Sentences with phrase «by electoral laws»

Orbih said the party had filed the petition within the stipulated time, as defined by the electoral laws.

Akufo - Addo running away from assets declaration — Kofi AdamsThe flag bearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) should abide by electoral laws and declare his assets if he is not corrupt, governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) Campaign Coordinator Kofi Adams has said.

Not exact matches

One option, cited by Italian newspaper La Republicca, is where the main two parties Lega and M5S agree to allow for an interim technocratic government that would modify the electoral law and pass the budget, with the view to return to elections back in October.

This scandal is only the latest in a string of worrisome disclosures about the use of social media by third parties, from foreign governments and electoral candidates to law enforcement agencies, to spy on the activities of users — especially immigrant, Black and other vulnerable communities.

There is also the prospect of a slew of Tory held by - elections caused by the seeming systematic breach of electoral law at the last election, predominantly in places where Ukip were pressing the Conservatives hard.

That for us should be the «gold standard» but for our different contextual background, one that was characterized by many years of mismanaged elections and a lengthy period of minimalism and «structural capture» of the electoral laws.

Ghana currently has no electoral laws to handle the situation, and the government communique addressing the voter register admits that «Ghana should emulate the example of Kenya by codifying a set of electoral laws which adequately deter electoral fraud.»

The first third consists of a series of short, informative essays on subjects such as by - elections, changes in electoral law since 2005, how the internet will shape the election and the expected demographics of the next House of Commons.

They believe that «the rules, regulations and the legal processes provided in the electoral laws of Ghana are «good enough if observed by all parties to ensure peaceful and credible elections in Ghana on the 7th of December 2016.»

«We don't have to go to Albany and deal with that political dysfunction in order to get this electoral reform,» he said, an apparent reference to that fact that many other voting and election laws are dictated by the state.

We believe that the rules and regulations and the legal processes provided in the electoral laws of Ghana are good enough if observed by all parties to ensure peaceful and credible elections in Ghana on the 7th of December 2016.

He, however, warned politicians and their followers to abide by the rules of the game, saying that any politician or supporter who contravened the electoral law would be arrested and prosecuted.

But the spokesman for the INEC Chairman, Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi, said the electoral body was guided by the law and took decisions based on the provisions of that law.

[78] In July 2005, a new law for electoral reforms was approved which prevented electoral gerrymandering by cutting the number of electoral districts from 25 to 5.

[273][274] The new electoral law was supported by PD and his government ally Popular Alternative, but also by the opposition parties Forza Italia and Lega Nord.

By law, they were not supposed to declare a winner, but they had gone ahead with that, in flagrant disregard for the electoral law,» he said.

In October 2008, the Electoral Commission cleared the Conservative Party of breaking electoral law by using an MIC - funded company, Coleshill Campaigning Services (aka Constituency Campaigning Services), as a front to provide millions of pounds of services to Tories fighting marginal seats.

«If the Commission believes that the privacy protections granted by the IRS undermine accountability in the electoral process, then it should lobby Congress to make changes, but the Commission's charge does not pertain to reevaluation of those federal laws and policies,» the filing says.

It would be recalled that senator Mudashir Husein, a former lawmaker in the state, was disqualified from the Osun West senatorial seat by a 5 - man screening panel constituted by the APC, due to his failure to comply with certain electoral law and party's guidelines.

I don't have any citations for you, but its illegal to bribe state and federal officials, and electoral are defined by a mixture of state and federal laws, so it would almost certainly fall into existing state / federal bribery laws.

«Instead of rushing to disqualify them [the aspirants] contrary to the due process of law (particularly the right to alter or amend as provided by law and natural justice) and gloating on her competence in the unlawful application of C.I. 94 she should have resigned for failing in her functions to educate the aspirants for the complex nomination electoral process and its purpose.»

Corruption attacks the foundation of democratic institutions by distorting electoral processes, perverting the rule of law, causing human rights abuses and creating bureaucratic quagmires leading to public sector corruption which in turn drives private sector corruption.

State - by - state winner - take - all laws to award electoral college votes were eventually enacted by 48 states AFTER the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.

Instead of rushing to disqualify them contrary to the due process of law (particularly the right to alter or amend as provided by law and natural justice) and gloating on her competence in the unlawful application of C.I. 94 she should have resigned for failing in her functions to educate the aspirants for the complex nomination electoral process and its purpose.

Consequently, the PDP rejects in its entirety, this brazen move by the APC and INEC to circumvent the laws and ambush the yet - to - be concluded election by introducing a practice that is completely alien to the constitution and the electoral act.»

