Artist Jim Fitzpatrick Joins Vincent Salafia @ Dáil Today To Protest Election Crisis

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Thursday September 23, 2004 15:07 by Salafists for Salafia

The Politicians Have Voted
There Will Be No Democracy

Artist Jim Fitzpatrick Joins Vincent Salafia @ Dáil Today To Protest Election Crisis

Artist Jim Fitzpatrick's famous portrait of Che Guevara

PRESS RELEASE

SAVE TARA SKRYNE VALLEY GROUP

23 September 2004

‘Artist Jim Fitzpatrick Joins Vincent Salafia Outside Dail Today To
Protest Presidential Election Crisis’

Artist Jim Fitzpatrick, famous for his portrait of Che Guevara, will
join Vincent Salafia between 4.00 and 6.00 PM outside the Dail today to
protest the denial of a Presidential election. Members of the public
are being invited to join them in demanding that there be an election.

Mr. Fitzpatrick has put his full support behind Mr. Salafia as a
candidate for Presidential election, and has joined the campaign to
prevent the M3 motorway passing through the Tara Skryne Valley. Mr.
Salafia is running on a heritage protection ticket.

Another artist to endorse the Tara campaign is Irish-born actor Stuart
Townsend, who is engaged to academy award winner Charlize Theron,
though he has yet to be contacted regarding the Presidential election.

Speaking yesterday on the matter Mr. Fitzpatrick said:

“I like President MacAleese, and I support Dana’s right to contest the
election, but I will be giving Mr. Salafia my vote.”

“It is a tragedy for democracy in Ireland that the political parties
have conspired to prevent an election.”

Mr. Salafia will be taking further legal advice today on the
constitutionality of the actions of the main political parties in
relation to the election.

He said:

“The constitution guarantees that there be a Presidential election, and
guarantees everybody the right to vote in it. Now we have a Fianna
Fail President, whose job is the guardian of the constitution, making a
deal with Fine Gael in order to prevent an election and running as an
Independent. No matter how nice she is, she simply does not have that
right.”

“How much does democracy cost in Ireland? How much in Iraq?”

ENDS

Vincent Salafia 087-132-3365