How a visit by Pope Francis helped lead to the crushing defeat of Viktor Orban
www.the-independent.com
Political editor David Maddox tracks the origins of Orban’s crushing defeat on Sunday to the unforeseen consequences of a papal visit almost exactly three years ago
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    3 days ago

    Canda:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2y7969gyo

    Mark Carney’s Liberals have won Canada’s federal election - riding a backlash of anti-Trump sentiment to form the next government.

    It is a stunning political turnaround for a party who were widely considered dead and buried just a few months ago.

    1. Trump’s threats became the defining issue

    There is no doubt the US president’s tariff threats and comments undermining Canada’s sovereignty played an outsized role in this election, suddenly making leadership and the country’s economic survival the defining issues of the campaign.

    Mark Carney used it to his advantage, running as much against Trump as he did against his main opposition rival, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.

    Australia:

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/559852/trump-may-have-aided-australian-pm-s-election-victory-analysts-say

    Donald Trump’s stinging trade tariffs may have helped Australia’s left-leaning prime minister snatch a resounding election victory on Saturday, analysts say.

    Unlike Canada’s Trump-swayed vote three days earlier, the US president was far from the biggest concern for voters who backed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, academics said.

    But some said Trump nevertheless appeared to have a significant impact on the governing Labor Party’s late turnaround in the opinion polls, and the emphatic election result.

    Then there’s the elevated fuel prices reducing carbon emissions…