Sentences with phrase «electoral processes»

Prof. Simbine noted that the Commission recognizes the place of gender equality and women empowerment in the credibility checklist for the management and administration of electoral processes.

Disqualified presidential nominee of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), Dr. Henry Herbert Lartey has filed an injunction suit seeking to stop all electoral processes ahead of the December elections.

The ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC) is taking steps to encourage reduction of the cost of elections, and professional reporting of electoral processes through regional media training to improve the coverage of elections with integrity in the region.

And I had a wonderful message this morning from the Albino Foundation that they are finding support for their participation in the electoral processes in Africa for the first time through this programme.

In that regard we stand prepared to contribute our quota towards ensuring greater integrity in our electoral processes.

2nd and 3rd Petitioners say that they made the unfortunate statements as panelists during a topical discussion on our electoral processes and related matters.

The National Electoral Council (Consejo Nacional Electoral, or CNE) is in charge of electoral processes; it is formed by five main directors elected by the National Assembly.

The FEC reminded party faithfuls that «internal electoral processes that allow members to engage in campaign and other political activities had not yet been officially launched.»

FEC also reminded party faithfuls that «internal electoral processes that allow members to engage in campaign and other political activities had not yet been officially launched.»

Agboke while speaking at a sensitisation campaign on electoral processes organised by the Oyo State office of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), held at Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Oke - Agbara Ashi, Ibadan declared that it is imperative for religious leaders and their followers not to sit on the fence when issues of elections and electoral processes are mentioned.

«Let me re-emphasise that the engagement of stakeholders in this programme is in preparation for the effective conduct and coverage of the electoral processes leading to the 2019 elections.»

And as such, we must ensure that the processes are always what we can be proud of, especially now that countries all over are looking up to our electoral processes.

President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, in his remarks, said, «The issue that you're talking about is one that is important because the stability of our democracy depends on the credibility of our electoral processes.

Corruption attacks the foundation of democratic institutions by distorting electoral processes, perverting the rule of law, causing human rights abuses and creating bureaucratic quagmires leading to public sector corruption which in turn drives private sector corruption.

The Acting General Secretary announced that the Party had trained more than 3000 polling station officers on the electoral processes, adding that by the end of January 2016, similar training would be organised for electoral area coordinators.

In addition to election observation, the European Commission is engaged in election assistance, which provides technical or material support to electoral processes.

Most democratic electoral processes involve polling booths, which are open for a mandated period of time.

Some parties, such as the British Conservative Party, employ some combination of both aforementioned electoral processes to select a new leader.

His words: «I am glad to say that our collective commitment to improve upon the electoral processes has been yielding positive results as illustrated by the outcome of the series of elections that the Commission has conducted.

The Speaker charged civil society to intensify public education on the need to collect and preserve their PVCs, asserting that people must be driven to partake in electoral processes so that they we continue to wield power as enshrined in the constitution of the federal republic.

The Senate President said that the expectations of the Senate is that ECONEC would foster electoral processes within the sub-region that meet international best practices and can be exported to other continents.

Okobi disclosed that the company was open to ideas on how best it could improve its services and the electoral processes in Africa, particularly in Nigeria.

The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said that the commission recorded at least, 70 incidences of obstruction of election electoral processes in December 10, re-run legislative elections in Rivers.

He, however, pledged that INEC would work with security agencies to uncover and punish people who disrupted the distribution of election materials and electoral processes in the Rivers rerun elections.

According to him, Kofi Adams has no knowledge of the party and the country's electoral processes, and must, therefore, stop interfering «unnecessarily» and allow the law to take its course.

CADA also believe that it is important to state from the outset that the intent is to impress upon EC and the country's Security Forces to work together to incorporate stringent security management for electoral processes into its existing core activities to steer 2016 Ghana general election from violence.

CADA believes that over the years it is the EC's neglect to supervise the Police activities during electoral processes that has fuelled the perception that influential politicians and those in power do take advantage to manipulate the electoral process, the police and expose it to public ridicule.

In the recently published book «An Encounter with the Spymaster,» this writer disclosed categorically that «the movement of large cash in local and foreign currencies by the two major political parties, APC and PDP, to win primaries and general elections in 2015 were discovered by security and anti-corruption agencies but tactically suppressed to avoid embarrassing outcries that could tarnish the electoral processes and rubbish the image of the country.

Today, as our citizens enjoy peace, security and freedom of speech; and expect transparent, non-violent electoral processes at all levels of government, Ghana is also inspiring other nations, such as Guinea - Bissau to maintain a consistent constitutional democracy.

Mr. Dzakpasu explained that the perception emanates from the low education of voters about the commission and electoral processes.

But beyond electoral processes, it is just as vital to the health of a democracy that ordinary citizens are meaningfully involved in the discourse concerning issues affecting their lives and country.

I bet you know more about how our government and political systems and electoral processes work.

But when the balloting was repeated using fair electoral processes, slavery was voted down six - to - one.

On Friday, special counsel Robert Mueller's team indicted 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies, accusing them of conspiring to interfere with «US political and electoral processes, including the presidential election of 2016.»

Campaign finance refers to the rules that govern the use of money in electoral processes such as general elections, by - elections, and referenda.

Apart from being named by Alexander Nix in the video leak which blew up the scandal, there isn't much empirical evidence of Cambridge Analytica actually tampering with South American electoral processes.

Some Latin American democracies are also beginning to investigate whether the data harvesting techniques associated with Cambridge Analytica (CA) were used in their electoral processes.

The NSA and FBI tell Congress that Russia did not influence electoral process.

His tweet got the instant like from Minister of Information and Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad who had earlier warned the Facebook of taking «stringent action» if any attempt was made by them to influence the electoral process in India.

Every year, the firm's Democracy Index provides a snapshot of global democracy by scoring countries on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture.

Trump frequently calls Mueller's investigation a «witch hunt,» and believes it is motivated not by a desire to make sense of Russia's meddling in the US electoral process, but rather a partisan plot to undermine his presidency.

During the Argentinian electoral process in 2017 hundreds of fake articles were distributed through Facebook.

Today, many people wonder whether they should participate in the electoral process at all,...

In an effort to take U.S. and world attention away from the positive assessments of Nicaragua's electoral process, the U.S. manufactured a «MIG» crisis.

Leaders from various opposition political parties told me that the U.S. embassy offered them bribes in an effort to get them to withdraw from Nicaragua's electoral process in 1984.

Nor is the fact that money talks in the electoral process, having a significant influence on who is elected and what they do as elected officials.

Since the deal has resulted in extensive financial inequality, Christian justice counsels us to insulate the electoral process from the distortions that disparities in wealth can introduce.

Having a right to their money, they also have a right to whatever part it may give them in the electoral process.

When money is as unequally available as it is in our society and talks as loudly as it does in our electoral process, it is also small wonder that many see political engagement as an exercise in futility.

To this is added a distrust of the electoral process and a preference for hierarchy or elitism over egalitarianism.