Notícias do referendo irlandês ao Tratado de Lisboa

As notícias sobre a evolução da opinião dos eleitores irlandeses, quanto ao referendo ao Tratado de Lisboa, continuam a ser preocupantes (já tínhamos referido isso - ver aqui):

"The vote has not yet been lost, although the signs are not
good. Yesterday's poll put the no vote on 35%, the yes camp on 30% and
undecideds on 28%. Though Irish opposition to the treaty has doubled in a month,
it is still lower than the 37% who voted no to the Nice treaty in 2002 - in a
referendum that the government won. But everyone in Dublin remembers that was on
the second time of asking: in 2001 the no vote was 54%.

The mood in Ireland has
darkened since then, amid troubles familiar in Britain: falling house prices,
the credit crunch, and an ill-at-ease, unelected new prime minister who has not
found the transition from the finance department easy.

Although the treaty has
the backing of all main political parties, the no campaign has made the running.
Mr Cowen did not help when he admitted he had not read the treaty properly. The
Catholic church worries that it will bring liberal abortion laws; farmers and
fishermen suspect it will cut subsidies; and businessmen dread tax harmonisation
that could cost them their low rates of corporation tax. Self-interest is all,
and few people believe the establishment when it claims from on high that their
fears are groundless."

- ver em Editorial: Wanted: plan C for when the results of Ireland's referendum come in Comment is free The Guardian.