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The meeting to ratify Jeffrey Donaldson as the new DUP leader is underway in Belfast.
The 130-strong meeting of MPs, Assembly members (MLAs), peers and representatives of the DUP’s constituency associations is the final stage in the appointment of Mr Donaldson as party leader.
Arriving at the meeting, the outgoing DUP leader Edwin Poots was asked by the media if he was backing Mr Donaldson, and replied, “absolutely.”
Mr Donaldson’s selection had already been rubber-stamped at a meeting of the party’s electoral college on Saturday, when his leadership was approved by 34 out of 38 MPs and MLAs .
Speaking after that vote, he said his priority would be to “right the wrong” of the Northern Ireland protocol and said the Government should stop “cheerleading” for the protocol.
He also vowed to reunite his party after a “difficult and bruising period” for the DUP, saying his endorsement was an “important first step in building the unity of my party, in rebuilding the strength of my party, in providing the leadership that Northern Ireland needs at that this time ... we are seeing our party coming back together again.”
Mr Donaldson – who is the MP for Lagan Valley – has made clear he intends to return from Westminster to take up the role of First Minister, but it is not clear how or when this will happen.
He said on Saturday that Paul Givan remained in office “for the time being” and that after the party’s AGM – which also took place on Wednesday night – he would consider this and other decisions in conjunction with the party’s officers.
The North Belfast MLA Paula Bradley remains the DUP’s deputy leader.
Mr Donaldson was declared leader-designate earlier this month after he was the sole candidate to put his name forward for the position following the resignation of Edwin Poots only three weeks after his ratification.
Mr Poots stepped down following an internal party revolt over his decision to push ahead and nominate his close ally Mr Givan as the North’s First Minister against the wishes of a majority of MLAs and MPs, who wanted a delay amid anger over a UK government pledge to go over the heads of the North’s Assembly and introduce Irish language legislation at Westminster.
Mr Poots was the narrow winner over Mr Donaldson in the leadership contest triggered by the resignation of Arlene Foster, who quit as DUP leader at the end of April after more than 75 per cent of MPs and MLAs signed a letter of no confidence in her leadership.