Ireland goes to the polls on Friday 29 November to elect a new government, with the incumbent Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael parties poised to return to power according to the latest polls.
The two centrist parties are on course to form the bulk of a new coalition with around twenty percent of the vote each projected, they would then need the support of another party such as the Greens or Labour.
CGTN’s Ken Browne has more.
The two centrist parties are on course to form the bulk of a new coalition with around twenty percent of the vote each projected, they would then need the support of another party such as the Greens or Labour.
CGTN’s Ken Browne has more.
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00:00A lot of voting already underway here in Ireland, but who's going to win?
00:03Well we already know the answer to that. Nobody, no party will win outright at least,
00:08but we'll need coalition partners to form a government.
00:12It's a three-way race between incumbents Fianna Fáil led by Micheál Martin,
00:15Fianna Gael headed up by 38-year-old Simon Harris,
00:18two centrist Conservative parties who have passed power between each other for a century now.
00:24Sinn Féin is a leftist party advocating for a united Ireland
00:28led by Mary Lou Macdonald.
00:30The three biggest issues in today's election are housing, housing and housing.
00:35Home and rent prices have soared by over 40% since the start of the pandemic,
00:40homelessness and immigration rising sharply with them.
00:43Ireland went from 3.5 million population in 1990 to over 5 million today
00:48and economist David McWilliams says the country has a first world income
00:52with third world infrastructure, housing, health care, child care, immigration.
00:56Those top the agenda in an election that's too close to cause.
01:01Polls open this morning at 7am, they'll close at 10pm this evening
01:04when we'll hear the first indication of results with an exit poll.
01:08Stay with us here to find out all about it.