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A SENIOR Fianna Fáil TD has said that the party needs a new leader.
Among Ó Cuív’s statements, he criticized the direction the party is taking under Taoiseach Micheál Martin and after an opinion poll that saw Fianna Fáil’s support drop to 10%.
He has claimed that there is an “existential” threat to the party in the wake of the Business Post / Red C poll.
He criticized the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic in recent times and blamed Mr. Martin and the government for not being “accepted” by the public.
Ó Cuív told RTÉ Radio One’s Today with Claire Byrne program “I think we need a new leader.”
When asked who he thought it should be, he said, “I have no idea,” but said the party needs a new leadership.
Over the weekend Mr. Ó Cuív responded to the opinion poll by saying on Twitter: “It seems my prediction that there will be two big games but FF [Fianna Fáil] not be one of them, it is coming to pass.
He added: “The threat is existential.
“FF will not survive if we persist in the myth that the decline is simply due to external factors and not to party leadership.”
Today, Ó Cuív said he opposed entering the government with Fine Gael, who, according to him, had “failed the people” since 2011.
He said he had been willing to accept the decision to enter the government: “but you can’t just sit there and watch what was a very, very big party that represents a large swath of people going into terminal decline and not at some point” . Let’s say wait a second, we have to look at everything again, the whole focus of the party. “
Ó Cuív said that the people of Fianna Fáil “in the street” are saying that the leader of Fine Gael, Leo Varadkar, is “overshadowing Micheál Martin.”
He said the party leadership was to blame for allowing an arrangement in which a former Taoiseach became a Tánaiste and will revert to being a Taoiseach before the end of the government.
Ó Cuív said that he does not agree with the policies that Martin has followed.
He was asked who should be the leader of Fianna Fáil.
The Galway Wet TD replied, “I have no idea because I don’t know who is volunteering. I’m not volunteering. But I think we need a new leader. I think we need a change of direction.” . “
He was asked if Dublin Bay South TD Jim O’Callaghan should be the leader.
Mr. Ó Cuív said: “I don’t know which direction Jim O’Callagahn would take.”
He stated that there are “a lot of conversations within the parliamentary party.”
When told that they have only criticized Martin for a long time like Marc MacSharry or John McGuinness or himself speaking on the subject, Ó Cuív said: “Yes, because there is an opinion that dirty clothes should not be washed in public. “
He said such debates had been held in public before, adding: “Even when we debate them in private in the parliamentary party, they all become public. So we might as well do it in public.”
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