| With 175,000 votes, the party has edged ahead of the SDLP and secured four Westminster seats, despite its unchanged policy of abstentionism. |
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| Nationally, he worries that a drop in support, in addition to increased abstentionism, will pull the party under 5percentt. |
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| It was not until 1986 that the party abandoned abstentionism and declared itself ready to take seats in the Dail. |
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| He was integral in influencing Sinn Fein's decision to drop Dail abstentionism in 1986 and argued strongly that democratic politics would strengthen the republican cause. |
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| There are 80 percent abstentionism often in elections, and elections that, indeed, lack transparency. |
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| In 1967 the Garland Commission was set up to investigate the possibility of ending abstentionism. |
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| Still, some public-opinion polls suggest that abstentionism might not be as high as some analysts anticipate. |
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| In 1986 he threw his weight behind the Adams-McGuinness leadership and their proposal to end abstentionism in the Irish Republic. |
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| The SDLP initially rejected the Nationalist Party's policy of abstentionism and sought to fight for civil rights within the Stormont system. |
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| But he would not move on parliamentary abstentionism. |
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| High levels of abstentionism were noted in their principal area of influence, the Lacandon Jungle, where in the midst of general calm, considerably less than half the electorate voted. |
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| What point can there be to incite citizens to vote and to fight against abstentionism when a greater power can impose, change and cancel laws passed by their political representatives. |
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| Strengthening relations between elected representatives and the citizens they represent can help to counter the undesirable consequences of modern democracy, such as abstentionism, populism or even the rise of extremism. |
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| The strike in the collieries was part of a larger wave of workplace action against the abstentionism of union leaderships and part of a longer trajectory of militant action. |
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