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muriel_volestrangler

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4. Northern Ireland's Arlene Foster survives no-confidence vote

Reply to Donald Ian Rankin (Original post)

Mon Dec 19, 2016, 01:45 PM

Dec 2016

Northern Ireland’s first minister, Arlene Foster, has seen off an attempt to remove her from office following a failed green energy scheme costing taxpayers £400m.

Sinn Féin’s decision to abstain in a no-confidence vote against Foster on Monday ensured the Democratic Unionist party leader remained first minister.

Under the complex rules of power sharing in the Northern Ireland assembly, the DUP was able to exercise a veto to block the motion.

The rules state that she could only be removed as first minister if a majority of nationalist representatives supported the cross-party proposal to censure her.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/19/northern-ireland-arlene-foster-survives-no-confidence-vote-green-energy-scandal-sinn-fein

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Northern Ireland's first minister faces vote of no confidence [View all] Donald Ian Rankin Dec 2016 OP

Interesting that it's over a renewable energy incentive scheme T_i_B Dec 2016 #1

Agree LeftishBrit Dec 2016 #2

Vote of no confidence...... Bayard Dec 2016 #3

By getting rid of direct presidential elections, Bad Dog Dec 2016 #5

The Westminster system is never having presidential elections in the first place. Ken Burch Dec 2016 #7

What you've inadvertently done... T_i_B Dec 2016 #8

They're still German? Bad Dog Dec 2016 #9

It's a good thing IMO that we separate the ceremonial and political roles LeftishBrit Dec 2016 #10

You've missed all the threads here where we call him "Drumpf"(his father's family's real surname) Ken Burch Dec 2016 #11

What I still can't believe about you Americans... T_i_B Dec 2016 #12

And I've found out what Johnson means to Americans... LeftishBrit Jan 2017 #14

I prefer the ceremonial focus of patriotism to be hereditary. Donald Ian Rankin Jan 2017 #13

Northern Ireland's Arlene Foster survives no-confidence vote muriel_volestrangler Dec 2016 #4

This points up a very interesting contradiction between Sinn Fein in N.I., and in the Republc. Ken Burch Dec 2016 #6