{"id":5963,"date":"2024-05-19T14:17:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T13:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/?p=5963"},"modified":"2024-05-19T14:17:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T13:17:29","slug":"opinion-polls-highlight-unfairness-of-exclusion-of-soc-dems-candidates-from-rtes-eu-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/opinion-polls-highlight-unfairness-of-exclusion-of-soc-dems-candidates-from-rtes-eu-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion Polls Highlight Unfairness of Exclusion of Soc Dems Candidates from RTE’s EU Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unfair exclusion of Ireland South candidate Susan Doyle from RT\u00c9 debates puts her at a huge disadvantage to her competitors<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Two opinion polls in the past week have highlighted the unfairness of the exclusion of Social Democrats candidates by RT\u00c9 from their televised European election debates, according to Social Democrats party leader Holly Cairns.<\/p>\n

\u201cA poll detailed in Thursday by the Irish Independent, and a separate Ireland Thinks poll published today by the Sunday Independent, have revealed that our Ireland South candidate Susan Doyle is in contention to win a seat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile every other candidate, who has a chance of winning a seat, will be in RT\u00c9\u2019s televised Ireland South constituency debate, Susan has been excluded. This puts Susan at a huge disadvantage to her competitors.<\/p>\n

\u201cRory Hearne, the Social Democrats candidate in Midlands North West, is also an excellent candidate and deserves an opportunity to outline his case for a seat in the European Parliament in that constituency in RT\u00c9’s imminent televised debate.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2019, when the Social Democrats had just two TDs and ran just one candidate in that year\u2019s European elections, the party qualified for one RT\u00c9 debate. Five years later, the party has tripled our number of TDs, has 22 councillors and is running candidates in all three European constituencies. Despite this, we are still included in just one television debate. This is deeply unfair and does little to reflect the increased mandate the party received in the 2019 local election and general election in 2020.<\/p>\n

“I appreciate that RTE must design qualifying criteria for these debates and that this is a difficult task. However, when the result of those criteria being implemented is a gross unfairness, like Social Democrats\u2019 candidates with credible chances of winning a seat, being excluded from debates, then something is seriously wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn light of the opinion polling published this week \u2013 together with the Social Democrats\u2019 hugely increased mandate in recent years \u2013 RT\u00c9 must reverse this unfair and discriminatory decision.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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