Left-wing nationalist party Sinn Fein said on Thursday it had formally requested...
DUBLIN - Left-wing nationalist party Sinn Fein said on Thursday it had formally requested talks with center-right rival Fianna Fail to discuss options for forming a new Irish government following an inconclusive election last weekend.
Sinn Fein, Fianna Fail and the center-right Fine Gael Party of Prime Minister Leo Varadkar each secured just under a quarter of seats in parliament, meaning it will be hard to form a government unless at least two of the three cooperate. “Micheal Martin has said ‘I am a democrat, I listen to the people and I respect the decision of the people’, so he knows that the people have voted for change,” Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald said in a statement.
Ratings agency S&P Global, which handed EU-member Ireland back its double-A sovereign debt rating in November, said in a note that the election was unlikely to sway economic policy, regardless of the outcome.There are open divisions among Fianna Fail lawmakers over talking to Sinn Fein. Two members of parliament, one a senior member of Martin’s front bench, strongly ruled it out on Thursday ahead of the party’s first meeting since the election.
While Collins suggested a minority administration involving all three parties, Foreign Minister Simon Coveney of Fine Gael repeated his personal view that another minority government was not a good idea after both parties suffered in the election.
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