Ethnic minority candidates battle to take tribalism out of Northern Ireland politics

Emma DeSouza talks to migrants who are standing in the upcoming local elections, all hoping to challenge the 'apartheid system' which caters for only two communities in the North
Ethnic minority candidates battle to take tribalism out of Northern Ireland politics

Green party candidate Ange Cruz: 'Things are not set up to help people like us.'

When Northern Ireland’s political institutions were established in 1998, they were tailored to govern a “two community” society. 

However, Northern Ireland is no longer merely two communities, but a plurality of demographics with little resemblance to its social fabric a quarter of a century before. 

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