Sunak defends the new agreement with the EU in Northern Ireland, with the pending doubt of the unionist position

MADRID, 28 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, has exposed this Tuesday in Belfast the supposed benefits associated with the agreement with the EU to resolve the open disputes against Brexit, although the unionists are silent about their future position waiting to read the letter small of the known as Marco de Windsor.

Sunak, who received the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, in London on Monday, has headed to Belfast to defend, among other things, that Northern Ireland is called to be "the most thriving economic area" in the world , something of which he must mainly convince the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).

Northern Ireland lacks a government precisely because of the differences over the application of the safeguard included in the Brexit agreements to avoid a 'hard border' with Ireland. Sunak is confident that, with the new framework, Northern Irish politicians can "do their job".

In this sense, he explained during a visit to a factory that he wants to resolve the "reasonable concerns" that unionists have been expressing, especially critical of the controls required for merchandise traffic between Northern Ireland and the rest of the British territories.

The leader of the DUP, Jeffrey Donaldson, has admitted in statements to the BBC that the revision of the new agreement "will take time". "We will talk to people, we will listen to what they have to say," he argued, thus ruling out that there is already a 'no' on the table after criticism from some of the party members.

Along with the DUP, the other major political actor in Northern Ireland is Sinn Féin, which aspires to lead the Government for the first time if the results of the last elections are applied. The vice president of the Republican formation, Michelle O'Neill, has confirmed on Twitter that she has spoken with Sunak this Tuesday, but by phone.

O'Neill has applauded the new agreement, which he already considers closed, and has advocated taking advantage of the momentum to recover the lost institutionality. "The priority now must be to get Stormont back on its feet and move forward as soon as possible," he claimed.