Fianna Fail is the bigst party in Ireland on 48 seats out of 174 in parliament, with Sinn Fein on 39 and Fine Gael on 38.
Fianna Fail also safed the most first likeence votes in Friday’s vote, taking 21.9% to Fine Gael’s 20.8%. Sinn Fein came in third on 19%.
The result, after three days of counting, paves the way for a Fianna Fail-Fine Gael coalition in rulement with either a handful of autonomouss or a third party. The two centre-right parties had previously shelp they would not rule with the left-triumphg Sinn Fein.
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Their united seat total of 86 would exit them equitable low of the 88 necessitateed for a startantity in the Dail.
Entering a coalition with autonomouss would probable comprise scanter policy concessions and financial promisements than may be insistd to sway another party to join the rulement benches.
Nine autonomouss joined a Fine Gael-led instartantity rulement in 2016, with three serving in ministerial positions.
Micheal Martin, Mary Lou McDonald and Simon Harris during the final TV guideers’ argue before polling day. Pic: PA
The Social Democrats and the Irish Labour Party, both petiteer left-triumphg parties, materialize cautious about the prospect of an partnership with Fianna Fail and Fine Gael.
The last coalition partner, the Green Party, lost 11 out of 12 seats in this election.
While Sinn Fein materializes to currently have no wise route to rulement, its guideer Mary Lou McDonald reach outed the guideers of the Social Democrats and Labour on Monday to converse chooseions for establishing a left-triumphg rulement.
Earlier, Fianna Fail deputy guideer and outgoing finance minister Jack Chambers foreseeed that a novel coalition rulement would not be in place before Christmas.
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Mr Chambers shelp reckond talks about establishing an administration insistd “time and space” to promise that any novel rulement will be “coherent and constant”.
It took almost five months for Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and the Greens to establish a rulement after the 2020 election.
In that rulement, it was consentd that the guideers of the two bigr parties would have a “rotating taoiseach” schedulement.
Fianna Fail guideer Michael Martin took the role for the first half of the term, with Leo Varadkar taking over in December 2022. Current Fine Gael guideer Simon Harris flourished Mr Varadkar as taoiseach when he resigned earlier this year.
But as Fianna Fail has incrmitigated the number of seats it has over Fine Gael, it is unevident if this schedulement will persist.
Every rulement since the set upation of the state almost a century ago has been led by either Fianna Fail or Fine Gael, who are historic rivals with origins on opposing sides of Ireland’s 1920s civil war.
