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SENATOR David Norris has said he is determined to continue his campaign to be nominated for the Presidential election.
However, this weekend’s mass exodus of many key members of his campaign staff and revelations that he sought clemency for his former partner after Ezra Nawi Yizhak was convicted of statutory rape have left his bid on shaky ground.
This evening, only five of the 15 Oireachtas members who had pledged their support for Norris’s presidential bid have confirmed they are still on board. These are:
These other nine (Norris, as a senator, can also nominate himself) have either not yet decided or have not been contactable on the issue of their support for the Norris presidential bid:
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