Sentences with phrase «election of a party leader»

In this week's episode, we ask former PC President, Katherine O'Neill, about what really happened inside the PC party after it was nearly wiped off Alberta's political map in 2015, and why she decided to step down from the party executive, just three weeks after the election of party leader Jason Kenney.

He demanded union party members should be given the right to choose Labour candidates in constituencies, have an «equal say» in the election of the party leader and the «right to a level playing field in the party where their views and votes count as much» as other party members.

Traditionally, the unions have had a great deal of say in the election of the party leader.

Not exact matches

A regional election in Sicily over the weekend could lift the party of former Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi, as the country gears up for a national vote next year.

Marine Le Pen, leader of the French far - right Front National (FN) party candidate in France's 2017 presidential election.

His name appeared more often in the pages of the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail and National Post during Ontario's recent election than the leader of the Green Party's did — and Don Drummond wasn't even doing interviews.

Opposition leader Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party led with 43.3 percent of the vote in the first round of elections but failed to secure a majority vote needed to win, according to the electoral commission.

Mmusi Maimane, the leader of the South African opposition Democratic Alliance party — and an ally of the fractious MDC — called for Mugabe to resign immediately, and for «fresh elections to be held in Zimbabwe as soon as practically possible.»

Trudeau's Liberal Party under a former leader swept to power in 1993 and won three subsequent elections — all of them while interest rates were stable or falling and the economy was relatively strong.

Billionaire Tom Steyer, one of the leading Democratic donors in the 2018 election cycle, has plenty of praise for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D - Calif., but he stopped short of publicly supporting her to lead the party in Congress after this year's midterm elections.

He lost his bid to replace Harris as party leader in 2002, his seat in the 2003 provincial election, his bid for the leadership of the Conservative party in 2004 and his first attempt to win a federal seat later the same year.

Hoping to emulate her father's huge upset in the 2002 presidential elections, in which he progressed to the second round of voting before losing to Jacques Chirac, Le Pen started campaigning for the 2012 presidential elections almost as soon as she became party leader in 2011.

Karnataka Assembly Elections 2018: PM Modi will address a rally in Santhemarahalli town of Chamarajanagar district, where the party has never been very strong, as local leaders believe the BJP has the opportunity to make gains in the region.

He emerged from two general elections as leader of the party with the most seats in a minority parliament.

So Kenney knows the drill, and had more or less telegraphed the NDP's first step, predicting that they would go negative because gosh what kind of governing party would stoop to doing that against a newly minted leader 18 months before the next general election.

It would require defying the party leader's trade agenda during a contentious midterm election year and magnifying areas of serious disunity within the majority governing party.

He would become the longest - serving leader of a major political party in Canadian history and the only Prime Minister to win four consecutive federal elections by backing up his pledge of real change with real action.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin is among the Republicans from outside California who have contributed to the campaign to repeal the state's gas - tax increase, showing the effort has national interest from GOP leaders who see it as a way to boost their party's chances in the Golden State for this year's election.

Canada's recent election of Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau as prime minister has also made U.S. rejection of the permit more palatable.

Former Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras arrives to an election debate with the leader of the Greek conservative opposition party New Democracy, Evangelos Meimarakis in Athens, Greece on September 14, 2015.

In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel's center - right Christian Democrat Union party comfortably won a small regional election, doing better than expected against its main rival, the Social Democrats, and providing a welcome boost for the German leader, ahead of national elections due in September.

This article provides a summary of the 2004 Alberta General Election, including information on pre-election standing and polls, key issues in the election, leaders and platforms of the major political parties, and the election's final Election, including information on pre-election standing and polls, key issues in the election, leaders and platforms of the major political parties, and the election's final election standing and polls, key issues in the election, leaders and platforms of the major political parties, and the election's final election, leaders and platforms of the major political parties, and the election's final election's final results.

The next leader of the NDP will need to work hard to ensure that progressive voters do not flock to one conservative party in order to block another conservative party from forming government during the next election.

At the same time the Liberal Party, and Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, have made environmentalism a major component of their election platform through a policy initiative known as the Green Shift — an initiative that was the source of considerable discussion and debate in the lead - up to the election.

Another core issue of the 2008 election campaign is political leadership or, more specifically, public confidence in the abilities of the party leaders to govern the country.

In the final days of Alberta's 2012 General Election, party leaders will be focusing their time and energy in the places that will matter on electElection, party leaders will be focusing their time and energy in the places that will matter on electionelection day.

