Sentences with phrase «after a general election which»

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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak after his mediocre showing in the May 5 general elections on May 15 announced a new 57 - member cabinet packed with traditionalists, which is also strikingly short of representatives from the Chinese minority.

Pressure is mounting on the Prime Minister and Chancellor to relax austerity, with several Tory MPs calling for an end to the pay cap after the party disastrously lost its majority in the General Election to anti-austerity Labour, which has pledged to scrap the 1 per cent ceiling.

Did we witness, only weeks away from the General Election, one of the greatest betrayals of the Catholic tradition by the English hierarchy, not merely in this century (of which after all there hasn't been much yet) but in the history of the Church?

It's only the issue which will, after all, decide the next general election.

The Central Region «Unity Walk» is the third edition which is aimed at bringing together over hundred thousand sympathisers of the National Democratic Congress in the region after its electoral defeat in the 2016 general election.

Asquith's controversial social welfare programme and Lords reform, which restricted the legislative power of the House of Lords, came after the Upper House successfully blocked the «people's budget», forcing a general election.

But that's not the case, according to the constitution, which stipulates the amendment must be «referred to the next regular legislative session convening after the succeeding general election of members of the assembly.»

He came into office on the ticket of the People's National Party (PNP) after winning democratic elections organised by the Rawlings - led Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), which overthrew the Supreme Military Council (SMC) led by General Akuffo, on June 4, 1979.

He also claimed that the Tories» private polling last year, unlike the published polls which suggested a hung Parliament after the general election, pointed to a majority for David Cameron and the Conservatives.

While the Berks County legislator, a longtime advocate of limited government who billed himself as the true conservative in the primary, has neither encouraged or discouraged the nascent write - in movement, which began to take shape only a few days after the state's bruising primary election — a lopsided contest in which the heavily - favored attorney general and the GOP establishment unleashed a last - minute barrage of negative ads against Rohrer's insurgent candidacy.

Their prescription is curious after a general election in which the three parties which rejected the centre ground — the SNP, UKIP and the Greens — made the biggest gains in the popular vote.

After the 2015 general election, in which Labour lost to the Conservative Party, Miliband resigned as leader.

Ms. Meyer initially registered without officially stating a party preference and only recently changed her status to Republican, which New York State does not allow to take effect until after the general election.

With the exception of the 1992 local elections, which were held only a month after the general election, there were big leads — of 10 points or more — for Labour in the PNS for all the local elections between 1992 and 1997 general elections.

Right - wing forces in the UK are split over how to respond to the EU, a divide which could cost its politicians their jobs in government after next year's general election.

Eventually, the AKP called an early general election in July, after which the presidential election was re-held in August.

The governor reiterated his threat to drag the Legislature back to the Capitol before the November general election — most likely in October, which is after the Sept. 14 primary — in hopes of getting the Assembly to take up the property tax cap bill passed with bipartisan support this week by the Senate (eight Democrats voted «no»).

Despite the dire polls and the equally dire local election results, some 64 % of Labour's post GE2015 membership believe Labour is likely to win the next general election — a figure which rises to 77 % of those who joined after Corbyn became leader.

Cameron and Clegg moved to shore up the coalition after a bumpy week in which Graham Brady, the chairman of the Conservative 1922 committee, suggested it could end before the next general election.

According to him, the positive responses he gave and developments after the December 7 general election when he called the winner, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, to concede defeat to him, even before the Electoral Commission (EC) announced the results of the presidential election, constituted a major reason the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) requested him to participate in two missions to Banjul, The Gambia to get Yahya Jammeh to accept the will of the Gambian people and hand over power to Mr Adama Barrow, but which he refused.

Labor was divided in that race, which ended up being carried by Espaillat's hand - picked successor, Marisol Alcantara, who was also backed by IDC Leader Jeff Klein, of the Bronx, and has indicated (though her spokeswoman, Lis Smith) that she will join the breakaway GOP - allied IDC conference after her all - but - certain general election win in November.

Speaking in public for the first time since his resignation as party leader a day after the general election, in which the Lib Dems lost 48 of their 56 MPs, Clegg said his successor deserved the party's «undivided unity and support».

The venue was the scene of Labour's 1997 general election party which saw the party elevated back to power after 18 years in the political wilderness.

The Flagbearer of the NDC for election 2020 is likely to be decided on after the party's national congress which its General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has indicated will be in 2018.

The damning condemnation of the parties comes on the day that Labour campaign chief, Lord Mandelson, clashed with journalists who tried to pin him down on which spending programmes will be reigned in or scrapped if the party is still in power after the 6 May general election.

