{"id":438577,"date":"2025-10-27T10:18:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T09:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/10\/27\/lirlanda-vota-a-sinistra-catherine-connolly-e-la-nuova-presidente\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:12:11","slug":"ireland-votes-left-catherine-connolly-is-the-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/10\/27\/ireland-votes-left-catherine-connolly-is-the-new-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland votes left. Catherine Connolly is the new president"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Catherine Connolly<\/strong><\/a> did not win; she won in a landslide to become President of the Republic of Ireland.<\/strong> The independent candidate, backed by left-wing parties,<\/strong> dominated the vote. The result left no doubt: Connolly secured 63 percent of the votes<\/a>, more than double the 29 percent of her opponent, Heather Humphreys.<\/strong> Voter turnout was lower than usual, however, with only 46 percent of eligible voters<\/strong> casting their ballots.<\/p>\n

In her inaugural speech, Connolly outlined the cardinal points of her mandate: “I will be a voice for peace<\/strong>, a voice that builds on our policy of neutrality<\/strong>, a voice that expresses the existential threat from climate change<\/strong>. Together, we can shape a new republic that values all,<\/strong> one that promotes diversity<\/strong> and has confidence in our identity.” Her victory is a strong signal to the center-right government.<\/p>\n

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I just wanted to take a moment to congratulate Irish President Elect Catherine Connolly a progressive thinker who has beaten the tide of right wing populism. She didn\u2019t just win, she won by an ACTUAL landslide.<\/p>\n

I have long said, as did the late great John Lewis, that women\u2026  <\/a>\u2014  pic.twitter.com\/C3S9YiGw8U<\/a> – (@politicsusa46) October 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Connolly has given a voice to the dissatisfied,<\/strong> affected by the prohibitive cost of living<\/strong> and the housing crisis.<\/strong> Her electoral success was made possible by unprecedented unity on the left,<\/strong> which supported her candidacy from the start. The approach was different, however, on the right, where internal splits within the coalition composed of the Fine Gael<\/strong> party and its government partner, Fianna F\u00e1il<\/strong>, conditioned the race. They proposed the institutional figure of Heather Humphreys late, after other candidates withdrew. <\/p>\n

Although legitimized by popular vote, the new president, Catherine Connolly, will play an almost entirely symbolic role,<\/strong> exercising a function similar to that of the head of state in Italy. This does not detract from the political decision of the Irish: only a year ago, they had elected a center-right parliament, but a few months later, the scenario was reversed. The victory of a president who positions herself on the left, perhaps more to the left than the very parties that supported her<\/strong>, is unique in a Europe that increasingly chooses the right. A sign that in the far west of the Union, something is changing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The independent candidate backed by at parties of the left dominates with 63 percent of the vote. Her political idea: ‘I will be a voice for peace, neutrality, and support for climate change’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7891,"featured_media":438560,"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","show_comment_section":"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":[25816,32438,26869,32441],"class_list":["post-438577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-catherine-connolly-en","tag-irlanda-en","tag-presidenziali"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438577","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\/7891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438578,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438577\/revisions\/438578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}