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Tue 05 May 2004Apathy could cost unionists seats, warns candidateUnionist apathy over the European Parliament election could deliver two seats to nationalists in the three-seat Northern Ireland constituency, the Ulster Unionist candidate and outgoing MEP, Mr Jim Nicholson, has stated.Mr Nicholson, when launching the Ulster Unionists' manifesto for Europe in Belfast yesterday, said it was "extremely important" that there be a large unionist turnout for the European poll on June 10th.