Sentences with phrase «directly elected»

For some people, there was acceptance that a directly elected process may not produce this result.

[125] Coombs firmly believed it would be a more robust structure than the directly elected NAC that he was reviewing.

The first government - sponsored national Indigenous organisation, the NACC, divided the country into electoral constituencies each of which directly elected a member to the Council.

[126] O'Donoghue again, in the 1986 consultations that eventually led to ATSIC, proposed a mixed model of delegates from organisations and communities for regional assemblies, with national representatives directly elected, [127] though she admitted there were some difficulties to be dealt with.

The legislative process of the EU may be generally simplified in this way: the European Commission, i.e. a body of supposedly independent experts appointed by the European Council (see, the 28, soon 27, heads of State or government of its Member States) and approved by the European Parliament (the only institutions directly elected by EU citizens), has the initiative to table legislation.

The Florida Constitution established the Clerk & Comptroller as a constitutional officer, directly elected by and accountable to Palm Beach County citizens.

We have a directly elected chair, a directly elected managing partner, an executive committee of eight, of whom two are the chair and the managing partner.

These additional powers make it possible for citizens (indirectly, through their directly elected Members of Parliament in the EP) to withhold approval of international agreements that raise legitimacy questions.

They are directly elected representatives of the people.

Six members are appointed by the Santa Monica City Council, six are directly elected by property owners within the district, and one is the Santa Monica City Manager or his / her designee.

Superintendents directly elected by voters, as is the case in 14 states, are probably less likely to take these risks.

London is the only English region with directly elected local governance.

GPs will have the power to choose how to spend resources in order to achieve the best health outcomes, and we will ensure that PCT boards include directly elected individuals who can speak for patients at board level so that local people have a voice when decisions are made about local health provision.

At the same time an election for a directly elected mayor was held, which was won by the Liberal Democrat Dorothy Thornhill.

However, a 50 % turnout threshold would have prevented the introduction of a directly elected mayor of London, for the 72 % yes vote in the 1998 referendum was secured on a turnout of just 35 %.

Rahman, who defeated official Labour candidate Helal Abbas in last month's election to become directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets, has asked Livingstone to broker his return to the Labour fold.

She saw the reform as part of a wider package including directly elected mayors, votes at 16 and primaries for the election of parliamentary candidates.

More than anything, the case of Lutfur Rahman illustrates that directly elected mayors are wholly out of place in this country.

The Coalition Agreement specifies the introduction of «measures to make the police more accountable through oversight by a directly elected individual».

At a national level reform measures could / should include an elected second chamber, a directly elected post of Prime Minister, and open primaries for all members of Parliament, giving the people the power to apply their own checks and balances to the system as well as allowing individuals to chose their Parliamentary representatives free of party machines.

From June 2010 chairs of select committees have been directly elected by a secret ballot of the whole House of Commons using the alternative vote system.

When Stoke experimented with a directly elected mayor at the turn of the millennium, it elected the progressive independent, Mike Wolfe, whose campaign was heavily critical of «Labour dinosaurs».

This argument is supported by the fact «in areas that have held more than one election for a directly elected Mayor the turnout second time around has generally been higher than it had been for the first election».

«Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, you can even throw in Albany — there you have school boards directly elected by voters,» he said.

Result — a directly elected chamber of 120 Senators, who would be broadly reflective of public opinion.

Create 46 directly elected senators and abolish the rest of the House of Lords.

There are numerous tiers of government in the UK for which voters are regularly asked to cast their ballots, including local councils, directly elected mayors, police and crime commissioners, national assemblies and parliaments.The first past the post system for local councils in England and Wales as well as Westminster also means that the nuances of local politics can vary significantly from place to place.

With a moratorium on new life peers, 46 new directly elected «senators» would represent barely 6 % of the House, merely a quarter of the number appointed in this parliament and exactly half those there by accident of birth.

The London Borough of Newham is a one - party state with a directly elected Labour Mayor and 60 Labour councillors.

Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) are directly elected across England and Wales, in 41 different constituents corresponding to local police services.

Starting this year, commissioners are set to be directly elected for four - year terms, to serve a maximum of two consecutive terms in power.

However, Boris also needs to use his «bully pulpit» to smash the institutional resistance and complacency which he will find in some areas of the Metropolitan Police establishment; he must stand up as the directly elected representative of Londoners and demand action from London's police.

Only 24 % of people in areas with elections think directly elected Police and Crime Commissioners will make the police more accountable

Vines last year became Ukip's first directly elected councillor in Rotherham in a byelection.

ELECTION Overwhelming support for a directly elected mayor in Copeland.

Eyecatching specifics include the removal of 50 % pension tax relief, mutualising of some major banks, including the 600 branches of Lloyds TSB, and directly elected mayors in six major English cities without holding referendums on the issue.

The new representatives would be nominated by the Scottish and Welsh Labour leaders, rather than directly elected by party members.

In three London boroughs the executive function of the council is a directly elected mayor.

Jacqui Smith, the former home secretary, proposes that prison officers be rewarded for their ability to prevent reoffending, suggests victims should, within limits, be able to recommend the length and type of sentence, and proposes directly elected crime commissioners to represent part of a force area within police authorities, rather than a single crime commissioner for each police authority.

In May 2002 Mansfield voted to introduce a directly elected mayor in a referendum.

Directly elected.

In September 2010, Rahman was selected [13] by the Tower Hamlets Labour Party as its candidate to be the first directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets.

But no minister is directly elected as a minister.

Many will argue that keeping the post but abolishing elections represents a reduction in accountability — Labour's leaders (though not, it seems, its shadow cabinet or cabinet) should be directly elected.

In addition to a fresh batch of councillors, Londoners will also go to the polls for new directly elected mayors in Newham, Tower Hamlets, Lewisham and Hackney — all four of which are currently in Labour hands.

He pointed out that the House of Commons «is the largest directly elected chamber in the European Union».

The region elects twelve members, eight directly elected constituency members and four additional members.

[1] Since 2002 Mansfield has also had a directly elected mayor.

Such as system would have town board members directly elected from specific parts of the town — instead of an at - large system.

The question of whether the upper house of the parliament should be abolished is gaining traction, with some people calling for a directly elected senate to address what they see as cronyism.