Ireland’s far-right candidates failed to win a single seat in the country’s general election and are now echoing the Trumpian cry of “stop the steal.”
“Does anyone think this is possible?” Philip Dwyer, one of the most high-profile far-right candidates, wrote on X after he received just a single vote from one polling location in Friday’s vote. “Definitely no election interference going on here … are RTE actually straight out telling us the game is rigged?”
Dwyer, who didn’t respond to a request for comment, received just 435 votes out of 57,000 people who voted. The single vote came from a polling location in Newtownmountkennedy, the scene of violent anti-immigrant protests in recent months that Dwyer himself documented in detail for his large social media following.
Ireland’s election results, which will likely see the incumbent government returned to power, bucks…
