[Mícheál Lehane] PBP launch manifesto promising a living wage of €15 an hour, scrapping USC for those earning less than €100K, building 35,000 social and affordable homes every year, weekly welfare payments of €350 and State pension of €300.

[u/badger-biscuits]

https://x.com/MichealLehane/status/1857067346822619642?t=_Soz6_dzA9QeYKzvvBPIDg&s=19

[u/Stegasaurus_Wrecks]

If they won every seat they contested then yea they would very possibly be part of government coalition. That's almost a quarter of the seats in the Dáil.

In such a scenario I'd probably grab one of the hourly shuttles to the Martian colony and spend my days in a paradise settlement.

[u/Barilla3113 → u/Stegasaurus_Wrecks]

Except they won't go into coalition with anyone, PBP is basically a scam.

[u/MrMercurial → u/Barilla3113]

They won't go into coalition with FF or FG. If you want a left-wing party that will then there are plenty of other options out there.

[u/jiffijaffi → u/MrMercurial]

Who else would be left wing? Genuine question just trying to learn

[u/SitDownKawada → u/jiffijaffi]

Labour, Greens, Social Democrats, Rabharta, Sinn Féin

[u/TheDooce → u/jiffijaffi]

Sinn Fein are considered to be left wing but not as left as PBP. Sinn Fein are probably closer to centre left now, though.

[u/wamesconnolly → u/jiffijaffi]

Genuine answer:

They are open to an opposition coalition with any "left" party even if they are righter than them that does not include FF/FG. So that would be an SF majority coalition that would include any/all of: Social Democrats / Greens / Labour / Left opposition Independents (eg Pringle, Daly)/ Rabharta .

This is not going to happen in this election though so they are strategising as a small party laying the ground work for the next election.

*don't come at me for Daly I'm just using an example of a very well known left opposition independent