Dublin West TD says parties must ‘come together to learn from what has happened in France’ in call for agreement
Paul Murphy: 'I think Sinn Féin made a very, very big mistake, both morally and politically in the run up to the election.
He called for a clear vote left/transfer left official pact between parties, a commonly agreed radical programme and a commitment from participants not to go into Coalition with Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael. An additional red line would be a commitment not to “engage in a scapegoating of asylum seekers” and instead to “stand in solidarity with asylum seekers and to try and unite people regardless of what colour they are, regardless of what county they come from, against those who are actually responsible for the housing crisis and for the health crisis”.
“I think Sinn Féin made a very, very big mistake, both morally and politically in the run up to the election,” he said, adding that the strategy had “backfired” and that there are “lots of people within Sinn Féin, who know that what they did in the run of the local and European elections was an absolute disaster because they ended up playing the election on the pitch and the Government wanted to play it on.
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