Pressure for new government may be resisted for some time yet as Covid 19 crisis continues
So, eight weeks since the general election, there is still no new Government. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael remain in contact with each other. The expectation is that – one day – there will be a new government involving both of them. However, to have a stable Dáil majority they need another party to join them – the common wisdom is that recruiting a group of independents to back them would be to unstable. So far the Green Party, the Labour Party and the Social Democrats have said No. Now, as the Byzantine Seanad count continues,...
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