BELFAST — The leader of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party Edwin Poots announced his resignation on Thursday just three weeks after formally taking power, causing disarray in the region’s largest party during crucial EU-British trade talks.
Hours earlier Poots, who formally took control of the British region’s largest pro-British party on May 27, was opposed by 24 of his party’s 28 regional lawmakers on the nomination of a new first minister for the British province.
“I have asked the party Chairman to commence an electoral process within the party to allow for a new leader of the Democratic Unionist Party to be elected,” Poots said, adding that he would remain in h…
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