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Abstentionism

Abstentionism meaning

A policy of abstaining or of the desirability of withholding one's vote or other participation with regard to some aspect of the political process.

Example sentences (5)

Abstentionism gave the movement legitimacy, the right to wage war, to speak for a Republic all but established in the hearts of the people".

At the 1983 Ard Fheis the constitution was amended to remove the ban on the discussion of abstentionism to allow Sinn Féin to run a candidate in the forthcoming European elections.

During this time, de Valera came to believe that abstentionism was not a workable tactic in the long term. He now believed that a better course would be to try to gain power and turn the Free State from a constitutional monarchy into a republic.

Sinn Féin has a policy of abstentionism and so its MPs refuse to take their seats in Parliament.

This calculation excludes the Speaker, Deputy Speakers (two Labour and one Conservative) and Sinn Féin (who follow a policy of abstentionism ).