{"id":131345,"date":"2020-02-09T00:39:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T23:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/02\/09\/ireland-general-election-sinn-fein-surges-to-22-in-exit-poll\/"},"modified":"2020-02-09T00:39:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T23:39:01","slug":"ireland-general-election-sinn-fein-surges-to-22-in-exit-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=131345","title":{"rendered":"Ireland general election: Sinn F\u00e9in surges to 22% in exit poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican party level with Fine Gael and Fianna F\u00e1il in Saturday evening\u2019s poll Sinn F\u00e9in has scored dramatic gains in Ireland\u2019s general election, according to an exit poll on Saturday night, realigning Irish politics and boosting the party\u2019s chance of joining the next government.The republican party won 22.3% of the vote while Leo Varadkar\u2019s ruling Fine Gael party slumped to 22.4%, the poll said, potentially spelling an end to Varadkar\u2019s tenure as taoiseach. Fianna F\u00e1il, the main opposition party, won 22.2%. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/08\/ireland-general-eleciton-sinn-fein-surge-to-22-in-exit-poll\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland general election: Sinn F\u00e9in surges to 22% in exit poll<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican party level with Fine Gael and Fianna F\u00e1il in Saturday evening\u2019s poll Sinn F\u00e9in has scored dramatic gains in Ireland\u2019s general election, according to an exit poll on Saturday night, realigning Irish politics and boosting the party\u2019s chance of joining the next government.The republican party won 22.3% of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}