The North's political parties today enter the final 48-hour phase of their Assembly election campaigns with an all-out effort to rally their supporters.
Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble, who is engaged in a fierce battlewith the Democratic Unionists, is to make a keynote speech in southBelfast.
Mr Trimble's party has been accused by its rivals in the DUP of having failedits supporters in negotiations with the Irish and British governments and SinnFein.
The Ulster Unionists, however, have accused the DUP of perpetrating acon-trick on the electorate during the campaign by recycling old ideas aboutalternatives to the current power-sharing arrangements.
The Rev Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionists are expected to concentrate onseveral key constituencies in the run-up to Wednesday's poll.
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams and SDLP leader Mark Durkan are also planningevents as their parties continued to fight it out to become the largestnationalist party in Northern Ireland.
Mr Durkan is due to continue his party's campaign urging voters to stop theDUP by supporting his candidates in five key constituencies.
Mr Adams is planning a campaign press conference along with other seniorleadership figures.
The leader of the cross community Alliance Party David Ford is due to takepart in a question and answer session in Belfast.
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