The ‘other’ leadership ‘race’ is over, and Ciarán Cannon has been elected by a very slim margin as the next leader of the Progressive Democrats.
Maybe this shouldn’t come as a surprise to me, or anyone, but it does. Mostly I feel bad for Fiona O’Malley - though some might argue we should all feel worse for poor Ciarán who has, to say the least, a tough time ahead of him.
It speaks volumes that this isn’t even the top story on the news today. I know the PDs could never truly be compared to FF in terms of ’significance’, if only for mathematical reasons, but considering the whitewash of all media outlets last week over a leader who didn’t even need to be ‘elected’ and who won’t take over (officially at least) for another few weeks, it’s fairly impressive that they just can’t get the air time.
It will be interesting to see what plans Cannon has to bring the PDs back to life.
Possibly time to try the tactics of one Victor Frankenstein.
