Belfast (Great Britain) – Historic overtaking formalized in local parliament of Northern Irelandat the conclusion of the scrutiny of the British administrative elections held on Thursday. The Catholic Republicans of the sense fineformer political arm of the guerrilla of the IRA, they have in fact conquered the relative majority in the smallest of the nations of the United Kingdom, surpassing the greatest of Protestant unionist parties, the Dupboth in percentage of votes (29% against 21.3), and – and it is the first time – for number of seats. And now yes nominate for the premiership for the first time: dal 1921i.e. since Northern Ireland was created by a unilateral act of the British government, the prime minister is always been extraction unionist.
With 88 seats counted out of 90, the heirs of the IRA number 27 against the 24 accredited so far to the Dup. In total the nationalist and unionist formations are equivalent after the vote two days ago, around 40% consents each, with the remaining 15-20% to inter-community parties, among which the liberals of the APNI rise to third place to the detriment of the Labor and Social Democrats of the Sdlp. But Sinn Fein – as the first force – may at this point aspire to lead a new unitary government in Belfast, reversing for the first time i power relations compared to the Dup from after the peace of Good Friday 1998and ask how the seat of local premier has already done for its leader, the former vice premier Michelle ÒNeill, 45 years oldleaving the role of deputy to the unionists.
If the latter were to refuse, on the background of the the tension in post-Brexit remerged in recent months in Ulster, the management of the Northern Irish administration would instead return – according to the law – to the central government London Tory by Boris Johnson. Sinn Fein continues to fly the nationalist flag of reunification with the Republic of Ireland, albeit in an indefinite temporal perspective, held back by the substantial demographic deadlock in the northern counties of the island of the fact that Dublin look good at the moment from encouraging a conflictual horizon. While on the economic and social level it is on rather radical positions of the left.