Sentences with phrase «first national election»

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Steinbrueck, a Social Democrat who will take on Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany's next national election in September, has a reputation for gaffes and his remark created the first diplomatic incident of his accident - prone campaign.

Traditionally, Sunderland is the first place to declare in national elections, but it is facing competition from Newcastle upon Tyne, just 15 miles down the road.

On October 7, 2016, the US intelligence community released a statement publicly accusing Russia, for the first time, of hacking into the Democratic National Committee's email servers and for interfering with the US election process.

Business owners turned their attention over the past few days squarely toward the Iowa caucuses, the first national contest in the 2016 presidential election.

The special election to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions's vacated senate seat first drew national attention when Moore won the Republican primary over President Trump's preferred candidate, Luther Strange.

The Republican National Committee has committed $ 250 million to a midterm election strategy that has one goal above all else: Preserve the party's House majority for the rest of President Donald Trump's first term.

AfD seems certain to repeat its local success in a general election - in which case Ms Merkel's critics will see her as the German leader who paved the way for a racist and nationalist party to gain a toehold in the national parliament for the first time since 1945.

With national elections due to take place during the first half of 2018, Five Star's failure to win in a region seen as one of its strongholds was characterized by some commentators as evidence the party's appeal had peaked.

As far as most commentators are concerned, the first round of the French presidential elections, due to take place on April 23, will be a race to see who faces the far - right National Front leader Marine Le Pen in the run - off in May.

Two weeks ago, Biden and Ryan debated on the national stage — the first time two Catholics had ever debated each other in a presidential election.

In the 20th century major ethnic groups and even racial groups began to be represented on the national political stage and the election of the first Catholic president in 1960 marked the crossing of an important symbolic barrier.

But Rodriguez is closing the Republican National Convention's first day with a prayer Tuesday, helping to give presumptive nominee Mitt Romney entrée to the Latino community, a swing voting bloc that has largely abandoned the Republican Party over immigration policy in recent elections.

As she understood, the idolatrous conceit of national election got Europe into its world wars in the first place.

But this double «betrayal» stemmed from a single motivation: Weil objected so adamantly to the national idolatry endemic in European (and particularly French) Christianity» the conceit that «holy France» was God's chosen people» that she blamed Israel and its God for inflicting the idea of election on the world in the first place.

The election of the 200 seat National Assembly is a promising first step, especially considering the relative lack of violence that characterized the elections.

If Obama wins the election it will be because millions ofnewly registered voters got their first taste of national politics on theirdoorsteps.

Bitter by - election battles, gaffe - prone juniors, devious whips and one big game of «coalition chess» sounds more like the sober politics pages of a national broadsheet than a fun evening out, but first - time playwrights Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky remarkably manage to marry the two in their new political comedy, Coalition.

He went on to graduate at the top of his class with first class honours in Politics and Modern History at Manchester University, winning the Robert McKenzie Prize for political science, his first book contract and election to the (sabbatical) leadership of the students» union, Labour Students» National Committee and NUS National Council.

The Disciplinary Committee took the decision first, after the National Council of Elders in September, wrote to it, demanding among others, that Paul Afoko, be made to step aside until after the 2016 elections.

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.

The 2015 general election marked the first time in Labour's history where the party bet the house on the National Health Service.

Its victory in the Spanish national election of November 2011, was counteracted in Catalonia with a secessionist majority in its Parliament for the first time in democracy.

The African - American vote has become a major focus during this national election with the presence of the first serious black contender, Barack Obama.

Very recently the UK Independence Party won the 2014 European elections, the first time in over 100 years that neither the socialist labour or conservative parties had won a national election.

In her first major appearance since Wednesday's vote crowning her the second - most - powerful elected official in the city, the progressive firebrand told Mr. Sharpton's National Action Network in Harlem that this year's election victories signaled a sea change in New York that the mainstream media resisted.

BRUSSELS (Reuters)- Marine Le Pen's far right National Front scored a stunning first victory in European Parliament elections in France on Sunday as critics of the European Union registered a continent - wide protest vote against austerity and mass unemployment.

