Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said Monday evening that the country's next general election would be held in March 2016.

"The people can judge us as to whether or not we have delivered on the mandate given to us," Kenny said in Killenard, where a think-in of his Fine Gael (United Ireland Party) took place.

The meeting marks the half-way point in the coalition's five-year term.

Meanwhile, at the Labor Party's think-in, Irish Deputy Prime Minister and Labor Party leader Eamon Gilmore said he would lead his party into the next general election, despite recent poor opinion poll ratings.

Recent polls showed Labor trailing behind opposition Fianna Fail (Republican Party), but Gilmore said he did not believe the electorate would reward the party that had caused the crisis and punish the party that had solved it.

In the 2011 general election, Fine Gael won a record 76 seats to become the largest party in the parliament for the first time in its 78-year history, while the Labor Party became the second largest. Fine Gael leader Kenny became prime minister in a coalition with the Labor Party. Endi

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