The Irish government has launched a campaign for the "yes" vote to the budgetary pact

7^th May 2012

On 30th April the Irish government launched the campaign in support of the "yes" to the referendum on the European budgetary pact that is due to take place on 31st May. Prime Minister Enda Kenny declared that the decision to ratify the treaty "would send out a clear message to the world that Ireland is a country that is open to business and that we have left our worst economic diffculties behind us." Fine Gael, the party which Mr Kenny belongs to and also its coalition partners, Labour, and the main opposition party, Fianna Fail support the European treaty. Sinn Fein, the Socialist Party and a certain number of independents are against it. Ireland is the only country to be holding a referendum on the treaty that was signed on 2nd March. Indeed it is obliged to do this due to its Constitution.

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