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Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, both centrist parties, are likely to be the first announced MEPs to return to Brussels.
The domination of the post-election government by centre-right parties and the mainly left-wing orientation of the opposition suggests that the party system may be moving towards a clearer left–right competition than Ireland has experienced in the past.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)First, the recent unprecedented plurality victory of Sinn Fein in Irish elections gives power to a party ... which is likely to be more demanding of immediate reunification of Ireland than have been the duopolist Fine Gael and Fianna Fail centrist parties.
The Ipsos MRBI survey of around 5,000 voters predicted that centrist rivals Fine Gael and Fianna Fail and leftists Sinn Fein had each received around 22 per cent of first preference votes.
Since its inception in 1922, [...] The Irish party system thus consisted of two nationalist-inspired organisations, Cumann na nGaedheal / Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, which could be situated, ideologically speaking, either on the right or on the centre-right of the political spectrum.
This will bring total membership for [Sinn Féin] to around 15,000. According to their party spokespeople, Fine Gael has 25,000 members, while Fianna Fáil has 20,000.
For them, Sinn Fein is a left-wing alternative to the two centrist parties, Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, who've dominated Irish politics since just after independence from Britain in 1921.
...including centrist government coalition partners Fianna Fail and Fine Gael...
... the country's political landscape has remained dominated by a duopoly of centre-right parties: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.
The domination of the post-election government by centre-right parties and the mainly left-wing orientation of the opposition suggests that the party system may be moving towards a clearer left–right competition than Ireland has experienced in the past.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)The two longstanding centre-right political parties are Fine Gael ...[dead link]
First, the recent unprecedented plurality victory of Sinn Fein in Irish elections gives power to a party ... which is likely to be more demanding of immediate reunification of Ireland than have been the duopolist Fine Gael and Fianna Fail centrist parties.
The two centrist parties have long shunned Sinn Fein because of its historic links to the Irish Republican Army...
YFG – Young Fine Gael Ireland