Sentences with phrase «choosing party leaders»

Members of the public could also register as supporters, rather than members, and have a say in choosing party leaders.

There is no foolproof way to choose a party leader, and what really matters is that vanquished candidates accept their defeat under the current rules.

Michael Howard even mounted an unsuccessful bid to end members» right to choose the party leader.

But the primacy of Cuomo's chosen party leaders, including chair Rachel Gold, was not disputed by the court in Dutchess.

Meanwhile, David Miliband rejected suggestions that he could become Prime Minister if there is a hung parliament, insisting: «We have chosen our party leader.»

The erosion of members» voting rights - although Michael Howard was unsuccessful in his attempt to end the role of members in choosing the party leader, David Cameron has successfully curtailed members» role in selecting Westminster parliamentary candidates and ended their ability to deselect sitting MEPs;

Fight alongside Johnny, Nigel, Mike and Francis in many different locations from lava - filled dungeons to icy peaks: the new battle system encourages new game strategies giving the player the possibility to choose the party leader and simple battle tactics.

Not exact matches

The PSOE's party elders did not choose him for this role, but if Pedro Sánchez takes the lead, in Europe as much as in Spain, and reopens the debate about the euro, acknowledging that the current structure does not work and defining with the help of hindsight what vulnerabilities must be addressed in a reformed European Union, the party's new leader can halt the decline of the PSOE at home and reverse the ugly nationalism spreading through Europe.

Left without its most public faces, notably former leader Danielle Smith, the party will choose its next permanent leader sometime in the next year, likely between the months of March and September.

The Liberals will choose an interim party leader next weekend but the state of the party remains dire.

In the 1935 election, the party went from zero to fifty - six MLAs and did not even have a leader during the election campaign (William Aberhart was chosen as Premier on September 3, 1935).

Candidates have until November 10, 2016 to join the race and party delegates will choose a new leader on March 18, 2017.

United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney has vowed to repeal the carbon tax if he is chosen the next Premier of Alberta, with his first piece of Legislation Bill 1, the Carbon Tax Repeal Act.

That PASOK would choose last night to strike such a ridiculous pose is a bad sign for how long the coalition will hang together as the leaders of both coalition parties constantly put their own party's short - term interests over the public interest.

Meanwhile, 5000 small business leaders urged voters to choose the Conservative Party on May 7th in an open letter to the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

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.

Whatever seeming consistencies in your Bible were purposefully selected by early Church leaders in choosing only ancient Middle Eastern writings which toed their «party line».

The Republican chosen by local party leaders to oppose Hochul was so tone - deaf and so noncommittal on important core GOP issues, its understandable that a young no BS combat vet might not be so patient with her.

d) Just like people in wealthier states choose to «invest» more into interpersonal relationships, business leaders have accomplished something in the field of business and search for a different kind of satisfaction - and party members elect them simply because they are famous / successful.

It will further encourage political parties to choose a certain kind of leader who can dominate a gladiatorial politics rather than one who, perhaps, is best skilled at building a broadly - based party.

Since the ALP caucus chooses its leader behind closed doors, there should be no need to wash the party's dirty linen in public.

This raises some interesting questions about how parties choose their leaders.

In other advanced democracies, parties typically adopt more inclusive ways of choosing their leaders.

I hope the party leaders knew what they were doing when they chose Buerkle over a self funded Mark Bitz.

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.

To avoid choosing a leader that is unacceptable to the parliamentary party, members are presented with a «shortlist» of candidates nominated by MPs.

However, in a direct reply via a Facebook post, the leader of the Progressive People's Party (PPP) said: «My Lord, I know you did not choose Bokassa, Iddi Amin, Jammeh, and others for Africa or Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and their type for the world.

If the party in question wins a majority (so that the unelected leader would ordinarily become PM), is there any protocol that determines how a Prime Minister would be chosen under these circumstances?

It's interesting that Crowley chose to register this committee (although she's hardly the only district leader to do so), because there's some question as to whether party official elections will take place at all this year, thanks to the chaos caused by redistricting.

Who David Cameron chooses to appoint as Britain's next European commissioner is going to be critical for the UK's standing on the continent — and for his position as leader of the Conservative party.

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.

-LSB-...] Watson MP, on the Liberal Conspiracy blog, on why the Labour Party should take its time in choosing a new leader.

Labour's moderates would have to argue that it is important for the party to stay in the game in anticipation of another close election result, and not throw it away by choosing a leader who would split the party, lacks prime - ministerial credibility and has a narrow electoral appeal.

Geoff Berman, the leader of the state's Democratic Party who was chosen by Cuomo, issued a statement on DeFrancisco's candidacy.

With their votes at the party conference, they could help to push through rule changes that assisted the centrists — perhaps to reintroduce the old electoral college for choosing leaders — and overturn the left's majority on the NEC, as they did in the early 1980s.

One theory, developed by Leonard Stark and deployed by me and other researchers, assumes that there is a hierarchy of selection criteria that guide the process of choosing a leader, and these criteria match parties» three fundamental goals: internal unity, winning an election and implementing policy in government.

It's a critical decision which explains why a man so desperate to escape from the grasp of the Conservative whips could choose to pledge his allegiance to another party leader.

He demanded union party members should be given the right to choose Labour candidates in constituencies, have an «equal say» in the election of the party leader and the «right to a level playing field in the party where their views and votes count as much» as other party members.

«There should have been no question of the right of half a million Labour party members to choose their own leader being overturned.

Ditching Brown gave Labour a popularity boost of around four percentage points, but political parties rarely think strategically when choosing replacement leaders.

Leadership elections in these three parties raise the question of how they choose their leaders.

Labour previously used an electoral college of MPs / MEPs, party members and trade unionists to choose its leaders, including Ed Miliband in 2010.

23rd July 2015, The Independent: Just who are these Labour Party members who will be choosing the new leader?

When the Labour Party chooses a leader, its members are not merely selecting a national spokesperson or an organiser - in - chief.

Rarely after losing a race can someone claim victory - but, I feel we did win last year, because conservative Republicans and Tea Party members sent a crystal clear message to GOP leaders in New York and Washington that choosing liberals to run as Republicans would not be taken lying down.

Asked about the role of the Democratic party leaders in choosing the speaker, the CM said, «at the end of this process the Progressive Caucus will coordinate with the county organizations to elect Melissa Mark - Viverito as the speaker.»

We don't know for sure when the SNP's new deputy leader will be chosen - arrangements will be decided in «due course», the party says.

Finally, even though Blair is usually regarded as a «dominant» leader by virtue of his force of personality, popular appeal and the very favourable conditions he enjoyed at the start of his premiership, he failed to consolidate his position and was eventually forced by a distrustful parliamentary party to step down at a time not of his own choosing.

Last month, the party announced it would choose Nixon, 52, over Cuomo — angering many union leaders and county Democratic Party chparty announced it would choose Nixon, 52, over Cuomo — angering many union leaders and county Democratic Party chParty chairs.

It has always been possible for ordinary party members to choose a leader that MPs wouldn't like, but other parties haven't fallen into quite such a hole as a result.