The Labour leader said he doesn’t rule out talking to anybody
The Labour leader said there were still “impediments” in the way to any alliance after the election, but he said that he doesn’t rule out talking to anybody.Mr Howlin’s remarks came after the leaders’ debate in NUI Galway on Monday night where both Mr Howlin and Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald, put in polished performances.
Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, the two largest parties in the country, both repeated their position that there is no prospect whatsoever of either of them doing a coalition deal with Sinn Féin.His comments open the door for a possible government being formed that excludes both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael for the first time in the State’s history.
He said: “The election is being presented as a Tweedledum/Tweedledee, you can have a sort of centre-right party called Fine Gael, or a centre-right party called Fianna Fáil, whose policy platform is absolutely interchangeable.Read More General Election 2020 “I mean, if there is no quantifiable difference between the two, that needs to be said.”
He added: “We need to have an allowance with progressive thinkers who can set out a platform of investment to solve these crises.“I am happy to sit down with Sinn Féin, but, the caveat that I entered, and I enter this on every occasion, is that there is a central issue of trust.“Governments with two or more parties only can survive on the basis of trusting one another.
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