evidence: - The left-wing republican Sinn Féin became the Northern Ireland Assembly’s largest party after elections in May. The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which advocates for Northern Ireland to remain in the UK, was the second largest. Subsequent efforts to form a local power-sharing government were unsuccessful, with the DUP blocking several votes to install an Assembly speaker; the territory’s government remained unformed at year’s end. [...] Under the UK’s system of devolution, Parliament has granted different degrees of legislative power to the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Welsh Senedd (Parliament), and the Scottish Parliament, augmenting the political representation of regional populations. [...] The UK justice system still grapples with cases stemming from the Troubles, the 1968–98 conflict in Northern Ireland. The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill, which was under upper-house consideration at the end of 2022, would offer "conditional" immunity for those who cooperate with "truth recovery investigations;" Amnesty International criticized the bill, saying it would not provide justice for victims of the conflict. A May report from the Committee on the Administration of Justice and the Queen’s University Belfast School of Law said the bill may breach the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and international human rights law.