{"id":416428,"date":"2025-01-16T17:45:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T16:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/01\/16\/irlanda-accordo-governo-harris-micheal\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T18:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T17:42:49","slug":"ireland-agreement-for-a-new-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/01\/16\/ireland-agreement-for-a-new-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland, agreement for a new government"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels\u00a0– A deal has finally been struck in Ireland to form a new government<\/strong> and bring the country out of the political impasse<\/i> that followed last November’s elections. The understanding came after the island’s two main political forces, Fianna F\u00e1il<\/strong> and Fine Gael<\/strong>, managed to agree on a draft program<\/strong> to guide the action of the future executive, as well as on the roles of their respective leaders<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

According to the terms of the covenant<\/a>, finalised\u00a0earlier today (Jan. 16), the post of prime minister<\/strong> (Taoiseach<\/i><\/strong> in Gaelic) will go to the leader of the liberal-conservative Fianna F\u00e1il<\/strong>, Miche\u00e1l Martin<\/strong>, while the leader of the Christian-Democrats of Fine Gael<\/strong>, Simon Harris<\/strong>, the outgoing premier, will serve as his deputy (T\u00e1inaste<\/i><\/strong>) and will also hold the Foreign Ministry<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This concludes two months of intense negotiations<\/strong> that followed the risk that Harris had taken<\/a> convening the early elections last November 29<\/strong>: the then prime minister had hoped for a clear-cut Fine Gael<\/strong> victory to retain control of the chancellery\u00a0but was overtaken<\/strong> (albeit narrowly) by the Fianna F\u00e1il allies.<\/p>\n

\"Simon<\/a>
Outgoing Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris (photo: European Council)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, it was inevitable that in Dublin, he would be succeeded by Martin<\/strong>, already several times Taoiseach<\/em> and already in government with him (Fine Gael and Fianna F\u00e1il have held power in Ireland since independence in 1921). But, given the vertical collapse of the Greens<\/strong>\u2014who constituted the third leg of the outgoing executive<\/strong>\u2014the centrists will now have to seek a new ally to shore up the government<\/strong> and keep out Sinn F\u00e9in<\/strong>, the party that, born as the political arm of IRA<\/strong>, advocates from the left the reunification of the island.<\/p>\n

At least\u00a0nine independent MPs<\/strong>\u00a0will rescue the new majority in the lower chamber of the Irish Parliament<\/strong>, the D\u00e1il<\/strong>. The\u00a0vote in the House<\/strong>, after which the government can take office, has been set for\u00a0January 22<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The program has been presented to the parliamentary groups<\/strong> of the two main governing parties and\u00a0is awaiting\u00a0final approval from the members<\/strong>, who are expected to come to<\/span>\u00a0dedicated meetings in the coming days. According to media previews, highlights include child care<\/strong>, maintaining the retirement age<\/strong> and keeping the current VAT rate on energy bills<\/strong>. Among other things, the draft agreement also includes a promise to initiate legislative work to prohibit the import of goods from the occupied Palestinian territories<\/strong> by Israeli settlers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After more than a month and a half of negotiations between the two main parties, Fine Gael and Fine Gael, comes the agreement to give Dublin a new executive as early as next week. Outgoing premier Martin Harris will become Miche\u00e1l Martin’s deputy, with the support of independent MPs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7876,"featured_media":416421,"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":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","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_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"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[30209,30210,27269,26869,29865,27513],"class_list":["post-416428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-fianna-failat","tag-fine-yellow-and","tag-governo-en","tag-irlanda-en","tag-micheal-martin-en","tag-simon-harrisat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416428","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\/7876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416443,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416428\/revisions\/416443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}