Sentences with phrase «national executive voted»

Labour party's national executive votes to support recruitment of union political levy payers as affiliated supporters

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CCGG Executive Director quoted in the National Post and The Globe and Mail with regard to majority voting as a proposed amendment to the CBCA

The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has declared «Operation 50 — 50» in the Eastern Region, which is to split the votes with it opponent, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and President Mahama's visit is to boost the morale of the regional executives of his party, as they prepare for this year's elections.

And the ongoing row over a cut - off date for the leadership election led to McDonnell attacking the «small clique» on the National Executive Committee that was trying to restrict the vote to members who had signed up before 12 January.

The NPP's National Executive Committee has unanimously voted to suspend its National Chairman Paul Afoko indefinitely.

The party's national executive committee meets today and is expected to vote down moves to change the leadership rules and discuss a review of the general election campaign.

As backed by Cuomo and announced at the National Action Network this week, the executive order would reinstate voting rights for more than 35,000 people on parole.

She helped save the Labour Party by voting as a member of Labour's national executive committee against the expulsion of Nye Bevan.

The Greater Accra Regional and constituencies executives of the women wing of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), has taken the government, «Accounting to the People,» pictorial booklet known as the green book to the coastal towns of the region to canvass for votes.

While many supporters blamed their national executives and government appointees for not doing enough to retain power, some blamed former President Rawlings for his seemingly apathetic attitude towards the party's campaign which they say persuaded his numerous fans from voting.

Specifically, these modern tribunes would be entitled to veto one piece of congressional legislation, one executive order and one Supreme Court decision; to call one national referendum, over any issue they wish (only two - thirds votes of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives may render the statute unconstitutional); and to initiate impeachment proceedings against one Federal official from each of the three branches of government during their term of office.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order granting parolees the right to vote in New York, announcing the initiative at the annual convention of Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network.

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

The political range of Labour MPs represented by the vote echoed, but on a much wider basis, that seen around Labour's National Executive elections earlier in the year.

He said that in future, all of Labour's members should get a vote in general secretary elections, rather than just those on the party's ruling national executive committee.

Labour party members have the opportunity this July to vote for their representatives on Labour's National Executive Committee.

A unanimous vote by the party's National Executive Committee on October 23 indefinitely suspended Mr. Afoko and made his first Vice Chair, Freddie Blay the acting chairman; a decision that been challenged by Mr Afoko and some party members.

Speaking at a media conference after the national executive meeting, he said: «It is clear that a small minority who didn't accept my election as leader of the Scottish Labour Party just five months ago won't accept the vote of the executive today and that will continue to divide the party.

On Friday voting closes in a ballot of the full membership that will elect three more members to the ruling national executive committee, so members are better represented.

«There's going to be some quite intense discussions over the next few days, I suspect, and I hope our party officials and our national executive will see sense on this and recognise that those people that have freely given of their time and their money to join the Labour party should be welcomed in and given the opportunity to take part in this crucial debate, whichever way they decide to vote,» he said.

A last - minute attempt to get the Labour party to agree to revisit its link to trade unions in five years» time was seen off on Tuesday at a meeting of the Labour national executive committee (NEC), which voted overwhelmingly to back Ed Miliband's far - reaching reforms.

Michael Cashman is a Blairite who voted for David Miliband, so this represents yet another shift towards the centre - left on Labour's national executive.

Party donor Michael Foster launched legal action after Labour's National Executive Committee voted to put Mr Corbyn on the ballot without needing to get 51 nominations from Labour MPs and MEPs.

It comes despite Mr Murphy narrowly surviving a vote of no confidence at a meeting of the party's national executive in Glasgow.

The Parliamentary Labour Party voted to abolish Shadow Cabinet elections in 2011, [94] ratified by the National Executive Committee and Party Conference.

Geoff Berman, who in 2012 served as the Obama campaign's deputy national training director and then deputy national Get - Out - the - Vote director, will take over as executive director of the state party.

