Ireland's Fianna Fail edge out Sinn Fein on election seat count


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  • Tuesday, 11 Feb 2020

FILE PHOTO: Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin is seen after the announcement of voting results in a count centre, during Ireland's national election, in Cork, Ireland, February 9, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's main opposition party Fianna Fail edged out surging nationalists Sinn Fein by 38 seats to 37 to emerge as the biggest party in the country's 160-seat parliament after counting in a national election concluded on Monday.

Sinn Fein's low number of candidates meant it could not capitalise on winning the popular vote but for the first time it overtook Prime Minister Leo Varadkar's Fine Gael, which fell to 35 seats in the highly fractured parliament.

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