Sentences with phrase «backing of party leader»

He had the backing of party leader Reg Cornelis, who announced his resignation last week, and the town GOP executive committee.

Timothy Kneeland, chair of the political science department at Nazareth College, says the Republicans would have an advantage with a candidate who has already raised funds and has the backing of party leaders.

Boyark, who owns a bar in Malta and manages a jewelry store, had the backing of party leaders.

Not exact matches

Justin Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, was recently asked by a charitable organization to give back a hefty speaking fee — $ 20,000 — after the event he spoke at took a loss.

Th constituency of Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour party, has massively backed Remain.

YEREVAN, May 2 - The leader of a protest movement that has rocked Armenia on Tuesday called a pause in a campaign of civil disobedience while he seeks assurances that the ruling party will back him to be the next prime minister.

«I see Macron as the enemy,» said Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) who was a key player in the Brexit vote, and now backs Le Pen.

YEREVAN, Armenia — After weeks of raucous protests, the streets of the Armenian capital suddenly calmed Thursday and the ruling party confirmed it would back an opposition leader to become prime minister next week.

He would become the longest - serving leader of a major political party in Canadian history and the only Prime Minister to win four consecutive federal elections by backing up his pledge of real change with real action.

Despite the dangers of radicalization among various groups, ranging from high school students (Scholarism), university students (university student federation), Occupy Central leaders (Benny Tai and Chan Kin - Man), and democratic parties, the students have generally known when to back down to avoid escalation.

NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair reached further back in history today to claim for his own party a link to the defence of religious freedoms in Quebec.

It sounds rather evangelical, though Avakian is, as you may have guessed, a leftist, and in fact the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party» which seems, if we understand Revolution, the broadsheet on whose back page that quote appears, to think Mao too conservative.

The current primary - dominated system for selecting presidential candidates has its flaws, but I don't see us going back to a system in which a conclave of party leaders choose the nominee.

Today's dramatic announcement by British politician David Miliband - once widely expected to succeed Gordon Brown as leader of the Labour Party - that he is stepping back from front - line politics completes a chapter in a political psycho - drama that has transfixed the British political classes for months.

U.S. government leaders and an «objective» press described the Sandinistas in Nicaragua as «communist,» «Marxist,» «Marxist / Leninist,» «totalitarian,» «Cuban - backed,» or «Soviet - backed» so often that few U.S. citizens knew that Sweden was giving more aid to Nicaragua per capita than to any other country or that while Nicaragua does have both a Communist party and a Marxist - Leninist party these two parties together received less than 3 percent of the vote and are distinct from and hostile to the Sandinista party.

Their religious leaders of the world who completely back the republican party that is responsible for the 850 billion a year military since Reagan days (trillions and trillions since) are now blaming Obama for it?

This was our young full back and not the Gannex wearing, pipe smoking Labour party leader of the time.

The senator's main focus, however, seems to be on helping fellow Democrats elsewhere in the country, in hopes that his party will see success in winning back the majority, allowing Schumer to succeed Majority Leader Harry Reid retires at the end of the year.

The National League for Democracy (NLD) has recently won 43 of 45 seats contested in a recent by - election and their leader and pro-democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, beat her rival, former military doctor U Soe Min of the Junta - backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), in Kawhmu township just outside Yangon.

Jarvis» well - documented military background taught him all about refusing to back down when confronted by the enemy — and is one of the reasons why he is regularly touted as a future Labour leader by many on the party's moderate wing.

Austin Shafran, and his family has been part of the Queens Democratic Party going back to the days of the parking scandal during the Koch years the then Queens Boro President, and Queens County Leader took his own life.

That's why we're backing candidates who have proven themselves as champions of working people,» said Mike Fishman, President of 32BJ SEIU and a leader in the Working Families Party.

Peter Robinson will be the new leader of the Democratic Unionist party (DUP) after its assembly group unanimously backed him this morning.

Her approval ratings are also now the highest of any party leader across the UK, with even many English voters saying they would back her party next month given the chance.

Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence party, went further, saying Cameron's claims that he would «claw back more powers» were disingenuous.

Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno deemed Giuliani «Judas» for turning his back on the party's nominee, little - known state Sen. George Pataki, who ended up defeating Mario Cuomo in what was widely attributed more to voters» rejection of the liberal incumbent than their desire to see a GOP legislator from Peekskill in the executive mansion.

As the final numbers came in, the current leader was said to have secured the backing of 285 Constituency Labour Parties.

As one panelist described it: «He's backed up by, pretty much, the leaders of all other political parties and so many people in positions of authority

«For the time being any past leader and even those who held office at the highest level have to be circumspect - including me - about our pronouncements and interventions which might have the exact opposite effect as was intended,» he accepts, before adding: «It doesn't mean that any of us simply should be told to get back in the box and go away, and fail to express a lifetime's experience or commitment to the party, but it does mean we need to be very careful.»

