NI elections: with Sinn Fein ascendant, what next for the DUP?
The results of the Northern Ireland local elections are in – and Sinn Fein has made clear gains.
After that party’s victory in the Stormont assembly elections last year, it gained 39 council seats to make itself the largest party in local government as well.
And turnout was up, from 52.7 per cent to 54.7 per cent. That suggests that people deliberately turned out to help Sinn Fein gain more seats.
What does this mean for the Democratic Unionist Party, the next-largest in both Stormont and the councils?
I’d say that, as Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neil has said, it means the public want the DUP to resume its power-sharing arrangement in Stormont – or they’ll punish that party again.
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