Fianna Fail emerges as largest party in Irish election

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Source: BBC

Fianna Fail has won the most seats in the Dil (lower house of parliament) following the Republic of Ireland's general election.

It won 48 seats while Sinn Fein - the main opposition party in the last Dail - won 39.

Fine Gael, which has been in coalition with Fianna Fail since 2020, was third with 38 seats.

Those two parties seem best placed to form a new government, but Sinn Fein insists it will still be involved in the coalition talks.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpdnlv8n758o

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Wikipedia on FF:

... a centre to centre-right political party in Ireland. Ideological classifications of the party vary; the party is commonly referred to as conservative, though it has also been described as Christian democratic, liberal or ideologically ambiguous.