Sinn Fein becomes Ireland's second largest parliamentary party


PTI | Dublin | Updated: 11-02-2020 10:06 IST | Created: 11-02-2020 10:04 IST
Sinn Fein becomes Ireland's second largest parliamentary party
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Sinn Fein on Tuesday became Ireland's second-largest parliamentary party after winning the popular vote in a weekend election.

With counting completed in the early hours of Tuesday morning Sinn Fein had taken 37 of the 160 seats in the Dail, Ireland's lower house of parliament.

Centre-right party Fianna Fail were only one ahead on 38, whilst Prime Minister Leo Varadkar's Fine Gael party took 35. 

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