For the first time in the history of Sinn F\u00e9in’s election victory in the Northern Ireland local elections, it looks like a peaceful Irish Catholic uprising. Northern Ireland, which is essentially an administrative body created to preserve, in perpetuity, the Protestant majority and control of London over part of the Irish island, has just emerged as the party of a united independent Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sinn F\u00e9in’s victory was not based solely on Irish nationalism but, to a large extent, on its social agenda. Sinn F\u00e9in and the alliance campaigned on the problems of access to health care, homelessness and poverty, which affect one in five people in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to opinion polls, Sinn Fein will dominate for the first time in the forthcoming parliamentary elections in the Republic of Ireland, bringing one step closer to activating the referendum clause on the question of unification on both sides of the border. But if this perspective is to be taken for granted, the present is highly dysfunctional. The government of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is encouraging, if not politically “investing”, the dysfunction as a means of pressure on the EU, while the situation is so fragile that it has aroused the interest of the US President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Block by Donalson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Last Friday, the Democratic Union Party (DUP), led by Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, blocked the work of the new local House and the formation of a government with Sinn Fein Vice President Michel O’Neill as prime minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Under the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, which ended three decades of bloodshed, power in Northern Ireland is shared between supporters of staying in the United Kingdom and supporters of a united Ireland, but Donaldson refuses to take over. government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is not just the bitterness of second place. The immediate, huge problem for fans of Northern Ireland’s stay in the UK is called Brexit. The Northern Ireland Protocol, signed by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson with the EU, aims to maintain open borders and the free movement of goods on the island of Ireland, which has inevitably led to customs controls on goods , a kind of whole that divides the United Kingdom into Northern Ireland on the one hand and England, Scotland, Wales on the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, is taking advantage of the unions’ dissatisfaction with Brexit terms to call on the EU to renegotiate. The worse the anarchy and political stalemate in Northern Ireland, the more Boris Johnson has to argue with the EU. agreement, simply because it now suffers the consequences of its choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the run-up to the election, Boris Johnson “served” this agreement as ready, urging even the DUP to vote for it. Moreover, the promise of this supposedly better deal was his vehicle for taking power in the internal party coup against his predecessor, Theresa May. Theresa May had drawn up an agreement that would not require customs controls and now, when complaints are made, she reminds Parliament “that I told you so”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u03a4he Johnson threats<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Last week, the Boris Johnson administration threatened Britain with a unilateral withdrawal from the Northern Ireland Protocol to the EU, arguing that if the protocol was not changed, the “Good Friday” agreement would be jeopardized. dictates the division of power in Northern Ireland, as the DUP and the parties that have sprung to its right will no longer take part in the institutions of government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the risk is even greater if the border is moved inside Ireland, as the absence of borders and controls between the North and the South was the main conquest of the Irish liberation struggle and the foundation of the “Good Friday” agreement. In this extremely volatile situation, the US, as the guarantor of the “Good Friday” agreement, is pressuring Boris Johnson not to escalate the controversy, saying that otherwise the UK-US trade agreement will be thrown in the trash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the first time in the history of Sinn F\u00e9in’s election victory in the Northern Ireland local elections, it looks like a peaceful Irish…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[818,390],"tags":[880,3469,1441,3470],"class_list":["post-8423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-politics","tag-boris-johnson","tag-northern-ireland","tag-sinn-fein","tag-the-good-friday-agreement-of-1998"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8425,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions\/8425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}