Sentences with phrase «elect new party leaders»

I am confident you will elect new Party leaders who will build on the foundation we have created and maintain our high standards of excellence in service to the Democratic Party.

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The Prince George Citizen - Burton backs building base When the federal Liberal party elects their new leader, the votes coming from the less - populated ridings will be just as important as those from the urban centres... Read More

He was first elected to the provincial legislature in 1998, and became leader of the New Democratic Party in 2002.

In recent weeks, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has slowly built support among New York Republicans, rolling out endorsements from the party's top state - level official (Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos) along with a wide array of current and former electeds, operatives and county GOP leaders.

With the Labour Party seemingly willing to gift the Tories half a year to do whatever they want with the country, the Liberal Democrats have a shorter path to electing a new leader and getting on with the business of rebuilding.

The Labour Party had just lost John Smith and elected Tony Blair as its new leader.

(Reuters)-- Battle lines were drawn for South Africa's ANC on Monday as voting began to elect a new leader to succeed President Jacob Zuma as head of a party that has ruled since the end of apartheid but faced scandals and corruption allegations.

She could step down and allow her party to elect a new leader who could try and do the same.

KR Lohse responded to Dan Hodges» piece wondering where Ed Miliband stood on the issue of Europe and a new EU treaty by roundly condemning the means by which the Labour leader was elected: «Ed's luck ran out the day the unions propelled him into a position that the majority of the party didn't want him in.

Announcing the timetable for the election, Ms Harman said: «Our challenge now is to use this time to listen and learn, to elect a new leader and deputy leader who will rebuild the Labour party in order to take the fight to this Tory government and to stand up for Britain.»

It has been 18 months since Jeremy Corbyn was first elected as leader of the Labour party, promising «a new kind of politics».

«The new leader was also elected with an overwhelming mandate on a political programme that seeks to take the party in a direction that reflects the current views of party members,» he writes.

An open letter was published by a group called #LibDems4Change urging fellow party members to elect a new leader «who will get a fair hearing from voters about Liberal Democrat achievements and ambitions for the future».

He said: «I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60 % of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning.»

The Welsh nationalists are to elect their new leader today in a contest which its chief executive claims has «united the party».

Conservative party members voted to elect Cameron the new Conservative leader, Davis losing with 64,398 votes against Cameron's 134,446 votes.

The new government's majority is also smaller than the outgoing coalition's and the party's leaders will face a growing challenge from rebellious backbenchers, just as John Major, elected in similar circumstances, did after 1992.

If a new leader is elected and a bold radical policy programme is formulated, and integrity among politicians is established the Labour Party will be in a unique and highly rewarding position of taking on and resoundingly defeating the Conservatives.

«Our votes on the Working Families Party line help elect leaders who have promised to pass a full Women's Equality agenda as well as a full range of progressive policies that affect every New York woman,» Steinem wrote.

By the time we know the answers to these questions, a new Labour leader will have been elected and will already be taking the party in a direction likely to have been influenced by those nostalgic for Blairism.

Addressing the media, the leader of the group, Godwin Henyo, said the way out is for the party leadership to expedite measures towards re-organization of an early congress to elect a new flagbearer.

In 2017 we got a crash course is civics, elections, and Democratic party rules by running for District Leader and the Democratic County Committee, then immediately being thrust into the inside action to elect a new State Senator.

A reader with a lot of knowledge of the state of play in various New York House districts emailed to note that the possibility of three separate primary dates in New York — April 24 (presidential), June 26 (House and US Senate) and Sept. 11 (state Legislature)-- raises «some interesting, theoretical, maybe far - fetched but not impossible scenarios» that would give not a few elected officials and party leaders heartburn.

«We enjoin our members nationwide to come together as one family, as we march to Eagle Square, Abuja on Saturday 9 — Sunday 10, December 2017 to elect our new leaders who will manage the affairs of our Party at the National Level.

In 1998 Michael German was elected as leader of the Welsh party, and he led the new Assembly group.

«Ed Miliband missing from Feltham and Heston by - election leaflets Main Johann Lamont MSP elected new Scottish Labour Party leader»

Jane Dodds has been elected by Welsh Liberal Democrat Members as the party's new Leader, beating Ceredigion candidate Liz Evans in a keenly - fought contest.

After Jeremy Corbyn was elected as leader of the Labour Party, he was named as new Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

In a statement yesterday Mr Corbyn said: «I was elected leader of our party, for a new kind of politics, by 60 % of Labour members and supporters.

Today, however, such a system is not commonly practiced and most parliamentary system parties» rules provide for a leadership election in which the general membership of the party is permitted to vote at some point in the process (either directly for the new leader or for delegates who then elect the new leader in a convention), though in many cases the party's legislators are allowed to exercise a disproportionate influence in the final vote.

In theory this could be interpreted to support an argument that a parliamentary party ought to have the power to elect their party leader directly, and indeed, at least historically, parliamentary system parties» leadership electoral procedures usually called for the party's legislative caucus to fill a leadership vacancy by electing a new leader directly by and from amongst themselves, and for the whole succession process to be completed within as short a time frame as practical.

In addition to electing club officers and executive committees, members of New York Democratic clubs are extremely influential in nominating and electing unpaid party officials known as District Leaders and members of the New York State Democratic Committee, as well as Democratic legislators at the City, State and federal level.

In any event, a prime minister who is forced to leave office due to scandal or similar circumstance will usually have little if any ability to influence his party on the final selection of a new leader and anyone seen to be having close ties to such a prime minister will have limited if any serious prospect of being elected the new leader.

