{"id":40212,"date":"2025-09-24T07:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/40212\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T07:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:12:07","slug":"maria-steen-now-just-two-nominations-from-being-able-to-contest-presidential-election-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/40212\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Steen now just two nominations from being able to contest presidential election \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Conservative campaigner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/maria-steen\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/maria-steen\/\">Maria Steen<\/a> is just two nominations away from having enough support to contest the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/presidential-election\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/presidential-election\/\"> presidential election<\/a> after another Senator confirmed he will facilitate her entry into the race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Senator Aubrey McCarthy confirmed on Wednesday morning that he will nominate Ms Steen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">As of Wednesday morning Ms Steen had 18 of the 20 nominations from TDs and Senators she needs to get on the ballot paper, but time is running out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The deadlines for nominations is noon and in reality Ms Steen needs to have the 20 signatures before then in order to have time to lodge papers at the Custom House. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Senator McCarthy said that his nomination should not be interpreted as an endorsement of Ms Steen\u2019s campaign but as a commitment to ensuring an open and democratic election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI don\u2019t know Ms Steen and I have met her for the first time yesterday evening,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThis decision is not an endorsement of her or her campaign, but I believe that candidates deserve the opportunity to make their case to the voters, and the voters deserve the right to decide who is best suited to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conservative campaigner Maria Steen is just two nominations away from having enough support to contest the presidential election&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,14885,43,978,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-40212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-maria-steen","tag-news","tag-presidential-election","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}