Sinn Féin delegates on Saturday voted to hold a special ardfheis to ratify a successor to Gerry Adams within three months of the party leader’s resignation. To elect a new leader of the party, every Sinn Féin cumann in the country – there are around 360 cumainn – would first have to hold their own debate about which leadership candidate they wanted to support. The next layer of voting delegates would represent the comhairle ceantair, a group encompassing a geographical area and a number of cumainn. Each comhairle ceantair is comprised of three or more cumainn and would send two voting delegates to an ardfheis. There are 12 directly elected members of the Sinn Féin ard chomhairle, the executive council, and they would have one vote each.

Source: The Irish Times November 18, 2017 21:11 UTC