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...issue in a campaign of mostly familiar faces. FitzGerald and Haughey have each served as Prime Minister twice. Nearly 20% of the country's workers are unemployed, taxes are the most onerous in Western Europe, and the national debt is a staggering $33 billion. While FitzGerald and his Fine Gael (Family of Irish) party called for belt tightening, Haughey used the gift of gab, refusing to commit himself to cuts and promising vaguely to stimulate growth. Nonetheless, Haughey, the strong front runner throughout the four-week campaign, stressed that coalition governments are weak and entreated voters to give...
Haughey will probably form a minority government with the help of a few independents. Neither of the two largest parties, FitzGerald's Fine Gael, which holds 51 seats, or the Progressive Democratic Party, which won 14 seats, is expected to block Haughey's plans as long as he holds down government spending. The cobbled-together government, however, will not have the authority to solve Ireland's pressing economic troubles...
Ireland's Fine Gael party has been in a marriage-of-convenience coalition with the smaller Labor Party for four years. While civil divorce is still illegal in Ireland, political divorces are not -- and so last week the two parties split. Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald, the Fine Gael leader, wanted to slash social spending as part of a program to reduce a $2 billion budget deficit. Labor ministers, who preferred to increase taxes instead, promptly resigned...
...Sure it's unfair... Seniors should get priority," said course hopeful Gael Johannes Schuster...
Defenders of the wedding bond highlighted the plight of the divorced spouse. They played upon the fears of countryfolk, especially women, stranded in economically ravaged areas, where unemployment is often well over 50%. One study cited by Alice Glenn, a breakaway member of parliament from FitzGerald's Fine Gael party, revealed that 93% of divorced women with children in the U.S. live below the poverty line. "A woman voting for divorce," Glenn often repeated, "is like a turkey voting for Christmas...