An FF/FG deal document is next step on long road
He decided Fianna Fáil had to make a move to break the deadlock. The political situation was fraught, the results of the election were inconclusive and the parties were finding it hard to reach agreement. It was 1992, and Albert Reynolds, then Fianna Fáil leader, had been through a very difficult election. Fianna Fáil had lost nine seats and the party had returned to the Dáil with only 68 TDs — the lowest number for Fianna Fáil since 1954.
Though Albert Reynolds won more seats in the 1992 election than Micheál Martin has managed to win in the 2011 and 2016 general elections combined, Albert has been depicted as an electoral disaster.
