LONDON (Sputnik) – Kenny needed 79 votes on Thursday to become prime minister and form an administration, but he managed to get only 57 votes.

Kenny’s Fine Gael conservative party lost the majority during the February 26 elections.
However, the nomination for prime minister of Micheal Martin, the leader of Fine Gael’s main rival, another major center-right party Fianna Fail, was also defeated on Thursday.
The two parties are ruling out creating a coalition.
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