Sentences with phrase «after vote in parliament»

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They have also demanded a new vote on the budget for next year after the government approved the spending plan by not putting it though parliament, but holding the vote in an nearby chamber, with a high number of government supporters — something that the country's opposition deemed as «illegal.»

Italian stocks fell at the start of this morning's trading, after populist parties won almost half the vote in Italy's Sunday elections, and early results suggested the country is heading for a hung parliament due to no party or coalition of parties meeting the 40 % threshold for stable governance.

Friday's opposition vote to defeat the Conservative government for «contempt of Parliament» was an exercise in self - delusion, testosterone and faulty logic that will surely result in Stephen Harper returning after the May 2 election as prime minister — and likely with a majority.

At that time I wrote: «Friday's opposition vote to defeat the Conservative government for «contempt of Parliament» was an exercise in self - delusion, testosterone and faulty logic that will surely result in Stephen Harper returning after the May 2 election as prime minister — and likely with a majority.

The prime minister faces a crucial confidence vote in Parliament at midnight Friday, after two days of acrimony that saw many of his own lawmakers and ministers rebel.

The British government's recent setbacks are also weighing on the pound, a typical tailwind for shares in dollar earnings British companies, after Britain's upper house voted to give parliament powers to block or delay a final deal on departure from the European Union.

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.

Indeed, it was parliament that voted to reopen the debate after the cabinet concludedthat the current laws on homosexuality were sufficient in 2011.

What I don't really see is how the Labour party holding three pilots in this Parliament, or even selecting all of its candidates in some form of primary at the next election or the time after would make any really significant difference to arguments for or against first - past - the - post, the Alternative Vote, AV +, AMS, STV and various hybrids thereof.

Her comments will come just hours after the semi-autonomous Scottish Parliament backed First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's call for a fresh independence vote in protest at Brexit.

Tyrie has been dismissive of this, saying in a statement after the session: «The Commission's proposals would ultimately enable the UK parliament to impose legislation on England and would not deliver the pledge to secure English votes for English laws.»

Vishal The Scottish Parliament is dissolved after a 50 % no confidence vote if no First Minister is elected in 28 days.

Among other things, the negative resolution procedure is a rarely used one, through which a peer (or MP) intervenes during the forty days after a statutory instrument has been laid on the table in parliament to force a debate and (potentially) a vote.

After voting to stay in the union, Scotland's reward was to be told that its elected representatives could have even less power in the UK parliament.

After the 2009 European Parliament elections, only 28 % of UKIP voters in the BES survey said they were planning on voting UKIP again at the next general election.

Malcolm Chisholm quit his role as communities minister in the Scottish parliament last night after voting against the government.

He has won two Scottish elections, the first as the largest party in a hung parliament and the second in 2011 with an overall majority, which, under the proportional voting system introduced after the 1998 devolution settlement, was forecast as highly improbable.

The Article 50 trigger comes a day after Scotland's parliament voted in favour of holding a fresh referendum on independence from Britain in a bid to hold on to EU ties.

Such new MPs will begin to rebel in time, as did most of the 1997 intake, but by the end of the 1997 parliament, after a full four years, only 28 % of the newly - elected Labour MPs had voted against their whips.

But senior figures are saying Cameron's handling of the EU referendum vote, in which he conceded that a bill should be passed in this parliament after initially saying this was unnecessary, had weakened him even in the eyes of Eurosceptics.

«The government has committed to hold a vote on the final deal in parliament as soon as possible after the negotiations have concluded.

Former teacher Adam Walker takes over after party's vote collapses and Griffin loses only seat in European parliament

The Scottish Parliament was created after a referendum on devolution took place on 11 September 1997 in which 74.3 % of those who voted approved the idea.

In such cases Parliament should assert itself by calling him before the relevant select committee (home affairs) and if after a detailed examination he is found in a vote of the committee to be clearly liable, a report of the proceedings should be sent forthwith to the relevant minister which in the absece of exceptional circumstance should lead to his dismissaIn such cases Parliament should assert itself by calling him before the relevant select committee (home affairs) and if after a detailed examination he is found in a vote of the committee to be clearly liable, a report of the proceedings should be sent forthwith to the relevant minister which in the absece of exceptional circumstance should lead to his dismissain a vote of the committee to be clearly liable, a report of the proceedings should be sent forthwith to the relevant minister which in the absece of exceptional circumstance should lead to his dismissain the absece of exceptional circumstance should lead to his dismissal.

