Enda Kenny återvald till premiärminister i Irland
Irlands parlament har efter ett flera månader långt politiskt dödläge återvalt Enda Kenny till posten som landets premiärminister. Det var den fjärde gången som parlamentet samlades för att försöka utse en premiärminister sedan valet i februari.
– Denna regering har så mycket att ta itu med. Vi har så många utmaningar i vårt land, och det var det budskapet vi fick av väljarna i valet och som har upprepats så många gånger av er, sa Enda Kenny i sitt segertal.
59 ledamöter gav Kenny sitt stöd – 49 röstade emot.
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Enda Kenny
Wikipedia (en)
Enda Kenny (Irish: Éanna Ó Coinnigh; born 24 April 1951) is an Irish politician, leader of Fine Gael since 2002, and Taoiseach since March 2011. He is a two-term Vice-President of the European People's Party and was Ireland's Minister for Tourism and Trade from 1994 to 1997.
Kenny has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for Mayo since 1975, having succeeded his father Henry Kenny. He is the longest-serving TD currently in Dáil Éireann, which makes him the incumbent Father of the Dáil.
Kenny led Fine Gael ahead of the 2011 general election. He subsequently brokered an agreement with the Labour Party and formed a coalition government on 9 March 2011. He is Fine Gael's first Taoiseach since John Bruton from 1994 to 1997, and the first Fine Gael leader to win government in an election since Garret FitzGerald in 1982. After two months of negotiations following the 2016 election, an agreement was reached for a Fine Gael-led minority government, and Kenny was re-elected as Taoiseach on 6 May 2016, the first Fine Gael leader to do so.
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