Canada’s Justin Trudeau to resign after nearly a decade in office

After The narrow defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris In the 2024 elections, various observers took note of an international trend that made Democrats feel better: in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and post-recovery inflation, voters around the world turned against the parties in power, from the left. , right and center.

In a widely read text Financial Times reportpublished shortly after Donald Trump won a second term, John Burn-Murdoch noted: “From the American Democrats to the British Conservatives, Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble coalition to Japan’s Liberal Democrats, even to Narendra Modi’s once-dominant BJP , the ruling parties and leaders have gone through an unprecedented crisis. series of setbacks this year.”

It was a global trend, the report addedunlike anything seen in almost 120 years.

What’s more, the trend against sitting international leaders still continues and has reached Ottawa.

Under increasing pressure of his own political allies, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he will resign. NBC News reported:

Justin Trudeau said Monday he will resign as leader of Canada’s ruling Liberal Party, in an announcement that will kick off the race to replace him as prime minister. Trudeau, who came to power in late 2015 and has governed for nine years, told reporters in Ottawa that he would resign after his party selects a new leader.

However, the current president will remain prime minister until his successor is elected.

When it comes to American politics, Trump probably won’t be too sorry to see the prime minister go. On the contrary, the Republican has had a difficult relationship with the Canadian leader in recent years.

At a NATO meeting in London in 2019, for example, Trudeau was unknowingly recorded at a reception at Buckingham Palace. mocking trump during a conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron and then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Several years later, the Republican published a book of photographs that falsely suggested that Trudeau is the son of former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

More recently, the president-elect, apparently confused about What are trade deficits?He began by referring to the Canadian Prime Minister. as “governor” while suggesting that the United States’ northern neighbor might want to become an American state.

As for the near future, the Liberal Party of Canada holds 153 of the 338 seats in the House of Commons. National elections are scheduled for October.