Sentences with phrase «contests elections»

Asifa Bhutto, Benazir's youngest daughter and one of her potential successors, promised to «vote for her whenever she contests elections.»

Jeyaretnam was eventually declared a bankrupt and, for a time, barred from contesting elections.

Peltz, who continues to contest the election results, has said regardless of the outcome he will continue to pressure the company.

The lawsuits would have required Cohen to submit to an evidence discovery process, forcing him to produce documentation and sworn testimony about his activities before the closely contested election.

GATE SWX — April 14, 2016 The annual meeting of gategroup Holding AG involves a contested election of directors.

Shareholders voting by proxy will have an unprecedented opportunity to support avowedly independent nominees proposed by an institutional investor in a contested election.

On April 23, 2012, Alberta's most hotly contested election in decades culminated with the re-election of the twelfth consecutive Progressive Conservative majority government since 1971.

This includes Kenya, where Facebook and WhatsApp were used to spread fake news in a tightly - contested election where over 100 people died.

This has proven to be an effective way for companies to reach institutional shareholders directly, empowering clients with more information while providing an opportunity to pose questions directly to company executives and directors as well as shareholder proponent and dissident nominees in contested elections.

This is the first time it has said it will contest elections if they are tainted.

Glass Lewis hosted a Proxy Talk conference call with the nominees for a contested election at the annual meeting of Vale S.A., which is to be held on 20 April.

The campaigns for and against a constitutional convention may be only every 20 years, but spending by supporters and foes this year is on par with expenditures in a hotly contested election.

According to Mr Obi - Okoye sections 140 and 141 of the Electoral Act 2010 as amended that though the Supreme Court gave victory to the Oguebego - led executive of Anambra PDP, the candidates in his line - up did not have the opportunity to contest the election.

According to him, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings voluntarily resigned her position as Vice Chairperson of NDC and picked a form to contest the election as Presidential Candidate of the NDC.

While a provisional party, associated with the Provisional IRA, contested elections while refusing to take their seats.

Today, far more leaders are appointed through contested elections, not least thanks to the adoption of the Harare Principles by the Commonwealth Heads of Government in 1990 when John Major was prime minister.

The police responded by declaring the Senator wanted for leaving the force to contest an election without following due process or getting the right permission.

It is therefore trite that the right to contest election by any citizen can only be abridged by a valid order of a court of record.

Okonkwo, who insists that he is now a senator - elect by virtue of the Supreme Court ruling of January 29 that made him the authentic candidate of the PDP for the polls, picked holes in APC's claims that he did not contest the elections and as such can not be senator - elect.

A total of 218 candidates contested the election (compared with 257 in 2007).

President Mahama, it would be recalled, lost the December 7, 2016 Presidential Election to his NPP rival, Nana Akufo - Addo in a keenly contested election, a situation most Ghanaians have bemoaned considering the six years of infrastructural achievements the country experienced while he held sway.

Kenya goes to the polls in closely contested election — in pictures View gallery Odinga supporters interviewed by the Guardian in recent days said their leader had been robbed of victory in the last two elections, but that they would not take to the streets if they believed they had been fairly defeated this time.

Another contested election or mistreatment of the opposition could endanger Ghana's economic and political progress.

The fact that we are having contested elections at all and that — while her opponents may argue differently — Cristina and her former - President husband Néstor Kirchner have led the country through 8 years of relatively stable prosperity is not to be taken for granted given this country's history.

The former Minister reportedly told the women that the movement was going to sponsor any member, who would show interest in contesting elections at the district level.

Several Long Island villages hold elections for mayor and board seats on Tuesday, including contested elections in six villages.

According to him, though he knew many National Democratic Congress (NDC) supporters were disenchanted with the party's leadership, he chose to endorse Mr Mahama because the former president reached out to console him after the Electoral Commission disqualified him from contesting the elections.

So what Labour has to lose by the idea of a further almost certainly futile round of leadership speculation is the chance to contest the election effectively.

In June 2009, the English Democrats contested elections to the European Parliament.

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Blair Horner, NYPIRG Executive Director said: «New York's voter participation rates are anemic, even in high profile, contested elections.

If he goes to contest elections in the constituency where he comes from, can he win that election?

«Those who were compiling the register had ambitions to contest the elections so in one way or the other it was compromised.

While the verdict was certainly disappointing for Raila Odinga and his supporters, the decision to contest the election through the Courts and — most crucially of all — accept its verdict, is a powerful vote of confidence in Kenya's reformed judiciary.

This grants an unfair advantage by allowing convicted legislators to contest elections, while at the same time denying the right to those who are convicted but do not hold office.

If there is one party that generally has stronger control in a region, instead of squandering financial and manpower resources contesting every election, including ones where they have almost no chance of winning, opposition parties will target just positions where they think they can be competitive, leaving others unopposed.

One of them said the Akufo - Addo government has lost the goodwill of Ghanaians, hence their call on Mr Mahama to contest the election and continue from where he left off, insisting that those who voted for Akufo - Addo are quietly waiting for Election Day 2020 to kick him out.

Unlike some other proposals that bar candidates from contesting elections if charged with criminal cases, this solution would not vitiate the presumption of innocence, and should be seen as a «privilege» given to elected representatives, an opportunity to quickly clear their names of malicious or frivolous allegations.

Less than a year from the most tightly - contested election in modern history, the opposition leader should be doing anything but playing it safe.

As if by design, Nii Armah Ashitey's close pal, Daoud Anum Yemoh of Domeabra - Obom is also alleged to be behind a court case intended to deny the NDC 2016 parliamentary candidate for the area, Sophia Karen Ackuku, the opportunity to contest the election.

While the Representation of People Act, 1951 debars candidates convicted of serious offences from contesting elections for six years after their release from prison, Section 8 (4) of the same Act makes an exception for sitting legislators.

Odinga's decision to contest the election through the Courts stands in sharp contrast to the disputed election of 2007 - 08.

Perhaps the party, and its new leader, would have benefited from the open debate of a contested election but playing the gallant losing candidate did not appeal.

Two former party rebels, former SNP local councillor Bev Gauld and former Labour councillor Danny Meikle, contest the election as independent candidates.

Dodds has contested elections for the Welsh Liberal Democrats for the area of Montgomeryshire, contesting both the Westminster seat and the Assembly Seat.

Celebrities and contested elections are exciting, so a lot of New Yorkers are hoping she pulls the trigger.

No 57300 DSP Mohammed Isa Hamman absconded from duty and deserted the Force on the 24th September, 2010 but contested the Bauchi central senatorial election in 2011 general elections under Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), and got suspected forged retirement letter dated 5th March, 2014, this means that for four years, he is still a Police Officer which made it a criminal act for him to contest election as a Police Officer in service and this is another fraud the Police is investigating against him.

«The 2012 redistricting process was business as usual in Albany, with the majority parties controlling the process and lines being drawn for partisan purposes rather than in the best interests of voters, with greater candidate choice and more contested elections,» said Dick Dadey, Executive Director of Citizens Union.

we need to play active role and even contest election.

• In 1968, Akufo Addo's father chaired the Constitutional Committee that recommended to the NLC that a long term ban be placed on the CPP to prevent the party and its functionaries from contesting elections in Ghana.