Martin is expected to step aside half way through the five-year term to allow Fine Gael's leader, outgoing Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, to return to the post. Deputy Prime Minister Varadkar was named trade minister. The new coalition will also split Irish politics along more explicitly ideological lines than in the past, with Sinn Fein taking over as the main opposition. It has 37 seats in the 160-seat parliament, the same number as Fianna Fail and two more than Fine Gael. "You will no longer get it all your own way," Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald told the two parties.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 27, 2020 18:22 UTC