Sentences with phrase «consensus candidate»
A "consensus candidate" is a person chosen or agreed upon by a group of people, where there is general agreement or a shared opinion. They are often selected because they are acceptable or satisfactory to everyone involved. Full definition
In fact, they all insisted on primaries and no suggestion of consensus candidate came up.
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the division is about unjustly producing consensus candidate for political office.
Old Etonian, but position as head of MPs» anti-sleaze watchdog could see him emerge as consensus candidate.
For now, the name of a former Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi is making the rounds as the likely party consensus candidate.
He doesn't dislike Saari's system — it often produces a better consensus candidate than the plurality method, assuming voters rank the candidates sincerely.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich still harbors hopes of emerging as a consensus candidate after multiple ballots but he lacks stature with national Republicans annoyed that he is still in the race, and he is deeply distrusted by ideological conservatives.
D.J. Moore has emerged as the consensus candidate with six mocks placing him as the Cowboys pick.
The possibility of a three - way primary and a GOP - Conservative split has made some Republican county chairs so nervous about a re-do of 2010 that they're looking for a consensus candidate and have approached Rep. Bob Turner to consider challenging Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
«I'm going to propose if we can't come to a consensus candidate that we change the party rules at the meeting in September and we do a co-chairman situation,» Panepinto said.
The possibility of trying to get Long, Carvin and Maragos to step aide to clear the way for a consensus candidate, potentially Rep. Bob Turner, has been discussed, although no action had been taken as of yesterday afternoon.
This sort of mishegoss is exactly what the GOP county chairs pushing for Turner as a consensus candidate are hoping to avoid.
Also asked if the issue of a consensus candidate was deliberated at the meeting Dokpesi said «no, but that did not mean there were no discussion among the aspirants.
They also accused him of mismanagement of party funds and a covert plan for a consensus candidate to favour his preferred aspirant in the botched primary last Saturday.
They carried placards with various inscriptions including, «We have lost confidence in Jide Awe,» «Jide Awe in shady business with Fayose,» «No to consensus candidate,» «Jide Awe and his gang masterminded primary disruption,» «Treacherous aspirants, leave our party for us,» and «Primary must be decided, allow delegates to decide.»
Awe is sponsoring a candidate against the constitution of the party and when that fails, he proposed a consensus candidate when a primary was already in process.
In a communiqué at the end of the meeting, the elders and stakeholders stated that they agreed to set up a committee to search and present a consensus candidate for the 2019 presidential election.
Elders and key actors in the politics of northern Nigeria, on Saturday, converged on Abuja to brainstorm on strategies to be adopted to pick a consensus candidate from the region for the 2019 presidential election.
Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Prof. Kolapo Olusola, has emerged as the consensus candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2018 governorship election.
The Queens Democrats aren't scheduled to vote on who they'll run in retiring Rep. Gary Ackerman's stead until tomorrow at 8:30 a.m., but party leaders plan on putting forth a consensus candidate they will select by the end of the day today.
Meanwhile, the PDP caucus in the House of Representatives is looking into the possibility of zeroing on a consensus candidate for the party's national chairman..
Daniel, who spoke to journalists at the end of the meeting, however, expressed the hope that the aspirants could still choose a consensus candidate among them.
Tuesday's night meeting was the second the aspirants would hold to discuss the possibility of having a consensus candidate.
He (Tinubu) made it clear that there is no plan for consensus candidate.
A Second Republic Lawmaker, Junaid Muhammed, has declared that the North can not produce a consensus candidate because the region is divided.
Ango Abdullahi, spokesperson of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), has rubbished claims of the North plotting to adopt a consensus candidate for the 2019 presidential elections...
But the Senate is controlled by Republicans, and the Assembly by Democrats, making a consensus candidate more difficult.
Various reactions have greeted the adoption of Deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Prof. Kolapo Olusola, as the consensus candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2018 governorship election.
A consensus candidate to replace Silver has yet to emerge.
«Instead at about the time the elections was scheduled to begin we were informed that a list of 4,704 consensus candidates had been presented to and accepted by the Committee as Ward officers for all the 147 Wards in Zamfara State.»
, the prizes typically go to consensus candidates.
SAG voters have established clear favorites over the years (Alec Baldwin has never lost for «30 Rock»), and, because of the size of the voting body, the prizes typically go to consensus candidates.
I don't care about the rough edges of this guy; the media always blows things out of proportion anyway, and helps foster the consensus candidates that never solve anything.