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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/greens-call-for-general-election.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Green Party leader John Gormley as the party called for a general election" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-greens-call-for-general-election.jpg" alt="Green Party leader John Gormley as the party called for a general election"/></a></p>
<p>The Irish Government has been thrown into crisis after its junior partner in the ruling coalition, the Green Party, called for a general election.</p>
<p>John Gormley, party leader and environment minister, said he wants a date for the vote to be set some time in the second half of January.</p>
<p>The dramatic call comes less than 24 hours after Irish cabinet ministers agreed to ask the International Monetary Fund and Europe for a multibillion euro bailout &#8211; a plea described as a humiliation for the country.</p>
<p>Mr Gormley said: &#8220;The past week has been a traumatic one for the Irish electorate. People feel misled and betrayed.</p>
<p>&#8220;But we have now reached a point where the Irish people need political certainty to take them beyond the coming two months. So we believe it is time to fix a date for a general election in the second half of January 2011.&#8221;</p>
<p>Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was told about the move and Mr Gormley said he expressed disappointment at the decision.</p>
<p>Mr Gormley said he wants the current coalition Government to achieve three things before going to the public: produce a credible four-year plan to show they can make the Budgets balance by 2014, expected this Wednesday; deliver a Budget for 2011, due on December 7; secure IMF/EU funding respecting vital Irish interests and restoring stability to the euro, expected in several weeks.</p>
<p>Flanked by eight members of the Greens&#8217; parliamentary party, Mr Gormley said communication within Government was a real problem. He said it was a unanimous decision by the party to call for an election.</p>
<p>Later about 50 protesters, some from Sinn Fein, forced their way into a security hut at the front gates of Government Buildings.</p>
<p>Among the demonstrators was one of the party&#8217;s TDs, Aengus O Snodaigh.</p>
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