Former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said Fine Gael could elect 'five or six' candidates from migrant backgrounds in Dublin
Former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said Fine Gael could elect six candidates from migrant backgrounds in Dublin .AdvertisementIndependents are having a strong local election with their gain seeming to be Sinn Féin's loss - the party's Waterford TD David Cullinane has admittedLabour says it is happy with how it is performing so far while the predicted rise of the far-right does not seem to be materialising.
'For every far-right warrior on Twitter who's going to get elected, there will be at least one Fine Gael migrant-background candidate in Dublin elected'"It looks like we could have about five or six Fine Gael candidates from migrant backgrounds elected in Dublin," he said. "Baby and Britto Pereppadan in Tallaght, Punam Rane who's certainly going to be elected in Kimmage-Rathmines.
"Supriya Singh has got a good chance as well - and also a woman from a Romanian background recently added to the ticket in Cellbridge is going to win. "So for every kind of far-right warrior on Twitter who's going to get elected, there'll be at least one Fine Gael migrant background candidate in Dublin elected.Mr Varadkar added that those elected to local councils"are potential future TDs".Main image: Counting of ballot papers for the local and European elections in the RDS in Dublin, 8-6-24. Image: Sasko Lazarov/© RollingNews.
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