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Article: Northern Ireland to elect assembly
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- International Herald Tribune
- Article date:
- November 26, 2003
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Brian Lavery
International Herald Tribune
11-26-2003
Voters in Northern Ireland go to the polls on Wednesday to select their representatives in the province's legislature for the first time since 1998, when the Belfast peace accord established a local government to share power between Protestant and Roman Catholic parties.The result will determine the make-up of the 108-seat Northern Ireland Assembly, the centerpiece of the treaty that effectively brought an end to the 30-year sectarian conflict that claimed more than 3,000 lives.But the Assembly has been suspended since October 2002, when British officials imposed direct rule from London to defuse a crisis over disarming the Irish ...
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