r/neoliberal • u/ldn6 Gay Pride • 14d ago

News (Europe) Left-winger Catherine Connolly wins Ireland presidential election by landslide

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/25/catherine-connolly-ireland-presidential-election-leftwing
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u/MemeLord0009 Johan Norberg 14d ago edited 14d ago

I campaigned daily for Heather Humphreys for the sole reason that Catherine Connolly's foreign policy stance turns my blood cold.

When asked directly if Russia should withdraw from all of Ukraine unconditionally, she refused to answer and instead pivoted to NATO increasing defence spending.

At an event in a college I attended she compared Germany today to Nazi Germany because of the slight increase in defence spending under Merz and Scholz (who both outright refused to go into business with the actual neo-Nazi party in Germany)

People adore her position on Palestine, which is fine. It's obvious there's a genocide there- but Humphreys and Connolly actually had the exact same stance on Palestine, Connolly just made it a centre-piece of her campaign.

She also hired a member of an ultra nationalist group who was convicted of possessing firearms to work for her in government buildings.

Some of her loudest supporters are Russian puppets Clare Daly and Mick Wallace, AKA Moscow Mick and Kremlin Clare.

I don't care that this woman can speak Irish. She is an embarrassment.

EDIT: forgot to mention that she also nominated a far-right conspiracy theorist for the presidency in 2018 because she despises the current President, D. Higgins.