Sinn Fein: What does that mean for the political arm of the former IRA who wants Northern Ireland out of the UK to win

Sinn Fein: What does that mean for the political arm of the former IRA who wants Northern Ireland out of the UK to win

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Michelle O’Neill, 45, will be Northern Ireland’s first female national leader

The nationalist Sinn Fein party won the most votes in this week’s election in Northern Ireland, a result unheard of in the nation’s history.

According to the final count released on Saturday (7/5), Sinn Féin won 29% of the vote and 27 of the 90 seats that make up the Belfast Assembly (the DUP, the Democratic Unionist Party, came in second with 25 seats). . Sinn Féin, once the political arm of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), won the election against the majority Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which received 21.3% of the vote, and Alianza, the liberal centre, with 13.5%.

Thus, its leader, Michelle O’Neill, will try to run for prime minister of the nation, which is part of the United Kingdom.

This position has not been held by any nationalist politician since the founding of Northern Ireland after the 1921 Partition Agreement of Ireland.

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