Sentences with phrase «election called following»

Lucy Powell was elected last week with a majority of 9,936 in a by - election called following her predecessor Tony Lloyd's decision to run for police and crime commissioner.

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ROME, April 5 - Talks to try to break the stalemate following Italy's inconclusive election have failed to make progress, the president said on Thursday, calling for parties to be responsible in fresh consultations next week.

Municipal Affairs Minister Deron Bilous should follow calls from Calgary's Naheed Nenshi and Edmonton's Don Iveson and Michael Janz to reform municipal election finance laws.

Prior to the calling of the 2008 general election, the party standings in the provincial legislature were as follows:

The Facebook exec's tweets followed Mueller's release of indictments against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian businesses for what Mueller called a wide - ranging effort to undermine the 2016 presidential election, including efforts aimed at «supporting the presidential campaign of then - candidate Donald J. Trump.»

In his new novel «The Leftovers» (St. Martin's), the bestselling author of «Little Children» and «Election» follows a group left behind after something called the «Sudden Departure,» a Rapture - like event in which millions of people suddenly vanished like smoke.

In the cases of Jesus and Buddha, the election of the disciples followed immediately after the decisive experience of the call.

Last week I wrote The Time for Change is Now: A Call to Action Part 1 and promised that I would follow up with Part 2 with stories of my family and friends who have inspired me with their volunteer efforts to help Barack Obama win this election.

«Following the 2015 election, the chair of the all - party group, Stephen Lloyd, was not re-elected as an MP, and so, as vice-chair of the Group, I called an AGM for the group on 1stJuly, and informed all officers of the group who served in the last parliament, as well as all other MPs and members of the House of Lords, in accordance with the strict parliamentary requirements for publishing proper notice of such meetings.

Meanwhile, shadow chancellor John McDonnell called on Corbyn's critics to «put up or shut up» following the election results.

Some so - called «Southern leaders» followed that up with own threats: no restructuring, no election in 2019.

In the six years that Mahama ruled Ghana, first as an emergency President following the death in 2010 of his principal, H.E President John Evans Atta - Mills, and winning the election in 2012 to begin his first tenure, Ghana, has experienced a great infrastructural turnaround in all facets of the country's economy including a complete overhaul of the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange, now famously called Ghana's Dubai, which is the first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa.

It was a year ago that Gordon Brown made his fatal mistake: bringing forward a trip to Iraq (and leaving the Lobby, seething, on their way to Blackpool for the Tory conference) in order to call a putative election the following weekend.

Western countries have already condemned the elections as a sham, following the lead of resistance leader Aung San Suu Kyi who called for a boycott when they were announced.

In the days following the end of the DNC, Trump has picked a fight with that aforementioned «Gold Star» Muslim - American family; he has called on the state of Russia to «hack» into the Clinton campaign's email server; he has put into question America's resolve to affirm its treaty obligations to its NATO allies; he has first refused, and then under pressure accepted, to endorse the highest - ranking official of his own party, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan; and he has even begun to state that the election results this November may «be rigged.»

«We call on the Independent Democratic Conference to prove their worth and deliver for the working people of New York State following the New York State special elections,» the primary challengers said.

Yet strangely, other than Unite and ASLEF, there is no calling for Murphy to resign despite losing 40 seats in Scotland and seeing a massive erosion of support following his election as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party.

It alleges the WFP failed to follow state election rules in granting a so - called Wilson - Pakulas waiver for candidates who are not members of the party.

A group of Monroe County voters have filed a lawsuit against Governor Cuomo for not calling a special election following the death of Congresswoman Louise Slaughter...

In 1947, the newly formed United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) by The Big Six called for «self - government within the shortest possible time» following the Gold Coast legislative election, 1946.

According to Owusu - Bempah, Mahama has no blessing from to lead Ghana and must resist following calls from supporters of the National Democratic Congress [NDC] to lead the party in the 2020 general elections.

The unlikely alliance of the WFP and state Conservative Party is declaring victory following a judge's ruling that cleared the way for the minor parties» lawsuit over the state Board Elections» policy on so - called «double - voting» to continue.

This was followed by a similar call from Dave Palmer, executive director of the Center for Working Families, a WFP ally, who said the governor and legislative leaders should «heed the alarm» sounded by US Attorney Preet Bharara and pass a system of «voter - owned elections.»

