Sentences with phrase «abilities of the party leaders»

Another core issue of the 2008 election campaign is political leadership or, more specifically, public confidence in the abilities of the party leaders to govern the country.

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Highlighting his party's lack of power, House Minority Leader Patrick Bauer said Wednesday that his caucus» ability to stall the measure for even a few weeks itself constituted a success, of sorts.

The strength of any long - ruling political party is the ability to reinvent itself under new leaders and changing circumstances.

The historical success of the PC Party in Alberta between 1971 and 2015 was not based on adherence to conservative ideology but on the ability of its leaders to build a big blue tent of conservative, moderate and liberal voters.

Scotland's first minister and leader of the SNP told the Guardian: «With fixed term parliaments, it gives parties in a minority government situation --(where) hopefully the SNP will be in a position of influence — huge ability to change the direction of a government without bringing a government down.....»

Osborne, to his credit, stayed firm, suggesting unfortunate things about the party leader's ability to deal with even moderate levels of media pressure.

In any event, a prime minister who is forced to leave office due to scandal or similar circumstance will usually have little if any ability to influence his party on the final selection of a new leader and anyone seen to be having close ties to such a prime minister will have limited if any serious prospect of being elected the new leader.

One of Miliband's achievements as Labour leader, advertised even by those in the party who were sceptical about everything else, was an ability to preserve a semblance of unity.

Asked what is most important to them in a leader the vast majority of party members say ability to win an election or competence as Prime Minister, rather than whether they agree with them politically.

The upstart left - leaning third party had likely provided the margin of victory in the primary with an aggressive door - to - door campaign that party member and Ward 5 Alderwoman Jennifer Fuentes said was meant by state party leaders as a test of the WFP's ability to take on a Democratic Party machine andparty had likely provided the margin of victory in the primary with an aggressive door - to - door campaign that party member and Ward 5 Alderwoman Jennifer Fuentes said was meant by state party leaders as a test of the WFP's ability to take on a Democratic Party machine andparty member and Ward 5 Alderwoman Jennifer Fuentes said was meant by state party leaders as a test of the WFP's ability to take on a Democratic Party machine andparty leaders as a test of the WFP's ability to take on a Democratic Party machine andParty machine and win.

Instead of talking policy, the speech focused a lot on Eagle's ability to be a strong leader and to unite the party.

That means anyone who wants to become a leader of the Women's Equality Party must enroll as a member, and would lose the ability, for example, if he or she were a registered Democrat, to vote in Democratic primaries.

«The party will appeal the judgement as we believe in the ability of the judiciary to do justice, however, we plead with our members, leaders and supporters to calm down as we keep hope alive.

Also, the 2015 governorship candidate and leader of the party in the state, Olorogun O'tega Emerhor, said Keyamo's appointment was well - deserved and expressed confidence in his ability to deliver on the mandate.

But anyone who wants to become one of the party's leaders or committee members will also have to register as a member of the party, dropping their registration with any other party and, with it, the ability to vote in that party's primaries.

Emerging from a district where socially conservative Evangelical Christianity has taken hold in recent decades — making it, in Torres» words, the Bible Belt of New York City — his ability to win over leaders across the spectrum, including most major unions, the Working Families Party, and politicians from reformer Gustavo Rivera to political dynasty scion Ruben Diaz, Jr., was striking.

He showed he could gum up the system and manipulate the rules to deny a president of a different party, but he has not shown the ability to control his caucus in order to govern — the way past great Senate leaders have.

The erosion of members» voting rights - although Michael Howard was unsuccessful in his attempt to end the role of members in choosing the party leader, David Cameron has successfully curtailed members» role in selecting Westminster parliamentary candidates and ended their ability to deselect sitting MEPs;

In the same way that the Labour party must be assessing Ed Miliband's ability as leader, considering whether to bloody him in an election or replace him, the same can be said of Livingstone.

The data displayed in Tables 1 and 2 implies few if any improvements have been made in the democratic quality of any of these six polities over the past decade, with longstanding personalist leaders, imperious ruling parties, and oligarchic political opportunists alike demonstrating their ability to continuously manipulate existing political institutions to impose their mandates over substantive domestic opposition.

The party wants to replace the inspectorate with a «reformed independent schools inspectorate system» that would assess teacher and pupil wellbeing, and the ability of school leaders to deliver future improvement, as well as results.

[111] Many negatively noted the gradual unfurling of the player's abilities over this first part of the game, from battle gameplay to selecting the party leader.

It must also meet the broader test of American politics: the ability to appeal to the general public, corporate America and leaders in both parties.