Irish general election: 25 February 2011

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

So would either of Fine Gael or Labour actually be able to win enough seats to get their own majority, or are we going to see some sort of coalition being formed afet the election? In that case which parties are most likly to team up with each other? (I'm guessing neither Labour nor Gael would go near Fianna Fail)

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

From what I've read Fine Gael seem to be a rather good party. I'd probably have voted for them if I was Irish. Still the lack of an actual ideology in either of the big parties is quite disappionting. Seems like it'd make Irish politics quite boring.

Who're you supporting Jas?
 

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

To panicly throw-out your leader a month before the election, only creates a greater feeling of crisis and failure and I doubt it'll save FF in any way. I don't think that there's any Irish voter out there who thinks that FF is just fine all it needed to do was dump Cowen. But then I'm no expert on Irish politics, and FF is a traditionally  and historicly strong party and I guess there's a small chance that some of the old faithfuls will come back around now that Cowen's gone.

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Well Bremen has been under SPD rule since 1945, Baden Württemberg under CDU rule since 1951 and Bavaria under CSU rule since 1957...

If we're counting provincial/state level a few Swedish provinces has had Social Democrats in power since 1921