{"id":402981,"date":"2024-11-07T12:46:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T11:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/11\/07\/novembre-irlanda-elezioni-anticipate\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T15:11:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T14:11:14","slug":"there-will-be-early-elections-in-ireland-on-november-29-pm-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/11\/07\/there-will-be-early-elections-in-ireland-on-november-29-pm-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"There will be early elections in Ireland on November 29, PM confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels –Early elections in Ireland are official<\/strong>. Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris confirmed the date of November 29<\/strong>, by which he will have a chance to ask\u00a0citizens\u00a0“to continue to be their Taoiseach (Irish prime minister)<\/a>.” By Friday<\/strong> afternoon, the\u00a0dissolution of Parliament<\/strong> is expected.<\/p>\n

The conditio sine qua non<\/a> <\/em>for the election was the passage of the budget document for 2025<\/strong>.\u00a0The document secured changes to income brackets, the reduction of the ‘Universal Social Contribution’ (an additional tax on all but minimum incomes), and new supports for businesses and corporations in Ireland. The vote was expedited, allowing Harris the peace of mind to call the election as he had announced<\/strong>.\u00a0The post of Taoiseach and Fine Gael party leader for Harris came after his\u00a0predecessor Leo Varadkar stepped down<\/strong>, almost fleeing politics for personal reasons. From April to the present, the new prime minister has consolidated the credibility of his party<\/strong>, which the\u00a0Irish Polling Indicator<\/a>\u00a0puts\u00a0at 24.5 percent, ahead of all opponents.<\/p>\n

According to the polls, the conservative Fianna Fail<\/strong> party follows, with 21 percent, currently in the governing coalition with Fine Gael. It could be\u00a0an oversight (or perhaps a sign of potential rifts within the majority)\u00a0the decision by Deputy Prime Minister Miche\u00e1l Martin,<\/strong> a Fianna F\u00e1il MP, to break the silence and confirm the date for Friday <\/strong>to the Irish news outlet Virgin Media, before Harris did so<\/strong>, raised some eyebrows. In any case, even the announcement by Harris\u00a0did not come as\u00a0any surprise<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0when he returns from the EU Council meeting in Budapest with European leaders,\u00a0the Irish Parliament will be dissolved, and the election marathon will begin.<\/p>\n

Busy busy weeks<\/strong> lie ahead for the opposition.\u00a0Sinn Fein<\/strong>, the main opposition party, is struggling<\/strong> after its\u00a0success in the 2020 general election<\/a>. It had garnered the most “first preferences,” and now polls put it at around 18 percent, also due to political scandals<\/a>\u00a0of the past few months that have strained Mary Lou McDonald’s party.<\/p>\n

How elections work<\/h3>\n

Campaigning will begin<\/a>\u00a0tomorrow<\/strong> (Nov. 8), kicking off a tight inter-party battle\u00a0until Election Day.<\/p>\n

Ireland uses a\u00a0Proportional Representation Single Transferable Vote<\/strong> (PR-STV)\u00a0voting system<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0based on multi-member constituencies of voters asked to make a\u00a0rank by “numbering” their candidates on the ballot<\/strong>. Preferences are counted, and TDs (members of parliament) are elected directly upon crossing the predetermined threshold.<\/p>\n

There are 160 TDs,\u00a081 for a majority,\u00a0and it is highly unlikely for one party to cross the threshold<\/strong>. Therefore, there will be\u00a0another majority, which could again be\u00a0the triad between Fine Gael, Fianna Fail,\u00a0and a smaller center-left party, which, in this case, was the Greens, or change radically if the results differ from the polls. By the end of the month, answers<\/strong> will be forthcoming regarding the tightness of the majority, the (perhaps rebuildable) credibility of the opposition, and, last but not least, whether Harris’s gamble to consolidate his position has been successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The intentions to not complete the mandate until the end of February have been upheld. At the end of the month, the composition of the Dail (Irish Parliament) will be decided. It will be Ireland’s second early election, following the one in 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7877,"featured_media":402948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[25816,28802,29590,26878,29607,26869,27513],"class_list":["post-402981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-elections-anticipated-en","tag-eire-en","tag-ireland-en","tag-parliament-irland-en","tag-irlanda-en","tag-simon-harrisat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402981"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403015,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402981\/revisions\/403015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}