Ireland prepares for 3-week campaign to decide next prime minister
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Ireland prepares for 3-week campaign to decide next prime minister

Associated Press  

LONDON — Ireland’s President Michael Higgins dissolved Parliament Friday, clearing the way for a Nov. 29 election that will determine who controls government. A historic coalition government led by Harris’ center-right Fine Gael party and its center-left rival Fianna Fail has been in power since the 2020 race ended in a virtual dead heat. “The time is now right to ask the Irish people to give a new mandate.” Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, which arose from opposing sides of Ireland’s 1920s civil war, shared a broadly centrist outlook and had alternated holding power to govern Ireland over the decades. “After a century of Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, it is time to make that change, to give Sinn Fein the chance to lead and the chance to deliver,” said party President Mary-Lou McDonald. “In Sinn Fein you will get a government that will move heaven and earth to make housing affordable, to bring home ownership back into the reach of working people and to restore hope for a generation.” Ireland, which has a population of 5.2 million, has faced many of the same challenges of other countries since its last election: the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruptions due to the war in Ukraine and a surge of migrants from overseas.

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