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166 Independents

  • 25-02-2011 5:14pm
    #1
    Smartly Dressed
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    Please excuse my ignorance of the political system, but what would happen if 166 Independents were elected to the Dáil?


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  • #2
    dsmythy
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    Not going to happen.

    I'd imagine there'd be another election and independents would be shunned in this alternate reality.


  • #3
    Reilly616
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 374 ✭✭Reilly616


    Smartly Dressed wrote: »
    Please excuse my ignorance of the political system, but what would happen if 166 Independents were elected to the Dáil?

    In what context? They would elect a Taoiseach and Government from within their ranks, just as they do normally. It would just be more difficult.


  • #4
    An Cuinneach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 110 ✭✭An Cuinneach


    Obviously not going to happen but it's interesting.

    How would they propose legislation, delineate speaking time, etc?


  • #5
    Smartly Dressed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Smartly Dressed


    Reilly616 wrote: »
    In what context? They would elect a Taoiseach and Government from within their ranks, just as they do normally. It would just be more difficult.

    Question answered!

    But if they failed to come to a consensus? Would there be another general election?


  • #6
    goz83
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    There would be four or five years of bickering in the dail and when they finally came out of the building, they would find themselves floating in the middle of the ocean with a note saying:

    Lads, we got sick of waiting for you to agree on anything and decided to let obama take over. He plans to bury the IMF in their building and make Ireland the new capital of Europe. Good riddens.

    Signed,

    The Irish Electorate


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  • #7
    Spudmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,988 ✭✭✭Spudmonkey


    Smartly Dressed wrote: »
    Please excuse my ignorance of the political system, but what would happen if 166 Independents were elected to the Dáil?

    You'd have 166 kids fighting over who was going to be Batman during role play! :)


  • #8
    Reilly616
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 374 ✭✭Reilly616


    Smartly Dressed wrote: »
    Question answered!

    But if they failed to come to a consensus? Would there be another general election?

    Yeah, basically. I don't know the specifics of what would happen, since it doesn't ever happen here. Take a look at Belgium though. They still haven't fromed a Government, and it's been over 250 days since the general election there!


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