BELFAST, May 9 — UK Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis today called on all parties in the province to form a new power-sharing government in Belfast, after historic elections and despite unresolved Brexit disputes.
The win allows Sinn Fein to nominate the symbolic position of first minister but the DUP, which came second, said post-Brexit trading arrangements need to be addressed first before it joins a new executive. The Democratic Unionist Party collapsed the last assembly in February by withdrawing its first minister because of its opposition to the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Sinn Fein leader Michelle O’Neill, who is set to become first minister, tweeted that “the voters have spoken”. Keeping the border open with neighbouring Ireland, an EU member, was mandated in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that ended three decades of violence over British rule.
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