Sentences with phrase «elected as a minister»

But no minister is directly elected as a minister.

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The 71 - year - old Donald Trump is the oldest person ever elected President in the U.S., and in Britain, 60 - year - old Theresa May is carrying out the country's Brexit mandate as the oldest Prime Minister since Margaret Thatcher.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Dublin on Tuesday as one of the first world leaders to meet with Ireland's new Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, who was elected last month.

Many analysts are referring to this as the «Modi effect,» in honor of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, elected two years ago on promises to reinvigorate business growth by cutting red tape and increasing infrastructure spending.

Talk in political circles is that he would be a shoe - in for a cabinet spot if elected, maybe as Minister of Minister of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour or Minister of Infrastructure.

Mr. Modi was elected as prime minister with a mandate to make things happen.

Elected three times as an Edmonton City Councillor, Amarjeet Sohi became the Member of Parliament for Edmonton Mill Woods on October 19th 2015 and was named Canada's Minister of Infrastructure and Communities.

One of Ms. Redford's opponents, former Finance Minister Ted Morton was elected as a Senator - in - Waiting in 1998 and gave up the position - in - waiting when he ran in the 2004 provincial election in the Foothills - Rockyview constituency.

Clark has served as party leader since 2013 and became the party's first elected MLA in 2015 when he unseated Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Gordon Dirks in Calgary - Elbow.

Immediately before entering elected politics, he served as executive assistant to cabinet minister Hugh Horner (father of current PC leadership candidate Doug Horner), who he later replaced as MLA for Barrhead in a closely fought 1979 by - election.

Albert) Currently the Finance minister, Mr. Horner was first elected as MLA in 2001.

Elected officials like former Premier Alison Redford and her cabinet ministers were essentially publicly - funded lobbyists as they travelled to the U.S. dozens of times to advocate for Keystone XL and other oil industry projects.

A radical leftist was elected as the new Prime Minister of Greece, which is setting the stage for a showdown with the nation's biggest lenders.

He joined the board after serving six years as an elected MLA and cabinet minister for the government of British Columbia, where his various responsibilities included three cabinet posts encompassing economic development, labour and small business.

Ireland had just had an election then, and the newly elected Prime Minister, Enda Kenny (now triumphing over his referendum result) in one of his first speeches in the Parliamentary chamber, blamed the Vatican for everything whilst the visitation was underway, thus undermining it completely — as though it were Italian or French priests and Cardinals who were guilty of the Irish abuses, conveniently letting the locals off the hook, and redirecting the anger towards Church discipline and teaching rather than criminal individuals.

The move was seen by many as another step toward Hindu nationalism since 2014, when the country elected as its prime minister Narendra Modi — the only person once banned by the United States because of alleged religious freedom violations.

It was this same period when, in 1961, AG minister David J. du Plessis was asked to cease his developing ministries among churches aligned with the NCC and WCC — no doubt an embarrassment to the NAE at a time when du Plessis» denominational chief executive was serving as the NAE's elected head.

The Former Deputy Local Government Minister and Rural Development in the Kufuor administration had described as ridiculous the call by the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) on president - elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, to restore teacher trainee allowances within its first 100 days in office.

Who would be in your cabinet?I would need a really good doctor as I would be in such a state of shock having been elected prime minister.

He is married to Scottish Minister for Public Health, Shona Robison MSP with a young daughter, Morag Louise, and lives in the constituency where he was elected as MP for Dundee East on 5 May 2005, taking the seat from Labour.

The Parliament also elected a new Prime Minister, Plamen Oresharski, who had served as finance minister in the Socialist - led government between 2005 aMinister, Plamen Oresharski, who had served as finance minister in the Socialist - led government between 2005 aminister in the Socialist - led government between 2005 and 2009.

But any actions would only be seen as legally valid if there was an argument to fall back on that they were being enacted on at least someone's advice, and with some elected minister's consent.

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg announced his party's intention to block boundary changes, thought to be worth around 20 MPs to the Tory party at the next election, as a direct response to the failure of his plans to make the Lords reform a mainly elected second chamber.

Despite only getting elected last year Sheppard has become one of the most recognisable SNP faces in SW1, his role as shadow cabinet minister giving him license to roam across the broadcast studios.

These nominations come a day after the President - elect announced cardiothoracic surgeon, Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng as the Minister designate for Science and Technology at the Apostle Kojo Sarfo Technology Fair.

