June 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Ireland ended the recount of the European elections this Friday after five days of scrutiny due to a complex electoral system based on preferences and, according to the final results, the two main parties in the government coalition, Fine Gael and the Fianna Fáil, which are included in the European Parliament within the ‘popular’ and liberal families, respectively.
Both parties have obtained four seats each in the European Parliament, with a difference of only 0.35 percentage points, since Fine Gael has taken 20.79 percent and Fianna Fáil with 20.44 percent. However, the latter has doubled its presence, while the party of Prime Minister Simon Harris has lost one seat compared to the 2019 elections.
Behind is the center-left opposition party Sinn Féin, which has gained two MEPs, while in the previous legislature it had one. The Labor Party has won one seat, Independent Ireland has claimed another and two independent candidates not aligned with any party occupy the remaining two, according to the ‘Irish Times’ newspaper.
Ireland, which also held local elections on Sunday, is divided into three constituencies: Midlands-Northwest and South, which distribute five MEPs each, and Dublin, for which four are reserved. The distribution is proportional, but it does not derive from a single scrutiny, but usually involves several successive ones, and is not uninterrupted, since it is suspended at night.
This is because the voter does not have to mark a single candidate, but can establish a classification based on their preferences, in such a way that the least supported candidates are eliminated as the rounds progress.
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