Marc MacSharry quits Fianna Fil whip ahead of no confidence vote in Coveney

Marc MacSharry has quit the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party ahead of this evening’s confidence motion against Fine Gael minister Simon Coveney.

Mr MacSharry has written to party colleagues criticising how Fianna Fáil is being run and saying he has “no option but to resign the party whip”.

He says he will be voting no confidence in Mr Coveney later this evening.

The Sligo-Leitrim TD, the son of former Fianna Fáil minister Ray MacSharry, has been a long-time critic of Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s leadership of the party.

In his communication to colleagues Marc MacSharry claims that Fianna Fáil’s “positioning and policy are being determined in a fashion consistent with an undemocratic totalitarian regime rather than that of a democratic socialist republican party of and for the people.”

He writes: “I therefore have no option but to resign the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party whip effective immediately and I will be voting no confidence in Minister Coveney this evening.”

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