Sentences with phrase «early elections at»

Some countries, such as Norway, simply do not allow early elections at all.

Let's not forget that, unlike previous prime ministers, Cameron will not be able to call an early election at a convenient time, unless he changes the law and abandons the Fixed - term Parliaments Act — which his government introduced.

Not exact matches

Instead, it wants to work on a new trade deal with the EU - at least this was the negotiating stance before the General Election early June.

As a result the volatility index, known as the VIX, was at its highest since November 9 - a day after the U.S. elections, though it was close to record lows earlier this week — before the tensions escalated.

Italian stocks fell at the start of this morning's trading, after populist parties won almost half the vote in Italy's Sunday elections, and early results suggested the country is heading for a hung parliament due to no party or coalition of parties meeting the 40 % threshold for stable governance.

Speaking at the first Prime Minister's Questions since the general election earlier this month, Corbyn said years of Conservative government cuts to local authority budgets had put public safety at jeopardy and had played a part in the fire that destroyed a tower block in Kensington, west London earlier this month, killing at least 79 people.

At a similar panel in New York earlier in January that was dedicated to technology and media in the 2016 election, top journalists from legacy media organizations like the Associated Press and new media organizations like the data - journalism website FiveThirtyEight picked over the carcass of the election, pondering why data analysts misjudged Trump's electoral strength and how readers themselves often didn't necessarily possess the media literacy to sift through fake and poorly reported news.

But the layoffs at the Initiative detailed in the filing had first been reported as far back as September and had in fact been announced by Bill Clinton earlier in 2016, when he said CGI would wind down regardless of the election outcome.

The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday morning that May is lining up Rudd to take over from Hammond after the election as a reward for Rudd's loyalty and the significant role she has played in election campaigning — including standing in for May at a leaders» debate earlier this week despite the death of her father just 48 hours earlier.

The election takes place amidst an improving global economy with global earnings revision ratios at 5.5 - year highs, global PMI's at their highest levels since early - 2014, Asian exports at 12 - month highs and US wage growth at 7 - year highs.

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..

Looking years out at the election calendar, Trudeau's strategists pushed early for federal - provincial initiatives like Canada Pension Plan reform, a health accord and the framework for fighting climate change.

The BGRI is now at the highest level since March 2015, and well above early 2017 levels, when markets were digesting Donald Trump's election win, worrying about the French election outcome and fearing the potential for a hard Brexit.

MILESTONES: BURMA By Thomas Clouse Suu kyi: Free at last Burma held its first election in two decades in early November.

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.

Meanwhile, with an election expected in early 2012 (regardless of fixed election months), Elections Alberta is warning that at least 300,000 Albertans are still missing from the official voters list.

Second - quarter GDP figures for the eurozone confirmed what earlier data had indicated, namely that the region's economy was expanding at an impressive rate, amid a broad rebound in confidence following setbacks for European populist political parties in various elections earlier in the year.

The Yen has been rising steadily since early January and ended this week at its best levels against the USD since Trump's election.

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.

A lot of these candidates in the earlier campaign season had their religious ideas exposed to the voters, causing viewers to at least be aware of religion, and how if affects elections.

In early January, Bernie was +800 to win the 2016 Election at Bovada.

This would create unnecessary delay and I will urge the Executive Committee to organise an Extraordinary Congress for the election of my successor at the earliest opportunity.

If you're a small campaign with a single staffer, try to spend at least 8 hours planning and executing your online - specific strategy per week, particularly at the beginning, remembering that those early hours can be far more valuable than time spent right before the election.

If you're a small campaign with a single staffer, try to spend 4 - 8 hours planning and executing your online - specific strategy per week, at least at the beginning, remembering that those early hours can be far more valuable than time spent right before the election.

Onjeh had earlier wrote a petition at the state tribunal, where Justice Dipeolu in October upheld the election of the former Senate president.

At the Scottish Parliament elections earlier this month, the number of Tory MPs soared from 15 to 31.

