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Varadkar alongside Jüri Ratas, the Prime Minister of Estonia, and Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, in 2017 Varadkar, alongside his party Fine Gael, universally opposed Brexit , and much of his time during his first tenure as Taoiseach was spent in negotiations with the British government over how the shared border between the ...
Varadkar, 45, whose mother is Irish and father is Indian, was the country’s youngest leader when first elected, as well as Ireland’s first gay and first biracial prime minister
Varadkar first became prime minister in 2017, after being elected leader of the Fine Gael party. He is the country’s youngest premier and Ireland’s first gay leader.
Leo Varadkar announced on Wednesday he was stepping down as Ireland's prime minister in a surprise move, saying the country's coalition government would stand a better chance of reelection under ...
The Taoiseach (/ ˈ t iː ʃ ə x / ⓘ) [d] is the head of government or prime minister of Ireland. [a] The office is appointed by the President of Ireland upon nomination by Dáil Éireann (the lower house of the Oireachtas, Ireland's national legislature) and the office-holder must retain the support of a majority in the Dáil to remain in office.
Leo Varadkar was elected leader of Fine Gael in on 2 June 2017 and was appointed as Taoiseach on 14 June 2017. [4] At 38 years old he became the youngest person to hold the office, and Ireland's first openly gay head of government. [5] He later served as Tánaiste from 2020 to 2022 before becoming Taoiseach again in December 2022. [6] [7]
Varadkar, 45, has had two spells as taoiseach, or prime minister — between 2017 and 2020, and again since December 2022 as part of a job-share with Micheál Martin, head of coalition partner ...
Since 1921, there have been three different prime ministerial offices in Northern Ireland. The most recent structure, the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister, represents a diarchy. As such, there is no longer a singular executive office, but rather a dual office.