{"id":6426,"date":"2024-03-10T10:50:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T10:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/2024\/03\/10\/irish-government-walloped-by-referendum-defeats\/"},"modified":"2024-03-10T10:50:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T10:50:32","slug":"irish-government-walloped-by-referendum-defeats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/2024\/03\/10\/irish-government-walloped-by-referendum-defeats\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish government ‘walloped’ by referendum defeats"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\u00a9 Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Ireland’s Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar walks to cast his vote in a referendum on changes to the Irish constitution called the Family Amendment and the Care Amendment, at Scoil Treasa Naofa in Dublin, Ireland March 8, 2024. REUTERS\/C<\/span>
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DUBLIN (Reuters) -Irish voters have rejected proposals to replace constitutional references to the makeup of a family and a mother’s “duties in the home” in a significant defeat for the government.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Leo Varadkar had pitched the vote, held on Friday to coincide with International Women’s Day and counted on Saturday, as a chance to delete some “very old-fashioned, very sexist language about women”. <\/p>\n

A proposal to expand the definition of family from a relationship founded on marriage to include other durable relationships was rejected by 67.7% to 32.3%. <\/p>\n

A second referendum on a proposal to replace language surrounding a woman’s duties in the home with a clause recognising the role of family members in the provision of care was rejected by 73.9% to 26.1%.<\/p>\n

Campaigners argued the proposal would enshrine care as a private responsibility, and not a state one.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters in Dublin on Saturday, Varadkar said voters had given his government “two wallops”.<\/p>\n

“It was our responsibility to convince a majority of people to vote yes, and we clearly failed to do so.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a9 Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Ireland’s Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar walks to cast his vote in a referendum on changes to the Irish constitution called the Family Amendment and the Care Amendment, at Scoil Treasa Naofa in Dublin, Ireland March 8, 2024. REUTERS\/C DUBLIN (Reuters) -Irish voters have rejected proposals to replace constitutional references to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}