Sentences with phrase «european parliamentary elections»

Despite not relying on an individual right to find that the electoral law falls within the scope of Union law, the Court does find for the first time that Union citizens do enjoy a specific and autonomous right to vote in European Parliamentary elections contained in Article 39 CFR.

The Lisbon Treaty will affect the next European Parliamentary elections to an extent unimagineable at present.

The Liberal Democrats would be «absolutely foolish» to move against Nick Clegg after poor local election results and an expected fall in support in the European parliamentary elections, the party's president, Tim Farron, has said.

The European Parliamentary elections are approaching soon and this time, pirate parties from 17 difference European countries are running.

Westminster's Kremlinologists will be watching Vince Cable with care amid speculation that Nick Clegg could be in trouble if the Lib Dems suffer a major setback in the European parliamentary elections.

Ukip wants us out of the EU, but it can thank European parliamentary elections, with their proportional allocation of seats, for propelling it to prominence.

Johann Lamont said Scottish Labour wanted «to work with Europe» as she launched the party's campaign for the European Parliamentary elections.

[134] Further pressure followed the results of the European parliamentary elections, which were announced on 7 June.

Speaking ahead of the European parliamentary elections on the 22nd of May, Ms. Bennett said the European Union needs to become more democratic and work for the interests of its people rather than big multinational companies.

The news comes after far - right party, the BNP, won two seats in the European parliamentary elections in June.

The Party for Freedom won nine seats in the Dutch House of Representatives in the 2006 general election, came second in the 2009 European parliamentary elections and increased its seat tally in the 2010 general election to 24 — just under one in six.

[18] It is also a «Sister Party» of the United Kingdom Liberal Democrats and contests the South - West England constituency at European Parliamentary elections on a joint ticket with them taking place six on the party list.

We know that PR - as has been shown by the European Parliamentary elections - destroys the constituency link and ensures that individuals depend primarily on the support of party activists to maintain a good ranking on the electoral ladder.

The European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) Order 2013 provides for the designated Returning Officer for each electoral region to be the council official responsible for elections in each of the following Westminster constituencies: Kettering for the East Midlands, Chelmsford for the Eastern region, Lewisham, Deptford for the London region, Sunderland Central for the North East region, Manchester Central for the North West region, Falkirk for Scotland, Southampton, Test for the South East region, Poole for the South West region, Preseli Pembrokeshire for Wales, Birmingham Ladywood for the West Midlands region, Leeds Central for the Yorkshire and Humber region, and Belfast South for the Northern Ireland Region.

The Electoral Commission performed a reallocation in keeping with the same procedures they used to allocate 72 MEPs and an extra Conservative MEP was allocated to the West Midlands constituency based on the 2009 vote and was enshrined in the European Union Act 2011 as an amendment of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002.

One year before the next General Election there'll be European Parliamentary Elections and UKIP have done very well in the last two of these elections.

Officials said: «We estimate that not holding European Parliamentary elections will save British taxpayers at least # 109 million next year.

The poll found that despite the surging popularity of Nigel Farage's party, a quarter (23 %) of likely Ukip voters at the European Parliamentary elections say they are unlikely to vote for the party at the General Election next year.

Some German youths are looking to British Eurosceptic leader Nigel Farage for inspiration in the lead - up to the European parliamentary elections on 25 May.

Party launches biggest ever publicity drive with anti-immigration posters ahead of European parliamentary elections

82 % of likely UKIP voters at the European Parliamentary elections think Ukip is more honest than other political parties.

But the consensus around European issues in general tends to reduce the temperature of debate on the Belgian political landscape — and the fact that, for the first time, federal, regional and European elections will be contested on the same day makes the European parliamentary elections less visible to most people.

Korwin - Mikke, whose party has two remaining MEPs and received 7.5 % support in Poland during May's European parliamentary elections, is one of the most outspoken figures within the far - right groupings of parliament.

UKIP did not fight the seat in that election but the party soundly trounced the Tories in the European Parliamentary elections this year.

