Ireland is holding a parliamentary election with voters deciding on the next government amidst global trends of incumbent ousting. The election will fill 174 lawmaker positions in the Dail, the lower house of parliament. Voters will choose between the two long-standing rivals Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, who previously formed a coalition.
DUBLIN — Ireland is voting Friday in a parliamentary election that will decide the next government — and will show whether Ireland bucks the global trend of incumbents being ousted by disgruntled voters after years of pandemic, international instability and a cost-of-living pressures.
Opposition party Sinn Fein achieved a stunning breakthrough in the 2020 election, topping the popular vote, but was shut out of government because Fianna Fail and Fine Gael refused to work with it, citing its leftist policies and historic ties with militant group the Irish Republican Army during three decades of violence in Northern Ireland.
“There was not building during the crisis, and when the crisis receded, offices and hotels were built first,” said John-Mark McCafferty, chief executive of housing and homelessness charity Threshold.After a decade of economic growth, McCafferty said “Ireland has resources” — not least 13 billion euros in back taxes the European Union has ordered Apple to pay it — “but it is trying to address big historic infrastructural deficits.
Unlike many European countries, Ireland does not have a significant far-right party, but far-right voices on social media seek to drum up hostility to migrants, and anti-immigrant independent candidates are hoping for election in several districts. The issue appears to be hitting support for Sinn Fein, as working-class supporters bristled at its pro-immigration policies.
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