The Liberals have also attempted to counter the image of Prime Minister Stephen Harper put forth by the Conservative Party, instead portraying him as a controlling and secretive leader with a hidden agenda, and attacking his judgment by tying him to past Conservative scandals, such as the Cadman affair, alleged spending misconduct in the last election, and the conduct of Maxime Bernier, the former Conservative minister of foreign affairs.

Ms. Rankin has been leader of the Communist Party since 1992 and, according to her Wikipedia biography, has run in every provincial and federal election in Alberta since 1982.

Upon his election as United Conservative Party leader, Jason Kenney expressed his thanks to Alberta Can't Wait for being an early proponent of conservative unity in the province and echoed the feelings of many Albertans stating that the province was «one step closer to renewing the Alberta advantage.»

11.20 a.m. With elections in Canada's most populous and richest province less than two months away, Andrea Horwath, leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party, tells Larysa her plan to boost the province's economy.

Jean Charest is the leader of the Quebec Liberal Party and leader of the Official Opposition in Quebec's National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) going into the 2003 election.

Like the Wildrose Party, who lost leader Danielle Smith and 10 other MLAs when they crossed the floor to the Progressive Conservatives in the final months of 2014, the Liberals will now need to find someone to lead them into the next election.

Photo: Liberal Party leader Kevin Taft speaks to a rally of supporters on the weekend before the 2008 election.

Ross Harvey (NDP leader, 1994 to 1996): The former NDP Member of Parliament was selected as leader of the seatless party shortly after he was unseated in the 1993 federal election.

Four days before Election Day, Progressive Conservative Party leader Jim Prentice stood on a stage in front of hall of supporters who paid $ 500 per plate to attend the evening fundraiser in downtown Edmonton.

EDMONTON — NDP Leader Rachel Notley released the following statement today in response to comments made by Jim Prentice, Wednesday where he suggested it would be a failure of the duty of opposition parties were they not ready for a snap election.

Liberal leader Raj Sherman is expected to release key parts of his party's election platform in Calgary and Edmonton today.

Hoping to ease the turmoil amid calls for the premier's resignation and the threat of an MLA revolt, senior PC Party officials gathered in Calgary last weekend and imposed an ambiguous «work plan» on Ms. Redford, essentially putting their leader on probation two years before the next election.

This article provides a summary of the 2003 Nova Scotia election, including information on pre-election standings and polls, an introduction to the leaders and platforms of the major parties, and the election's final results.

The Green Party of Alberta is pleased to announce our Interim Leader: Coral Bliss Taylor Coral has served on the Green Party of Alberta executive since 2015 and was a candidate in the 2015 provincial election.

Following his election as party leader, Stelmach announced a new cabinet that included all of the leadership contenders who had supported him in the second round of voting.

Although I have heard similar rumours as they have, I still believe that as long as Premier Ed Stelmach is the leader of his party the next election will be in March 2012, as he has consistently said.

Former Social Credit Party leader Randy Thorsteinson, who led the party to win 6.8 percent of the vote in the 1997 election and later formed the Alberta Alliance Party (now known as the Wildrose Party) recently became the leader of the newly formed Reform Party of AlbParty leader Randy Thorsteinson, who led the party to win 6.8 percent of the vote in the 1997 election and later formed the Alberta Alliance Party (now known as the Wildrose Party) recently became the leader of the newly formed Reform Party of Albparty to win 6.8 percent of the vote in the 1997 election and later formed the Alberta Alliance Party (now known as the Wildrose Party) recently became the leader of the newly formed Reform Party of AlbParty (now known as the Wildrose Party) recently became the leader of the newly formed Reform Party of AlbParty) recently became the leader of the newly formed Reform Party of AlbParty of Alberta.

But that would require a fundamental change to the Elections Act — eliminating the requirement of a party leader's endorsement to run as a party's candidate, then fashioning a more coherent rule — and a change in the ways our political parties do business.

President Trump is privately rejecting the growing consensus among Republican leaders that they may lose the House and possibly the Senate in November, leaving party officials and the president's advisers nervous that he does not grasp the gravity of the threat they face in the midterm elections.

Premier Christianity is seeking interviews with all the major party leaders ahead of the general election.

Many of the leaders of the parties running in the UK General Election hold religious beliefs.

For example, business leaders in the aftermath of the popular protests that challenged U.S. involvement in Vietnam complained about too much democracy in the United States.6 In a similar way, free elections are held up by U.S. leaders as essential for democracy unless political parties opposed to U.S. interests win.

The «social market» program put forward by Konrad Adenauer, the leader of the Christian Democratic Party in the Federal Republic's first parliamentary elections in 1949, was a key element in this social and political transformation.

As the general election approaches, we're hoping to speak to the leaders of all the main political parties in the coming months.