Ireland, towards anti-Sinn Fein alliance

(ANSA) - LONDON, MARCH 5 - Weakened by the vote, but (perhaps) still in power. An unexpected center-right defensive alliance in Ireland is looming between the two traditional dominant parties, Micheal Martin's Fianna Fail and the late Gale of outgoing premier Leo Varadkar, a month after the elections that had endangered the hegemony thanks to the clamorous advance of the Sinn Fein nationalist left of Mary Lou McDonald, the female leader no longer tied to the image of inheritance of what was the political arm of the IRA guerrilla.
To launch the alliance proposal was Martin, the cuiformazione has collected less votes, but more seats of the Sin Fein (38 against 37) thanks to the electoral mechanism. In an interview with TV, he formalized the offer in Varadkar, backward at 35 seats and now a junior partner role. So far the outgoing premier, first gay and son of an immigrant father at the helm of the Republic, has said he is ready for the opposition. But there are signs of rethinking.