Sinn Fein appears to have benefited from a surge in Ireland's social-democratic sentiment
IRELAND’S PRIME MINISTER, Leo Varadkar, looks all but certain to lose his job. The left-wing Sinn Fein, the former political wing of the Irish Republican Army , rode a wave of anti-austerity sentiment to win the most votes in a general election on February 8th.
In a surge which even caught Sinn Fein by surprise, the party won 24.5% of first-preferences under Ireland’s single-transferable vote system of proportional representation. That was an impressive increase on its score of 13.8% at the previous election, in 2016. Fianna Fail won 22.2%, while Fine Gael trailed in third with 20.9%. Therefore even if Fine Gael enters a coalition with one of the other two parties, its leader will have no claim on the premiership.
Both Fianna Fail and Fine Gael vowed in the course of the campaign that they would not go into coalition with Sinn Fein, because of its past support for violence in Northern Ireland and what they see as spendthrift promises. But Fianna Fail’s leader, Micheal Martin, declined to rule out such an alliance as the scale of the surge emerged over the weekend. “I'm a democrat,” he told journalists. “I listen to the people, I respect the decision of the people.
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