Republican Sinn Féin

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Republican Sinn Féin or RSF (Irish: Sinn Féin Poblachtach) is an Irish republican political party in Ireland. The party took its present form in 1986 following a split in Sinn Féin over abstentionism, and claims to be the legitimate continuation of the Sinn Féin party founded in 1905. Its members abstain from the Oireachtas and the Northern Ireland Assembly due to the party's nonrecognition of the partition of Ireland, but take their seats when elected to local government in the Republic of Ireland. The party emerged around the supporters of Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and Dáithí Ó Conaill. As Irish republican legitimists, they rejected the reformism of Gerry Adams and other members of Sinn Féin who supported abandoning the policy of abstentionism from the Oireachtas and accepting the legality of the Republic of Ireland. They support the Éire Nua policy which allows for devolution of power to provincial governments. RSF holds that the Irish Republic proclaimed in 1916 legally continues to exist,...

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