SDLP proposes changes to Speaker election process as Stormont impasse continues

The SDLP is proposing changes to process of electing a Speaker in an attempt to unblock the Stormont impasse.

It hopes to end the one-party veto that has, as it says, “frustrated the democratic wishes of the people of Northern Ireland.”

The North has been without a government since last May’s election, when the DUP refused to re-enter power-sharing because of the Brexit protocol.

The SDLP Assembly Leader is Matthew O’Toole…………

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