Tories say the atmosphere in the parliamentary party has changed over the past week after a consensus had been formed around Easter that the prime minister was secure at least until next year's European parliamentary elections, which Ukip is expected to win.

It is also a «sister party» of the Liberal Party of Gibraltar and contests the South - West England constituency at European Parliamentary elections on a joint ticket with them taking place six on the party list.

• Elections to be held on a regional basis, using partial open lists, in a similar electoral system as for European parliamentary elections.

Ministers had thought a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights would force them to give prisoners the vote only in Westminster or European parliamentary elections.

Perhaps the first indication that the Greens are quietly gaining votes from the Liberal Democrats was demonstrated in the European Parliamentary elections in May when the Greens returned three MEP's in comparison to the Liberal Democrats one to the European Parliament.

Interest in this year's European Parliamentary elections has been growing steadily: citizens» groups and political organisations started organising election panels and public debates by January — several...

The first serious attempt to change course came in May 2014, after Labour's poor performance in the European parliamentary elections.

The European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999 moved european elections in Great Britain from first past the post to a closed list, non-preferential PR system.

He would like to thank the directors of the British Election Study for making Wave 3 of the pre-election panel survey data available and the directors of the European Parliamentary Election Study 2014 (ZA5160) for making the data cited in this article available

«It is dramatically better than going to single transferable vote or the terrible system we have for the European parliamentary election... where people can't say we don't like a particular candidate and we'll stop them getting elected.»

Not exact matches

Prime Minister Theresa May, weakened after losing her parliamentary majority in a June election, loses a loyalist at a time when she is trying to break a deadlock in talks to leave the European Union.

The Conservative leader called the snap election to strengthen her parliamentary presence ahead of tough negotiations to take the country out of the European Union.

The 2014 European elections will be remembered as those that transformed the EU into a sort of Parliamentary democracy by indirectly electing the president of the European Commission, or as those that ditched the whole process and lead instead to the first «coup d'état» operated by the European Council against the European Parliament and the voters.

He has stood as a candidate for the English Democrats in local, parliamentary and European elections.

In the wake of the elections, despite doing well in London in the council elections and gaining seven seats in the European parliamentary...

I also hope some are joining the Greens to empower them and give them a greater say and influence in more proportional elections like the European Parliamentary ones.

In June 2016 following the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, in which 51.9 % of those voting voted in favour of leaving the European Union, Tim Farron stated that if Liberal Democrats were to be elected in the next parliamentary election, they would not follow through with triggering Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union and leaving the EU («Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements») but would instead keep UK part of the EU.

Although European elections will not change the national political landscape, where Labour enjoys a nine - seat parliamentary majority (out of 69), national issues predominate.

As one of the highest - profile countries in its adoption of the internet, Estonia intends to use the e-voting system for its European elections in May, and already uses it for national parliamentary and municipal elections.

According to the European Parliamentary Research Service, at the last EU elections in 2009 just 43 per cent cast their ballot — ranging from 90 per cent in Luxembourg, where voting is compulsory, to a tiny 19 per cent in Slovakia and 34 per cent in the UK.

Over the next few years we are again faced with a busy timetable of elections, including to local councils and the European Parliament in 2014, and the UK Parliamentary General Election in 2015.

A quirk of party rules means that if you are standing in the European elections, you can not also become a Prospective Parliamentary Candidate.

In the European elections, the SGP formed one parliamentary party with the Christian Union, called Christian Union - SGP.

Europarties have the exclusive right to campaign for the European elections; their parliamentary groups are strictly forbidden to campaign and to spend funds on any campaign - related activity.

However, the comparison with the US voter turnout is hampered due to the fact that the US President is elected in separate and direct elections (presidential system), whereas the President of the European Commission is only approved by the European Parliament (parliamentary system), giving the European Parliament elections considerable weight.

Thus, a party that has never won more than 13 % of the vote in a general election and currently holds just one parliamentary seat was able to shape the national and European political agenda.