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- IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
- LEO VARADKAR, GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT, TO BE NEXT IRISH PM
- LEO VARADKAR, IRELAND’S FIRST GAY LEAR AND AN EMIGRANT'S SON, SPARKS INDIA CELEBRATN
IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
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The son of an Indian immigrant has ma Irish history by beg the untry’s youngt and first openly gay prime Varadkar, 38, was formally elected taoiseach at a nfirmatn ceremony the Dáil Dubl after he won the Fe Gael party learship earlier this month. Leo Varadkar, (born January 18, 1979, Dubl, Ireland), Irish polician who beme lear of the Fe Gael party and Ireland’s first openly gay taoiseach (prime mister) June 2017. The tensely private Varadkar ma headl January 2015 when durg an appearance on Irish natnal rad (RTÉ) he announced that he was gay:.
I’m not a half-Indian polician, or a doctor polician or a gay polician for that matter. Varadkar explaed to listeners, the procs beg the untry’s first openly gay ernment mister. The announcement me some four months before Irish voters approved legalizatn of same-sex marriage a natnal referendum, but had been only jt over two s sce homosexualy had been crimalized Ireland.
When his nomatn was approved the Dáil by a vote of 57 to 50 (wh 45 abstentns) on June 14, Varadkar, at age 38, beme the youngt taoiseach Ireland’s history as well as s first openly gay taoiseach and the first to be a member of an ethnic mory. Leo Varadkar, an openly gay Indian-orig polician, beme the Prime Mister of Ireland on Saturday. Leo Varadkar, who was born 1979, beme the first openly gay Taoiseach June 2017.
LEO VARADKAR, GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT, TO BE NEXT IRISH PM
Leo Varadkar is an Irish physician and polician who beme lear of the Fe Gael party and Ireland’s first openly gay prime mister 2017. He oversaw a robt enomy and sought to migate the impact of Brex on Ireland, but his populary was unrmed by the untry’s signifint hog crisis. * ireland gay indian president *
In 2017, when he beme the Irish Prime Mister for the first time, Varadkar created history by beg the first openly gay man to hold the office of Taoiseach. "I am not a half-Indian polician or a doctor polician or a gay polician for that matter.
What mak Varadkar's elevatn remarkable is that an openly gay polician has now occupied the top post of Ireland, a untry domated by stnch Catholic valu, not once, but twice. The son of an Indian immigrant who me out as gay 2015 will be the next Irish prime mister, after he was voted lear of the untry’s ma erng Varadkar’s victory the Fe Gael learship ntt on Friday, which took place after outgog PM Enda Kenny announced his rignatn last month, marks another signifint step forward for equaly the untry, after 2015’s gay marriage well as beg Ireland’s first gay prime mister, Varadkar, 38, will also bee the untry’s youngt lear, and the first om an ethnic mory background. Although Varadkar’s centre-right polics are clearly nservative, he portrays the image of a new, progrsive Ireland, symbolised bt May 2015 when the Republic voted overwhelmgly favour of gay marriage.
“I thk ’s really signifint that both his party and the media Ireland foced on his polici, rather than him simply beg a gay man who wants to lead the untry, ” said Brian Fnegan, the edor of Gay Communy News Dubl.
LEO VARADKAR, IRELAND’S FIRST GAY LEAR AND AN EMIGRANT'S SON, SPARKS INDIA CELEBRATN
“It is a sign of how much Ireland has changed and moved on that no one really r if he is gay here.