page_title: Peadar Tóibín
section_title: Sinn Féin (2004–2018)
hierarchical_section_title: Peadar Tóibín / Career / Sinn Féin (2004–2018)
caption_attribution_description: English: Peadar Tóibín constituency office and the Aontú Irish Unity Centre is located in Market Square in Navan, county Meath's county town. Gaeilge: Tá oifig dháilcheantair Pheadar Tóibín agus an t-Ionad Aontú ar Cearnóg an Mhargaidh san Uaimh, phríomh bhaile na Mhí.
context_page_description: Peadar Tóibín is an Irish Aontú politician who has served as Leader of Aontú since January 2019. He has been a Teachta Dála for the Meath West constituency since 2011. He previously served as Chair of the Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs from 2016 to 2018. In January 2019, he founded a new political party called Aontú.
  He was elected as a Sinn Féin candidate in 2011, but resigned from the party on 15 November 2018.
context_section_description: At the 2004 local elections, he stood unsuccessfully for Navan Town Council, and for the Navan local electoral area of Meath County Council. He was co-opted onto Navan Town Council in November 2007, and held that seat at the 2009 local elections, when he was again unsuccessful in the county council election.
  Tóibín was suspended from the Sinn Féin parliamentary party for six months in July 2013, when he defied the party whip by voting against the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013.
  He called for a 'No' vote in the 2018 Referendum on the Eighth Amendment. He and his party colleague Carol Nolan, who had been suspended from Sinn Féin for voting against policy on the abortion issue, were the only representatives from the party to attend a photocall in Merrion Square in Dublin to publicise the 'No' campaign.
  Tóibín was again suspended from the Sinn Féin parliamentary party for six months in October 2018, when he defied the party whip by voting against the Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Bill 2018.
  On 15 November 2018, Tóibín announced his resignation from Sinn Féin, saying that restrictions imposed on him by the party over his views on abortion had "prevented me from fully representing my constituents".
caption: Peadar Tóibín constituency office in Navan, co. Meath
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