Posted on 02/10/2020 10:24:06 AM PST by C19fan
Sinn Féin has declared victory in Ireland’s general election and called for talks with other main parties to form a coalition government.
Its leader, Mary Lou McDonald, urged Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil to start negotiations with the republican party as the scale of its breakthrough confirmed a realignment of Irish politics.
Irish general election: who won and what happens now? Read more “Sinn Féin has won the election. We have won the popular vote,” McDonald said, as counting of votes to fill seats in Dáil Éireann, parliament’s lower house, continued in constituencies across the country.
With full results expected late on Monday or Tuesday, Leo Varadkar, the taoiseach and Fine Gael leader, faced a call from Paudie Coffey, a former Fine Gael TD and junior minister, to quit as party leader.
Simon Coveney called the voters’ verdict “harsh” but backed Varadkar’s continued leadership. Another senior party figure, Paschal Donohoe, said Fine Gael could end up forming another government.
Sinn Féin won 24.5% of the first-preference vote in Saturday’s election, almost doubling its share from 2016 after harnessing voter anger at homelessness, soaring rents and fraying public services.
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Hopefully someone who understands Irish politics will explain what this all means.
Sounds like they are the socialist party.
A political wing of IRA - communists.
Aren’t all Irish parties socialist?
Well that’s not what I was expecting.
Someone above said they are the commie socialists, so I guess Bernie and Cuomo would approve.
>>Sounds like they are the socialist party.
ALL the political parties in Ireland are socialist parties.
Sinn Fein is more or less the political wing of the now most defunct IRA. They run candidates on both sides of the border for federal, legislative and local races.
They support the idea of a united Ireland. their ideology is pretty left wing.
Wikipedia has an surprisingly good article about them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in
Three out of every four Irish voters voted for someone else, but since they have a razor thin plurality, Sinn Féin “won.”
They have to forge a working coalition out of other leftist parties to have a role in government. But their role with the Provisional IRA puts off a lot of people and will make it hard for them to cobble together a government.
Conversely, the other parties may try to forge a coalition to keep them out, we’ll see.
LOL at Post 9!
It means old hates are taking over the party again.
Sinn Fein is basically a shell party created so IRA leaders ordering assassinations and terror attacks wouldn’t be targeted by SAS troopers for arrest.
Yes.
Actually they’re Catholics. Sinn Fein in Gaelic means “We Alone’’.
Sinn Fein, is strongly aligned with the Palestinians and are no friend of Israel. Not your grand pa’s Sinn Fein.
Europe elections, where getting 25% of the vote can put you in power.
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