The Parliamentary candidate hopes to recapture the Fanteakwa South seat from the opposition New Patriotic Party — due to hard work and evidence of good works she has
done as a parliamentary candidate.
Not exact matches
In 2009, after eight years away from front - line politics, I decided to put myself forward
as a potential
Parliamentary candidate because I wanted to be part of — what I saw
as — the Conservative Party's effort to reinforce, restore (and for some, reignite) people's belief in the value of
doing the right thing.
I really like the idea of
doing this for council selections and for the London Mayor,
as well
as for
Parliamentary candidates.
Mr. Dzakpasu explained that, the amount they fixed was
done in accordance with the law, and
as such, the monies will be deposited in the Consolidated Fund if the presidential and
parliamentary candidates fail to garner 25 % and 12.5 % votes respectively, during the December general elections.
If Nicola Sturgeon and Leanne Wood
do end up representing their parties in the debates, they will take to the stage
as party leaders but, interestingly, not
as prospective
parliamentary candidates for the actual election.
My opposition to the Labour leadership's support for ERM helped ensure that I
did not get chosen
as Parliamentary candidate at the time.
The NDC
parliamentary candidate for Walewale, Mr Abubakari, for his part, said his six months in office
as the regional minister was a clear manifestation of what he could
do for the constituency when voted for
as the MP for the area and, therefore, urged the people to vote for him massively to represent them in Parliament.
What the man
did is an indication of his failure of the loyalty test we put to him when the party granted him amnesty to return to us after he contested
as an independent
parliamentary candidate in 2008 and campaigned against late President Atta Mills and contested for the NPP's Nana Akufo - Addo in the then Mfantsiman East constituency, now Ekumfi constituency.»
As the President is elected independently (contrast to
parliamentary systems) and is
done so through the Electoral College, third parties
do more to defeat
candidates than to help elect them to the Presidency.
«That this General Meeting of Members of the Thirsk and Malton Conservative Association
do hereby deselect Anne McIntosh
as their
Parliamentary Candidate for the forthcoming
Parliamentary General Election.»
No previous leader of the Conservatives has
done as much, for example, to bust open the selection of
Parliamentary candidates to include more women (now over a third) and more black and minority ethnic
candidates.