Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigns

He said parliament has been “paralyzed for months” after what he calls the longest session of a minority parliament in Canadian history.

“I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister after the party chooses its new leader”, the 53-year-old told reporters at a press conference in Otawa on Monday.

Trudeau will remain prime minister in custody until a new leader is elected.

Trudeau first entered the political scene in 2008, when he was elected deputy and later as leader of the Liberal Party five years later.

In 2015, he claimed the prime minister post after campaigning on an anti-conservative platform and won a clear majority in the October elections, moving his predecessor, Stephen Harper.

One of the country's newest leaders, Trudeau, grew into popularity by promoting progressive values on the global scene, calling himself an antidote to former President Donald Trump. He won successive elections in 2019 and 2021.

But its early rise has steadily fallen behind a series of political obstacles, including charges of racism after his old photographs appeared using black face and anger over vaccine mandates during the coronary pandemic.

Since then he has dropped in polls after the next US president, Trump issued a host of tariff threats and the sudden subsequent resignation of his former political ally and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland.