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Victory for the center-right government in the Irish election is foreseeable
The three major parties are fighting a tight race in the parliamentary elections on the Emerald Isle. Nevertheless, it seems clear who will form the government in the future. But who will be the third partner?
There are signs of success for the ruling center-right parties in the parliamentary elections in Ireland. After counting 162 of the 174 parliamentary seats, Deputy Prime Minister Micheál Martin’s Fianna Fáil party is in the lead with 43 seats. Prime Minister Simon Harris’s coalition partner Fine Gael has so far won 36 seats.
Martin and Harris are expected to continue their collaboration – and probably take turns in the office of Taoiseach, as the head of government in Ireland is called, again in the middle of the legislative period.
However, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael will most likely have to find a new partner. So far they have governed with the Greens, who lost almost all of their seats in Friday’s election. The social democratic parties Labor and Social Democrats are under discussion, and some independent candidates have also promised their support.
The largest opposition party has little chance of becoming a government
The largest opposition force, Sinn Féin, which also has 36 seats so far, is hardly an option for forming a government. Both the head of government and his deputy have ruled out cooperation with the left-wing national party, which vehemently advocates unification with the British neighboring province of Northern Ireland and was once considered the political arm of the terrorist group IRA.
It is impossible to predict when the counting of votes will end in the EU member state due to the complicated proportional representation system. Almost 3.7 million people were eligible to vote in the election. At 59.7 percent, voter turnout was a good three points lower than in the previous vote in February 2020.
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Source: Stern
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