WORLD : Haughey Forms Coalition With Foe
Charles Haughey was elected as Ireland’s prime minister for the fourth time today after reluctantly forming a coalition with his arch political foe.
Haughey, an abrasive millionaire known as the Great Survivor in Irish politics, won by a vote of 84 to 79 when Parliament returned to select a new leader after an inconclusive general election plunged the country into a month-long political crisis.
But he only managed to clamber back into power after agreeing to a coalition with the Progressive Democrats, formed three years ago by Haughey dissidents united in dislike of him.
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