Presidential Election 2025

nearly 214,000 spoiled votes is astonishing.ffg ignored middle Ireland after the bs referendums of March 24 and pretended like they never happened.

Fast forward to today and those same voters got up off their arse and said enough is enough.they and the media who are all bought off with 750€million to rte/pravda and no vat on newspapers can’t ignore this now.but no doubt they will try their best.

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I don't know, she said she'd be a president for 'gach daoine, gach daoine', would have been a perfect time to go bilingual, throw in a 'for everybody' ... but she continued on in Irish, even speaking about and then directly to her opponent who she knows hasn't great Irish, and continued on…

I never it wasn't? In fact I said fair play to anyone who uses their democratic right in whichever way they choose.

At the end of the day, what did it achieve? F*ck all, whether you want to admit it or not.

I see you've conveniently dropped whatever point you were trying to make about Catherine Connolly's mandate as well.

Yup, for ff n fg it's go woke , go broke for their core vote methinks. Hopefully we get a new centre right party in place for the next election. I'm done with either party.

Total vote number is irrelevant when comparing across other elections as the population of the country has grown significantly over the years (60% increase in 30 years), bound to have a big number of votes compared to previous election as there are more people eligible to vote now.

A mandate to be the First Citizen of the country and the gatekeeper of the Constitution.

The point I'm making is, in spite of all the bruhaha over this election, Catherine Connolly has won more votes than any candidate in any election in the history of the State.

The only difference the large number of spoils made was to turnout, and that's a good thing. But in terms of impact on the election? Nothing.

CC is now my president even if I did not vote for her.

Her opinions unless anodyne are possibly/probably divisive so would annoy or alienate a percentage of the population.
(And her independent left opinions and Daly/Wallace traveling companions could annoy many people)

Why do we want our president doing that? pissing off people, or pissing off any percentage of the population?

It's easy to give MDH a fools pardon, his character allows it - harmless, quasi artistic/poetic, somewhat likeable and unique whereas she is much more astute, not particularly likeable, and cannot play his cards.

And I have access to any number of opinions in the media already without her.

The spoiled votes are being discussed by the media the party leaders and other high profile people in the parties will be asked questions about it, they'll have to take into consideration there was a significant protest vote.

That was the point of the spoiled votes,were not supposed to impact the electio.

I've never heard any discussion about the number of spoiled votes in any election before, there is a discussion about them now and what they mean now so it is having an impact.

Don't think I've ever seen a politician as happy to lose as Humphreys.

Yep, 914143 , a landslide.

Not having a go at you Larbre but you I think posted that all your evidence pointed to HH winning by 60 40 did you really believe that or was it just wishful thinking?

There is a potential risk here for FFG. Some of that spoiled vote could be the basis for a new political party.

No they were not. FF and FG didn't get enough seats to form a government. FFG had to do a grubby deal with Lowry to get back into government. The number of spoiled votes indicates that there is a lot of voter anger.