Thomas Pringle has said he will remain firmly in the independent camp, having rejected party politics nearly a decade ago.
Pringle joined Sinn Féin for three years in the mid-2000s, but left the party, citing internal matters and the suggestion that Sinn Féin was looking to negotiate with Fianna Fáil before the 2007 general election.
“I always say that I don’t regret joining Sinn Féín, but I don’t regret leaving Sinn Féin either. I think it was a very good learning experience. It reaffirmed for me that a political party system is not the way to develop politics in the country,” he said.
Many political observers in Donegal believed the party targeted Pringle in the last general election by running three candidates in a bid to deny him a seat:
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