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About LinkBacksSen. David Norris has announced he's seeking 20000 signatures to allow him to run as an independent candidate in the next presidential election.
Sen. David Norris has announced he's seeking 20000 signatures to allow him to run as an independent candidate in the next presidential election.
how many posts before the inevitable pun, I wonder ....Originally Posted by just4ever
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I'll buy that for a dollar.
How will 20,000 signatures allow him to run?
It won't. You need 20 Oireachtas members or 4 county/city councils to nominate you (unless you are a former President in which case you can nominate yourself).
He reckons that if Ahern stands, George Hook will split the vote and he'll get in. Good on ya, David!
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I'm not sure how comfortable I would be with a man who described the 1916 Rebels as "terrorists" taking the salute in 2016.
"The population of Ireland consists of a few hundred RSF members and a few million traitors."
He made the point to Marian that if he was President and the Iranian foreign minister arrived at the Áras to present his credentials that would be a significant thing - Iranian Foreign Minister meets openly gay President of Ireland...hmmm
20 to 1 are the odds (apparently the bookies refer to the petition website.
I am thinking about signing that petition.
If he drop the thousand part and found the signatures in Leinster house he'd be on his way!
Art 12.4.2
Every candidate for election, not a former or retiring President, must be nominated either by:
(i) not less than twenty persons, each of whom is at the time a member of one of the Houses of the Oireachtas, or
(ii) by the Councils of not less than four administrative Counties (including County Boroughs) as defined by law.
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It doesn't. That was a proposal in Constitutional reform. You need 20 Oireachtas members to sign your nomination papers or 4 County/City Councils to vote in favour of your nomination.
If David wants to run then he has get either the Labour Party nomination or the Greens and SF plus a few Independents to support his nomination.
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