Sentences with phrase «national assembly elections»

A controversial new Section 25 introduced into the Act changed the sequence of elections by making the National Assembly elections to come first, followed by the governorship and state House of Assembly elections, while the presidential poll will now come last.

He was also national campaign co-ordinator for Dafydd Wigley, in the run - up to the 1999 National Assembly elections, at which time Wigley was President of Plaid Cymru.

Kirsty Williams has today underlined that it is only by voting Welsh Liberal Democrat will people be able to stop UKIP gaining seats in the National Assembly elections.

The Presidential and National Assembly elections will hold on Saturday 16th February 2019 while Governorship, State Assembly and Area Council elections in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) will hold two weeks later on Saturday 2nd March 2019.

To be sure, the presidential and national assembly elections will hold on February 14, 2015 while those of governors and state assemblies have been scheduled for February 28.

The National Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal hearing petitions from Rivers State but sitting in Apo, Abuja has confirmed the December 10, 2016 election of Senator Magnus...

According to the commission, campaigns for presidential and National Assembly elections should begin by November 18 while the last day for the submission of nomination forms by political parties for the elections is December 3.

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the ongoing presidential and National Assembly elections as the most vicious, unprincipled, vulgar and violent he had ever witnessed...

The Senate on Wednesday gave the Independent National Electoral Commission December 10 ultimatum to conduct pending National Assembly elections in Rivers.

The Commission had, in March, announced that the 2019 Presidential and National Assembly elections would hold on February 16, while that of the Governorship and State Assembly on March 2.

Simon Thomas lives in Aberystwyth, and had been placed 4th by his party in the National Assembly elections in South Wales Central in 2007, giving him no realistic chance of being elected.

In the Philippines, after the 1978 National Assembly elections, President Ferdinand Marcos imprisoned ten of the twenty - one losing opposition candidates; many prisoners were tortured, many civilians were killed.

Much will depend on the results of June's National Assembly elections, and particularly whether he can garner support from rival parties.

The National Assembly election petition tribunal has upheld the election of former Senate President, Senator David Mark of the Peoples Democratic Party, the PDP.

Meanwhile, the APC suffered loss as the Tribunal dismissed the petition of Maureen Tamuno, the party's candidate for the 2015 National Assembly election.

By the reordered sequence, the national assembly election is expected to come first, followed by governorship and state houses of assembly, and presidential contrary to the timetable released by INEC which put presidential and national assembly elections first and governorship and state assembly to follow.

INEC had declared Sekibo and the two other members of the House of Representatives winner of the March 28, 2015 National Assembly election.

«It is high time the party overcame its current crisis of confidence arising from the national assembly election of principal officers.

The senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Benue South, in the last National Assembly election, Comrade Daniel Onjeh has rubbished his opponent, David Mark's claim that he was never invited to testify from the witness box at the tribunal.

The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi has adjourned the petition filed by Mr Daniel Onjeh against Sen David Mark to Sept 17, 2015...

Mark of the Peoples Democratic Party and Dan Onjeh of the All Progressives Congress contested the Benue South Senatorial seat in the March 28 National Assembly election.

According to the section, the elections shall be held in the following order: (a) National Assembly election (b) State Houses of Assembly and Governorship elections (c) Presidential election.

She said, «The second respondent (Independent National Electoral Commission) is hereby ordered to issue Chief Nwankwo a Certificate of Return in respect of the National Assembly election held on March 28, 2015, forthwith.

A five - man bench of the court held in a unanimous judgment that Ezeonwuka was not the winner of the party's primary conducted ahead of the 2015 National Assembly election in his constituency.

«Orji had approached the court to seek redress in a case involving alleged inflation of the result of election in Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia, which he had earlier lost to his opponent, Mr Nkole Ndukwe, at the National Assembly Election Tribunal.

Not exact matches

The opposition Democratic Unity coalition won 99 seats to the Socialists» 46 in the 167 - national National Assembly, the election board said, with some districts still to be national National Assembly, the election board said, with some districts still to be National Assembly, the election board said, with some districts still to be counted.

Though the election results were a foregone conclusion, there is arguably still a small opening for civilian participation in a national assembly.

Jean Charest is the leader of the Quebec Liberal Party and leader of the Official Opposition in Quebec's National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) going into the 2003 election.

Having founded his party, En Marche, only around a year before the presidential election, it currently has no members in the National Assembly.

