Roderic O’Gorman is the favourite to succeed Eamon Ryan but Pippa Hackett has mounted a strong campaign focusing on rural Ireland
holds its leadership election on Monday. The votes of its estimated 4,000 members, spread through Ireland and Northern Ireland, will be cast electronically. Once the poll closes, the outcome will be known within minutes.
The 2020 leadership election took place after the party secured a record number of Dáil seats and members voted to go into Government. However, despite that ‘gaisce’, party leader Eamon Ryan only survived the challenge of deputy leader Catherine Martin by less than 50 votes out of the almost 2,000 cast. He was also, incidentally, backed by almost every senior figure in the party at the time.
“Despite the excellent characteristics and commitment from the candidates up and down the country, many people couldn’t see beyond the logo and the name, and so many of our election candidates didn’t stand a chance.” O’Gorman has said he wants the party to extend its policy base to areas outside the traditional Green Party core of the environment and climate change. He says he can do that without deserting the party’s image as being environment first.
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