Prospect of new government being formed in near future in stalemate
Ms McDonald said she intended to call Mr Martin on Friday to press him to sit down and talk about forming a “government of change” with Sinn Féin. “I will be saying to him that we need to sit down and talk, not to shoot the breeze or to exchange Valentines Day greetings, but to actually get down to the real business of the day,” she said.
The two parties were “insisting that they and they alone are allowed to hold power,” Ms McDonald said. Eoin Ó Broin, one of Sinn Féin’s government formation negotiators, said Mr Martin is doing the “most irresponsible thing” by snubbing Sinn Féin’s voters and suggesting a new grand coalition government that was rejected at the ballot box.
“He’s talking about putting back in power the government that has just been booted out of power and he is threatening another election at a time when the public want politicians to do their job, form a government for change and start fixing the problems that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael created through four years of bad government.”
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