Australia faces days of political paralysis as vote counting resumes after a weekend election that failed to produce a clear winner and raised questions over Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s future.
Both Turnbull’s Liberal-National coalition and the Bill Shorten-led Labor opposition are currently short of the 76 lower-house seats needed for a majority government. As the Australian Electoral Commission begins Tuesday to count more than one-million postal votes, talks are under way between the major parties and independent lawmakers who may hold the balance of power.
