Party leader does not believe another general election will be needed to form a government
However, it is anticipated that only one of Mr Nash and Mr Ó Ríordáin will go forward for the contest. The full Labour Party membership is the electorate for the contest, numbering at least 2,500 people, but that may rise as high as 5,000 depending on whether memberships are reactivated before polling day.
, Dublin and the midlands, as well as events organised by Labour’s constituent organisations, such as Labour Youth and Labour Women. Mr Howlin said he does not believe another general election will be needed to form a government. Labour saw its number of seats fall from seven to six after last weekend’s poll. “I think people would look at the outcome of the people’s decision and the people’s decision has to be accepted, and there is no reason to believe if they were asked again, they’d come to a different decision, in my judgement. You have to deal with the forces that are there,” he said. He admitted the general election “wasn’t great for us because the sea-change of support for Sinn Féin wasn’t seen by everybody and a lot of people, I’m afraid, had made up their minds before the campaign had started”. “The Labour Party, under a new leader, will be, in my view, central to the formulation of public policy in this country for the decades to come as it has been a progressive force for change and improvement in the decades up to now,” he said.
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