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Ireland Prime Minister Leo Varakar leaves his post
Ireland Prime Minister Leo Varadkar announced his resignation from the post of leader of the ruling party. After the election of the new leader of the liberal-conservative Party of Fena Gal, he will leave the position of head of government, the BBC reports.
During his speech in Dublin, Varakar expressed hope that the election of a new party leader would not take much time. According to the prime minister, the country will have a new head of government in the country after the parliamentary holidays that will end after Easter on March 31.
The new prime minister and leader of Fena Gal will have up to a year to try to win the next elections, Varadkar believes. Varakar himself, he said, has neither personal nor political plans.
Varakar first headed both the party and the government in 2017, becoming the youngest prime minister in the history of the Irish Republic. He held this post until 2020 and then again became the prime minister in 2022.
In 2015, shortly before the referendum on amendments to the Constitution, legalizing same-sex marriages, Varakar, who then held a ministerial post in the government, made a camming out, becoming the first current minister in a country that does not hide his sexual orientation.
Ireland supported Ukraine in the war with Russia, and also adopted almost 100 thousand Ukrainian refugees. Varakar himself visited Kyiv.
Ireland is a member of the European Union, but not NATO. Varadkar said that Dublin feels a growing external threat, but does not plan to join the Alliance, recalls the BBC.