Irish general election, 1992

The elections to Dáil Éireann in 1992 took place on 25 November 1992. Determined were the members of the 27th Dáil.

Results 1992

The 166 parliamentarians gathered for the first time on 4 January 1993 and the term of office lasted 1654 days.

The election was necessitated by the failure of the Fianna Fáil - Progressive Democrats coalition -. Accusations of dishonesty during the so-called " Beef Tribunal " ( Beef Tribunal, a tribunal created in 1991 to clarify inconsistencies in the export trade of beef, and the extent to which politicians were involved ) led to the rupture of Desmond O'Malley and his Party with Albert Reynolds's Fianna Fáil.

Both Reynolds and John Bruton of Fine Gael, it was the first election as party chairman; for Reynolds, it should remain the only, since the choice was very bad for Fianna Fáil and the party lost 20%.

Many political experts had predicted before the election, the Fianna Fáil would not re-elected, and that instead a rainbow coalition of Fine Gael, the Labour Party and perhaps Democratic Left ( an offshoot of the Workers' Party ) is formed, but Bruton of Fine Gael had own problems. Election polls showed that at a Rainbow Coalition Dick Spring of the Labour Party would be A more popular Taoiseach as he. Also, the possibility of changing the Taoiseach was discussed in the media.

So was the big winner of the election, the Labour Party, which completely dissociates himself from Fianna Fáil and had led its own election campaign. Spring made ​​before the election only a few statements about possible coalitions; He made clear, however, if the Labour Party would be part of the government, he must at least temporarily be Taoiseach.

After counting the votes was clear that Fianna Fáil had the worst election result since 1927. However, Fine Gael lost votes. In contrast, the Labour Party achieved their best result in its history. Since a rainbow coalition was not mathematically possible, Springfield had to enter into negotiations with Fianna Fáil, which crashed into the ranks of the Labour supporters with little enthusiasm, as Spring had his campaign out violently against Fianna Fáil and Reynolds. Due to the coalition Reynolds was elected with more than 100 votes for Taoiseach - the greatest number of votes in Irish history.

After a series of scandals in 1994 Labour left the coalition government and formed after various negotiations, on 15 December 1994 with Fine Gael and Democratic Left, the Rainbow Coalition, which was now possible due to various elections. This was the first time in the history of Ireland that one party left an ongoing government and opposition parties - a new government was formed - without re-election.