2011 Presidential Election
In June 2011, Irish media reported that Cox, who had said he wanted to stand as an independent candidate in 2011's Irish presidential election, was seeking to join Fine Gael to get the party's nomination. Fine Gael's national executive on 16 June 2011 approved his application to join the party's St Luke's branch in Cork. In July 2011, Gay Mitchell won Fine Gael's. Before that, Cox was "pleased" to help prepare Fine Gael's first-100-day strategy after it won the Irish general election, 2011.
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