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Mon 11 Nov 2009Dodds claims powersharing flawed
POLITICAL SYSTEM:THE CURRENT system of “mandatory coalition” at Stormont will never deliver small, just, effective and efficient government that all of Northern Ireland is “crying out for”, DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds told his party’s annual conference on Saturday.
Mr Dodds said that mandatory coalition – the current preferred term for powersharing with Sinn Féin among many unionists – was fundamentally flawed and that the task ahead for the DUP includes reform of Stormont.
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