Sentences with phrase «election since independence»

This year, the East Timorese voted in their country's third parliamentary election since independence — the first to be run by the East Timorese themselves.

And it has made demonstrable progress in its elections since independence.

Not exact matches

This is an interesting data point, particularly since the mayor just decided to drop his latest push for nonpartisan elections — a major pet issue of his and a priority for the large - i Independence Party, which gave Bloomberg its line for the third straight time last year.

Although turnout was high, the 2012 national election was special, both in marking 10 years since independence and the country's first nationally run election.

By using this rare historical data from Botswana — a country where, unusually for Africa, elections have been held consistently since independence in the late 1960s — the project team will be able to separate the impact of electoral competition from the changed donor pressures of the 1990s.

Like Aesop's mountain, we're led to believe, Nicola Sturgeon has spent the days since the general election labouring, or rather «reflecting», on the future of independence.

The second parliamentary and presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since independence in 1960 in a few days time on 28 November 2011 are a crucial indicator for the state of the country.

He has been largely silent since the Sept. 13 primary, as he weighed whether to push toward the November general election on the Independence Party line, which he secured over the summer.

Since the morning after the first independence referendum three years ago, the thin - skinned tyrant of English nationalism has treated Scotland with nothing but contempt - English Votes for English Laws, hysterical Tory election posters demonising Scotland's largest party, voting for Brexit, ditching the single market against the express wishes of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and generally behaving like an abusive husband who's hidden the new PIN for the joint bank account.

She has been a UK Independence Party Member of the National Assembly for Wales for South Wales West since the National Assembly for Wales election, 2016.

In his campaign, Tarand rallied against «partocracy» and singled out the introduction of closed party lists in European elections as its starkest manifestation (all other elections in Estonia since independence had employed open lists).

The MPLA, which has ruled since Angola's independence from Portugal in 1975, had predicted it would easily win, but the result showed a fall in support from the last election in 2012.

About 66 % of Ghana's total debt since independence, has been accumulated under President John Mahama, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) running mate for the 2016 general election has said.

Senator Jeff Klein, the Bronx lawmaker who had headed the Independence Democratic Conference since January 2011, is being included in some of the leaders meetings, even though the power - sharing deal he brokered with Skelos in 2012 ceased to exist when the Republicans won a full majority in the 2014 elections.

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) came top of the poll — the first time a political party other than the Labour Party or Conservative Party had won the popular vote at a British election since the 1906 general election.

Since Nigeria's independence from the UK in 1960 there have been numerous coups and rigged elections.

Overall Labour lost one third of its supporters to the SNP between early 2014 and the General Election (and nearly half since 2010), the vast majority of whom had voted for independence.

Angus has edited the Today programme since 2013, a period that's taken in the Scottish independence referendum, last year's general election and the EU referendum.

David J. Rowlands is a Welsh politician who has been a UK Independence Party (UKIP) Member of the National Assembly for Wales for South Wales East region since the National Assembly for Wales election, 2016.

Hawkins said that since Cuomo is already guaranteed a place in the general election on the Independence and WFP lines, any debate that he participates in during the primary season should be open to his November opponents as well.

But one Albany financial watchdog praised DiNapoli, who has won two elections since his appointment, for his independence.

The state Board of Election's chief enforcement counsel, Risa Sugarman, has probed the Independence Party / IDC arrangement, questioning its legality since IDC members are enrolled as Democrats, not members of the Independence Party.

He has since also received the Independence line for the Nov. 4 election.

The «rise of the Independence Party,» so called, has been a topic among practicing politicians since the November elections where «Indy» endorsed candidates won office from county executive and district attorney to Kingston mayor and Saugerties town supervisor and Town Board.

The «rise of the Independence Party,» so called, has been a topic among practicing politicians since the November elections where

Election turnouts for these levels of local government are lower than those for national elections and have been decreasing steadily since independence.