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Mary Lou McDonald
Sinn Féin leader
President of Sinn Féin since 2018: under her the party won the most votes in Ireland in 2020. She seeks Irish reunification and more public investment in housing and health.
«A united Ireland and more public housing.»
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In short
On the traditional scale, Mary Lou McDonald sits in the center-left camp. The clearest positions are on foreign policy: strongly towards “pacifism”; economy: fairly towards “equality”; society: fairly towards “progress”; religion: fairly towards “secularism”. On state, technology, justice, devolution and immigration it stays balanced. Among ideologies, the closest is left-wing populism (94%).
Position on the 13 axes
Mary Lou McDonaldYou
EconomyEqualityMarket
StateLibertyAuthority
SocietyProgressTradition
SovereigntyIntegrationSovereignty
ReligionSecularismReligion
EnvironmentEcologyGrowth
TechnologyCautionAcceleration
Foreign policyPacifismInterventionism
JusticeRehabilitationTough on crime
DemocracyDirect democracyTechnocracy
MethodReformRupture
DevolutionCentralismFederalism
ImmigrationOpennessControl
Closest ideologies
Left-wing populismThe Voice of the Square94%Techno-populismThe Voice of the Web93%Left-wing sovereigntismThe Sovereign Rebel91%Closest parties in Europe
Movimento 5 StelleItaly97%
ELASGreece97%
Sinn FéinIreland96%
Socialistische PartijNetherlands95%Similar figures
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