting was incomplete the opposition Labor party looked likely to form a government.
Morrison said at a televised speech in Sydney that he had spoken to the Leader of the Opposition and the incoming Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, and congratulated him on his election victory this evening.
Morrison added that he would stand down as leader of the Liberal party. The capitulation ends eight years and nine months in power for Morrison’s conservative coalition. Morrison became prime minister in 2018 after several leadership changes.