The primary figurehead for this leftist trend was Tony Benn, who narrowly missed being elected deputy leader of Labour in September 1981, under new party leader Michael Foot.

In a fundraising email, the state Democratic Party called on elected leaders Tuesday to tell the group, which is also based in New Hampshire, that it «has no place» in the Granite State.

But in a defiant statement within minutes of the result being announced, the leader said: «I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60 % of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning.

Endorsements On Oct. 27, 2011 the campaign announced endorsements of 24 elected officals and leaders: House Republican Leader Greg Lavelle State Senator Liane Sorenson Dale Wolf; Former Governor and Lieutenant Governor Janet Rzewnicki; Former State Treasurer Bob Weiner; New Castle County Councilman Laird Stabler; RNC National Committeeman Everett Moore; Former Delaware Republican Party Chairman Cathy Murray; Former Delaware Republican Party Vice Chairwoman Steve Engebretson; Newark Region Republican Chairman Hans Reigle; Kent County Republican Chairman John Rollins; New Castle County Republican Chairman Michael Fleming; Former New Castle County Republican Chairman Rick Carroll; Former Wilmington Region Republican Chairman Ted Cover; Wilmington Region Republican Vice Chairman Jerry Martin; Former Brandywine Region Republican Chairman Dave Burris; Former Sussex County Republican Chairman Dave Jones; Former Newark Region Republican Chairman Ron Sams; Former Sussex County Republican Chairman Jim Ursomarso; Former Candidate for Lieutenant Governor and Wilmington City Republican Chairman Michele Rollins; Former Congressional Candidate Judy Travis; Former Candidate for State Senate Louis Saindon; Former Candidate for State Representative Josh Hoveln; University of Delaware College Republican Vice Chairman Tom Schrandt

The Liverpool Echo reported that Roy Bentham, one of those elected to a new position in Wavertree, said of his MP: «She will now have to sit round the table with us the next time she wants to vote for bombing in Syria or to pass a no confidence motion in the leader of the party — she will have to be answerable to us.

«They want elected leaders who will solve problems, who will work across party lines and who will continue the momentum that has Western New York on the upswing.»

After lambasting Nana Akufo - Addo for what the big - time entrepreneur terms as the New Patriotic Party Presidential Candidate's woeful lack of «wisdom» to be elected President of Ghana — he has yet to inform us about the level of President Mahama's wisdom, if any at all, that qualifies this grossly incompetent Ghanaian leader to be reckoned as a better presidential material than the man he claims to have intimately befriended for quite a while now — Alhaji Asoma Banda now says that what he actually meant was that the three - time NPP Presidential Candidate lacks the requisite wisdom to unite the membership of the country's main opposition party, and therefore Akufo - Addo logically lacks the wisdom to become President of Ghana (See «Nana Addo Has No Wisdom to Unite People — Alhaji Banda» TV3Network.com 12/24Party Presidential Candidate's woeful lack of «wisdom» to be elected President of Ghana — he has yet to inform us about the level of President Mahama's wisdom, if any at all, that qualifies this grossly incompetent Ghanaian leader to be reckoned as a better presidential material than the man he claims to have intimately befriended for quite a while now — Alhaji Asoma Banda now says that what he actually meant was that the three - time NPP Presidential Candidate lacks the requisite wisdom to unite the membership of the country's main opposition party, and therefore Akufo - Addo logically lacks the wisdom to become President of Ghana (See «Nana Addo Has No Wisdom to Unite People — Alhaji Banda» TV3Network.com 12/24party, and therefore Akufo - Addo logically lacks the wisdom to become President of Ghana (See «Nana Addo Has No Wisdom to Unite People — Alhaji Banda» TV3Network.com 12/24/15).

This may all change once Labour elect a new leader, but right now both Harman and her party seem devoid of ambition, enthusiasm or inspiration.

The Labour Party wants to hold televised hustings in the parts of the country where it lost when it elects a new leader over the summer.

Jeremy Corbyn has said he will apologise to Iraq on behalf of Labour if he is elected the party's new leader

Just before Christmas, the party elected Jim Murphy as its new Scottish leader.

In a defiant statement within minutes of the result being announced, the leader said: «I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60 % of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning.

New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox and the state's top elected Republican, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, oppose holding a constitutional convention, citing concerns the process will be dominated by liberal politicians.

I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60 % of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning.

Now that Miliband has resigned, the main imperative for the Labour party is to elect a new leader.

Still, it's not hard to imagine what Michels would have made of the Labour Party's current difficulties with its new rules for electing the party's leader: he would surely have considered them overly idealistic in their conception, and borderline incompetent in their execuParty's current difficulties with its new rules for electing the party's leader: he would surely have considered them overly idealistic in their conception, and borderline incompetent in their execuparty's leader: he would surely have considered them overly idealistic in their conception, and borderline incompetent in their execution.

As voting to elect the new leader of the British Labour Party draws to a close, former leader Tony Blair is telling the party faithful that they are on the horns of a dilemma: remain true to the core values of the party or vote for a leader who will make the party electParty draws to a close, former leader Tony Blair is telling the party faithful that they are on the horns of a dilemma: remain true to the core values of the party or vote for a leader who will make the party electparty faithful that they are on the horns of a dilemma: remain true to the core values of the party or vote for a leader who will make the party electparty or vote for a leader who will make the party electparty electable.