Adams says voters, not DUP, decide who is fit for govt
Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has dismissed comments made by DUP leader Ian Paisley during his speech at a loyalist parade in Co Antrim yesterday.
Dr Paisley told those attending the Independent Orange Lodge march in Portrush that his party would never share power with Sinn Féin, whom he said were not fit to be in partnership with "decent people".
He said republicans would only get into government in the North "over our dead bodies".
Mr Adams has responded by saying Dr Paisley has no right to dictate who can be in government as this is the exclusive right of the voters.
"What makes Sinn Féin fit for government is the same thing which makes Ian Paisley fit for government and that's our mandate," he said.
"I may have a view that other political parties are not fit for government, but I'm not the arbitrator in this.
"It's the voter who decides and that's what unionism has to wake up to."