Friends of Dugdale have since pointed out that Rowley, when seeking election as the Scottish Party's deputy leader last year, promised that if he won he would not accept a protected place at the top of one of the lists from which a 56 of Holyrood's 129 MSPs are elected under a system of proportional representation only to go back on his word as soon as he won that particular race.

For a start the bright sparks behind the idea chose to post their video just hours after all party leaders had given their backing to the charity single recorded by a cross party choir of politicians being released in memory of murdered MP Jo Cox and designed to raise cash for the foundation in her name.

WFP leaders had accused Cuomo of creating the Women's Equality Party ballot line last year as a way to potentially undermine the left - leaning, union - backed pParty ballot line last year as a way to potentially undermine the left - leaning, union - backed partyparty.

Second, a number of opposition MPs — who might have been expected to oppose legislation that empowers government censorship — backed the bill, against the stated position of their party leaders.

A reader could not help but noting the irony of this statement from state Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs in response to former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's conviction on federal corruption charges back in May 2010:

Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro has secured enough GOP support to win a slot on its ticket, and now has almost double the backing of his nearest rival in the contest for the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination, Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco.

State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs confirmed the NYT report that he has tendered his resignation to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, clearing the way for the governor to select his own leader of an organization of which he became the de facto head when he was elected back in 2010.

The chairman of the state Democratic party and a group of influential union leaders are calling on New York Senate Democrats to back the re-election of eight breakaway Dems who recently returned to the fold.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi indicated that her party would like to roll back the tax reform law passed last year if they gain control of Congress this November.

One of the co-founders of PCCC took national Democrats to task for failing to join local party leaders in backing Balter, a university professor in Syracuse, instead choosing to woo attorney Juanita Perez Williams, a failed Syracuse mayoral candidate, into the race and setting up a primary fight for the Democratic line.

Here is a question; Would Jeremy Corbyn be leader of the Labour party today if he hadn't had the unequivocal backing of the general secretary of the UK's biggest trade union?

CONSERVATIVES should embrace a more open and liberal outlook to win the backing of younger voters, according to Scottish party leader Ruth Davidson.

It is caught between a leader who is unpopular among the party's MPs and the broader electorate, but hugely popular with the large influx of members and supporters that joined the party in 2015 to back his leadership bid.

It is a race that is, at the very least, bound to be entertaining — the Queens County Democratic Party has backed Ms. Meng, even though Ms. Crowley is first cousins with the leader of the party, Congressman Joe CroParty has backed Ms. Meng, even though Ms. Crowley is first cousins with the leader of the party, Congressman Joe Croparty, Congressman Joe Crowley.

Nixon arrived at the Albany Hilton as debate over the endorsement pinged back and forth in a basement ballroom, only entering to applause after the results of ballot — which she ultimately carried with 91.5 % of the vote — were confirmed and trumpeted by party leaders.

Despite Callaghan's protestations that she should go back to university, she campaigned for his victory alongside Neil Kinnock (the future leader of the Labour party), Glenys Kinnock and Rhodri Morgan, whom she would marry in 1967.

During the election campaign, decision makers from Bucharest have backed the current governing coalition, a move that, in theory at least, could have significant implications for relations between the two countries if Igor Dodon, the leader of Moldova's opposition Socialist Party and the pre-election favourite, manages to win the contest on 30 October.

But leaders of the party said Saturday they would not play into Cuomo's «divide and conquer» tactics, instead nominating longtime state committee member Kenny Schafer as a placeholder candidate — a move, POLITICO reported Thursday, that gives them the option of backing whomever is picked by the Democratic Party during its convention in the coming party said Saturday they would not play into Cuomo's «divide and conquer» tactics, instead nominating longtime state committee member Kenny Schafer as a placeholder candidate — a move, POLITICO reported Thursday, that gives them the option of backing whomever is picked by the Democratic Party during its convention in the coming Party during its convention in the coming week.

Today's endorsement in a battleground swing district proves to the Democratic faithful in New York state that Cuomo is not just a member of their party, but the leader of it, backing an incumbent lawmaker who made a tough but valuable vote at a critical time in the campaign.

Ms. Richardson ran for district leader in 2014 with the support of the Clarkes and their Progressive Democrats Political Association Club, but lost the party position by a few hundred votes to Shirley Patterson — who is also running for Mr. Camara's seat on the Independence Party line, with the backing of the Kings County Democratic Party establishparty position by a few hundred votes to Shirley Patterson — who is also running for Mr. Camara's seat on the Independence Party line, with the backing of the Kings County Democratic Party establishParty line, with the backing of the Kings County Democratic Party establishParty establishment.

The Independence party leader, finance minister Bjarni Benediktsson, whose name also appeared in the leaked documents in connection with a Seychelles - based company of which he once owned a third, was holding talks with Grímsson, who flew back early from the US to sound out all of Iceland's parliamentary party representatives as the island's political crisis deepened on Tuesday.