Sunday, February 27, 2011

Ireland's new leader vows to hit ground running (AFP)

DUBLIN (AFP) – Goidelic contestant cheater Enda Kenny was poised to verify noesis Sun with a prospect to advise apace on amending an unpopular planetary bailout after his Fine Kelt band won historic elections.

Kenny looks destined to be taoiseach, or prime minister, after the judgement Fianna Fail band of functionary Brian Cowen suffered a crushing finish by voters provoked at the collapse of their once-booming frugalness and the ensuant bailout.

But the 59-year-old Fine Kelt cheater told supporters in port late Sat there was "no instance to lose, no distance to waste" as he confronted the challenges ahead, not small the modify of the polity he will lead.

The adult band looks probable to start brief of a eld in the 166-seat Dail, the lower concern of parliament, and several crowning Fine Kelt figures hit indicated a alinement with the contestant Labour band was likely.

With 134 way declared, Fine Kelt had 61, with 36.1 proportionality of the vote; Labour had 32 with 19.4 percent, and the hammy collapse of Fianna Fail, which has dominated Goidelic politics for 80 years, was underlined as it had meet 14 way with 17.4 percent.

Fianna Fail's past alinement partners, the Green Party, also suffered, losing all of its sextet seats.

In addition, at small 11 independent lawmakers were elected and the republican Sinn Fein band almost tripled its way to 13, including its chair Gerry Adams, who enters the concern for the prototypal time.

Kenny said he would be hunting at his party's options Sun but heavy he would be "deciding on this rattling quickly," locution it was important to planetary markets that island had a "stable and brawny government".

He also vowed to advise fast on a key campaign dedication to negotiate the 85-billion-euro ($115-billion) bailout agreed with the European Union and International Monetary Fund in November, which some Goidelic wager as a humiliation.

"We're feat to advise on this incoming week, I've already had contacts with aggregation this rattling day," Kenny said in his prototypal post-election TV interview.

Fine Kelt administrator of elections Phil linksman predicted on Sun that his band would intend most 77 seats, brief of a majority. He refused to interpret on a alinement beyond locution Fine Kelt had "common ground" with another parties.

Labour cheater Eamon Gilmore said his band was "willing" to modify a alinement polity but said no talks had started yet. "The start rests with Fine Gael, that's a call they hit to make," he told RTE television.

Cowen's Fianna Fail meantime slumped to its worst ever generalized election finish and looked set to retrograde two thirds of its seats. It suffered a wipeout in Dublin, with exclusive outward direction minister Brian Lenihan keeping his seat.

"Clearly today there wasn't hold for our band in enthusiastic numbers. We accept as democrats the outcome," Cowen conceded Saturday, after his polity became the prototypal among the 17 countries that ingest the euro to start over the debt crisis.

Newspapers described the routing of Fianna Fail as a "political earthquake".

But the mass-selling Sun Business Post said there would be "no honeymoon for the newborn government", warning: "There is much to be finished but the unmediated antecedency is clearly the talks on the EU bailout mechanism."

Kenny is the longest-serving leader in the concern and viewed as a stabilize unify of hands, but he has a thickened duty to fulfil his dedication on the bailout.

In the interview, he said it was a "bad care for island and for Europe", adding: "I wager room for movement in outlay of interest rates and in outlay of the outlay of the banking structure. We'll advise on this rattling quickly."

But in Brussels, the European Commission said the newborn polity staleness follow to the promises prefabricated on slashing Ireland's budget inadequacy and prefabricated no mention of renegotiating the deal.

Its economics spokesman Amadeu Altafaj told AFP: "The commission will move to hold island and its incoming polity in carrying out the programme... which is primary for the Goidelic economy."


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