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Mon 04 Apr 2007FG-Labour coalition would put prosperityat risk, says McDowellPD manifesto launch:The State's prosperity is not guaranteed and would be put at risk if a government led by Fine Gael and Labour is elected, the Progressive Democrats have claimed.Voters decide not only on who leads a new government, but also on its direction, the party's leader, Michael McDowell said. "We are at a decisive point in the life of our country." His party, he said, had been "founded in the dark days of the 1980s to bring Ireland from bad to good".