Senator Higgins will launch her election manifesto over the coming week.
Image: Barry Cronin Image: Barry Cronin INDEPENDENT SENATOR ALICE-MARY Higgins has announced that she will run as a candidate in the European Parliament elections.
Higgins was nominated by 60 members of the public who are on the electoral register in the constituency at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin’s Temple Bar this morning. “I chose this method of nomination because it reflects what I want for the EU, a more direct connection with the public. Europe is more than its institutions, it is made up of places and people and shared principles,” Senator Higgins said.She added that the people who nominated her did so because of her record of “championing the best ideas from Europe while also pressing for positive reform.”
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