Ireland faces weeks of coalition talks before it gets a new government, as the country’s two major center-right parties work to form a stable administration.
With all but a handful of seats filled in the 174-seat legislature on Monday after three days of counting election ballots, Fianna Fail had won 46 seats and Fine Gael 38. The two parties, who have governed in coalition since 2020, look set to fall just short of the 88 needed for a majority without third-party support.
