In Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein hails “a new era”, the unionists record their defeat – Le Monde

Sinn Fein’s Northern Irish leader Michelle O’Neill poses for a photo with Nationalist party chairwoman Mary Lou McDonald on May 7, 2022 as their political party cruises to a historic victory in the British province. PAUL FAITH / AFP “Today is a very important moment of change” for Northern Ireland. The Northern Irish leader of Sinn Fein, Michelle O’Neill, estimated that the British province would enter a “new era” with the victory in the Local Assembly now almost acquired by the nationalist party against the unionists, favorable to the maintenance of the Irish province within the British crown. It’s a first in a hundred-year history of the province, under tension due to Brexit. “I will provide leadership that is inclusive, that celebrates diversity, that guarantees rights and equality for those who have been excluded, discriminated against or ignored in the past,” Ms O’Neill said from her center of counting. Sinn Fein won 40% more first-preference votes than their main British rival, according to official results. If the final count of seats to designate the 90 elected members of the Northern Ireland Assembly is not completed, experts agree that the nationalists can no longer be caught up. A victory would propel Michelle O’Neill to the post of head of local government, which is to be run jointly by nationalists and unionists under the 1998 peace agreement. Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers In Belfast, a youth tired of religious and community divisions Risk of political paralysis For its part, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the main unionist party and hitherto dominant in the Assembly of Northern Ireland, recorded its defeat on Saturday and recognized that the Republicans of Sinn Fein were heading for a historic win. “It certainly looks like Sinn Fein will emerge as the first party,” DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson told Sky News, repeating that his party would refuse to join a new unity government without a change in post-status. -Brexit of the British province. The talks for the formation of a government indeed promise to be difficult, with a risk of political paralysis, even if Sinn Fein has relegated the demand for reunification to the background in favor of social issues. The DUP conditions its participation in a new executive on “decisive action” by the London government against post-Brexit customs controls in the province, which it believes threaten the integrity of the United Kingdom. Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers Sinn Fein, in favor of reunification, well placed to become the first political force in Northern Ireland “I want a government in Northern Ireland, but it must be built on stable foundations “, insisted Mr. Donaldson, deploring that the Northern Irish protocol “undermines the economy” of the province and its “political stability”. Another party heavyweight, Edwin Poots, warned that negotiations would take “weeks, hopefully, or even months”, as British Provincial Minister Brandon Lewis is expected in Belfast on Monday, according to Northern Irish politicians. Marked by three decades of bloody unrest between Unionists and separatists and then by the turmoil due to Brexit, Northern Ireland plunged back into uncertainty in February, with the resignation of Unionist Prime Minister Paul Givan, unhappy with the post-Brexit situation. Brexit. Setback for Boris Johnson Elsewhere in the United Kingdom, where local elections were held on Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party suffered a severe setback, undermined by “Partygate” and inflation, which weakens its position . The Tories lost hundreds of seats and a dozen councils to Labor and the Liberal Democrats. Mr. Johnson said he was determined to stay in power, but these poor results weaken him and push members of his camp, worried about the legislative elections of 2024, to question the advisability of continuing to support him. Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers First electoral setback for the British Conservatives after the “partygate” Le Monde with AFP

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