{"id":227542,"date":"2016-07-02T16:50:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T16:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=227542"},"modified":"2016-07-02T16:50:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T16:50:19","slug":"australia-pm-confident-of-poll-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=227542","title":{"rendered":"Australia PM ‘confident’ of poll win"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, says he is confident he can form a government, but results are still too close to call.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The leader of the Liberal-National coalition needs to win 76 out of 150 lower house seats to form a ruling majority.<\/p>\n

With about half the votes counted, results suggest a very close contest.<\/p>\n

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said the close result was a vindication of his Labor party’s policies.<\/p>\n

Labor has improved strongly on its 2013 election result of 55 lower house seats.<\/p>\n

“There is one thing for sure – the Labor Party is back,” he said.<\/p>\n

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All 150 seats in Australia’s lower house, the House of Representatives, are up for grabs at the election, as are 76 seats in Australia’s upper house, the Senate.<\/p>\n

It is the first time in decades that all the seats in both houses have been up for election.<\/p>\n

The double-dissolution election, as it is known, was called by Mr Turnbull in an attempt to break a deadlock over industrial relations legislation.<\/p>\n

It was thought the result of the UK’s referendum on the EU would benefit Mr Turnbull, who assured voters that he could deliver “economic certainty”.<\/p>\n

The former lawyer and investment banker vowed to deliver tax cuts for workers and small businesses.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n

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