He Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has agreed to a deal with the Government in London regarding Irish border issues following the Brexit. The agreement arrives two years after blockades and negotiations on the status of Northern Ireland after the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union, which finally opens the doors to the formation of a government in the region.
The details of the pact are still unknown, although the British minister for Northern Ireland, Chris Heaton-Harrishas indicated which will be published progressively next Wednesday. According to Heaton-Harris, the agreement reached will avoid a renegotiation of the clauses with the European Union.
Among the measures may be the elimination of customs barriers between Northern Ireland and Ireland, a requirement that unionists had imposed due to the possibility that the Brexit create a physical border on the island and by which the unionists left Northern Ireland without a government in February 2022.
The imposition of controls contravened the clauses of the 1998 Good Friday Agreementwhich ended the conflict in Northern Ireland between unionists and the terrorist group Irish Republican Army (IRA).
A new government
The completion of the agreement would finally help create a new Executive. For the first time, Sinn Féin, the former political arm of the IRA, could govern Northern Ireland after becoming the most voted party in the 2022 elections.
At the time, the Democratic Party of Northern Ireland indicated that it would not join a power led by Sinn Féin if a solution was not achieved for the border problems derived from the Brexit. Now that the deal is settled, the Northern Ireland Parliament in Stormont is likely to meet in the coming days to elect a first minister and deputy first minister.
Irish nationalist (Sinn Féin) and pro-British (DUP) politicians They are obliged to share power in Northern Ireland according to the Good Friday Agreement. However, this deal has been broken on several occasions, leading to the suspension of the region’s autonomy between 2017 and 2020 due to the Lack of compromise between both parties.
The general secretary of the nationalist party, Michelle O’Neillhas welcomed the pact with “great relief”, and awaits with “great expectation” the possibility of holding the governance of Northern Ireland.
For her part, the leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland and third party with the most votes, Naomi Longhas pointed out that the announcement by the leader of the DUP, Jeffrey Donaldson, leaves a “bittersweet feeling”, since the boycott of the unionists has meant two lost years in which public services have deteriorated faced with the impossibility of governing.
Precisely, during the 2022 elections, the Sinn Féin campaign revolved around the necessary improvement of social and health care for citizens of Northern Ireland.
2024-01-30 20:27:46
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