AUSTRALIA: VITTORIA DEL GOVERNO CONSERVATORE

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SYDNEY - Il premier conservatore John Howard e' in dirittura d'arrivo per conquistare uno storico quarto mandato di governo, dopo otto anni e mezzo al potere, mentre continuano i conteggi nelle elezioni federali australiane. L'opposizione laburista guidata dal giovane leader Mark Latham sembra ormai incapace a conquistare i 12 nuovi seggi necessari per vincere.

Con piu' del 30% dei voti contati, si registra un travaso di voti del 3,2% a favore della coalizione conservatrice (liberali e nazionali-ex agrari), che si e' assicurata finora il 40% dei voti. In forte crescita i verdi, che pero' a causa del sistema maggioritario non hanno probabilita' minime di conquistare seggi alla Camera. Il partito laburista australiano ha ammesso la sconfitta alle elezioni legislative di oggi.

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Da Nytimes.com:

Australians Re-elect Howard as Economy Trumps the War

By RAYMOND BONNER

Published: October 10, 2004

SYDNEY, Australia, Sunday, Oct. 10 - Prime Minister John Howard of Australia, who went into the country's election with a good-luck message from President Bush, was decisively re-elected Saturday, according to official returns.

Mr. Howard's Liberals, a center-right party, defeated the center-left Labor Party, led by Mark Latham. Mr. Howard, first elected prime minister in 1996, becomes only the third prime minister in Australia's history to be elected to a fourth term.

Iraq loomed in the background during the campaign, but Australian political analysts cautioned that the voting was not a referendum on the war. The main issue was the economy, and that is booming.

Mr. Howard sent some of Australia's best combat forces at the beginning of the Iraq war, adopting the arguments of the Bush administration that Saddam Hussein possessed unconventional weapons. Even as evidence has emerged to the contrary, Mr. Howard has steadfastly insisted that he had no regrets about the decision. Mr. Latham had harshly criticized the war.

At this point, Australia's contribution to the war is of more symbolic importance to the Bush administration than it is militarily. Fewer than 200 Australian troops are in Iraq now, and none are engaged in combat. Most are security forces at the Australian Embassy, and some are trainers.

Labor had faced a formidable challenge in trying to unseat Mr. Howard. The economy has been growing steadily for more than a decade; unemployment is near historic lows, as are interest rates.

"This country is too wealthy" to vote for Labor, said Antonino D'Albora, a 60-year old taxi driver, capturing the political ambience here. He was voting at a school in Bondi, in the heart of one of the wealthiest districts in Australia, within sound and sight of the famed beach.

Voting is mandatory in Australia, and George Harris, 44, wearing only his bathing suit and tennis shoes, walked into the Bondi surf club to cast his ballot for the Liberals.

"It's purely a matter of economic management," he said. A former senior executive with an international company, he now manages his own investments, from stocks to property to cattle and sheep.

Mr. Harris said whatever people thought about Australia's going to war - the vast majority were against it at the time - there was no choice now but to stay until the war was won.

On the other side of Sydney, in a middle-class suburb, Richard Lo, a 32-year-old computer programmer who immigrated from Hong Kong a decade ago, expressed similar sentiments.

"The economy here, that is the major thing," he said. "I don't like the policy in Iraq. But it is not enough to vote against him." He cast his vote for the Liberals.

Aware of the strong opposition to the war, Mr. Howard has handled it with political deftness, even his Labor opponents concede. Australia's tough special forces played an important role in the early stages of the war, much of it still secret. But as soon as the main fighting was over, in May 2003, Mr. Howard pulled them out. No Australian soldier has been killed in combat.

The primary differences between Liberals and Labor are on social and environmental issues. "I voted for Labor," Julie Luc, who emigrated from Vietnam in 1978, said in a tone that said, how could anyone think she wouldn't. "I'm a worker. I'm poor. I'm not rich."

Mr. Howard has declined to sign the Kyoto treaty on global warming (again putting him in sync with Mr. Bush), while Mr. Latham said he would sign it. But the real environmental battle is in Tasmania, the island state where environmentalists and loggers are in a heated conflict over the island's old-growth forests. Mr. Latham said he would protect 600,000 acres. Mr. Howard's program would protect only 42,000 acres. "Howard backs jobs over trees," read the headline in The Australian, one of Australia's largest dailies, which endorsed Mr. Howard.

Labor had held five seats in Tasmania. It lost one, almost certainly because Mr. Latham's forestry policy was seen as hurting loggers.

With 77 percent of the vote counted, the Liberals won 71 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives, it was reported Sunday, and its coalition partners, The Nationals, a conservative rural party, won 12, for a coalition total of 83.

In his last major appearance before the voting, Prime Minister Howard said the "good luck" message from Mr. Bush had been delivered by the American ambassador here, Tom Schieffer, who had been a partner with Mr. Bush when he owned the Texas Rangers baseball team.

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