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The Windsor Framework

The Briefing Room

CHAPTER

Northern Ireland - Is This a Belfast Veto?

This is using a procedure that already exists in Northern Ireland called the petitions of concern. So you need 30 MLAs from two parties, so it's designed to allow cross-community consent. But on current numbers, neither Sinn Féin nor the DUP have quite enough MLAs to reach the 30 threshold. Joe: While this is something which I think is probably never going to be used successfully, it's not actually going to really work.

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