Northern Ireland to re-establish shared governance this Saturday

The Northern Ireland Assembly will meet this Saturday to elect a joint executive between the region’s main parties after a two-year suspension. Michelle O’NeillThe regional leader of Sinn Féin, a party historically linked to the IRA terrorist group, will be named as chief minister. For the first time in the history of the region, Irish nationalism would occupy that space.

The bankruptcy of the institutions was a result of the controversial ‘Brexit’. The Democratic Unionist Party, DUP, which supported British departure from the European Union, refused to participate in the autonomous government due to the creation of customs controls on goods coming from Great Britain. Prevent products from entering Ireland that do not comply with common market standards.

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson dominated the hours before the assembly meeting. He had to defend his agreement with the British government from criticism from members of his own party and from more radical unionists who considered it The amendments to the customs system achieved through long negotiations with London and consultation with Brussels are cosmetic.

Sinn Féin and the DUP, the parties with the most votes in the May 2022 elections, will choose the best positions. He bore the greatest responsibility for the collapse of public order and a long period of communal violence in 1969, which resulted in more than 3,500 deaths. The IRA and other republican groups killed 2,058 people. Pro-British loyalists, encouraged by the rhetoric of DUP founder Ian Paisley, 1,027.

Paisley led his party to leave the negotiations brokered by Tony Blair’s government after he accepted that Sinn Féin would participate after the IRA ceasefire. The DUP was the only party of significant size to oppose the outcome of the talks.Good Friday Agreement in 1998. The institutions that are being restored now are the product of that agreement.

Sinn Féin is now enthusiastically participating in the governance of the province whose existence the IRA wanted to destroy. With good election expectations in the Republic of Ireland, He wishes to combine his power in the north and south to achieve political unity on the island of Ireland. Co-operation with the DUP and the British Government could also increase Northern Irish people’s satisfaction with life in their region.

a law of 1800

Donaldson, a member of the Ulster Unionist Party in 1998, also rejected the Good Friday Agreement and played a leading role in the dissolution of the party led by Nobel Peace Prize winner David Trimble for its role in the earlier phase of the agreement. Of institutions. But, After joining the DUP, he became a genuine advocate for the benefits of the Agreement.

Now he has to convince those members of his party who are dissatisfied with the changes he has agreed to. he states that This is the beginning of a process that will see further changes to the customs system and under the influence of community law in the province. And it faces a hardline unionist coalition, the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV), led by lawyer Jim Allister, which maintains its opposition to the Good Friday Agreement.

Along with Jamie Bryson, another lawyer flirting with violent loyalty, they invoke section 6 of the Irish Act of 1800, which stipulated that subjects of the monarch in Great Britain and Ireland had the privileges and To argue that there will be equality in trade The outcome of the ‘Brexit’ he supported violates the country’s constitutional laws To implement European standards in the province that are no longer valid in Great Britain.

Northern Irish historian Henry Patterson published in the Newspaper Newsletter this week details of the tariffs and restrictions on the movement of goods or employment within the United Kingdom, which had been in place since the founding of Northern Ireland in 1920. and circulated without restrictions to residents of Great Britain, Ireland and Northern Ireland, which they passed as members of the European Union.

The assembly’s ninety members meet at its magnificent headquarters in Stormont, on the outskirts of Belfast. This is the seventh restoration since its establishment in 1999.However in the early years it was suspended only twice for 24 hours. It has been promoted by the government led by Rishi Sunak, a Brexit supporter, who entrusted the task to two hardline ‘Brexiteers’, Minister Chris Heaton-Harris and Secretary of State, Steve Baker.