Catherine Connolly, a far-left lawmaker who denounced Israel as a “genocidal, terrorist state” while legitimizing Hamas, is elected by a wide majority to become Ireland’s next president
A far-left candidate and staunch critic of Israel is poised to become the next head of state of Ireland, after she swept the country’s presidential election.
On Friday, over 1.5 million Irish voters turned out at the polls to vote for a successor to their current term-limited president, Michael D. Higgins, who is set to leave office next month.
Facing off against Heather Humphreys of the center-right Fine Gael party and Jim Gavin of the centrist Fianna Fáil party, Catherine Connolly swept the vote, receiving over 914,000 ballots, or 63.4% of the total valid ballots.
