工会领导人警告斯托蒙特改革威胁到宪法平衡, Unionist leaders warn Stormont reforms threatening constitutional balance without cross-community agreement.

前首席部长阿琳·福斯特女男爵在斯托蒙特委员会表示，联合派越来越将斯托蒙特改革视为对宪法平衡的威胁，警告说变革必须获得跨社区共识，以避免破坏信任。 Former First Minister Baroness Arlene Foster told a Stormont committee that unionists increasingly view Stormont reform as a threat to the constitutional balance, warning that changes must have cross-community consensus to avoid undermining trust. 她强调,必须维护《耶稣受难节协定》和《圣安德鲁斯协定》的保障措施,批评像最近一项爱尔兰语言标志倡议那样的单方面行动是分裂的。 She stressed the need to preserve safeguards from the Good Friday and St Andrews Agreements, criticizing unilateral moves like a recent Irish language signage initiative as divisive. Foster和前SDLP第一副部长Mark Durkan都呼吁进行结构改革,包括使第一副部长和第一副部长的作用平等,并由议会选举他们,以加强治理和恢复分享权力的初衷。 Foster and former SDLP deputy first minister Mark Durkan both called for structural reforms, including equalizing the roles of first and deputy first ministers and electing them by the Assembly, to strengthen governance and restore the original intent of power-sharing.