After Westminster reintroduced direct rule in 1973, it restored the single transferable vote (STV) for elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly in the following year, using the same definitions of constituencies as for the Westminster Parliament.

As for the Labour Party being indecisive, there were only 154 Labour MPs left in Parliament after the election rout of November 1935, which the Conservatives had won with more than half the total votes cast, an outcome that is difficult to quibble about.

The vote came as a reminder to David Cameron of the political gamble he is taking, after the prime minister spent hours in the Commons Chamber listening to backbench MPs» concerns and trying to persuade parliament of the case for action.

Many working men's clubs have faced precipitous falls in income since the ban, after a second vote in parliament denied private members clubs the right to allow members to opt - in to smoking leniency.

In December 2006 the government published a defence white paper advocating Trident replacement and on March 14th 2007 parliament voted by 409 votes to 161 in favour of authorising the government to take steps to maintain Trident nuclear weapons system after the Vanguard - class submarines leave service in the mid-2020In December 2006 the government published a defence white paper advocating Trident replacement and on March 14th 2007 parliament voted by 409 votes to 161 in favour of authorising the government to take steps to maintain Trident nuclear weapons system after the Vanguard - class submarines leave service in the mid-2020in favour of authorising the government to take steps to maintain Trident nuclear weapons system after the Vanguard - class submarines leave service in the mid-2020in the mid-2020s.

The price to vote remain should be an offer by the parties to abolish the fixed - term parliament act and a gerneral election in October, after the party conference season.

After weeks of delay and tactical disagreements inside the cabinet, Brown staked his authority on committing his party not just to a referendum on the alternative vote, but also to making the law introducing the referendum a legislative priority in the remaining six weeks of parliament before the election is called.

The timetable for the bill's progress through parliament, known as a programme motion, would be voted upon immediately after the bill's second reading, and will be seen as a critical moment in the bill's passage.

Despite Thurrock being seen, for Essex, as good Labour territory — it has after all only returned a Conservative MP for one Parliament in 1987 - 92 — it is noticeable that on the doorstep the Labour vote is in freefall.

Parliament on Tuesday failed to break for the Christmas and New Year holidays after a major rumpus in the House over a vote on the 2016 Eurobond.

With tensions running high after the passage of the tuition fees vote, some protestors vented their frustration after being «kettled» by police in Parliament Square.

After an election, a prime minister in office might well wait until parliament met and only resign once defeated in the Commons, which is one reason why every government between 1837 and 1874 fell following a Commons vote.

Labour shouldn't be worrying too much about voting intention figures, it is early in the Parliament after all.

Labour will force a vote on the controversial European Arrest Warrant after a debate on the topic failed to take place in parliament yesterday.

A bill is expected to come before parliament later this week after the Supreme Court ruled that MPs and peers must have a vote on the terms in which Britain begins exiting the bloc.

Labour MPs turned out in force on Wednesday to help defeat a parliamentary motion calling for Tony Blair to be held to account for allegedly misleading parliament over the Iraq war by 439 votes to 70, after a sometimes angry debate.

In the remaining time before the election, Mr Clegg said MPs should instead focus on reforming Parliament, the voting system and party funding to begin restoring public trust after the expenses scandal.

Last week, after months of intense debate, the European Parliament voted for a ban on menthol cigarettes, which will come into force in 2022.

After Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of allowing mitochondrial donation last year the UK regulatory process for this new treatment has moved on.

This approach would allow it to gather expressions of interest and prepare to open new selective schools in this parliament, but delay the vote on the ban until after May 2020 when it would be easier to get through.

I think fielding is a special case, to stay in parliament after the next election he has to find a block of votes.

The Finnish parliament today approved after voting a new climate bill that commits to 80 % emissions reductions by 2050, in one of the most ambitious climate laws passed to date across Europe.

After the vote in the European Parliament, the agreement needs to be ratified by the Canadian side in order to enter provisionally into force.

The Council, acting unanimously on the initiative of the Commission or a Member State, and after consulting the European Parliament, may decide that action in areas referred to in Article 29 shall fall under Title IV of the Treaty establishing the European Community, and at the same time determine the relevant voting conditions relating to it.

He says: «Sovereignty after centuries of painful struggle has come to reside in Parliament, not in a single popular yes or no vote.

Sovereignty after centuries of painful struggle has come to reside in Parliament, not in a single popular yes or no vote.