The unionist leader has made the decision after meeting with his formation, the DUP, whose Agriculture Minister, Edwin Poots, unilaterally ordered Wednesday to suspend customs controls.
Northern Ireland’s chief minister, the unionist Paul Givan, presented his resignation on Thursday at the head of the power-sharing government in protest against the Northern Ireland protocol between the European Union and the United Kingdom.
The decision was made after meeting in Belfast with his formation, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), whose Minister of Agriculture, Edwin Poots, unilaterally ordered on Wednesday to suspend the customs controls provided for in the protocol on products arriving in Northern Ireland from the island of Great Britain.
Givan’s resignation automatically causes the departure of the autonomous Executive of the main deputy minister, the leader of the nationalist Sinn Fein Michelle O’Neill, which plunges the territory into a new institutional crisis, just three months before the elections.
“Today is the end of what has been the privilege of my life, to serve as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland,” Givan told the media at a Belfast hotel. Belfast Telegraph.
After this news, the president of Sinn Fein, Mary Lou McDonald, has urged the holding of early elections “in the absence of a functioning Executive.”
Additionally, McDonald has criticized Givan for making a decision based on the DUP’s “own political interests.” “We must be clear that the actions of the DUP have consequences,” he added.
Source: Eitb
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