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Urgent: Malcolm Turnbull wins party ballot to become Australian PM

Xinhua, September 14, 2015 Adjust font size:

Malcolm Turnbull, former Australian Minister for Communications, won the party room ballot Monday night to replace Tony Abbott as the leader of the ruling Liberal Party and thus is to become Australia's next prime minister.

Turnbull grabbed 54 of the Liberal parliamentarian votes, 10 more than the votes Abbott managed to get.

Turnbull announced that he was resigning from his position as communications minister earlier in Monday afternoon to challenge the prime minister for the Liberal Party leadership. Endi