Former Independent MEP, Ms Dana Rosemary Scallon's bid for a presidential election nomination to challenge the President, Mrs McAleese, appears set to end in failure today.
Eleven local authorities, including Cork City Council and Cork County Council, are holding their monthly meetings today, but there is no indication from any of them that they are likely to give her a nomination.
Refusing to identify the councils, or councillors currently being targeted, her brother, Mr John Brown, said they did not intend to "make the same mistake as last week".
"We said who we were talking to last week and then we found that people were put under great pressure," he told The Irish Times.
The local authorities scheduled to meet today are: Cork City Council; Cork County Council; Donegal County Council, Galway City Council; Galway County Council; Kildare County Council; Laois County Council; Limerick City Council; Limerick County Council; Roscommon County Council and Westmeath County Council.
Two motions are due to go before Kildare County Council, sponsored by an Independent councillor, Mr Tony McEvoy, and Fianna Fáil's Mr Liam Doyle, but the majority of their colleagues have already made clear that they will oppose them.
Yesterday, Ms Scallon clearly pinned her last hopes on a rebellion by Fine Gael councillors against party leader Mr Enda Kenny who has ordered his councillors not to support her.
Describing herself as "very frustrated", Ms Scallon said: "If the establishment gets away with deciding whether or not the people may vote for president, what next? The establishment deciding there's no need for any more referendums?
"Talking to the councillors, there is really cross-party agreement that there is disenchantment among the public with the political establishment. There is a very strong rising tide of opinion that there should be an election for the presidency. People don't like to be told they can't have an election."
"At council level, politicians are much more open to what the public wants. Councillors realise that in asking for their nomination to run for election, I'm not asking them to endorse me personally. There is a bigger issue - the right of the people, not party leaders in Dublin, to decide who should be president."
Ms Scallon must be nominated by four councils.