The head of the Green Party stated that the two major coalition partners gave them “no favours,” but he has “no regrets” about joining a three-party administration in 2020, reports Breaking News.
The criticism of the Green Party by their former government partners, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, during this year’s election campaigns, according to Roderic O’Gorman, “is politics.”
As the count went on Sunday, he said Green candidates were receiving “very few transfers” from either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil.
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“I don’t think they did us any favours but I wasn’t expecting them to do us favours. We have a very distinct political philosophy from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, it is harder to see the difference between those two parties, and I think if they go into government again, which looks likely, the difference is more and more difficult to see. We were very different, we took the risk of going in with them, we were able to deliver, but there are political consequences for taking the risk and we suffered them over this weekend,” he said at the count centre in Phibblestown, reports Breaking News.
Based on the pending transfers, the Dublin West candidate, who is fighting for his seat, stated that he felt “reasonably confident” of winning reelection.
He could be the sole Green Party member in the upcoming Dáil if he is re-elected, which would be a big decrease from the party’s 12 departing TDs, reports Breaking News.
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