The leader of the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Geoffrey Donaldson, has resigned after being indicted in an old case, his party announced in a press release on Friday March 29. According to the British media, it was sexual in nature.
Party leadership “We have received a letter from MP Geoffrey Donaldson confirming the old allegations and announcing his resignation as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party with immediate effect”D.U.P.
Earlier on Friday, Northern Ireland police announced the charges against a 61-year-old man for a long history of sex crimes. He is due to appear in court in Newry on April 24 with a 57-year-old woman accused of being an accomplice. Jeffrey Donaldson has deleted all his social media accounts.
A Member of Parliament at Westminster since 1997 and Leader of the DUP since June 2021, Mr. Donaldson was considered a moderate figure in the Unionist movement committed to keeping Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom.
Perceiving post-Brexit trade arrangements as a threat to the Irish province, the DUP boycotted Northern Irish companies for two years as a result of the 1998 Good Friday Peace Agreement, signed after three decades of bloody conflict over British rule in this part of the island. .
The boycott ended last February and almost two years after the party's victory, Michelle O'Neill (Sinn Féin) became the first leader of the Northern Irish government to support Irish unity. Irish Republican Army (IRA).
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