Sinn Fein wins Northern Ireland election

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Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein has won the Northern Ireland Assembly election.
The party can now nominate a first minister, but they'll be unable to take up office unless the loyalist Democratic Unionist Party agrees to name a deputy.
The DUP is refusing to do so, unless the Northern Ireland Protocol is changed, an agreement that governs the movement of goods in the region post-Brexit.
It’s the first time the party, historically associated with the IRA, has secured enough seats in the Assembly since Northern Ireland was founded as a Protestant-majority state in 1921.

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