'It's a very different council election than the ones I've covered in previous times and not a lot of people are talking about actual council issues – it's bigger ticket issues.'
Crime Correspondent and columnist Allison Morris said it has been a “low-key election campaign in terms of what we've heard from the political parties.”
“Rather than people voting for those kinds of issues, it will probably come down to that sort of protest vote. “What we're always watching every election … is the growth of what we call the middle ground – people who are neither strongly Unionist nor Nationalist, people who identify themselves rather than British or Irish as Northern Irish,” she said.
“Then they will be the third largest party which will give us three really distinctive blocks – we will become a three-party state.” “The last council election, Unionists lost their majority and there's now no particular designation that has a majority of Belfast City Council.
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