Held on the eve of the UN-sponsored elections of a new national assembly and government, the peace march, known as Dhammayietra II («Pilgrimage of Truth»), traversed dangerous territory marked by landmines and firefights.

The election of the 200 seat National Assembly is a promising first step, especially considering the relative lack of violence that characterized the elections.

Those in Cyrenaica clamoring for a return to the decentralized federal system are a minority in their own region, and the sheer outpouring of voters during the recent election shows that the majority of the Libyan people are willing to give the new National Assembly a chance.

The by - election is to fill the void created by the death of Late Senator Isiaka Adeleke in the national Assembly.

The notice of election reads in part: «consequent upon the provisions of the enabling statues that bye elections to fill the declared vacant seat by the National Assembly be conducted within 30 days upon the declaration.

The current incongruent decisions by the tribunals must therefore be put to rest with an unequivocal declaration by the Supreme Court, and it is the prayer of all who want to see credible elections endure in Nigeria, that the decision of the apex court gives undisputed support for the card reader, an election tool which was budgeted for, resources allocated and the allocation approved by the National Assembly, this being the universal process of policy implementation.

Third, the Constitutional Committee organized a national election of 25 Constitutional Assembly representatives to draft the constitution, a task that the Constitutional Assembly, renamed Council, completed within the four months assigned to it in 2011 by producing a partly crowd - sourced constitution bill, fully consistent with the conclusion of the National Assembly, and passing it unanimously with 25 votes to 0, a ranational election of 25 Constitutional Assembly representatives to draft the constitution, a task that the Constitutional Assembly, renamed Council, completed within the four months assigned to it in 2011 by producing a partly crowd - sourced constitution bill, fully consistent with the conclusion of the National Assembly, and passing it unanimously with 25 votes to 0, a raNational Assembly, and passing it unanimously with 25 votes to 0, a rare feat.

Democrats are hopeful that their national momentum since the election of Trump will carry over into New York, where they're trying to wrestle away from Republicans the state Assembly seats previously held by Steve McLaughlin and Pete Lopez.

He lost his bid to return to the lower chamber of the National Assembly in the last general election.

Before his election to the National Assembly of Wales, he was a practising solicitor (criminal law, personal injury and general civil litigation).

Democrats are hopeful that their national momentum since the election of President Donald Trump will carry over into New York, where they're trying to wrestle away from Republicans the state Assembly seats previously held by Steve McLaughlin and Pete Lopez.

Sargeant was first elected as the AM for Alyn and Deeside in the National Assembly for Wales election of 2003, after Tom Middlehurst stood down.

«Though I have quite a number of reasons not to contest the up and coming election, I want to draw the attention of our great party APC in Niger state to the disconnect between the governance (sic) in the state and the membership of the National Assembly, the state assembly and other key stakeholders because there is an absence of synergy,» hAssembly, the state assembly and other key stakeholders because there is an absence of synergy,» hassembly and other key stakeholders because there is an absence of synergy,» he wrote.

The National Assembly for Wales election, 2003 was the second general election to the National Assembly for Wales.

«It is on record that the National Assembly has no Act empowering the military in an election and hence, it is a violation of the law.

Steve Brooks, Wales Director of the Electoral Reform Society said: «Our research shows that Labour would have won nearly 70 % of the seats in the National Assembly, had the last election been fought using Two Member First Past the Post.

Yussuf was believed to be a close associate of Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the state before the two fell out after the outcome of the leadership election at the lower chamber of the National Assembly.

«We strongly belief that President Buhari, must be seen to be acting contrary to court decisions on the use of Military during elections as clearly stated in the rulings of Justice Aikawa of the Federal High Court, who in his judgment, restrained the President and Commander - in - Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and INEC from engaging the service of the Nigerian armed forces in the security supervision of elections in any manner whatsoever in any part of Nigeria, without the Act of the National Assembly.

The last that was heard about defection at the National Assembly was when a former member of the House of Representatives, Uche Ekwunife, who later represented Anambra Central at the Senate, before her election was annulled by the Appeal Court defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

Closer to home, if Francois Hollande wins in France's presidential elections this May, he has committed to renegotiate the treaty — which is not expected to have passed the French National Assembly before the elections.

The party had polled consistently in the first four elections to the National Assembly, returning six representatives in the first three elections and five in the 2011 Election, thereby establishing itself as the fourth party in Wales behind Labour, the Conservatives and Plaid Cymru, but fell to just one seat in 2016.