The defeated Australian opposition passes to the left with his new leader

SYDNEY: The Australian opposition is preparing to nominate Anthony Albanese to head his party, hoping to recapture the working clbad after an electoral defeat shocked by the conservative government.

On May 18, the Australian Labor Party lost to incumbent leader Scott Morrison, while he was leading the poll.

Albanese, left of the Labor Party, replaced Bill Shorten when the former union leader resigned several hours after losing the vote.

The Labor Caucus will officially confirm this 56-year-old man after the president's undisputed vote.

Albanese promised to create a "wider and more inclusive party" amid an introspection into the ranks after the defeat.

"I understand that this is a great mountain on which we have to climb," Albanese told reporters in Sydney, where he occupies his seat of the lower house on Monday.

"I want to build relations between the Labor Party and the people who voted for us, but also those who wanted to vote for us, who were open to voting for us but who felt they could not do it."

The Labor Party's broad and progressive program of political reforms, on which it has been heavily militating, as well as Shorten's unpopularity with voters, have been blamed for the frustrated elections.

Morrison succeeded in presenting Labor's proposals, including the fight against climate change, as too risky and damaging to household finances at a time when the national economy was slowing down.

The Labor Party recorded a particularly poor performance in the state of Queensland, where Shorten was seen as lukewarm about a large potential mine backed by India that promises to create thousands of dollars. ; jobs.

But Albanese argued that it was possible to develop the economy and create jobs while pursuing a progressive program.

"The economy has to work for people, not the other way around, and I think unions and businesses have common interests," he said.

"But … we can not distinguish the economy from the population it is supposed to serve.I believe in an inclusive society, which supports the most vulnerable."

Albanese was raised by a single mother in social housing in Sydney and has already bragged about his roots by helping him connect with low-income voters who deserted the Labor Party en mbade in the last election.

A graduate in economics, he was elected to Parliament for the first time in 1996 and has been sitting in Parliament since 1998.

Albanese briefly served as Deputy Prime Minister to former Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in 2013, and was also Minister of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development.