Sentences with phrase «country free and fair elections»

«I promised the country free and fair elections.

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The U.K. is currently providing # 91 million in aid to Zimbabwe for the 2017/18 financial year, including an additional # 5 million announced in February to support free and fair elections in the country.

The White House said Pence would use his address to the Organization of American States to call on nations to increase pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to address the country's humanitarian crisis, release political prisoners and hold free and fair elections.

He said the party, from its small beginnings, had made some remarkable strides in the political history of the country by winning four free, fair and transparent elections in the country and was poised to win its fifth in 2016.

For many countries, then, the challenge is keeping the population constructively engaged in the democratic process following successful free and fair elections.

James, It has to be based on specific judgements about whether there are free and fair elections, and other aspects of democracy, in each country.

In 2006, Staffan Lindberg published his influential argument that the repeated holding of elections increases the quality of democracy in a country, measured in terms of respect for civil liberties, even if the elections are not fully free and fair.

The Supreme Court is now the only hope for the future use and sustenance of the card reader to sanitize, promote free, fair and credible elections in this country.

The Chairman of the Electoral Committee, Kenneth Mozia (SAN), who supervised the opening of the forms, assured the aspirants and members of the NBA that his committee would do its best in conducting not just a free, fair and credible election but one that would serve as a model for future elections in the country and beyond.

Jerome Bonso, Chairman of the National League for Free and Fair Elections, told IRIN in Kinshasa underlines that these elections are taking place in a different context from 2006: «We have to consider events such as the Arab spring where the population spearheaded change in their countries» leElections, told IRIN in Kinshasa underlines that these elections are taking place in a different context from 2006: «We have to consider events such as the Arab spring where the population spearheaded change in their countries» leelections are taking place in a different context from 2006: «We have to consider events such as the Arab spring where the population spearheaded change in their countries» leadership.

He said it was refreshing that many African countries had held democratic elections that were seen as free and fair.

«The board is fully persuaded that you have served your country, Nigeria, meritoriously, conducted a free and fair election, in which you lost and yet conceded defeat, a development seeing by many in the continent as historical.

Tat stated that the interest of U.S was to ensure that a free and fair election is being conducted in order to set a higher standard in organisation of election in the country.

He lamented that the legacy of free, fair and credible elections bequeathed on Nigeria by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government of Dr Goodluck Jonathan was already being destroyed by the President Muhammadu Buhari led All Progressives Congress (APC) government owing to the APC's desperation to take over all States in the country by crude means.

According to a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Tunji Bello on behalf of the State Governor, the government said the holiday was in honour of the ideals which June 12, 1993 Presidential election represents being a day that the country experienced an election that was adjudged as the freest and fairest in Nigeria's history.

«You know in that part of the country having a free and fair elections is not normal and we have to make it normal this time.

Governor Ganduje, on Friday while addressing State House journalists after meeting President Buhari, said the All Progressives Congress was determined to ensure a free and fair election in Rivers because having such «is not normal in that part of the country.»

The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmud Yakubu, has said that the 2019 election will be better than the 2015 election adjudged to be free and fair within and outside the country.

We must ensure that elections in this country are credible, transparent, free and fair.

He said «we will cover the election but we will not pay the money that the EC is demanding and we are going to see what decision the EC is going to take against journalists who intend to cover free and fair and peaceful election in accordance with the constitution of the country.»

The simple reality is that INEC under this Buhari's kinsman, Prof Yakubu, who is fast becoming the classical example of incompetence, can not guarantee free and fair elections in this country.»

Speaking further, he said there was nothing wrong with the country's electoral system, said; «It was the same electoral system that producedthe present APC government of President Muhammadu Buhari, in an election adjudged as relatively free, fair and credible.

The final pledge in the mid term review is the most obscure «we will help 13 countries to hold free and fair elections».

«Unless security agencies agree for free and fair elections to hold, the unity of the country may come under severe threat.»

Wike said, «The most dangerous threat to the unity of the country is not the agitations by different ethnic groups, but the inability of INEC to conduct free and fair elections.

As you may know, CODEO's primary and broad objective is to complement the efforts of Ghana's Electoral Commission and indeed all stakeholders in ensuring transparent, free, fair and peaceful elections in the country.

At previous anniversaries, leading politicians and activists gathered at various locations to reminisce and commemorate the poll adjudged the freest and fairest in the annals of elections in the country.

The presidential election that was annulled by then President Ibrahim Babangida's administration was described as the country's freest and fairest poll, and which apparently ushered in the present dispensation of democracy in Nigeria.

We still haven't come sufficiently close to free and fair elections; a lot of people are disenfranchised by poverty and illiteracy; we are largely excluded from the governance of our own country; and, very critically, we lack good governance.

The party called on Buhari to ensure that the election went free and fair, adding that the number of inconclusive elections in the country was worrisome.

Mr Amissah - Arthur assured that all the agencies of government are making sure that the country conducts «free and fair elections,» indicating that is what Ghanaians want because the country «has become a model for true democracy in Africa».

Their testimony paints an extraordinary picture of how far a western company would contemplate going in an effort to undermine the democratic process in a country that already struggles to provide free and fair elections.