Northern Ireland's cross-community Alliance Party was set to win its first ...
BELFAST - Northern Ireland’s cross-community Alliance Party was set to win its first ever European Parliament seat in a surge it said furthered the case for a re-run of Britain’s Brexit referendum.
The vote also indicated increasing support for candidates not aligned to the traditional Catholic or Protestant voting blocs and was the best national showing for the Alliance Party founded almost 50 years ago, just as Northern Ireland’s violent period known as “The Troubles” deepened. Pro-EU Irish nationalists Sinn Fein topped the poll, just ahead of the Democratic Unionist Party , which props up the minority British government in London and wants the United Kingdom to complete its exit from the bloc.
By almost trebling the Alliance vote to 18 percent compared to the 2014 poll, Long looked set to leave pro-British Unionist parties without a majority of Northern Ireland’s European seats for the first time.
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