Justin Trudeau will remain as interim prime minister of Canada until the elections, scheduled for October, are held.
The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, announced this Monday, January 6, his resignation from office and from the leadership of the Liberal Party before the general elections are held at the end of the year.
“I intend to resign as party leader, and as Prime Minister, after the party elects its new leader,” Trudeau, 53, declared at a news conference in Ottawa.
He said he has come to the conclusion that it does not represent the best option for the elections; scheduled for October and maintained that Parliament has been “paralyzed for months” after what he describes as the longest session of a minority government in the country’s history.
According to Trudeau, this situation justifies the need to call a new parliamentary session, so Parliament will remain prorogued until March 24.
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The message from the prime minister, who will now be acting on an interim basis, came after The Globe and Mail newspaper published over the weekend that Trudeau was considering the possibility of abandoning the leadership of the ruling Liberal Party after nine years in office. According to a source close to the president, he was not making a final decision, although he was seriously evaluating the alternative of stepping aside.
Justin Trudeau came to power in 2015 and led the Liberals to two more victories at the polls in 2019 and 2021. He is currently 20 points behind his main rival, conservative Pierre Poilievre, in public opinion polls.
The departure of the Canadian premier was accelerated because in mid-December, his deputy prime minister and head of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, decided to resign from her position with a publication on social networks of her resignation letter, in which she criticized the politician for his “expensive political maneuvers.”
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With information from Bloomberg / The Nation / cnn / The Commerce
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