Mitglied Der Progressive Democrats - Colm O'Gorman, Pat Cox, Mary Harney, Martin Cullen, Pearse Wyse, Ciaran Cannon, Noel Grealish, Bobby Molloy (English, German, Paperback)

Kapitel: Colm O'gorman, Pat Cox, Mary Harney, Martin Cullen, Pearse Wyse, Ciaran Cannon, Noel Grealish, Bobby Molloy, Fiona O'malley, Michael Mcdowell, Terry O'flaherty, Michael Keating, Donal Lyons, Bridie O'flaherty. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Pat Cox (born 28 November 1952) is a former Irish politician and television current affairs presenter. He was President of the European Parliament from 2002 to 2004 and served as a member of the parliament from 1989-2004. He is now the President of the European Movement International. Born in Dublin but raised in Limerick, Cox was educated at Ardscoil Ris in Limerick and Trinity College, Dublin. He first came to prominence as a journalist, then a presenter, with RTE's Today Tonight, a four nights a week current affairs programme which dominated the Irish television schedules in the 1980s. Cox left the programme to become a political candidate. He was elected an MEP in 1989 for the constituency of Munster, representing the Progressive Democrats (PDs). In the 1992 general election he was also elected to Dail Eireann as a Teachta Dala (TD) for Cork South Central. Following Desmond O'Malley's retirement from the party leadership in 1993, Cox stood for election to the post, but was beaten by Mary Harney. Cox became deputy leader. Cox left the PDs in 1994 in a dispute over his seat as an MEP. It was expected that Cox would not contest his seat in the 1994 European Elections, with O'Malley, who had a large Munster base, becoming the party candidate. However Cox almost literally at the last minute chose to contest the seat as an independent, beating O'Malley, the PD candidate. On being elected, he resigned his Dail seat and a by-election was held on 10 November 1994, which was won by Fine Gael. He was elected president of the ELDR group in the European Parliament in 1998 and was unanimously re-elected Group President in June 1999 following the elections to the European Parliame...http: //booksllc.net/?l=d