Leo Varadkar re-elected as the Prime Minister of Ireland

Leo Varadkar re-elected as the Prime Minister of Ireland

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Category : International Published on: December 20 2022

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  • Indian-origin Leo Varadkar, former Irish Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Fine Gael party, has been elected as the new prime minister of Ireland.
  • Varadkar replaced Micheal Martin as Taoiseach (premier) in a rotation between his Fine Gael and Martin's Fianna Fail parties that is unprecedented in Irish history.
  • This is the second time that Varadkar has been elected as Irish prime minister. He first became the Irish prime minister in June 2017.
  • In 2015, before Ireland's referendum legalising same-sex marriage, Varadkar came out publicly as gay.
  • The Republic of Ireland is a western European country which shares a boundary with Great Britain.
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