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The Green Party Northern Ireland voted in 2005 to become a region of the Irish Green Party, making it the second party to be organised on an all-Ireland basis. It has Northern Ireland members on the Irish Green Party national executive. In June 2007, the Green Party entered coalition government with Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats.
Ireland is a parliamentary, representative democratic republic and a member state of the European Union. While the head of state is the popularly elected President of Ireland, it is a largely ceremonial position, with real political power being vested in the Taoiseach, who is nominated by the Dáil and is the head of the government .
This is a list of the members of the European Parliament for Ireland elected at the 2019 European Parliament election.They serve in the 2019 to 2024 session, but two of them did not take their seats until the reallocation of seats which took place when the MEPs elected for the United Kingdom vacated their seats on the implementation of Brexit on 31 January 2020.
The Green Party ( Irish: Comhaontas Glas, lit. 'Green Alliance') is a green [3] political party that operates in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It holds a pro-European stance. [5] It was founded as the Ecology Party of Ireland in 1981 by Dublin teacher Christopher Fettes.
The Constitution of Ireland vests executive authority in the Government of Ireland ( Irish: Rialtas na hÉireann ), which is headed by the Taoiseach, the head of government. The government – also known as the cabinet – is composed of ministers, each of whom must be a member of the Oireachtas, which consists of Dáil Éireann and Seanad ...
The Oireachtas (/ ˈ ɛr ə k t ə s / EH-rək-təs, Irish: [ˈɛɾʲaxt̪ˠəsˠ]), sometimes referred to as Oireachtas Éireann, is the bicameral parliament of Ireland. The Oireachtas consists of the president of Ireland and the two houses of the Oireachtas (Irish: Tithe an Oireachtais), a house of representatives called Dáil Éireann and a senate called Seanad Éireann.
The Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP; commonly called the Irish Party or the Home Rule Party) was formed in 1874 by Isaac Butt, the leader of the Nationalist Party, replacing the Home Rule League, as official parliamentary party for Irish nationalist Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons at Westminster within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland up until 1918.
Leader since. —. 10 February 2018. 24 March 2022. Last election. 7.4%, 2 seats. 11.7%, 1 seat. 3.1%, 0 seats. The 2024 European Parliament election in Ireland is the Irish component of the 2024 European Parliament election and is set to be held on 7 June 2024 with the local elections.