Sentences with phrase «calling early elections»

'' (The ongoing standoff between the euro zone and Greece) also increases the chances of snap elections in Greece as after overplaying his hand and facing increasing difficulties in concluding the review, Tsipras may be tempted to cut his losses by calling early elections before Syriza (the ruling party) loses more support for adopting unpopular measures,» Piccoli said.

James Swanson, chief investment strategist at MFS Investment Management in Boston, suggested that Kuroda's fate was tied to that of Abe's, who he says called an early election as a «reaffirmation» of his economic growth platform.

Mr Prentice didn't have to call an early election in order to validate his pro-business budget but he chose to do so anyway.

In addition she will have no cause to call an early election.

Theresa May has a new argument for calling an early election.

May is a prime minister who called an early election and lost an overall majority.

But fleetingly Cameron became a reformer and introduced an act that makes it very difficult for a Prime Minister to call an early election.

The first of those circumstance has been tried and tested — a motion of the House of Commons receiving a two - thirds vote of all MPs (not just those voting on the day) to call an early election.

Typically, the prime minister can not decide to call an early election alone.

The FTPA is therefore best understood as an Act that restricts the prime minister's discretion to call early elections, not as an Act that fixes the parliamentary term.

The Fixed - term Parliaments Act (FTPA) was introduced by the Conservative - Liberal coalition government in 2011, primarily to prevent David Cameron, the prime minister at the time, from seizing on the first significant poll lead for the Conservatives to call an early election and win a Conservative majority.

The FPTA removed that prerogative power and instead placed the authority to call early elections in the hands of parliament.

If she called an early election she might win her own landslide majority, a much more formidable parliamentary context for her bumpy Brexit ride.

This would help the economy in the short term and challenge the Coalition to either agree or call an early election

If she called an early election the spell would be broken.

While voters may punish Mrs May for calling an early election for partisan interest, that punishment is unlikely to overwhelm their underlying approval of her leadership and of her government's performance.

In the hypothetical case that every member of the government (president and vice president included) wanted to call an early election, replacing the sitting president and vice president, would they be allowed to?

Let's not forget that, unlike previous prime ministers, Cameron will not be able to call an early election at a convenient time, unless he changes the law and abandons the Fixed - term Parliaments Act — which his government introduced.

First, the run on the Northern Rock bank sent a clear signal to voters about the approaching recession, then he made a botch of dampening speculation about the chances of him calling an early election.

Final option is NOT to change leader and DO call an early election.

If they change leader and DO call an early election, they will most certainly not be able to form a government and will probably end up about the same size as the LD.

The impeachment vote came a day after opposition parties signed an agreement with Yanukovych on a political settlement to form a unity government, call early elections and reform the constitution.

The prime minister has insisted she will not call an early election — despite her slim majority and the Tories» commanding and consistent polling advantage over Labour.

But these results will add weight to those within the party who are calling on the Prime Minister to call an early election.

The word from Downing Street had repeatedly been that May opposed calling an early election, as there was too much to do with the Brexit talks approaching to justify taking time out.

As a result May is uniquely unchallenged and her party knows that if she were to call an early election it would win easily.

Sources told the Sun on Sunday Theresa May would not call an early election and instead was plotting a «slow death» for Labour.

Mr Watson said it was «highly likely» Theresa May will call an early election saying: «Honestly, why wouldn't you?

A successor to Mr Cameron is planned to be in place by Conservative Party conference in October and it is expected that whoever is chosen will immediately come under pressure to call an early election.

One politician said «a lot of MPs» had been panicking over suggestions Boris would call an early election — and said it «could have pushed 20 people away from him».

JON SOPEL: But do you think Gordon Brown should call an early election?

While Gordon Brown's actual decision on whether or not to call an election will obviously be based on practicialities like cost and whether he can win it or not, not whether the polls say the public want one, the figures suggest that if Brown does call an early election the public will not see it as unecessary and punish him for it, and if he doesn't and the opposition parties call for one they will have public support on their side.

December 30, 2014 • Markets in Greece were hit hard after the country called early elections.

Standard & Poors has downgraded the State's credit rating to AA + and Anna Bligh has called an early election.

Bill C - 16, an amendment to the Canada Elections Act, was intended to fix the election date for the third Monday in October 2009, to prevent politically opportune moves to call an early election.

«Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has called an early election for 14 October in a bid to strengthen his minority Conservative government.

Lawyer seeks court order to prevent Alberta Premier from calling early election, Canadian Press

Not exact matches

Comparing the results from lab tests she ran during early and late October with tests she ran the week after the election, she noticed a change she called «extremely stark:» On the whole, negotiating partners were more adversarial in their chat - based communication threads.

Separately, there were at least 18 undisclosed calls and emails between Trump associates and Kremlin - linked people in the seven months before the Nov. 8 presidential election, including six calls with Kislyak, sources told Reuters earlier this month..

David Kotok, Chairman and CIO, Cumberland Advisors joins BNN to give us his thoughts on the U.S. election and also gives us an update on his calls from earlier on in the year.

- If you retire early, you can take what the IRS mellifluously calls «substantially equal periodic payments,» or, even more memorably, a «72 (t) election,» and start withdrawing from a 401 (k) or IRA with no penalty, as long as you continue doing so indefinitely.

Some members of the party's national council are calling for a leadership election as early as May 2016, which would give an advantage to members who are already well - organized.

As the Progressive Conservative Party rushes towards an early election call, party officials are investigating nomination irregularities and allegations of bribery, reports Metro Edmonton.

With trust and accountability having become the defining issues of the election campaign, Mr. Prentice has not presented a compelling reason for Albertans to trust that the PC Party will be any different in the next three years (especially after he called the election one year earlier than the PC Government's fixed election date).

If what is going on is not enough to get this government out of there and call for early elections, I wonder what it is?

NDP MLA Brian Mason and blogger David Climenhaga suggest a snap election could be called in early January 2015, but it could be more likely the Tories would wait until February or March.

The possibility of an early election should be a wake - up call for Alberta's fractious non-conservative opposition parties, who are mostly contained within Alberta's two largest cities.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Indeed, in early Protestantism, ordination was nothing else than the confirmation of the calling and election of the minister.

«The League of Women Voters, Common Cause, NYPIRG and a host of other concerned organizations have repeatedly called upon the Senate Republicans to join us in our call for a unified, early primary election date.