For decades Sinn Fein activists insisted the star power of Gerry Adams, a former...
DUBLIN - For decades Sinn Fein activists insisted the star power of Gerry Adams, a former Irish Republican Army spokesman, could not be replicated among the party’s Irish nationalist base.
The left-wing Sinn Fein shocked the country when it emerged as the most popular party in an opinion poll released on Monday, with 25% of support, up from 14% support in the 2016 vote. McDonald, 50, has opened the party up to address the concerns of a new generation that is more preoccupied with the soaring cost of housing than with Sinn Fein’s ultimate aim of unifying Ireland and Northern Ireland.
McDonald has positioned herself as a “progressive, feminist, female leader who is very much chiming with the times,” she said.In a sign of McDonald’s appeal, during a march this week by thousands of childcare workers demanding better pay, protesters cheered her name as they passed a news conference outside Sinn Fein’s nearby offices - drowning out questions over a senior party figure’s comments regarding a 2007 murder carried out by the IRA.
Successive polls have shown voters moving to Sinn Fein over the defining campaign issue of housing. Rents in Dublin are now higher than Tokyo and Sydney, and almost 10,000 homeless people, many of them families, are stuck in temporary accommodation like hotels. Both say the party’s leadership structure allows unelected party officials to dictate policy. Sinn Fein disputes this, saying its ruling executive is no different to any other political party’s governing body.But the party also has one foot in the political center with policies that are pro-immigration and socially progressive.
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