It is not out of great love that the two center parties now embrace each other. Not she, but Sinn Feinn was the big winner of the parliamentary elections early this year. To everyone’s surprise, even that of Sinn Feinn himself, who had put too few candidates on the lists beforehand, so that they did not fill all their seats and ultimately did not become the largest party in parliament.
Despite that victory, other parties have said they do not want to join a government with a party that emerged as a political arm of the IRA, the Irish Republican Army, which committed several bloody bombings in Northern Ireland and pursued Northern Ireland’s independence. , which is part of the United Kingdom, and the reunification of the Irish island.
The aversion to Sinn Feinn and the lack of sufficient seats to form a separate government led to a historic coalition agreement between the two hereditary enemies Fianna Fáil and Fine Gail, two center-right parties that differ little in content, but since the Irish struggle for independence. against the British not being able to air each other for historical reasons.
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