Catch 22, go for a (probably) short lived and bad tempered government with FG and piss off the wider electorate or go for a government with SF and piss off their core vote.Looks to me like it’s up to FF, what they’re willing to do.
Could be a very short lived government unless pride is swallowed.
Another election?
Who wants to risk that?
At least another 6 in constituencies where they ran too few candidates. Maybe 7. Hard to judge in the 11 constituencies (of 39) where they ran no candidate, but it's hard to imagine that they wouldn't have picked up another good few there given the mood nationally.How many seats would SF have got if they hadn't fucked up their number of candidate's?
They have the largest percentage of the vote.
Hard to ignore.
Impossible to ignore I would imagine. A FF/FG carve up excluding SF will likely lead to an even bigger share of the vote for SF next time round. Better to bring SF into the tent so that they can be partly judged on record in Govt when it comes to the next election.
You won't see much of a difference in approach there whoever is in government. Brexit will still be dealt with cross party.Be nice to see their approach to the Eu's FTA with the UK. It takes all states to agree.
In happy news the racist parties are running at >1% and 0 seats.
https://www.rte.ie/news/election-2020/
The RTE link for anyone interested.
SF will stay on 37, the other 5 candidates they had have been eliminated. Looking right now like it'll be FF 45, SF 37, FG 36. Greens should finish on 10, Labour on 5, SDs on 6, PBP on 4 and Áontu on 1 giving the 2 traditional parties 82 and a majority if they go together and the left parties 63 with the other 15 seats going to independents.when i last lookded, SF were on 37, the other two big parties on circa low 20s each. But it has probably hit the point where that is where SF will have peaked, and the remaining count will see seat numbers grow for the two other parties.
The greens seem to have done reasonably well as well.
Reminds me a bit of the 2007 Holyrood election this.
It's looking very much like the prediction from last night.when i last lookded, SF were on 37, the other two big parties on circa low 20s each. But it has probably hit the point where that is where SF will have peaked, and the remaining count will see seat numbers grow for the two other parties.
The greens seem to have done reasonably well as well.
Reminds me a bit of the 2007 Holyrood election this.
SF will stay on 37, the other 5 candidates they had have been eliminated. Looking right now like it'll be FF 45, SF 37, FG 36. Greens should finish on 10, Labour on 5, SDs on 6, PBP on 4 and Áontu on 1 giving the 2 traditional parties 82 and a majority if they go together and the left parties 63 with the other 15 seats going to independents.
Doesn't look like they'd have the numbers. 80 makes a government and several of the independents are ex FF or FG, or very pally with those parties. If FF+FG>80 seats its impossible to form a government without one or the other.Do you think there could be a coalition to keep out FF and FG?
Unlikely, although I wouldn't put it past them. With Independents perhaps.Do you think there could be a coalition to keep out FF and FG?
We'll be stuck with at least one unless FF drop a few seats from here, FG are going to hit the 35/36 mark.Unlikely, although I wouldn't put it past them.
The country would go into meltdown. It's precisely what we voted against.
Doesn't look like they'd have the numbers. 80 makes a government and several of the independents are ex FF or FG, or very pally with those parties. If FF+FG<80 seats its impossible to form a government without one or the other.
If FF go into coalition with SF, Michael Martin should resign as leader, but he won't.We'll be stuck with at least one unless FF drop a few seats from here, FG are going to hit the 35/36 mark.
We'll be stuck with at least one unless FF drop a few seats from here, FG are going to hit the 35/36 mark.