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| − | '''Leo Varadkar''' (b. 1979) is an Irish politician. A member of [[Fine Gael]], he has served as the | + | '''Leo Varadkar''' (b. 1979) is an Irish politician. A member of [[Fine Gael]], he has served two terms as the Taoiseach (prime-minister) [[Ireland]], firstly between June 2017 and June 2022 and again since December 2022. He was also Tánaiste (deputy prime-minister) between 2020 and 2022. |
== Career == | == Career == | ||
Aged 20, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1999 local elections in Ireland. Varadkar was elected to Fingal County Council in 2004. | Aged 20, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1999 local elections in Ireland. Varadkar was elected to Fingal County Council in 2004. | ||
Revision as of 18:48, January 20, 2023
Leo Varadkar (b. 1979) is an Irish politician. A member of Fine Gael, he has served two terms as the Taoiseach (prime-minister) Ireland, firstly between June 2017 and June 2022 and again since December 2022. He was also Tánaiste (deputy prime-minister) between 2020 and 2022.
Career
Aged 20, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1999 local elections in Ireland. Varadkar was elected to Fingal County Council in 2004.
He was first elected to the Dáil Éireann, Ireland's national legislature, in 2007 to represent the constituency of Dublin West. He remains TD for the seat to this day.
He became 14th Taoiseach of Ireland in 2017.[1]
Views and policy
Despite Fine Gael's claims to be a "conservative party", there is little, beyond moderate fiscal conservatism, about Varadkar's political ideology that can be called conservative. He is blatantly liberal; in 2018, he called a referendum on the legalization of killing unborn children in Ireland, in which the anti-life side won. He also supports same-sex marriage.[2]
Personal life
Varadkar is gay.
References
- ↑ "Leo Varadkar elected as Republic of Ireland's taoiseach", BBC News, 14 June 2017.
- ↑ https://cassandravoices.com/politics/leo-liberal/