Word: cabineteer
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Northern Ireland's power-sharing cabinet offers hope for future
...first official meeting of Northern Ireland's new power-sharing cabinet last Thursday marked the successful completion of a series of political compromises. The seemingly endless peace process has finally resulted in a new joint government representing both the Protestant majority and Catholic minority of the region, both the unionists who wish to remain linked with Britain and those who had hoped to unite with the Republic of Ireland. This new power-sharing legislature may finally bring peace to an area that has seen 3,300 deaths in the last three decades of violence. We hope it lasts...
...both sides are significant. For years, the Ulster Unionist Party would not consider any alternative to exclusive Protestant rule of Northern Ireland, nor would the IRA relent in its violent pursuit of a united Ireland. Now, the Protestant political parties have accepted Sinn Fein representatives into the new cabinet, as well as closer cooperation between their new government and that of the Republic of Ireland. The Catholic political parties have accepted that a unified Ireland may never become a reality...
...difficulties faced by the peace process are exemplified by the boycott of the cabinet's first meeting by two of its 12 ministers. These two, as members of the hardcore Protestant Democratic Unionist Party, have agreed to serve as ministers of the cabinet, but never want to be in the same room as Sinn Fein's two representative ministers...
...maintain contact with his constituency, Barrios meets with his neighborhood advisory committee and his informal cabinet...