Taoiseach bungled attempt to change wording of Irish constitution, politicians and commentators say
in a dual referendum, accusing him of overseeing a lacklustre campaign that was rushed out of a “gimmicky” desire to make voting coincide with International Women’s Day.bungled attemptVoters repudiated the family referendum with 67% voting “no” and buried the care referendum in an even bigger, historic landslide of 74%, margins that shocked the political establishment.
The three ruling parties, Varadkar’s Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Greens, alongside the main opposition parties plus a host of non-governmental organisations, had all campaigned for a “yes, yes” vote. All were left chastened by the results.had perplexed voters and fractured the progressive alliance that had delivered landmark victories in the 2015 same-sex marriage referendum and 2018 abortion referendum.
The taoiseach accepted some responsibility for the fiasco. “There are a lot of people who got this wrong and I am certainly one of them,” he said on Saturday. The taoiseach is blamed for holding the referendums on 8 March rather than June, which would have coincided with local and European elections and given more time to explain complex constitutional issues.
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