In closing, Cuomo said that, despite what he called «frightening times» following a contentious election season, New York would be a place of equal rights and equal opportunity «regardless of who you are and regardless of where you come from.

Minority Verdict follows Lord Ashcroft's influential analysis of the 2005 election campaign, Smell the Coffee: A wake - up call for the Conservative Party, which called for the party to modernise and re-engage with voters having come to be seen as untrustworthy and out of touch.

David Paterson pushed for the Assembly to follow suit, insisting voters had a right to know before the 2010 elections where their legislators stood on the issue, but Silver did not heed that call.

Mr. Dzakpasu's assurance follows a call by the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) on the aggrieved political parties to petition the EC over the filing fees.

Corbyn said in the original leadership election that labour needs to be a broad church, others have since followed and yesterday Corbyn again called for unity and focus on the task at hand.

This follows calls by a group in the party called the Convention Forum for investigations into the whereabouts of GHC 1.6 million which was donated to the party for in 2012 ahead of the elections.

Last December, Boehner shot down calls for the NRCC to abandon gay GOP candidates, arguing the party needed to make better inroads with gays, women and minorities following the party's poor showing in the 2012 election.

Specifically, the Vote Better NY advocates call on lawmakers to adopt the following common - sense reforms: Early voting: (A8582 / S3813B) New Yorkers should have a two - week period including Saturdays and Sundays to ease long lines on Election Day and give voters flexibility as they juggle work and family obligations.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched a statewide emergency call - in system today to deal with a burst of racially and religiously - motivated incidents following the incendiary election of Donald Trump to the presidency.

NBC News immediately called the election for Gingrich upon polls closing at 7 p.m. followed soon after by Fox News.

During his chat with our reporter, Blay also described how he called the police following a heated row with an East European voter after he stuck a UKIP election leaflet through his door.

Nassau County Republicans who are on the ballot this Election Day are calling on County Executive Ed Mangano and Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto to immediately resign following their indictments on federal corruption charges.

Following the loss of the Crewe and Nantwich by - election in 2008 he was the first Labour MP to call for Gordon Brown «s resignation (more information at They work for you)

The suspension was announced on Tuesday by Goodluck Jonathan, the Nigerian president and chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), as President Laurent Gbagbo continued to ignore calls and pressure to step down following an election the UN says he lost.

He deplored the «amount of blood on the ground» and called for Britain to accelerate its planned withdrawal of troops from the country, following similar moves by Australia and his by - election victory.

Plans to downgrade maternity services at the West Cumberland Hospital have formed the centrepiece of the by - election, which was called following the resignation of Jamie Reed.

That this House notes the improved security of ballots in Northern Ireland following implementation of the Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 which has also resulted in increased levels of voter registration; further notes the successful prosecutions for electoral fraud in Slough, Peterborough and Birmingham; further notes the 2007 Council of Europe investigation into electoral fraud in the UK and the recent report entitled Purity of Elections in the UK: Causes for Concern, published by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd which highlights how vulnerable the electoral system is to electoral fraud; and calls on the Government to improve electoral security across the rest of the UK.

This follows a debate in the House of Lords in which peers from the Liberal Democrat, Conservative and Labour benches, as well as crossbenchers, also called on Government to get regulations through before the election.

The Independent reported earlier this month that Ukip leader Nigel Farage had called for a snap election to be called following the Brexit vote.

In the following year, Attlee called a snap general election, hoping to increase his parliamentary majority.

The referendum was called after Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron made a manifesto commitment in the 2015 UK general election to undertake a renegotiation of the UK's membership to the European Union which would be followed by a in - out referendum.

The new Prime Minister, Theresa May, called in April 2017 for a snap general election with the stated aim of securing a majority for Brexit negotiations; [5] it received parliamentary approval the following day, and was arranged for Thursday 8 June 2017.

An election is called following the dissolution of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

That situation lasted until the prime minister called another election in October that year, following which the Labour Government obtained a tiny majority of three.

Meanwhile the election in Nimgo Prampram has been called off by the Electoral Commission following the tension that is building up.

On Election Day, police were called to at least two polling sites in St. Lawrence County following «overzealous electioneering» by supporters of Hoffman.

Charlotte Osei who was appointed as the Chairperson of Ghana's Electoral Commission in June 2015 has come under intense pressure from persons within and outside the commission who are calling for her dismissal following some recent developments within the election regulatory body.