Cross-community vote

A cross-community vote or cross-community support is a form of voting used in the Northern Ireland Assembly according to the provisions of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.[1] It requires the support of both main communities in Northern Ireland, in other words majority of unionists and the majority of nationalist members of the Assembly.[2] Among other reasons, it arises when the petition of concern procedure is invoked.

  1. ^ Minority Veto Rights in Power Sharing Systems: Lessons from Macedonia, Northern Ireland and Belgium Archived 2010-02-23 at the Wayback Machine by Shane Kelleher
  2. ^ "Section 4 (5), Northern Ireland Act 1998: Transferred, excepted and reserved matters". legislation.gov.uk. Government of the United Kingdom. 4 October 2016. Archived from the original on 27 November 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2019.