The favorite in the Australian election fights tears when he remembers a difficult childhood in the working class

The short favorite to become Australia's new Prime Minister broke out in tears in an emotional final speech when he asked the voters to put an end to almost a decade in the elections on Saturday.

Anthony Albanese, the opposition Australian Labor leader, will win the parliamentary elections, although the government coalition of Scott Morrison, led by the liberals, has reduced the distance in the past few weeks.

According to the latest newspaper commissioned by the Weekend Australian, Labor has a lead of 53 to 47 percent in a two-party preference system in which the second preferences of the voters are taken into account.

If this prediction prove to be correct, Labor would be able to form a majority government.

The party received an unexpected upswing on Friday after a leak claimed that the government had rejected a proposal to double the Australian aid expenses in the Pacific in order to counteract the Chinese influence because this was too expensive. This year it turned out that Beijing had closed a controversial security pact with the Salomons.

On Friday, Mr. Morrison wiped both the leak and the surveys. "Not everyone agrees with me and not everyone likes me - but that's not the point," he said in office about his last three years.

If successful, Mr. Albanese, 59, would end a career in which he worked out from a parliamentary researcher to the deputy prime minister in the government of Kevin Rudd.

When he spoke in front of the voters in Adelaide on Friday, he struggled with tears when he remembered his childhood in the working class when he grew up in a parish hall in Sydney, with a single mother who received a disability pension

"There is a lot about this country that someone can stand in front of them from these beginnings today and hopes to be elected prime minister of this country tomorrow," he said in a brittle voice.

Mr. Albanese regularly cited his family background and difficult education as inspiration for his left -wing politics.

his father born in Italy met his mother Maryanne on a cruise ship, but left her when he was small.

Mr. Albanese grew up in the belief that his father died in a traffic accident and only later learned that Carlo Albanese lived in Italy. They came back together in 2009.

My past "gave me the determination every day to help people, as I grew up to live a better life," he told the National Press Club this year.