Sentences with phrase «nec election»

Paul Mason, the Corbynista journalist, reacted to the NEC election results by tweeting: «Now let's have mandatory selections of all MP candidates».

But the defeat of Mandelson by Livingstone in last year's NEC election, support for Livingstone for London mayor and black members» use of OMOV to try to select black candidates for inner city parliamentary seats showed that the individual membership can not be totally controlled by the leadership.

Labour's new general secretary isn't, I'm assured by folk in the Unite trade union, a foe to forget or forgive and Lansman badly mishandled the NEC election for the post.

Irrespective of the outcome of this year's NEC elections, the critical tactical challenges for the Labour left are to continue to broaden the alliances in defence of party democracy and to start to prise apart the bloc of the trade union bureaucracy and Mandelson / Blair.

If union members were allowed to determine the orientation of their union in the NEC elections they might well wish to align with the centre - left.

It is not isolated from Labour's individual membership — nearly 40 per cent of whom voted for Socialist Campaign Group candidates in last October's NEC elections and, for the first time since the early 1980s, the middle ground in the party is moving to the left.

As expected, the Momentum slate swept the board again at Labour's NEC elections.

The NEC elections don't represent leadership, look at the Centre right on the NEC Nominations, Akehurst, reeves Wheeler, they backed Ed miliband, was publicly against Iraq, in 2010 ′ the Lefts NEC man Ken Livingstone, voted for Ed balls for leader, who was pro Iraq

Not exact matches

Agora was accredited as an international observer by Sierra Leone's National Electoral Commission (NEC), which provides the official election count.

The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has scheduled the party's Parliamentary election in the North Tongu Constituency of the Volta Region for Sunday December 20, 2015.

The NEC wishes to assure the constituency and party members that all is set for the election on Sunday.

After many postponements for other reasons, the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the NPP, called for a re-run of all elections in the Manhyia North Constituency from the polling station level to the Constituency executive level before the election of a parliamentary aspirant could take place.

According to a statement signed by the General Secretary of the PNC, Bernard Mornah, it is the expectation of NEC that all stakeholders in the process will take keen interest in these decisions and work assiduously to put the party on a sound footing going into Election 2016.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

After the policy forum election debacle, the NEC threat to Dan Jarvis is the second time in as many months that it has changed the rules midway through a contest to nobble a candidate it didn't like.

Last month the party's NEC postponed the election for a new chair of the National Policy Forum, the body that sets Labour policy, at the last minute.

There will, for a start, be a leadership election: the Whips and the NEC will forbid another coronation.

It was the NEC that chose to interpret Labour's constitution favourably for Corbyn when it ruled that, as the incumbent, he automatically qualified as a candidate in the leadership election.

The Election Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA) Mission to Sierra Leone, has advised the National Electoral Commission (NEC) to ensure that eleElection Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA) Mission to Sierra Leone, has advised the National Electoral Commission (NEC) to ensure that electionelection...

Union and CLP votes are important at the party conference, where policies are set, and in elections to the National Executive Committee (NEC).

The National Executive Committee (NEC) of NPP in September 2015 upheld the decision of the Disciplinary Committee to suspend indefinitely the National Chairman, Paul Afoko and the General Secretary, Kwabena Agyapong for working against the party's chances of winning the 2016 elections.

Momentum's founder Jon Lansman tweeted his congratulations to the newly - elected NEC members, while Labour MP Richard Burgon was especially keen to celebrate the election of Wolfson to the NEC.

Liberia's National Elections Commission (NEC) has presented certificate of return to the President - elect, George Weah; Vice President - elect, Jewel Howard - Taylor, and the newly elected members of the House of Representatives.

The National Elections Commission (NEC) said on Thursday that with 98.1 % of the run - off vote counted, Mr Weah had won 61.5 % of the vote while Mr Boakai was far behind with 38.5 %.

Citi News has gathered that, the final report, which will be presented to the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting tomorrow [Tuesday], suggested among other things a new direction for the NDC on the election of executives and a flagbearer.

Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) is a 33 - person body that internally presides over the implementation of the party's rules, including for Leadership elections.

NEW: Labour membership surge continues, reaching 575,474 members, up from 552,000 after election, according to NEC source.

