Mourners for David Trimble ask to pay tribute to him by unblocking the political situation in Northern Ireland

Aug. 2 () –

Mourners at the funeral of David Trimble, former chief minister of Northern Ireland between 1998 and 2002, have heard an appeal to Northern Ireland’s political leaders to unblock the political situation facing the country, which has continued since May without an Executive.

Several of those present at the funeral of Trimble, who died aged 77 on July 25, have called on Northern Ireland politicians stuck in a political deadlock to resolve their disagreements as tribune to the country’s former chief minister. for four years, the ‘Belfast Telegraph’ has reported.

Trimble won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 for his key role in forging the Good Friday Agreement that ended decades of conflict in Northern Ireland, making him a UK landmark.

So much so that leaders such as the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, the Head of the Irish Government, Micheal Martin, the President of Ireland, Michael Higgins, leader of the DUP, Jeffrey Donaldson, or the vice president of Sinn Fein, Michelle O’Neill, according to the aforementioned newspaper.

His death has occurred in the midst of a political crisis in Stormont – the Northern Irish Parliament -, with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP, for its acronym in English) blocking the creation of a power-sharing administration in protest at the Protocol on Brexit Northern Ireland, has collected ‘The Mirror’.

Johnson urged Northern Ireland MPs in May to resolve the deadlock to “get back to work” while he resolved the deadlock with Brussels over post-Brexit trade deals.

“Northern Ireland’s power-sharing institutions need to get back on track so they can begin to tackle the issues that matter to the people of Northern Ireland,” Downing Street said in a statement.

On Tuesday, the Stormont Assembly will reconvene in special session to pay tribute to Trimble.