electoralism

She's the most popular candidate by far currently. She's the only one who isn't in the Fine Gael/ Fianna Fáil neoliberal parties who have been in power since time began. She's the only real opposition and her policies are okay, she seems decent on foreign policy, being anti-militarism and anti-NATO. But the president of Ireland is a mostly diplomatic role, not a governance one, so the president is mostly a figurehead