Since the 2015 general election the situation has been transformed — the high turnout and shift to the left within this month's membership votes for the NEC plainly show that.

Preparations for a coup have moved forward this year within Labour's NEC, with Steve Rotheram's removal, the election of a right wing youth representative and Ken Livingstone's suspension.

«What Mr Taylor is saying is at variance with the branch election guidelines released by the party's highest body — National Executive Council (NEC),» an outraged Mr Amegbor said.

Naive Political immaturity in Parliamentary Labour Party in knocking Dennis Skinner off NEC in election year

Tomorrow's NEC meeting will rule on whether the Labour leader will need to get nominations from 51 MPs so he can stand in the leadership election, or whether he goes on the ballot automatically.

Labour's national executive committee will meet for the first time since the election in the next fortnight and one source close to the NEC said they believed Lavery's comments would be a controversial topic of discussion — particularly on narrowing the spectrum of political views in the party.

In the 2016 Assembly elections, eight members of the party ran for election under the name of the Northern Ireland Labour Representation Committee, as the Labour Party NEC had refused to allow candidates to stand as official Labour Party candidates.

Tagged: General Election 2015 · Labour manifesto · NEC · Parliamentary Selections · Trident

Changing the political makeup of Labour's representatives in parliament is a key aim of Corbyn's project to reshape his party; and the battle for the future of Labour has intensified this week after a clean sweep by leftwing candidates, including Momentum's Jon Lansman, in the latest round of elections to the party's ruling national executive committee (NEC).

The National Electoral Commission (NEC) of Tanzania handed President John Magufuli a cheque of surplus money from its budget of the elections of November 2015, worth over 5 million dollars.

For instance, during the recent Presidential election in Liberia, the country's National Electoral Commission (NEC), through the United Nations, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC), which I currently chair, requested the services of INEC staff to sort out issues with their register.

Labour's NEC is expected to meet on Tuesday to discuss a proposal from Tom Watson to reintroduce Shadow Cabinet elections, but where only the PLP will -LSB-...]

Labour's NEC is expected to meet on Tuesday to discuss a proposal from Tom Watson to reintroduce Shadow Cabinet elections, but where only the PLP will be entitled to a vote.

It has been suggested that one of the reasons you were removed by the NEC as the Labour candidate is because you refused to back Rushanara Ali, Labour's parliamentary candidate in Bethnal Green and Bow at the general election in May?

Tagged: General Election 2015 · Labour manifesto · London Mayoral selection · NEC · Parliamentary Selections

A more significant reshuffle will take place tomorrow than last Monday's troubled effort by the prime minister, when the election results are announced for three new party member posts on Labour's ruling national executive committee (NEC).

A NEC Member of NLC, Comrade Issa Aremu has lauded the judgment of the Federal High Court in Abuja which on Wednesday 25 April 2018 reaffirms the right of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to make rules guiding the election timetable.

The National Elections Commission (NEC) of Liberia has declared political campaigns open for the Nov. 7 run - off presidential election.

1.2 «EGM» means an Extraordinary General Meeting 1.3 «NEC» means the National Executive Committee 1.4 «Rules» means Rules made by the NEC under this Constitution 1.5 Where the context so implies, the singular shall include the plural 1.6 Headings shall not form part of the meanings of Articles 1.7 «Branch» means a branch or constituency association 1.8 PPERA means the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 PART II NAME AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PARTY Name 2.1 The Party exists as a Political Party registered with the UK Electoral Commission under the PPERA.

The election result meant that Corbynites now also have a cast - iron majority on Labour's NEC.

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) had recently held a crucial National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting which saw firebrands of the party deliberate on the best ways to capture power in the 2020 elections.

This observation and assertion is grounded on the clear understanding and full knowledge of the Traditional NDC Members and even the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the NDC, that the Parliamentary Primaries which was held on the 22nd November, 2015 to elect a candidate was fraught and marred with violence, intimidations, fraud and false accusations spearheaded by Sam George, one of the candidates, for which reason the result of that elections could not be said or taken to represent the Will and aspirations of the majority of the NDC membership in the constituency and the country at large.

The election has been largely violence - free and the National Elections Commission expected the same on voting day, NEC spokesman Henry Flomo told AFP.