British Minister for Northern Ireland, Chris Heaton-Harris announced that it will meet this Friday Early local elections in the regionafter the regional parties failed to reach an agreement to re-establish the power-sharing government due to their differences, protocol Brexit.
The veto of Northern Ireland’s second formation, the pro-British Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), to enter an Executive Board membership with the nationalist and republican Sinn Féin, the winner of last May’s election, has forced London to make a decision “by law” today. new appointment with surveys, Heaton-Harris said, will give more details about the possible date next week.
“The state’s incumbent official told the press in Belfast, “options were limited“, but their “legal obligation” is to call new elections within 12 weeks from the last midnight, when the deadline for the parties to form a government.
Heaton-Harris asserted that he would continue to engage in dialogue with Northern Ireland entities and said, “will take necessary measures to ensure that the “services and public finances” of the region “continue functioning” without a power-sharing Administrator.
London has withdrawn all ministers who have served on an interim basis since the suspension of the autonomous government last February, where the functioning of the regional Assembly is in the hands of public officials, after exceeding the set deadline.
The Minister reiterated The situation is very serious” He stated that the same parties acknowledged that they did not want further elections, but had already contacted the authorities to start the election process.
The unionists’ veto blocked the election of the Speaker of the Assembly on Thursday and automatically suspended the submission of candidates for the positions of minister and deputy prime minister, corresponding to Sinn Féin and the DUP, respectively, according to its results. elections May elections.
DUP leader, Jeffrey Donaldsonlater his party Brexit protocol won’t change position until ‘removed’He said it was a tool that harmed “our economy” and changed Northern Ireland’s “constitutional status” within the UK “without our consent”.
The DUP left the Belfast Administration last February and has refused to enter a Sinn Féin-led government since the May elections, until London and Brussels agree to a radical reform of protocol or Downing Street adopt unilateral measures to your liking.
This document reveals that Northern Ireland remains dependent on the single community market for goods, so that the island of Great Britain and British territories must undergo customs checks to ensure that the border between the two Irelands continues. Be invisible as required by the Good Friday peace agreement (1998), which ended the conflict.
However, it has built a commercial border in the Irish Sea, which is also political for the Protestant unionist community, which claims it has differentiated the province and jeopardized its relationship with the rest of the UK, now that the nationalists want to move forward. Toward the historic goal of reunifying Ireland