Sentences with phrase «elected assembly for»

He added: «The most important thing was, after arguing it as I had done and many others had over a 30 - year period, we had for the first time an elected Assembly for Wales.

They offered an elected assembly for Scotland, and, as usual, for Wales as an afterthought.

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The new Assembly will convene for the first time to elect a new Speaker on May 23, 2012 and listen to the Speech from the Throne on May 24, 2012.

India is preparing for a general election in 2019 and several states will elect new assemblies this year and the next.

He returned to the Assembly when he was elected as MLA for Edmonton - Beverly - Clareview from 2004 to 2008.

Electing a new Speaker The first order of business when the Assembly convenes this Spring will be the election of a new Speaker for the first time since 1997.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

Olga is also the president of the ten - person Fair Trade council, an assembly of employees elected by employees who lead decision - making processes concerning the use of funds allocated by Fair Trade USA for all workers.

More tentatively, an elected body replacing the House of Lords could have the important function of serving as a single upper house for all these various national and regional assemblies.

Meng was elected to the Assembly in 2004 and served one term before retiring for health reasons.

Hiram Monserrate is circulating petitions to run against him, Queens Assembly hopeful Francisco Moya announced today he has landed the support of three Democratic elected officials expected to run for mayor in 2013.

Through daily meetings, all the inhabitants of the local «tents neighborhoods» vote on policy and elect their representatives for the higher national assembly.

He said he was responding in keeping with the mandate of Article 58 of the Constitution of the Republic of Liberia, which places a duty on the President of the Republic, on the 4th Monday of January every year, to present the administration's legislative program for the ensuing session of this Honorable Legislature, and to report to the Liberian people, through you, their duly elected representatives, in Joint Assembly, on the State of the Republic.

He is not, unlike many of the state's Democratic elected officials — including NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito — going to Puerto Rico for the Somos el Futuro conference.

Russian voters will elect 450 deputies to Russia's State Duma on Sunday, in the seventh election for the lower chamber of Russia's bicameral Federal Assembly since the legislature's founding in 1993.

However, the party has also reiterated its belief in City Regions, a policy first mooted in the wake of the 2004 North - East regional assembly referendum defeat — stating that it will pass an «English Devolution Act» if elected into government, giving more powers to City and also County regions, and replacing the House of Lords with an elected Senate of the Nations and regions to work as a forum for regional representation.

Flanagan's time in the Assembly, where he briefly ran for minority leader, overlapped for about two years with Heastie, who was first elected in 2000.

Not surprisingly, the number of first time candidates outnumber the incumbents (10 to 7; the full list appears after the jump), and the highest - level elected to sign on is Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, who has been calling for many of these changes for some time and probably stands to gain if redistricting is indeed taken out of the hands of elected officials.

Yorkshire First, the North East Party, the Campaign for the North and Mebyon Kernow offer an alternative programme of decentralisation, which is intrinsically bottom up, and based on the establishment of directly elected regional assemblies, with powers equal to those of the Scottish parliament.

For the third time since he was elected Assembly speaker, Carl Heastie will embark on a statewide tour this month with stops in The Capital Region, Central New York, Hudson Valley, Long Island, North Country, the Southern Tier and Western New York.

He blamed the state's top elected Republicans in the Senate and the Assembly for that atmosphere.

City of Yonkers business owner Joe Pinion, who has worked on presidential campaigns and made appearances on CNN, announced his candidacy for the 90th state Assembly District seat that was held by newly - elected Democratic Sen. Shelley Mayer.

«John was here in the Assembly for a couple of years when I first got elected.

Edward Hennessey, Assembly District 3, Suffolk County (Incumbent)-- Hennessey, who was elected to represent his central Suffolk County 3rd District in 2012, was the prime sponsor of a new state law that increases penalties for texting while driving.

The current MP is the Conservative David Davies, elected in 2005 and a former member for the Welsh Assembly seat of the same name.

A host of city and state elected officials stood on the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall with Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon on Tuesday as she announced that she will seek re-election to represent the 52nd Assembly District for another two years.

Each party elects its own leaders (with all the Democratic Assemblymembers or Senators voting for their Assembly leadership or Senate leadership, respectively).

I was thrilled to be elected your Assembly Member for the Fifth Assembly on May 5, 2016 with 16,766 votes — the highest number of votes cast for any Assembly Member in Wales.

In the same week that the state assembly was roundly criticized for employing a closed - door process to elect a new leader, it's distressing that the progressive borough of Brooklyn would follow suit.

Sargeant was first elected as the AM for Alyn and Deeside in the National Assembly for Wales election of 2003, after Tom Middlehurst stood down.

In the 2011 Welsh Assembly election he was elected as member for Mid and West Wales.

Assembly Members (AMs) of the National Assembly for Wales, elected to the Second Assembly of Wales, (2003 - 2007).

Rodriguez, first elected to the Assembly in 2010, is among a number of state legislators running for City Council this year, but he is the only one with significant outside income.

Democratic Assembly Member Shelley Mayer defeated Republican Jillian Killian in a special election Tuesday for the state senate seat in the 37th district vacated by George Latimer, who was elected Westchester County Executive.

The first vote may be used to vote for a candidate to become the Assembly Member for the voter's constituency, elected by the first past the post system.

Quinn got elected to the Assembly at 26 and was vying for a seat in the state senate just six years later.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — With Assemblyman Mickey Kearns winning the special election for Erie County Clerk, some current elected officials in South Buffalo are already exploring the possibility of replacing him in the Assembly.

Second time was the charm for Yuh - Line Niou, who was elected to represent the 65th Assembly District this fall.

Welsh Labour today promised to put children and young people at the heart of government if elected for a third term in next week's assembly election.

At 2:30 p.m., state Sen. John Brooks, Assembly members Christine Pellegrino and Kimberly Jean - Pierre, along with local elected officials, call for the installation of elevators in Long Island Rail Road stations, Amityville Long Island Rail Road Station, John Street, Amityville.

The issue of electoral reform for the National Assembly is back on the agenda after the Secretary of State for Wales indicated she may change how AMs are elected.

Newly elected Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie this week vowed to enact a «zero - tolerance» policy for sexual harassment cases, which in the last several years engulfed three state lawmakers no longer in the Assembly.

Welsh Liberal Democrats were not elected to the Assembly to turn our backs on the desperate need to improve education funding in Wales or to re-boot the Welsh economy and provide training and hope for those without work.

NYSRPA believes he deserves to be elected for a full term in the Assembly and we encourage all gun owners to support him on November 2.

She was elected to the London Assembly for Enfield and Haringey in the 2004 assembly elAssembly for Enfield and Haringey in the 2004 assembly elassembly elections.

Kathy Hochul, Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor, was joined at an Upper West Side rally today by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and a group of Manhattan Democratic elected officials that included Congressman Charles B. Rangel, Assembly Members Keith Wright and Linda Rosenthal, Council Members Dan Garodnick and Inez Dickens and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.

Assemblymember Kavanagh currently Chairs American State Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention, the State Caucus of Environmental Legislators, and the Assembly Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection In endorsing Rivera, Kavanagh joins a growing list of local progressive elected officials at all levels of government who have announced their support for the leading Democratic candidate.

Her very first vote was to elect Sheldon Silver as speaker of the Assembly, with full knowledge that he's under federal investigation for failing to disclose payments received for unknown work.

He was elected to the New York Assembly in 1987, where he served for 16 years, becoming minority leader.

Since being elected in 2002 to represent the 125th Assembly District, which includes SUNY Cortland, Lifton has played an important role in obtaining more than $ 100 million in funding for construction and renovation projects across campus.