Sentences with phrase «first free elections»

In 1991 the first free elections were held.

In 1965 the country declared its independence with the first free elections held in 1979.

On November 29, the West African nation of 17 million held its first free elections in almost three decades.

After decades of dictatorships, under which shady financial dealings and corruption perpetuated a vast social disparity and a virtually crippled economy, Brazil held its first free election in 1985 — though remnants of the old system continued to hamper its progress.

Not exact matches

MILESTONES: BURMA By Thomas Clouse Suu kyi: Free at last Burma held its first election in two decades in early November.

The first line of defense against tyranny is free elections and a free press, not Saturday night specials.

In contrast to the relatively trouble - free election victories in 2000 and 2004, Putin's election in 2012 occurred within the midst of the first serious popular political revolt against his rule.

First, as long as voting is not free and fair, the opposition can not compete on a level playing field with the incumbent government, and therefore, sees itself obligated to boycott a sham election that can not contribute to political change.

Without free postage, some argue these will be the first entirely digital elections, decided by postal votes as the electorate shrinks from the prospect of voting on a dark November evening for candidates they barely know.

It was the Liberals under Lloyd George who introduced free school meals after the 1906 general election, they also introduced the first national insurance act in 1911.

The First Protocol, moreover, proclaims the right to enjoyment of private property, the right to education and the right to free elections.

The historic June elections to the body - the first free vote in decades - faced boycott calls in Benghazi.

NEW YORK (WBEN / AP)-- Hillary Clinton says the nation's first free college tuition plan approved by New York state lawmakers can be a model for other states and can eventually pave the way for nationwide reforms that were championed by Democrats during the 2016 presidential election.

Respondents misplace their reliance on Smith v. Allwright, 321 U. S. 649, and Terry v. Adams, 345 U. S. 461, which held not that party affairs are public affairs, free of First Amendment protections, see, e. g., Tashjian v. Republican Party of Conn., 479 U. S. 208, but only that, when a State prescribes an election process that gives a special role to political parties, the parties» discriminatory action becomes state action under the Fifteenth Amendment.

«As we spelled out in our election manifesto, Labour believes that the Brexit negotiations should put jobs and the economy first, with the priority of tariff - free access to the European single market.

It's also understood pretty much across the board that any comprehensive free trade agreement with the EU will take a lot longer than the two years of Article 50 - especially once you lose the first three months to a pointless election and the final six to votes in Westminster and Brussels.

The so - called «regular» Senate Democrats entered this election cycle at a financial disadvantage, trailing the Republicans by several million dollars, though — for the first time in years — they were debt free.

Exiled and expatriate Iraqis living in Britain go to the polls today to vote in Iraq's first - ever free election.

In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations and unions can be considered individuals as far as their political contributions are concerned and that restricting their ability to donate to candidates amounted to a violation of their First Amendment right of free speech.

How many remember the great Obafemi Awolowo lost the first election, after embarking on his epochal free primary education programme, no thanks the NCNC's scalding demonization, built on high tax and vanishing farm hands?

After a challenging campaign in a 2013 special election and in his first re-election bid the following year, Anthony Palumbo (R - New Suffolk) is getting a virtual free pass this time around.

The Christian Democratic Union and its longtime ally, the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, won a sweeping victory, taking 277 seats in the Bundestag to win the first — and to date, only — absolute majority for a single German parliamentary group in a free election.

Dynasty is the first science - supporting nonprofit to fall victim to Russia's 2012 «foreign agent» law, which aims «to crack down on nongovernmental organizations focused on human rights and free elections,» Vladimir Pokrovsky wrote Wednesday at ScienceInsider.

It may not be a policy u-turn but it is a definite change of tone from the party which has opposed free schools since Michael Gove first announced them following the 2010 general election.

Therefore, in the first free and democratic elections held in nearly twenty - five years, Kenyan citizens voted in a new administration, with Mwai Kibaki (1931 ---RRB- serving as president.

Indeed, in this election candidates have felt free to call for explicitly anti-environment actions like the severe restriction — if not the complete elimination — of the EPA, an organization that is intimately connected to the first Earth Day and the modern environmental movement.»

How do first we make sure everyone is able to speak through free, fair elections before we argue about what they can say?