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Trimble, whose support for the Good Friday peace accord of 1998 has been critical to its partial success, has faced repeated challenges from Ulster Unionist hard-liners led by Jeffrey Donaldson. After a confrontational three-hour debate, Trimble's pragmatic approach to negotiations received 53.4 per cent backing from the party's 850-member grassroots council. Had he lost, Trimble would have faced pressure to resign from a party he has led since 1995 through a series of painful concessions with Catholic leaders. The other 46.6 per cent backed Mr. Donaldson's rival motion, which called for Northern Ireland's largest party to reject joint British-Irish plans for advancing the Good Friday pact. The vote came on a day when rival paramilitary extremists cast fresh shadows over this British territory. Such activities have undermined public support, particularly among Protestants, for a 1998 deal that proposed a Catholic-Protestant administration accompanied by the complete disarmament of outlawed groups. A four-party coalition led by Mr. Trimble and including Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army-linked party, fell apart last October partly because the IRA had ceased disarming and stood accused of a range of truce-violating activities.
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