According to Ipsos Mori, which has been asking voters the same question at every general election since the early 1980s, 2010 was the first year when as many people said they were voting on the character of the leader as much as they were on his party's policies.

Gillibrand's approval rating has remained stalled at under 50 percent for some time now, despite the fact that she has been in office since early 2009 and won a statewide election — quite easily — against former Rep. Joe DioGuardi last year.

Labour have only been out of power for two years, having left Britain with the biggest deficit in the OECD, and yet YouGov polling throughout the early half of May 2012 have put Labour between nine and thirteen points ahead of the Conservatives, giving Labour a more than comfortable majority at the next General Election.

Chryssanthos Laziridis advises Antonis Samaras, leader of New Democracy which is ahead in the polls at around 28 % — Samaras could well be the new prime minister after elections in late April or early May (the date yet to be announced).

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.

Rather, multiple political actors, such as parliament, the cabinet, and the presidential head of state are involved at different stages in the process that leads to an early election.

For sure she appears more at ease now than she did in the immediate aftermath of the biggest electoral trauma to afflict a prime minister since Edward Heath lost an early election in 1974.

David Rehr from GW's Graduate School of Political Management sent over the slides below earlier today, which summarize the findings of a study in which he participated that looked at social media's role in the 2012 elections.

According to early election reports and projections, each of our local elected officials at the state and federal level will likely serve in the minority caucus next year.

The funds would be used to set up at least one polling site in every county 12 days before Election Day so that voters can have several weekdays and two full weekends before elections to cast their ballot early.

At a deposition taken of Mr. Bruder, he recalled a meeting with the Division of Elections and the Executive Board of the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections in early 1999.

And the usual reason for early elections in the UK, at least, was that, until recently, the government was free to choose when the election was, for any reason, as long as it was within five years of the previous one.

During the recent by - election at Nantwich and Crewe which the Conservatives gained by overturning a huge Labour majority, various comments were heard from teenage voters and early twenty - somethings such as: «If Tories win does it mean a change of Prime Minister?»

What is also untold about Hon.Bagbin is that he had in early December 2004, just before the general elections foretold a mammoth audience at a constituency rally in Bole, inresponse to the query by Constituents why Hon John Mahama was not frequenting home, that he was inundating Hon. Mahama with so much assignments in order to prepare him to become President of Ghana.

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.

Progressivism, a populist reform movement in the early twentieth century, espoused by Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and grounded in Protestant moralism, which sought to make government both more responsive to the plight of the people, for instance using Constitutional amendments to deal with social problems like alcoholism and using government force to quash monopolies, and at the same time more representative of the will of the electorate, for instance instituting more democracy like the direct election of Senators and ending the corruption of Machine politics in the cities.

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.

The City Council has consistently advocated for voting and election reform in its annual state legislative agenda, including early voting, instant runoff voting for citywide primaries, and public campaign financing at the state level.

At a November 4 news conference, Gotham Gazette asked the mayor why he hadn't been vocal about voting and election reform earlier, in order to pressure Albany well ahead of the election, and what Governor Cuomo's role should be in pushing for reforms.

Cuomo's plan would change that be requiring counties to offer at least one early voting polling location for every 50,000 residents during a 12 - day period before Election Day.

For a designating petition, signatures of at least 5 % of the enrolled Democrats in the election district must be obtained during the period from early June to early July of Odd numbered years.

wolf's «magic map» at cnn is no match for snow's «swingometer» on bbc... and frankly i'm getting a bit of a headache from all the flashing images and moving text they have flooding the screen (though in terms of election night broadcasting embarrassment, the holograms are still no match for jeremy vine's antics earlier this year...)

The swearing - in ceremony on January 19 was held at a fraught time for the tiny west African nation, as Jammeh was refusing to step aside and acknowledge the result of the election Barrow won several weeks earlier.

The Post's Jose Antonio Vargas is reporting on the Obama campaign's election - day SMS strategy, clearly aimed at boosting voter turnout: Early this morning, Sen. Barack Obama sent the first of three text messages to supporters who've signed up to his messaging program and live in...