Geraldine Dougan
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Geraldine Dougan was elected in 2003
Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2003
The second elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, which at the time of the elections had been suspended for just over a year, were held on Wednesday 26 November 2003. Six members were elected by Single Transferable Vote from each of Northern Ireland's eighteen Westminster Parliamentary...

 as a Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin
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 Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
Northern Ireland Assembly
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 (MLA) for Mid Ulster
Mid Ulster (Assembly constituency)
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Background

Dougan is a long time resident of Maghera, is also a campaigner for pre-school education provision and an avid GAA supporter.

She is a mother of 5 children and the sister-in-law of the late former Irish National Liberation Army
Irish National Liberation Army
The Irish National Liberation Army or INLA is an Irish republican socialist paramilitary group that was formed on 8 December 1974. Its goal is to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and create a socialist united Ireland....

 leader, Dominic McGlinchey
Dominic McGlinchey
Dominic McGlinchey from Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland was an Irish republican paramilitary with the Irish National Liberation Army .-Background:...

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Political career

On 1 January 2007, she announced that she would not be seeking re-selection for the 2007 Assembly election
Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007
The third elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly were held on 7 March 2007 when 108 new members were elected. The election saw endorsement of the St Andrews Agreement and the two largest parties, the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin, along with the Alliance Party, increase their...

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In a statement on 4 January 2007, she said: "I have decided not to put my name forward for re-selection due to both personal reasons and concerns I have over the direction Sinn Féin is taking on the policing issue," she said.

"It has been reported that I remain a member of Sinn Féin. "While this is true at present, if a special ard fheis mandates Sinn Féin to support policing and the judiciary while still under British control in any shape or form, membership of that party would be untenable for me as an Irish republican."

She announced that she had resigned from Sinn Féin and became an Independent
Independent (politician)
In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...

MLA effective on 15 January 2007. She did not stand at the 2007 assembly election.

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