Riots Why the Violence in Northern Ireland
Arlene Foster will resign as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and as Chief Minister of Northern Ireland at the end of June, as she announced and after the maneuvers of MPs from her own party who have openly questioned her leadership.
The march of Foster, 50, and who in 2015 became
the first woman
to lead Northern Ireland, threatens to blow up the government of unity with Sinn Fein and plunge Ulster into a new crisis, weeks after the biggest riots in Belfast since the Good Friday peace accord 22 years ago.
Foster's resignation reveals the serious crisis of unionism due to the problems caused by Brexit and the
Irish Protocol
, which involves the "de facto" creation of an internal customs office between London and Belfast.
Foster's belated reaction has resulted in a
precipitous downfall of the DUP,
which has lost first-party status in the polls and is losing ground to the Unionist Traditionalist Voice.
The TUV, for its acronym in English, is
something like the unionist "Vox",
emerged in 2007 as a split from the DUP, led by Jim Allister and already exceeding 10% in polls with a more extreme unionism to the right.
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