DUBLIN (Reuters) – Only 16% of voters in the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) would vote in favor of the agreement reached between British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Brussels to revise the protocol which governs post-Brexit trade in the province if it were put to a referendum, shows a poll published on Saturday.
According to the survey carried out by the LucidTalk Institute for the Belfast Telegraph newspaper, only 38% of all Northern Irish Unionist voters would approve of the Windsor Framework Agreement.
However, Northern Irish voters are in favor by a clear majority (67%) of the compromise reached between London and the European Union to avoid the re-establishment of a physical border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, thanks to the massive support of nationalists.
The UK government is unlikely to need the DUP’s backing to get the deal approved, but Rishi Sunak hoped he would convince the Unionist Party to end a boycott of the province’s institutions, which are depriving the province of self-government .
(Written by Conor Humphries and Amanda Ferguson, French version Tangi Salaün)
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