In a statement, Martin Amidu said: «Instead of rushing to disqualify them [the aspirants] contrary to the due process of law (particularly the right to alter or amend as provided by law and natural justice) and gloating on her competence in the unlawful application of C.I. 94 she should have resigned for failing in her functions to educate the aspirants for the complex nomination electoral process and its purpose.»

The exact names, dates, term lengths, term limits, electoral systems, electoral districts, and other details are determined by the individual states» laws.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Ado Ekiti has nullified the election of Mr. Oyetunde Ojo, the ACN candidate and an in - law to the former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on the strength of the suit instituted by the National Reformation Party, NTP, alleging that INEC omitted both the name and logo of the party from the electoral papers

The Conservative party will not face an official inquiry into allegations that it broke electoral law by failing to declare News International «s payments to its former head of communications, Andy Coulson, after the elections watchdog concluded that there was insufficient evidence of a breach.

Whatever comes of the allegations being investigated by the Electoral Commission, there is now a considerable case for a review into electoral law in the UK as it currently stands.

Parliament amended the electoral law on 15 January, allowing an estimated one million people displaced by the insurgency to cast their votes.

Under electoral law, political donations can not be made anonymously and must be declared within two months, a deadline the newspaper says Mr Johnson's campaign team missed by four months.

Even though we are required by law to accept the result of the December 7, 2016 polls, it is regrettable to note that the President elect (Akuffo - Addo) is to me a mistake of the Majority because he does not represent the will of the people, bearing in mind the electoral fraud and hacking in to the Electoral Commission's transmission data base.

For example, several localities in USA have laws that, in case of an electoral tie, the winner is determined by a random choice (lots, or coin toss).

Now, a string of emails released under Freedom of Information laws to WhatDoTheyKnow and seen by openDemocracy demonstrate the full scale of the loophole in Britain's electoral rules which allowed Grimes and Vote Leave to spend this extraordinary sum — and the worrying implications it has for British democracy.

Lebanon's new electoral law also allowed generous campaign financing which enabled parties to win votes by offering significant material incentives varying from direct cash (between $ 40 and $ 1000), school tuition fees, gas coupons and healthcare coverage.

The Working Families Party benefits from New York's electoral fusion voting laws that allow cross-endorsement of a single candidate by multiple parties.

Co-ordination between campaign groups is illegal under UK electoral law unless their expenditure is counted together — a law designed to ensure that no one can get around campaign spending limits by setting up front groups.

Under Northern Irish electoral law, the source of this dark money has remained secret but we do know that money came through the Constitutional Research Council, a shadowy group chaired by Richard Cook, a former vice chairman of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.

According to him the difficulties that political parties face in mobilizing and deploying officers to monitor electoral processes will be compounded by the implementation of the law.

A group of good governance advocates under the aegis of «Our Mumu Don Do» movement led by ace musician, Charles Oputa popularly known as Charly Boy, on Tuesday, stormed the office of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to engage with him over what it described as «observable lacuna» in the Nigeria's electoral laws.

Nigerian opposition parties on Friday called for a change in electoral laws to allow municipal polls to be overseen by the national election commission and not «partisan» state authorities.

The party's flagbearer, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, wife of former President Rawlings, was disqualified by the Electoral Commission for failing to meet some requirements of the electoral laws ahead of the December polls.

«We want the National Assembly to amend the electoral laws so that local government elections will henceforth be organised by INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria),» a coalition of 16 parties said in a statement.

«The Command wishes to call on all Bayelsans to shun any act of electoral violence in whatever form as any infraction of the law will be dealt with decisively by the Police» he said.

«Unfortunately, the recent absurdity promoted by INEC in the case of double registration involving Governor Yahaya Bello has emboldened him to violate another electoral law with the recent political rally he organised in Okene purportedly to receive food is ready politicians from PDP to his party.

The opposition party also claimed that the amendment of the state's electoral laws few days to the polls by the Lagos State House of Assembly is illegal.

35 days: introduce new laws to allow a referendum to be held on electoral reform — the alternative vote - plus system proposed by the late Lord Jenkins — that would be held on day 100.

«We know that the system as it's currently structured under our state law literally can not keep up with the reality of our modern democracy,» de Blasio said, bemoaning the state's «arcane» electoral laws kept in place by entrenched lawmakers in Albany.

But — and here we have the best argument possible for increased local autonomy instead of less — because of state law, hammered out in back rooms by powerful union interests, local voters were denied their electoral rights.