A Democrat who took office in 2014 after a contentious 2013 primary and landslide general election, de Blasio is consolidating organized party support ahead of this September's primary, for which his main opposition is former City Council Member Sal Albanese and police reform leader Robert Gangi.

The result, which may well be settled by second and third preferences, will say something powerful about the mood of the Labour party after its general election defeat.

This finding - which underlines the increased danger of a hung parliament after the next General Election - reflects the positive impact of boundary changes on Tory prospects.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D - N.Y.) engaged in a nasty, lone radio debate in her Democratic primary against upstart Reshma Saujani on Tuesday morning, in which the two traded barbs — but managed to up the ante after the event, as the incumbent literally fled from reporters and the challenger said she might not vote in the general election if she loses.

Sixth, after the ongoing CVR, which as the law provides will end not later than 60 days to the forthcoming general elections on 16th February 2019 — please note that the law says not later than 60 days, which means that the CVR must end on or before the 60th day to the election — we intend to display not only the provisional register, but the entire Register at all the Registration Areas / Wards across the country.

The ageing Attlee contested his final general election in 1955, which saw Labour lose ground, and he retired shortly after.

Britain's future status as a nuclear power was one of three issues on which the coalition's two parties «agreed to disagree» after the general election.

Gen Richards» comments come in a period of huge competition between the armed services as preparations for the strategic defence review, which will take place immediately after the general election, reassesses Britain's defence priorities.

«After due consideration, I've concluded that I don't want to forestall nor complicate in any way a general election campaign in which we must prevail,» Tkazyik said.

In a letter, which he personally signed and sent to one of his political associates, Malam Hassan S. Indabawa, dated August 22, 2017, Shekarau said soon after the 2015 general elections, there had been various calls by individuals and groups from many quarters urging his candidature to contest for the presidency in 2019.

This is the kind of marginal which David Cameron must do well in if he is to enter Downing Street after the general election.

The pair announced their intention to stand within a week of Nick Clegg's resignation speech the day after the general election, in which the party lost 85 % of its MPs and two - thirds of its voters.

The Board of Elections commissioners have said they changed the original language sent to them by the state attorney general, which was more neutral, after discussions with staff from the governor's office and the legislature.

Assuming there is no reform before the end of this parliament, any further lists — which traditionally get drawn up before and after a general election — could easily take the total over 1,000.

This is largely because the party is not committing to cut university tuition fees, which they controversially voted to treble as part of the coalition in 2010 months after campaigning to scrap them in the general election.

Councillors elected in this election will serve an extended five - year term, after local government minister Carl Sargeant announced the next elections would be moved from 2016 to 2017 to avoid clashing with the National Assembly for Wales election, 2016 which in turn had been delayed a year to avoid clashing with the United Kingdom general election, 2015.

The referendum was called after Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron made a manifesto commitment in the 2015 UK general election to undertake a renegotiation of the UK's membership to the European Union which would be followed by a in - out referendum.

Wilson's small majority after the 1964 general election had made the transaction of government business difficult, and in 1966 he called another election in which Labour gained a strong working majority of 96.

In an earlier post (28th May, 2013) I suggested that at least ten days after a general election be allowed for the formation of a government — time which would be especially important when a coalition government of two or more parties was being put together.

But David Cameron and George Osborne, the Chancellor, are sympathetic to the banks» demand for them to be given several years to build the «Chinese walls» to be proposed by the commission chaired by Sir John Vickers — which could see the reforms delayed until after the next general election.

117 new peers were added in the year after the May 2010 General Election, an unprecedented influx which put, and continues to put, a significant strain on the House's resources, especially Members» office accommodation.

This regime collapsed within a year, after May reversed her previous public pledges and called a general election (which Jeremy Corbyn's Labour agreed to under the terms of the Fixed Term Parliament Act).

Part of the resolution which propelled the meeting was hinged on the fact that the party has been ran on court injunctions which have been a clog in its wheel after ceding the central to the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC at the last general elections.

One thing is certain: Cuomo is doing no favors for DiNapoli by negotiating this deal with Hevesi so close to the general election, which is the first time the former assemblyman has run statewide since being placed in the comptroller's office by his legislative colleagues in February 2007 after Hevesi's first guilty felony plea in Chauffeurgate.

Later that year he was defeated in the leadership election to succeed Kinnock after the general election, which Labour lost to the Conservative Party for the fourth election in succession.