Australian Prime Minister Leads Minority Government After Losing Local Elections

He highlighted the elections held last week in Bavaria that shook Chancellor Angela Merkel's government in Germany as voters abandoned their allegiance to the detriment of their conservative allies in favor of pro-refugee progressive Greens.

"Australians are disconnected from politics as a whole and this also reflects a broader trend of Western politics," said Roggeveen, adding that "the center-left and center-right parties were created from social and economic conditions do not exist anymore. "

The Australian opposition Labor Party, for example, has its roots in trade unionism, and "people are no longer affiliated with unions," said Roggeveen. In a conservative perspective, he said, "if the union no longer represents a threat, the Liberals have much less reason to win the support of this group of people."

According to Mr. Roggeveen, one of the results of these tectonic changes is that the big parties are questioning themselves and turning to cultural issues to attract voters.

George Megalogenis, author and political commentator, said this kind of disconnect could help explain Morrison's unsuccessful attempts to woo Wentworth's hesitant Liberal voters in the weeks leading up to the election.

Mr. Morrison "was throwing hay in the hope that something would connect," Megalogenis said. "One has to wonder what their instinct is, if they refuse to deny the socio-economic composition of society. You can not explain it otherwise. "

While attempting to persuade Wentworth voters to support David Sharma, the party's candidate, Morrison promised to pay money to local surf clubs and even said he was considering moving the embassy. Australia to Israel in Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, on the initiative of President Trump. This would have broken with decades of politics and the proposal sparked contempt as a transparent offer for the votes of the large Jewish community of Wentworth.