World leaders and press respond to Anthony Albanese’s election victory | Australian politics

World leaders have congratulated Anthony Albanese on his election victory, whereas former heads of presidency within the Pacific have urged him to “make a radical shift in the direction of robust and pressing local weather motion”.

One French minister was barely in a position to conceal his glee on the Coalition’s loss, whereas Fiji welcomed Labor’s “plan to place local weather first”.

The UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, and Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, have been among the many first world leaders to answer information of the Morrison authorities’s electoral defeat.

Johnson pointed to the free commerce settlement and the Aukus partnership as the idea for an ongoing relationship when he tweeted his congratulations on Sunday evening.

The Solar, a UK tabloid, mentioned in an editorial Australia had elected “anti-Queen left wing PM Anthony Albanese who tried to take away monarch as head of state”.

“The 59-year-old had beforehand threatened to crumble the Commonwealth, sharing his need to eliminate Her Majesty,” it mentioned.

Modi tweeted his congratulations after midnight in Australia and highlighted his want for the continuation of key safety agreements forward of a gathering of the Quad on Tuesday.

An editorial within the Occasions of India, citing unnamed diplomatic sources, mentioned it was too early to inform how Albanese’s election would possibly affect the connection with India, however speculated there may be a “smoothening of Australia’s ties with China”.

“That’s one factor India, and certainly Quad, want to protect in opposition to though Albanese has publicly mentioned there received’t be any change in Australia’s China coverage,” it mentioned.

The outgoing French international affairs minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, mentioned the “defeat of Morrison fits me very effectively”.

Australia’s relationship with France soured when the Coalition deserted a submarine deal between the 2 international locations in favour of a safety pact with the US and the UK.

Le Drian added that the previous PM’s dealing with of the submarine deal confirmed “brutality and cynicism, and I’d even be tempted to say … unequivocal incompetence”.

Fiji’s prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, congratulated Albanese in a tweet.

“Of your many guarantees to help the Pacific, none is extra welcome than your plan to place the local weather first – our folks’s shared future is determined by it.” He mentioned his nation regarded ahead to internet hosting the brand new Australian chief quickly.

Anote Tong, the previous president of Kiribati and a number one local weather campaigner, mentioned: “It’s no secret that I’ve been disillusioned with the attitudes of the earlier Australian authorities in the direction of the Pacific on plenty of fronts, together with local weather change.”

“My hope is that we are going to see stronger and extra pressing local weather motion from the incoming authorities, together with a extra formidable emissions discount goal, ramped-up help for climate-vulnerable communities within the Pacific and most significantly, a dedication to no new coal and fuel tasks in Australia.”

Tong mentioned that whereas he welcomed Albanese’s proposal to host a COP summit along side Pacific island nations “this can’t be used to greenwash Australia’s insufficient local weather insurance policies”.

Enele Sopoaga, the previous prime minister of Tuvalu, who clashed strongly with Morrison on the final in-person Pacific Islands Discussion board in 2019, mentioned he welcomed the incoming authorities.

“Time is working out on local weather change not just for Small Island Growing States like us within the Pacific, but in addition for Australia and the remainder of the world. Our safety, along with our survival, is at peril,” he mentioned.

“I can solely hope that this new Australian authorities will make a radical shift in the direction of robust and pressing local weather motion and real help for the Pacific. This would come with radical new Australian targets for emissions discount below the Paris Settlement, no new coal or fuel, and an ongoing dedication to supporting Pacific Island nations as we face the brunt of local weather impacts.”

New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, congratulated her new Australian counterpart.

“I’ve little doubt we’ll have a robust working relationship that may serve each international locations effectively,” Ardern mentioned on Sunday morning.

“Australia is our most necessary associate … and I consider our international locations will work much more carefully collectively in these tumultuous instances.”

She additionally acknowledged a “robust working relationship” with outgoing chief Morrison.

New Zealand and Australia, whereas carefully allied, have had some tense moments below Morrison’s management – notably over the Australian “501” coverage of deporting residents with New Zealand citizenship on unhealthy character or felony file grounds, even when they’d lived their complete lives in Australia.

In 2020, Ardern lashed out at Morrison at their annual bilateral summit, saying the coverage was “testing” the friendship between the 2 nations, and Australia was deporting “your folks and your issues” utilizing “unfair” insurance policies.

The New Zealand authorities has repeatedly pushed for a reconsideration of the coverage, and can in all probability be hoping for motion below a brand new authorities.

Additionally on the high of New Zealand’s issues is the broader safety of the Indo-Pacific, and the rising affect of China within the area.

New Zealand’s rhetoric on China has usually been gentler than Australia’s, and the nation has at instances been accused by Australian commentators of being hamstrung by its important commerce reliance on China.