Fianna Fáil leadership election, 2008
- Fianna Fáil leadership election, 2008
The 2008 Fianna Fáil leadership election began on 2 April 2008, when party leader and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern announced his resignation. Brian Cowen, the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance was the clear favourite to succeed him. [cite web
url=http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/behind-the-smugness-is-a-clueless-brian-cowen-1275197.html
title=Behind the smugness is a clueless Brian Cowen
publisher=Irish Independent
date=2008-01-27
accessdate=2008-04-02] [cite web
url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/cowen-feels-positive-about-the-soul-of-the-country-88294.html
title=Cowen feels 'positive about the soul of the country'
publisher=Irish Independent
date=2006-07-17
accessdate=2008-04-02]
Candidates
tanding
*Brian Cowen – Tánaiste and Minister for Finance
Declined to stand
*Dermot Ahern [cite web
url=http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2006/01/29/story11361.asp
title=The other Dermot Ahern
publisher=The Sunday Business Post
date=2006-01-29
accessdate=2008-04-02] – Minister for Foreign Affairs
*Mary Hanafin – Minister for Education and Science
*Brian Lenihan – Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform
Outcome
On 2 April Mary Hanafin declined to comment on whether she would be standing for the leadership and Brian Lenihan had ruled himself out of the race. [cite web
url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0402/ahernbreax1.html
title=No Hanafin comment on FF leadership
publisher=RTÉ News
date=2008-04-02
accessdate=2008-04-02] By 4 April all of the Fianna Fáil cabinet ministers had declared their support for the candidacy of Brian Cowen. No other candidate emerged, and Cowen was elected unopposed as the seventh leader of Fianna Fáil on 9 April 2008. [cite web
url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0409/fiannafail.html
title=FF elects Brian Cowen as leader
publisher=RTÉ News
date=2008-04-09
accessdate=2008-04-09]
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