Although a poll must be held before March 22, 2025, it has long been suspected Mr Harris could call an election after Budget 2025 was announced on October 1.
Ireland's three coalition party leaders have agreed to hold an election in 2024 following a lengthy meeting on Monday evening.
Earlier on Monday, Fine Gael leader Mr Harris rejected assertions that Green Party leader Mr O’Gorman “went behind his back” by putting forward a suggested election date of November 29. “The Government has worked cohesively, and what I define as evidence of that is the fact that a Government of three parties has managed to deliver five Budgets, has managed to find a Programme for Government that we could all pull together.
Each week, our Political Reporter James McCarthy pulls together some of the biggest and most important matters from Belfast and Northern Ireland that we think you’d be interested in reading. He added: “I do agree with Minister O’Gorman on the need to actually provide a sense of clarity on this. There’s no issue with that at all.
“I’m not going to get into the speculation of the day of the election, because obviously you will all start narrowing it down even further and I have to keep some small element of surprise for you in the days ahead.”
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