NO CLEAR MAJORITY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1943, Page 3

NO CLEAR MAJORITY

OBTAINED BY DE VALERA BUT GOVERNMENT LIKELY TO REMAIN. WITH SUPPORT OF SMALLER GROUPS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 25. The final figures for the Eire election are:— Fianna Fail Fine Gael 3 - Labour 1' Farmers’ Party " Independents 13 The state of parties before the election was:—Fianna Fail. 77: Fine Gael, 45; Labour, 9; Independents, 7. The Press Association’s correspondent in Dublin says that although Mr de Valera has lost a clear working majority over the combined Opposition parties, relations between the Fianna Fail and the smaller Opposition groups may easily enable Mr de Valera to come to sound arrangements whereby his Government will carry on for a considerable time. The Labour deputies, who are the most powerful of the smaller groups, have always been more sympathetically disposed towards Mr de Valera than to Mr Cosgrave, and Mr de Valera has had to rely on them in earlier administrations to preserve the Government’s stability. The new strength of the Farmers’ Party introduces a more incalculable element, which is likely to influence Mr de Valera’s agricultural policy.