With polling showing Independents on nearly a quarter of the vote, Ivana Bacik makes election pitch
With polling showing Independents on nearly a quarter of the vote, Ivana Bacik and PBP call on voters to support more organised oppositionIvana Bacik, leader of the Labour Party, which stood at 6 per cent in an Irish Times local election poll. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw for The Irish Timeshas claimed as she made her pitch to the electorate to back her party in Friday’s Local and European Elections.
At her party’s last press conference before the election Ms Bacik said voters know what they’re getting when they support her party.She said: “Far too many people it seems are thinking of voting independent because they’re looking for change without, I think, looking at the reality that a vote for an independent is often a vote for more of the same.”
Mr Ó Ríordáin said Labour is putting forward a “different vision of Europe” and said it is a party that does not “pander” to regressive or anti-immigrant forces.also targeted Independent candidates and pointed out that a number of Independent TDs previously declined to vote no confidence in motions against Government Ministers.
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