Northern Ireland's DUP to choose latest new leader within a week

FILE PHOTO: Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Edwin Poots attends a news conference before a meeting with Ireland's Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Micheal Martin in Dublin, Ireland June 3, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) will choose a new leader, its third in a matter of weeks, by Saturday June 26, the party said on Saturday after Edwin Poots quit just three weeks after formally taking power.

The British-run region's largest party has gone through a tumultuous period since the ousting of then leader and Northern Ireland first minister Arlene Foster in late April.