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Election hopefuls agree voting pact

Thu, Feb 12, 2026

A private meeting of potential election candidates was held in Galway city last week to hammer out a potential voting alliance in May’s Galway West by-election.

Participants have agreed the broad strokes of a formal ‘Vote Left, Transfer Left’ joint strategy, which is currently being fine-tuned before a public announcement in the coming days as the race for the by-election heats up.

Representatives from Sinn Féin, Labour, the Green Party, Social Democrats, and People Before Profit (PBP), and a leftist Independent, attended the meeting last Friday, hosted by Tonn na Clé, the non-party, non-aligned activist network which emerged from the presidential election last autumn.

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