Winner to face challenge of rebounding from the party’s poor results in the local and European elections
Roderic O’Gorman and Pippa Hackett have both declared their candidacy to become the new Green Party leader. Photograph: Gareth Chaney & Stephen Collins/Collins’s elected representatives as the contest to become the next leader of the party shapes up as a showdown with one other candidate —
Among those backing Mr O’Gorman are Ministers of State Malcolm Noonan and Joe O’Brien as well as TDs Marc Ó Cathasaigh and Patrick Costello.Dáil debate on EU migrant and asylum pact extended with vote delayed until next weekUltimately, regardless of public declarations of support from Oireachtas members and councillors, the more than 4,000 members of the Green Party will determine the winner through the one-member, one-vote system operated by the party.
Dublin West TD and Minister for Integration Mr O’Gorman was the first to announce he was running to replace Mr O’Gorman said she is a “fantastic colleague” and “excellent Minister” but it is “simplistic to say if we have someone living in rural Ireland — ‘problem solved’.”
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