Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman earlier said victory for Donald Trump would be ‘disaster’
Neither the Tánaiste nor Taoiseach would say who they wanted to win the US election. Photograph: Gareth Chaney /PA Wire, the Taoiseach and Tánaiste have stressed, as they stopped short of saying whether they agreed with Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman that a victory byOn Monday Green Party leader and Minister for Children and Integration Roderic O’Gorman said Mr Trump’s re-election would be “a disaster for the US, Ireland and the planet”.
Asked if Mr O’Gorman should have commented at all on the election, Mr Harris said “anyone can comment in this democracy”. “I wouldn’t appreciate if former president Trump or vice-president Harris started to tell people in Ireland who to vote for and I don’t think people in Ireland would appreciate that either so it’s entirely a matter for people in the United States today. I wish the candidates well.”
The Fine Gael leader said that “in a broad sense” it is “time for continued focus on multilateralism”.
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