Labour Party (Ireland)
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 134 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5108-4957-8
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Labour Party (Irish: Pairti an Lucht Oibre) is a social-democraticpolitical party in the Republic of Ireland. The Labour Party was founded in 1912 in Clonmel, County Tipperary, by James Connolly, James Larkin and William X. O'Brien as the political wing of the Irish Trade Union Congress. Unlike the other main Irish political parties, Labour does not trace its origins to the original Sinn Fein. In the 2011 general election it gained 37 of the 166 seats in Dail Eireann, almost double its total of 20 in the 2007 election, making it the second largest political party in the 31st Dail. The Labour Party has served in government for a total of nineteen years, six times in coalition either with Fine Gael alone or with Fine Gael and other smaller parties, and once with Fianna Fail, giving it the second-longest time in government of Irish parties, next to Fianna Fail. As of 9 March 2011 it is the junior partner in a coalition with Fine Gael for...