Sentences with phrase «parliamentary election as»

He served notice that any failed Parliamentary aspirant seeking to contest the 2016 Parliamentary election as an independent candidate will be expelled from the party.

I think it gives us lessons of persistence and courage», Mr Nyaunu who left the NDC to contest the 2012 parliamentary elections as an independent candidate and only returned to the party last year observed.

«As we draw closer to the next Presidential and Parliamentary elections we all as Ghanaians expect ALL parties involved in the process to base their arguments and campaign rhetoric on the truth and desist from emotional and non-factual statements, especially where my name has to be mentioned.

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As per the EU's purportedly more democratic rules, they must factor into their decisions the results of May's parliamentary election.

Macron's enthusiastic persona and his image as a «winner» — having been elected with a 66 percent majority, followed by a landslide victory in parliamentary elections giving him full constitutional powers — has charmed and impressed Donald Trump.

As part of its 2006 election platform, the Conservative Party promised to «create an Independent Budget Authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament about the state of the nation's finances and trends in the national economy; require government departments and agencies to provide timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament; and ensure that government fiscal forecasts are updated quarterly and that they provide complete data for both revenue and spending forecasts».

NEWSMAKERS By K.A. Badarinath Fourth - generation Nehru - Gandhi family scion, Rahul Gandhi, looked set to enter the political fray as ruling Indian National Congress nominee for prime minister ahead of parliamentary elections this May.

In July 2016, he was appointed the Minister for the Environment and Energy, having previously served as Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia, Assistant Treasurer and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister since the 2013 election.

Since his election in 2008, Mr. Xiao has served as the parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Energy, Minister of Transportation and the Minister of Employment and Immigration.

The Liberal Democratic Party's victory in Japan's parliamentary election Sunday virtually ensures that Shinzo Abe, who resigned as prime minister for health reasons in 2007 after just a year in office, will get a second chance to try to lead Japan out...

Islam online 7 April 2007 • A Muslim man stood as a candidate for the Christian Peoples Alliance in the Scottish parliamentary elections in April.

This suspicion of the validity of Western ideals fueled the Communist parliamentary election victories in the»90s, and the subsequent emergence of Vladimir Putin as the dominant political leader in Russia.

Polls opened at 8 a.m. Friday in Iran as Iranians cast ballots in the first parliamentary elections since the 2009 vote that sparked riots and accusations of rigging.

For those unfamiliar with Westminster systems, most parliamentary votes are, as the British say, subject to the party whip: that is, members are expected to vote with the party leadership and are subject to severe retribution (such as being «de-certified» as a party - supported candidate at the next election) if they resist the whip.

Ireland had just had an election then, and the newly elected Prime Minister, Enda Kenny (now triumphing over his referendum result) in one of his first speeches in the Parliamentary chamber, blamed the Vatican for everything whilst the visitation was underway, thus undermining it completely — as though it were Italian or French priests and Cardinals who were guilty of the Irish abuses, conveniently letting the locals off the hook, and redirecting the anger towards Church discipline and teaching rather than criminal individuals.

The same way we're in a propaganda war against Islam, as Bloomberg put it, we have been fed propaganda about Hamas, the group which was almost unheard of until they won parliamentary elections in 2006.

After losing his Glasgow - Govan parliamentary seat in the 1992 General Election, Scottish National Party politician Jim Sillars condemned Scotland as a country of «Ninety - Minute Patriots,» willing to support Scotland during a football match but unwilling to take the necessary steps to....

«Following the 2015 election, the chair of the all - party group, Stephen Lloyd, was not re-elected as an MP, and so, as vice-chair of the Group, I called an AGM for the group on 1stJuly, and informed all officers of the group who served in the last parliament, as well as all other MPs and members of the House of Lords, in accordance with the strict parliamentary requirements for publishing proper notice of such meetings.

Its status as a record of Parliamentary history means that the pieces are conservative by nature as Swire explains: «We're discussing the forthcoming general election and how we can record it.

According to him, her election as a parliamentary candidate of the NDC violated the party's constitution and, therefore, it was null, void and of no effect.

Since 1991, all candidates of parliamentary or presidential elections, as well as candidates for the Assembly of Experts, have to be qualified by the Guardian Council in order to run in the election.

Osei Kyei - Mensah - Bonsu, Minority Leader in Parliament, had described President Mahama, as desperate to remain in office after the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections, therefore, has resorted to sharing cash to buy votes.

