Original sentence: In October 2013, Direct Democracy Ireland split, with a number of members claiming that the five-man "council" responsible for running Direct Democracy Ireland (and which could change the rules as it wished without consulting the membership) was undemocratic.The leadership's alleged links with the Freeman movement and Gilroy's activities in People for Economic Justice were other reasons given for the split
Edited sentence: In October 2013, seven people left Direct Democracy Ireland claiming that the five-man "council" responsible for running Direct Democracy Ireland (and which could change the rules as it wished without consulting the membership) was undemocratic.In an attempt to fix some of the anomalies mentioned above, on 21 December 2013 in an EGM the members of DDI voted to disband the permanent council in favour of an elected Guiding Council where the members can be changed at the AGM.The leadership's alleged links with the Freeman movement and Gilroy's activities in People for Economic Justice were other reasons given for these seven people leaving.The members can then table motions to rectify the situation if needed.The newly formed National Executive now runs DDI on a daily basis.The only function of this Guiding Council is to alert the general membership if it feels the National Executive of the party is taking DDI away from it's core purpose of introducing Direct Democracy to the Irish Constitution