The leftist Catherine Connolly will be the new president of Ireland
Her rival Humphreys congratulated her: "Catherine will be the president of all of us, who is mine, and I wish her all the best," she said.
Catherine Connolly will be the new president of Ireland, according to the vote count that took place on Friday and that has not yet been completed. The votes show that the government ruled by Fine Gael and Fianna Fail in the coalition is losing support.
Indeed, Heather Humphrey, a candidate for the Fine Gael Conservative Party, has also declared the victory of the leftists before the end of the count, congratulating her opponent.
"He will be my president and I wish him well," he told Irish public television RTE.
"I have nothing to regret," Humphreys added. "This is democracy. People put a name on a page and go ahead. I'm happy, "he said.
Humphreys has also criticized "sectarian attacks," referring to his family, religion, and Presbyterian Protestant customs. "My family and I, but especially my family, have been subjected to sectarian attacks, and I am disappointed because I thought we had overcome such statements," he said.
Counting the 43 districts of Ireland, Connolly gets 60.7% of the vote, Humphreys 30.9% and conservative candidate Jim Gavin 8.4% (Fianna Fail), although Gavin left his candidacy on October 5 to support Humphreys.
Connolly has accused NATO of engaging in belligerent practices, compared Germany's arms spending to that of the 1930s, voted against the EU treaties, and declared Hamas "part of the fabric of the Palestinian people." In this regard, Connolly has strongly denounced the genocide in Gaza and promised to travel to Palestine as Irish President to show his support for the people.
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