Election 2020: Campaign under way as Varadkar sets Saturday poll for February 8th

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin welcomed an end to the indecision surrounding an election date but noted the short duration of the campaign GE2020

Fine Gael figures also point to the second Nice Referendum, which was held on Saturday October 19th, 2002, and the Children’s Referendum, which was held on a Saturday, November 10th, 2012.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin welcomed an end to the indecision but noted the short duration of the campaign. “Particularly in terms of housing; the inability of people to afford houses, housing prices and housing rents are simply far too high and there is a deep, deep crisis of homelessness right across every level of housing.Sinn Fein Leader Mary Lou McDonald outside Leinster House. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw /The Irish Times

He sought to cast his party as one that can be trusted with public spending and the economy and repeated his call for a transfer pact on the centre left, calling on Labour voters to transfer to the Greens, Social Democrats and “progressive independents”. His party will enter government, he said, if it can get a “critical mass” of TDs elected.Having been dissolved the Dáil will not meet tomorrow and the election campaigns are effectively under way.

However, Dublin Bay North TD and Minister of State for Disability Issues Finian McGrath confirmed he will not seek re-election.

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