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The schisms underscore the growing fragility of the nascent coalition in the waning days of its founder.

A virtual "coalition of the willing" meeting will take place on Tuesday to discuss developments, he added.

However, Dodds told the BBC's The View programme: "We operate in a mandatory coalition in Northern Ireland, that means we have parties with differing views on many subjects."

The DOJ said those seats were “coalition districts,” in which two or more minority groups add up to a majority.

The professor has in mind, among other things, Mr. Sanchez’s willingness to form a coalition government with Communists and Basque and Catalan separatists.