A parliamentary colleague kindly emailed me after my election as Speaker drawing a parallel with the start of the championships in SW19 - «British player wins on fi rst day of Wimbledon!»

This means coalitions have to be formed within the major parties prior to elections, as opposed to after the fact in parliamentary system.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ghana believes in the principles that democratic societies provide individuals with the best conditions for political liberty, personal freedom, equality of opportunity and economic development under the rule of law; and therefore being committed to advancing the social and political values on which democratic societies are founded, including the basic personal freedoms and human rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prosperity.

However, it is worth recalling the honest intentions behind the sixth point as we ponder declining election turnouts, the diminishing base of unpaid party activists, and the distance that remains between the Westminster parliamentary system and those to whom elected representatives are ultimately accountable.

No doubt, there should be a thorough parliamentary debate on the issue, but instead of forcing a decision in this parliament, which could well be as controversial and divisive as the ill - fated referendum, I strongly agree with Nick Clegg that by far the best and most dignified way out of the current mess would be to ask the people in the proper constitutional way by calling an snap general election:

An Accra High Court has dismissed an application seeking to dismiss the suit challenging the eligibility of Zenator Rawlings to represent the NDC in the Klottey Korley constituency in the 2016 elections as parliamentary candidate.

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 campaigAs 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 campaigas 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.

The parliamentary tactic reflects David Cameron's effort to prevent any more Commons defeats ahead of the general election, as he desperately tries to present the image of a united party.

When the Commons dissolves for an election, MPs can no longer refer to themselves as such, using the phrase «prospective parliamentary candidates» instead.

Democratic Senate lawmakers tried — and failed — to force a vote on gun control via a parliamentary gambit, attaching proposals to an existing bill, a move known as a hostile amendment, trying to make the Republican leadership to formally vote them down in an election year.

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.

She began working for Theresa May during the 2010 general election campaign, after a few attempts to win selection as a parliamentary candidate.

In some recent research, Valerie Belu and I show that compared to regular elections (defined as elections which occur within 6 months of the end of a parliamentary term), strategically timed opportunistic elections have allowed governing parties to realize an average vote - share bonus of just under 6 percent and seat - share bonuses of 12 percent, doubling the probability that the Prime Minister survives in office -LRB-.80 versus.40).

Boasts Of Making Nzema People NPP Regional and National Chairmen As He Begs For Votes The 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections is...

As he argued in the debate which preceded the parliamentary vote to call the election, «this is a good day for Parliament.

The FTPA is therefore best understood as an Act that restricts the prime minister's discretion to call early elections, not as an Act that fixes the parliamentary term.

If a parliamentary general election is to take place as provided for by subsection (1) or (3), the polling day for the election is to be the day appointed by Her Majesty by proclamation on the recommendation of the Prime Minister (and, accordingly, the appointed day replaces the day which would otherwise have been the polling day for the next election determined under section 1).

Each election, they invent names such as «Essex man» or «Worcester woman'to describe archetypal voters representative of marginal constituencies necessary to win a parliamentary majority.

The campaign was launched as a result of genuine concerns that sufficient parliamentary time would not be made available to debate and vote on the reforms prior to the 2015 General Election.

While by - elections are often used as protest votes against governments and have lower than usual turnouts, this parliamentary contest has a whole number of potentially significant ramifications for British politics.

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

London (CNN) British Prime Minister Theresa May has failed to win a parliamentary majority in the UK election, leaving the country with what's known as a «hung parliament.»

He had opposed British involvement in the war at its outbreak in 1914, a highly principled position to take in the face of its huge popularity among members of his own party, resigned his position as the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constituents).

He was promoted to serve in the Government after the 2005 election as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Home Office.

After the 1997 election, he was a parliamentary officer for the NHS Confederation from August to December 1997, before taking up the post as an administrator with the Football Task Force for a year.

Trudy Harrison has been selected as the Conservative parliamentary candidate for the Copeland by - election.

Unforeseen circumstances as well as unfavourable outcomes of the parliamentary elections in India and leadership shift in the Pakistani army within the next months could quickly derail the rapprochement.

As part of the requirements for the filing of nominations ahead of the 2016 elections, the EC has requested presidential and parliamentary aspirants to declare their assets, but the acting General Secretary of the NPP says there is no law that mandates that request.