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Thomas Pringle (born August 1967) is an Irish left-wing independent politician.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mr. Thomas Pringle )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Family dynasties held hostage to ruined political fortunes of Fianna Fáil )〕 He was elected as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Donegal South–West constituency at the 2011 general election. ==Biography== Pringle was born into a Republican family. His father Peter was a supporter of the Irish Republican Socialist Party. He is a patron of the People's Movement〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Patrons of the Peoples Movement )〕 which campaigned against the Lisbon Treaty. Pringle was previously a member of Donegal County Council having been elected as an independent councillor in 1999 and then as a Sinn Féin candidate in 2004. He left Sinn Féin in 2007 and retained his seat as an independent in 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Thomas Pringle )〕 He was elected as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Donegal South–West constituency at the 2011 general election, unseating the incumbent Tánaiste Mary Coughlan. On 5 December 2011, Pringle delivered a televised address to the nation, representing the technical group of TDs in Dáil Éireann. He did so in response to Taoiseach Enda Kenny's Address to the nation of the previous evening. Later that month Pringle called on people for support in a campaign not to pay a new household charge brought in as part of the latest austerity budget, and announced that he would not register for the tax or pay it. In February 2012 he published his expenses online. He was elected leader of the Technical group in Dáil Éireann in March 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pringle takes top Dail post )〕 In May 2012 Pringle brought an unsuccessful High Court challenge over the 2012 European Fiscal Compact referendum. and the ESM Treaty which was appealed to the Supreme Court in July 2012. In July 2012 the Irish Supreme Court decided to refer three questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union arising out of his challenge to the European Stability Mechanism Treaty and doubts about the legality under the European treaties of the ESM. The CJEU held an oral hearing on the referral on 23 October 2012. The full court of 27 members sat in an historic sitting, it was the first time that the full court sat to hear a reference from a member state of the union and heard oral arguments from counsel for Pringle, Ireland, nine member states, the commission, the council and the European Parliament. On 27 November 2012 the EU Court of Justice dismissed all arguments of Thomas Pringle. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Pringle (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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