Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein made sweeping gains in Northern Ireland's local elections, repeating its success from last year's assembly elections, when it became the largest party for the first time.
With counting completed late Saturday, Sinn Fein, which seeks unification of Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland, took 144 of 462 local government seats. Its main rival, the Democratic Unionist Party, captured 122 seats, while the centrist Alliance Party had 67.She added that her party's success was a message from voters that Northern Ireland's power-sharing government, which has been paralyzed for over a year, must get back to business.
Under power-sharing rules established by the 1998 Good Friday peace accord, the main British unionist and Irish nationalist parties must govern together. She said that the DUP's boycott of the assembly "cannot go on," and the British and Irish governments must work together and help resolve Northern Ireland's political stalemate.
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