After a tense few hours of Labour's National Executive Committee meeting yesterday, the party's ruling body decided by 18 votes to 14 that Jeremy Corbyn would have an automatic right to be on the ballot in the leadership election against Angela Eagle.

«In line with the wishes of the majority of the members of the National Democratic Congress, and in the wake of recommendations made by the election review committee chaired by Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, the National Executive Committee, which is the highest decision - making body after Congress, voted unanimously for the scrapping of the register which was used to conduct our internal elections last year,» Kofi Portuphy said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo will issue an executive order that would pave the way for parolees in New York to vote, he announced Wednesday at the National Action Network in New York City.

The teaming youth and supporters of the NPP indicated that, they voted the trio in Tamale for a purpose and that they urgently demand their reinstated as soon as possible for them to continue with their mandated responsibilities as National party executives.

Ukip's beleaguered leader Henry Bolton was this weekend hit with a vote of no confidence from his party's national executive committee.

It is up to Labour's National Executive Committee to draw up a shortlist, with the constituency Labour party then voting for their preferred candidate.

It was waved under the nose of any MP who dared to support non-Bennites for the national executive or vote for non-Bennite motions at the GC.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP's) National Executive Committee (NEC) has unanimously voted to suspend its National Chairman Paul Afoko indefinitely.

Labour's National Executive Committee is set to vote on the dispute as soon as tomorrow but if they rule against Mr Corbyn the row could end up in court.

The NPP's National Executive Committee (NEC) on Friday unanimously voted to suspend Paul Afoko indefinitely following a decision by the party's Disciplinary Committee which decided that Mr Afoko be suspended.

Dayo and Sodipo contended in their suit concerning the office of the Deputy National Chairman (South) of the party, that a candidate for the position and the delegates from the state that voted in the December 9, 2017 convention were not nominated by their executive committee whose tenure they claimed remains valid till 2020.

Gallagher - Cohen, Rath and Dennis Elsenbeck, National Grid's regional executive, all voted against the policy — each citing concerns that it needed additional study.

Lansman withdrew his name on Sunday and, with the GMB's backing, Formby appears almost certain to clinch the post, which is voted on by members of the party's ruling national executive committee.

Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.

However, the unions will still retain a 50 % block vote at Labour's party conference and also retain their quota on the party's national executive.

The Volta regional minister, Helen Ntoso who also participated in the walk with some regional and national executives of the NDC, said the 80,000 votes target was attainable because of the tremendous work done by the NDC government in the last seven years in the region.

His comments on Citi FM's news analysis programme, «The Big Issue», come a day after the party's Chairman, Paul Afoko, was suspended indefinitely after a unanimous vote by the National Executive Committee (NEC).

At Labour's conference in Manchester next week, delegates will be debating and voting on a number of key changes to the party's rule book, tabled both by the national executive and by constituency parties.

The vote is not binding, and must be agreed by both the party's ruling National Executive Committee and the Labour Party Conference, to take place later this month in Liverpool.

Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) has decided to ban new members of the party from voting in the upcoming Labour leadership election.

Other aspirants in the race included the Executive Director of the National Service Secretariat (NSS), Dr. Kpessah Whyte, who polled 3,189 votes, while Ebenezer Adzakli had 393.

According to Huffington Post's Paul Waugh, Jeremy Corbyn wants Labour's national executive committee to agree that Labour MPs who want to stand again at the election have to go through a «trigger ballot» so that local activists can vote against them if they want an alternative candidate.

National organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) John Boadi, has promised to pay monthly allowances to all constituency secretaries if voted as the General Secretary in the upcoming national executive eNational organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) John Boadi, has promised to pay monthly allowances to all constituency secretaries if voted as the General Secretary in the upcoming national executive enational executive election.

Labour's national executive committee has shortlisted Claudia Webbe, Brenda Dacres, Janet Daby and Sakina Sheikh as its four candidates who will be put to a members» vote at a hustings this weekend.