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Mon 12 Dec 2008Reform package will boost leader's power
PARTY REFORM:THE LABOUR Party must significantly reform its organisation and rules, including its ties to trades unions and its selection of candidates, if it is to compete with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, the party leader, Eamon Gilmore declared.
A commission headed by Greg Sparks is currently drafting proposals that would strengthen the influence of the party leader and the parliamentary party, which are to go before a conference next March.
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