Australia opposition leader calls for PM resignation

Australia's opposition leader has called for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to step down amid chaos over parliamentary elections which failed to produce a clear winner.

According to the reports, the result is a blow to Turnbull, who had dissolved both houses of the parliament in May and called for snap elections confident that his ruling coalition would clinch an outright win.

“Mr. Turnbull clearly doesn't know what he is doing. Quite frankly, I think he should quit," leader of the opposition Labor Party Bill Shorten said on Monday.

"He has taken this nation to an election on the basis of stability. He has delivered instability. ... The bloke is not up to the job," Shorten added.

The results of the dramatic parliamentary elections have raised the prospect of prolonged political and economic instability in Australia.

Shorten accused Turnbull of trying “to capitalize on the Brexit vote and say therefore, because of what happened in England, you had to vote for him in Australia."

"He [Turnbull] Brexited himself. This guy is like the [British Prime Minister] David Cameron of the southern hemisphere," he added.

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