(Bloomberg) -- Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern may find that what he likes to call ``the world's best economy'' isn't enough to guarantee him a third five-year term.
While polls show Ahern remains personally popular, his government has been beset by financial scandals and charges that it is squandering the fruits of its economic boom by failing to fix Ireland's roads, schools and hospitals. The government coalition, led by Ahern's Fianna Fail party, began the campaign for May 24 elections trailing the opposition, according to a poll published last week by the Irish Times newspaper.
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