Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says, Australia will hold a general election on May 3, 2025.
Albanese earlier in the morning of Friday met the country’s Governor-General Sam Mostyn to seek permission to call a nationwide federal election.
Under Australia’s constitution the prime minister must formally seek permission to call an election from the governor-general, who represents the head of state, Britain’s King Charles.
Albanese’s centre-left Labor party took office in May 2022, turfing out a conservative government deeply unpopular after almost a decade in charge.
Meanwhile, Albanese’s Labor party won a majority at the last federal election in 2022, but most recent opinion polls show the party neck-and-neck with the opposition Liberal-National coalition when votes from smaller parties are redistributed.
