Sentences with phrase «early election call»

As the Progressive Conservative Party rushes towards an early election call, party officials are investigating nomination irregularities and allegations of bribery, reports Metro Edmonton.

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Comparing the results from lab tests she ran during early and late October with tests she ran the week after the election, she noticed a change she called «extremely stark:» On the whole, negotiating partners were more adversarial in their chat - based communication threads.

'' (The ongoing standoff between the euro zone and Greece) also increases the chances of snap elections in Greece as after overplaying his hand and facing increasing difficulties in concluding the review, Tsipras may be tempted to cut his losses by calling early elections before Syriza (the ruling party) loses more support for adopting unpopular measures,» Piccoli said.

Separately, there were at least 18 undisclosed calls and emails between Trump associates and Kremlin - linked people in the seven months before the Nov. 8 presidential election, including six calls with Kislyak, sources told Reuters earlier this month..

David Kotok, Chairman and CIO, Cumberland Advisors joins BNN to give us his thoughts on the U.S. election and also gives us an update on his calls from earlier on in the year.

- If you retire early, you can take what the IRS mellifluously calls «substantially equal periodic payments,» or, even more memorably, a «72 (t) election,» and start withdrawing from a 401 (k) or IRA with no penalty, as long as you continue doing so indefinitely.

Some members of the party's national council are calling for a leadership election as early as May 2016, which would give an advantage to members who are already well - organized.

With trust and accountability having become the defining issues of the election campaign, Mr. Prentice has not presented a compelling reason for Albertans to trust that the PC Party will be any different in the next three years (especially after he called the election one year earlier than the PC Government's fixed election date).

If what is going on is not enough to get this government out of there and call for early elections, I wonder what it is?

NDP MLA Brian Mason and blogger David Climenhaga suggest a snap election could be called in early January 2015, but it could be more likely the Tories would wait until February or March.

James Swanson, chief investment strategist at MFS Investment Management in Boston, suggested that Kuroda's fate was tied to that of Abe's, who he says called an early election as a «reaffirmation» of his economic growth platform.

The possibility of an early election should be a wake - up call for Alberta's fractious non-conservative opposition parties, who are mostly contained within Alberta's two largest cities.

Mr Prentice didn't have to call an early election in order to validate his pro-business budget but he chose to do so anyway.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Indeed, in early Protestantism, ordination was nothing else than the confirmation of the calling and election of the minister.

«The League of Women Voters, Common Cause, NYPIRG and a host of other concerned organizations have repeatedly called upon the Senate Republicans to join us in our call for a unified, early primary election date.

As Petra Schleiter reports in her recent post on Politics in Spires, 60 % of the UK's post-war elections were called early (i.e. more than six months before required).

But while the Conservative manifesto explicitly states the policy would be kept until 2020, increasing talk of an early general election calls into question whether it will remain a commitment for as long as many will have expected.

In addition she will have no cause to call an early election.

The chairman noted that in 2012, the governor called a special election to fill numerous vacancies around the state — including, ironically, the race for the seat vacated by now - Mayor Spano, who was succeeded by now - Assemblywoman Mayer — in early January.

Theresa May has a new argument for calling an early election.

We'll discover soon enough if it is Labour or the Tories that are Tangoed, especially is May gambles on calling an early general election that Corbyn's party is ill - prepared to fight.

The Democrat and Republican in a special House election in the heart of Pennsylvania's Trump country were divided by a few hundred votes in a race that was too close to call early this morning — an ominous sign for Republicans in a district that the president won by nearly 20 percentage points.

This is actually the standard procedure for calling an election - while section 28 provides that the House of Representatives expires after 3 years, there has only been one instance (in 1910) where the House has actually expired without being dissolved earlier.

May is a prime minister who called an early election and lost an overall majority.

But fleetingly Cameron became a reformer and introduced an act that makes it very difficult for a Prime Minister to call an early election.

The first of those circumstance has been tried and tested — a motion of the House of Commons receiving a two - thirds vote of all MPs (not just those voting on the day) to call an early election.

Typically, the prime minister can not decide to call an early election alone.

Or if two thirds of MPs back a government motion in the House of Commons calling for an early election.

But the State Party pulled the trigger a little early and now the IDC is in the uncompromising position of working with the Senate Republicans for the next several months to help deliver the budget only to publicly undermine them a few weeks later when special elections are called to fill two vacancies.

The earliest Cuomo could call for a special election to fill the two vacancies is March, which is already halfway through the 6 - month session with fresh elections looming later that year in November.

The FTPA is therefore best understood as an Act that restricts the prime minister's discretion to call early elections, not as an Act that fixes the parliamentary term.

The Fixed - term Parliaments Act (FTPA) was introduced by the Conservative - Liberal coalition government in 2011, primarily to prevent David Cameron, the prime minister at the time, from seizing on the first significant poll lead for the Conservatives to call an early election and win a Conservative majority.

The FPTA removed that prerogative power and instead placed the authority to call early elections in the hands of parliament.

In theory, the government could also repeal the act with a simple majority, but option (ii), i.e. a bipartisan call for an early election, is by far politically the best option for the government.

If she called an early election she might win her own landslide majority, a much more formidable parliamentary context for her bumpy Brexit ride.

The Conservatives and SNP called a vote of no - confidence in the Callaghan government, which lost by one vote, forcing (a few weeks early) the 1979 General Election that brought Margaret Thatcher to power, and killed Scottish devolution for 18 years.

This would help the economy in the short term and challenge the Coalition to either agree or call an early election

If she called an early election the spell would be broken.

Under the Act, an early election can only be called under two conditions;

Later that year, Harold Wilson called an early general election where the party increased its parliamentary majority.

Governments call elections early, precisely because they can not be confident in maintaining their current, high level of popularity and performance to the next regular election.

Voters also understand that incumbents, who can be confident of performing strongly to the next regular election, have no reason to call an election early.

While voters may punish Mrs May for calling an early election for partisan interest, that punishment is unlikely to overwhelm their underlying approval of her leadership and of her government's performance.

But back in late 2016 / early 2017 she seemed, temporarily at least, to believe the absurd hype which the Daily Mail pumped out about her, and was persuaded to call a general election to «strengthen my hand» in the Brexit negotiations.

Eventually, the AKP called an early general election in July, after which the presidential election was re-held in August.

The 2010 coalition agreement promised to: «Bring forward early legislation to introduce a power of recall, allowing voters to force a by - election where an MP is found to have engaged in serious wrongdoing and having had a petition calling for a by - election signed by 10 % of his or her constituents.»

In the hypothetical case that every member of the government (president and vice president included) wanted to call an early election, replacing the sitting president and vice president, would they be allowed to?

The heads of the borough's two major parties are expected to name their nominees to replace former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner by later this week at the earliest after Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for a Sept. 13 special election to fill the vacant 9th Congressional District seat in Forest Hills.

Earlier this year, the Times reported that the group was targeting «10 to 15 House lawmakers whose records and public statements have not been supportive of what Mr. Soros calls a system of «citizen - led» elections.»