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LONDON — Ireland’s two longtime opposition parties agreed Sunday to rule the country together after an election in which the previous government suffered a crushing defeat after the country’s economic collapse.
The leaders of Fine Gael and the Labor Party said they would form a coalition to govern the country, whose once- dynamic economy imploded during the global financial meltdown.
The new coalition said it would follow through on the previous government’s pledge to reduce Ireland’s staggering budget deficit. But it gave notice that it would try to win more favorable terms for the $113 billion bailout that the International Monetary Fund and the European Union offered Dublin in November.
