“Leo Varadkar” has officially resigned as the Prime Minister of Ireland

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting De Presse, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has now officially tendered his resignation. The 45-year-old official announced almost three weeks ago that he wants to step down as prime minister. On Monday night, President Michael D. Higgins accepted his resignation. The president thanked him for his service during his presidency.

The new prime minister of this EU member state is Simon Harris, the previous minister of higher education, who today (Tuesday ) is officially appointed to this position. The 37-year-old from the Liberal-Conservative Fine Gael party is the first chance to hold the post in a parliamentary vote in Dublin.

Harris is currently Minister for Universities, Science and research; He has no competition within the party for the election. He will be the youngest Irish Prime Minister in the country’s history, a year younger than Varadkar when he took office.

Varadkar’s resignation came as a surprise. He justified this action with private and political reasons. His government had recently lost two referendums. His government wanted to modernize two issues in the constitution regarding the concept of family and the role of women in the family in these referendums, but did not get the majority.

While coalition partners – the liberal-conservative party Fianna Fáil and the Greens – support the planned change at the top of the government, the opposition around the left-wing Sinn Féin party has called for early elections. According to the opposition, the people of Ireland should elect a new parliament no later than the spring of 2025.

Two weeks ago, Harris was the only candidate to be the leader of the ruling Liberal-Conservative party. Fine Gael was elected. Now the Dublin parliament must elect him as prime minister.

Harris also uses platforms such as Instagram and TikTok for his politics. He regularly publishes videos there, which is why Politico and the British newspaper The Guardian have already referred to him as the “Prime Minister of TikTok”. In the clips, he promotes political decisions, sometimes drinking tea or encouraging students before exams.

Left opposition party Sinn Fein Harris He accuses the Minister of Health of having a poor record of responsibility and calls for new elections. Party MP Piers Doherty criticized Harris for being the third prime minister in a legal term. Varadkar will succeed Fianna Fáil leader Michael Martin at the end of 2022 – a reassignment agreed by the coalition partners, also to keep Sinn Féin out of government. “It’s time for a general election,” Doherty said. Ireland, with a population of 5.1 million, must elect a new parliament no later than the spring of 2025.

Varadkar was also accused of making mistakes in social and housing policies.

Harris has previously announced that he will focus on housing policy, law enforcement and small business support. In terms of foreign policy, it will be interesting to see how Ireland continues to position itself on the Gaza war. Varadkar has been critical of Israel’s behavior in the past.

Sky News television channel Harris also asked if he agreed with his predecessor’s opinion that during his lifetime Ireland will see a united, do you agree? Harris said it was a legitimate political goal to want to see a united Ireland, but it was not one of his priorities at the moment. Brexit was a challenging time. While the UK has left the EU, Ireland is still a member of the EU – so special rules are required for the border with Northern Ireland.

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