Sentences with phrase «european elections candidate»

There was also some unhappiness that Saj Karim MEP, a recent defector from the LibDems, was «toplisted» as a Conservative European elections candidate without grassroots members being given a say.

«I will consider invitations to campaign, but some of our European election candidates may feel as I do that I would not be the most persuasive of advocates on some of their campaigning issues.»

Not exact matches

European markets closed higher on Thursday after the defeat of the populist anti-European Union candidate Geert Wilders in the Dutch election.

«My ambition is to lead Ukip into the European elections next year as a candidate, which I could not have done if I'd have chosen to stand in the House of Commons, and I believe in those elections next year we can cause an earthquake in British politics,» Farage said.

All candidates must accept and recognize the results of the elections held on 10 October, which the European Union, the Carter Center, and the National Democratic Institute endorsed as free, fair, and legitimate.

There was only one week when the candidates for the EP elections hotly debated the same «European» issue: it was after Conchita Wurst won the Eurovision Song Contest.

Some have argued that this procedure is not what is written in the treaties, and that the European Council has simply to take into account the results of the European Elections, and not necessarily appoint the winning candidate.

The Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists, which is likely to gain significantly in the upcoming elections, declared in February that it would not field a candidate for the post.

With 61 people either endorsed by parties or running as independents, this is the [highest number of candidates] since Cyprus first participated in European elections in 2004.

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

He gained 2.01 % of the vote as the lead candidate for the Eastern region in the 2009 European elections.

In fact, the only sign of any dynamism in the political scene are the number of different parties, groups and independent candidates taking part in the European Parliament election.

In 2009 UKIP came second in the European elections held on the same day as in local elections, but they only fielded candidates in a quarter of seats where the three main parties also stood.

Most contenders for the European elections in Slovenia waited until the very last moment to submit their candidate lists to the electoral commission.

The move follows hugely embarrassing revelations about the publicly stated views of a host of Ukip European and local election candidates.

Moreover, analysis of voting behaviour during the 2014 European election shows that 21 per cent of Green voters had supported Liberal Democrat candidates in the 2010 general election; 18 per cent had voted Labour; and a further 18 per cent had have voted Green.

The English Democrats stood candidates for the 2004 European Parliament election in five of the nine regions of England.

Indications that proportional representation and centralised ranking of candidates for the European Parliament elections are going to be used to purge Euro - MPs and abolish the right of party members to choose candidates give a flavour of what is posed by the Electoral Reform Commission's remit to look at the introduction of PR for Westminster.

Competition between two presidential candidates may also influence voting in the European elections.

Juncker spent the months since the European elections in May 2014 negotiating with national governments, political parties, and candidates until in September the Brussels rumour - mill ground to a halt with the announcement of the proposed Juncker Commission.

[13] This included running joint Conservative / UUP candidates for the 2009 European and 2010 general elections.

Adrian Kavanagh, 25th September 2014 Now that the new European Election constituency boundaries have been decided on, in this post, I will be detailing the names of the candidates for next year's European Elections contests, by constituency.

The intention is that the # 40m (which would be in addition to the # 8m already provided to political parties) would be financed by ending the free election post for general and european elections, and instead circulating a booklet including statements from each candidate (as happened in the last London Mayoral election).

Labour's top candidate for Scotland is David Martin, who has been an MEP since 1984, when he represented Lothians (prior to the introduction of the reformed electoral system for European elections in 1999).

Carl Thomson is a commentator on Russian and East European affairs and was the Conservative Party candidate for Glasgow East at the 2005 General Election.

Merely presenting candidates to European elections and doing the bare minimum to get your salary is not «actively fighting» anything.

We all know that every year the European Court of Auditors fails to sign off (or as they say «give a positive statement of assurance on») the accounts of the European Commission and one question every candidate for the European elections next year will be asked is «what are you going to do to stop all the fraud, waste and maladministration, so that the accounts get signed off?»

Rupert Matthews is third on the list of candidates for the East Midlands at June's European Parliament election.

Do you think EVERY Tory member in your region should be able to rank ALL MEP candidates at the next European elections?

Alec Dauncey, Welsh Liberal Democrat European candidate, has welcomed the adoption of a report into improving the organisation of the 2014 European elections.

Carolyn Abbott Candidate in Sheffield Heeley in 2001 and Barnsley East & Mexborough in 2005 (as well as the 2004 European Elections), Carolyn had a baby earlier in the Parliament when most of the seats were selecting candidates.

As such, the slate of candidates he intends running for the European elections and future elections will all be Independents with no manifesto and no policies apart from a belief in «our principles of good governance».

The party vote share at the local elections was notably higher than the 7.4 % vote share won by their Dublin candidate, Emer Costello, at the European elections, as shown by Figure 2.

Mistrusted in Britain — nice but dim IDS has sounded off again — Juncker is the candidate of the European People's Party (EPP), the main conservative bloc which won the most seats in May's European elections, despite the widespread Eurosceptic surge.

RT @bueti: EGP Council votes with about 2/3 majority to have 2 leading candidates (Spitzenkandidaten) for European election 2019.

The incident happened as Mr Farage arrived in Nottingham to rally support for his East Midlands candidates for the European elections.

In a country where there has never been a great deal of difference between parties or voters on European issues, the big question of this first distinct European election is the fate of Juncker, who has been chosen by the European People's Party as its candidate for the presidency of the European Commission — he is not a candidate for the European Parliament election.

Officially, no candidate is allowed to begin campaigning until after the European elections on 10 June.

Until 2009 all party heavyweights stood in both elections to ensure a good result for their European list (in Luxembourg voters can cast a vote for a party, one or several candidates on the same or on different lists, what is termed inter-party panachage).

RT @TerryReintke: The @europeangreens are going to have TWO leading candidates for the European elections in 2019.

This, alongside his pro-European attitude, led him to participate in the 2004 European elections on the German side, where he became the highest male candidate on the list and was elected again.

The contents page told me this would be full of commentary on a broad range of topics I wanted to read about: the psephology of the last two General Elections, the financial crisis, the legacy of Thatcherism, being a campaigner in the London Mayoral Election and a candidate in the European Elections.

He is the outgoing Chair of the board of the CCS Comparative Candidate Survey; was a member of the Steering Committee of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network in Electoral Democracy; and is Chair of the Board of the European Election Study Association.

It should have agreed on an experienced interim leader who commands general confidence to take the party past the Scottish elections and the European referendum and into 2017, while preparing Labour — and its electoral system — for a proper contest between its next generation of leadership candidates in time for 2020.

[3] Citizens also have the right to vote in and run as a candidate in local elections in the country where they live, European elections and European Citizens» Initiative.

After a Ukip candidate won a European election last month, first minister Alex Salmond said the corporation had «beamed» the party into power with its coverage.

Yesterday, the results were announced of the ballot ranking candidates for next year's European elections (ConHome was, of course, first to the news and the full lists were published here).

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

Following Scotland's selections last week, the North West and London have now carried out the first stage of selecting candidates for next year's European elections.

There are plans to strengthen the European political parties [14] in order for them to propose candidates for the 2009 election.