Also, as Defence minister, a key player, during Obasanjo's first term as elected president (1999 - 2003), though the two would later fall out, in a bitter public spat.

The congress held by Sylva's faction, which was attended by the Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri and other party members, elected the Chairman of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, Jonathan Amos, as the chairman.

The same is true of David Cameron - elected to the Commons as an opposition MP in 2001 but prime minister by 2010.

In September 2015, the newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn appointed Turley as shadow civil society minister in his first shadow cabinet.

One of the more famous examples of the defeat of a supply bill was the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, when the Senate, which was controlled by the opposition, refused to approve a package of appropriation and loan bills, prompting Governor - General Sir John Kerr to dismiss Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and appoint Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister until the next election (where the Fraser government was elected).

The letter was released as Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister, prepared to appeal for unity over proposals for an 80 % - elected upper chamber as he opened a two - day debate on the bill on Monday afternoon.

The prime minister is demanding that Tory MPs support the reform plans to shore up the coalition as Clegg has made clear that introducing a «wholly or mainly elected upper chamber» remains a vital element of the agreement between the two parties.

«Contractors who have been owed for two three years before Mr President was elected are back in various states, they recall their workers and as they are purchasing gravel, cement, the economy is on its way back with a bend and this situates what the Minister of Budget and Planning has said.

The Women's Wing said although it recognises the efforts and contributions of Mr Ashitey towards the NDC and Ghana as a whole, it is nevertheless of the view that the former Greater Accra regional Minister «should accept the results in good faith, since the right procedures through which he was elected to represent the party were the same channels through which Dr [Rawlings] has been duly elected».

In any case I resent the fact that neither I as a member of the Labour Party, other Party members nor the Country's voters were given the democratic right to elect our leader and Prime Minister.

Alex Salmond is expected to make his first appearance in the House of Commons since being elected as first minister for Scotland.

He argued that the Prime Minister (or «President», as he referred to the office throughout the book) should be directly and separately elected in order for a better separation of powers.

Two of Corbyn's choices who were only elected in June are former MEPs Anneliese Dodds as shadow Treasury minister and Afzal Khan, who becomes shadow Home Office minister.

It was a poignant tweet from Jenny Randerson as Mark Drakeford was seen as a likely minister when the Assembly was first elected in 1999.

A former Local Government Minister, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo has warned about the possible downsides of electing Metropolitan Municipal and District Chief Executives as promised by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government.

[citation needed] When Jim Murphy was elected Scottish Labour Party leader in December 2014, Griffin was appointed as Shadow Minister for Learning, Science and Scotland's Languages, covering school education, qualifications, science, HM Inspectorate of Education, the Scottish Qualifications Authority and languages.

Tim Hammond, elected in 2016, was already a shadow minister and was seen as having a very bright future in politics.

A former Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, the 58 - year old Christian Kabore was elected in November 2015 as part of transitional arrangements put in place by the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government during the...

Eluned was elected as the Welsh Liberal Democrat AM for South Wales Central in 2011, and since her election she has served as her party's Shadow Minister for the Economy, Business, Transport and Europe.

He has suggested it could be placed in the garden of Downing Street if he is elected as the next prime minister — although the people in charge of granting planning permission in Westminster may have other ideas.

The Prime Minister, as one of the Queen's Ministers of State and a member of the Federal Executive Council, whilest duly elected by the people, is technically appointed by the Queen's representative, the Governor General.

Hata was first elected as a House of Representatives member from Nagano prefecture in 1969 and served as agriculture minister, finance minister and foreign minister between 1988 and 1994.

Mr Morgan was elected as first minister last week after three weeks of discussions which saw a variety of coalition arrangements considered and fail.

Fidel Castro's key dates 1926: Born in the south - eastern Oriente Province of Cuba 1953: Imprisoned after leading an unsuccessful rising against Batista's regime 1955: Released from prison under an amnesty deal 1956: With Che Guevara, begins a guerrilla war against the government 1959: Defeats Batista, sworn in as prime minister of Cuba 1960: Fights off CIA - sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban exiles 1962: Sparks Cuban missile crisis by agreeing that USSR can deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba 1976: Elected president by Cuba's National Assembly 1992: Reaches an agreement with US over Cuban refugees 2008: Stands down as president of Cuba due to health issues

Archbishop Nicholas Duncan - Williams, the general overseer of the Action Chapel International Church, on Friday ministered at church service that preceded the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as president - elect of the US.