Once the first inclusive elections were planned in South Africa, the SACP deferred to the ANC as the leader of the national democratic revolution to pursue an electoral approach.

Sargeant was first elected as the AM for Alyn and Deeside in the National Assembly for Wales election of 2003, after Tom Middlehurst stood down.

On 18 May 2009, the English Democrats broadcast their first national Party Election Broadcast.

While these elections are the first major test of public opinion since last year's surprising general election, it is worth saying that local elections do not always reflect the national political mood.

For his part, Schreibman argues that his upbringing — he was the first person in his family to go to college — and his legal work on security issues make him best suited for an election he predicts will be about the economy and national security.

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.

BAGHDAD (AP)- Iraq's Muqtada al - Sadr, the maverick Shiite cleric whose political coalition beat out Iran's favored candidates to come in first in national elections, says he wants to form a government that puts Iraqis first.

Iraq's Muqtada al - Sadr, the maverick Shiite cleric whose political coalition beat out Iran's favored candidates to come in first in national elections, says he wants to form a government that puts Iraqis first

Steve Brooks, Wales Director of the Electoral Reform Society said: «Our research shows that Labour would have won nearly 70 % of the seats in the National Assembly, had the last election been fought using Two Member First Past the Post.

While not coming completely out of the blue, the remarkable success of the M5S during the first time that the newly - formed political party competes in national elections is unique in Western democracies.

The UKIP, which for the first time came in first in a nation - wide election, has been traditionally strong in EU elections, only to fizzle out in the run up to national general election.

The meeting will bring into focus the full palette of issues that colour the US - Russia relationship: from allegations of Russian interference in the election that brought Trump to power to sanctions levied on Russia owing to its incursion into Ukraine, premature discussions about which forced the resignation of Trump's first National Security Advisor, to the threat of escalation in Syria as military tensions increase and each country's political objectives in the country remain opposed.

First, you can hook into the National Change of Address database to make sure the data in your voter file is up - to - date (folks in this country move more often than we have elections).

The party had polled consistently in the first four elections to the National Assembly, returning six representatives in the first three elections and five in the 2011 Election, thereby establishing itself as the fourth party in Wales behind Labour, the Conservatives and Plaid Cymru, but fell to just one seat in 2016.

The Mayoral election in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets on 22 May is of national significance because of the concerted campaign to unseat Britain's first and only Muslim directly elected Mayor.

Guy Cecil, executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and Rob Collins, executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, will discuss the top Senate contests of 2014 — their first joint appearance after Election Day.

The French president, François Hollande, has warned that Europe risks «regression and paralysis» if Eurosceptics and nationalists gain the upper hand in next year's European parliament elections, as an opinion poll for the first time put the anti-immigrant National Front (NF) well ahead of his country's mainstream parties.

As the National Republican Senatorial Committee's political director during the last election cycle, the former Marine helped orchestrate a stunning nine - seat GOP gain, seizing Senate control for the first time since 2006.

National Executive Committee, 4 November 2014 As usual the first meeting after conference was an extended session, setting strategy for the year ahead, with general election victory the over-riding objective.

If as predicted this becomes the first general election in which people vote in much larger numbers for the Scottish National Party (SNP), it will accelerate a major movement away from Scotland's prominence in Westminster.

«For the first time in a poll on voting intentions in an election of a national character, the NF is clearly ahead,» an Ifop spokesperson said.

The first elections to the newly created National Assembly for Wales were in 1999; the Liberal Democrats took six seats in the inaugural Assembly; Welsh Labour won a plurality of seats, but without an overall majority.

Commenting on the changes, Emma Rees, Momentum's national organiser, said: «We welcome the review, which is a promising first step towards a 21st - century Labour party that empowers its members and is able to win elections.

Labour's national executive committee will meet for the first time since the election in the next fortnight and one source close to the NEC said they believed Lavery's comments would be a controversial topic of discussion — particularly on narrowing the spectrum of political views in the party.