Sentences with phrase «for control of the party»

That makes clear who is in charge for the first time since two groups challenged for control of the party earlier this year.

For as I've mentioned, there is currently a struggle going on inside Labour for control of the party that will determine its future direction.

Winning the battle for control of the party is clearly more important that winning the next general election.

For years, Oguebego, who has Chief Chris Uba as the leader of his group and Prince Kenneth Emeakayi, who led another faction of the party and supported by the national leadership of PDP, had been in and out of court, fighting for the control of the party machinery in Anambra.

«Jon has been a member of the Labour party since he was 16 and was involved in the battle for control of the party in the 1980s.

While the the criminal trial of political operative John Haggerty is underway, a renewed battle is now being fought again for control of a party once thought to be insolvent.

Clearly the 68 committee seats gives Lettre an advantage in his war for control of the party with former chairman Nick Longo, but Longo's side is not taking it lying down.

To do so, he almost certainly needs to make sure that the fight for control of his Party comes to a head by the seaside, and that he wins, decisively.

A ruling issued on Wednesday by the Appellate Division «found no statutory support» for the competing claims for control of the party that a package of rules be approved by a majority of the candidates who ran on the ballot line last year.

But the second term was also marked by rivalries within the PS and the split of the Mitterrandist group (at the Rennes Congress, where supporters of Laurent Fabius and Lionel Jospin clashed bitterly for control of the party), the scandals about the financing of the party, the contaminated blood scandal which implicated Laurent Fabius and former ministers Georgina Dufoix and Emond Hervé, and the Elysée wiretaps affairs.

At issue has been that a group of Niagara County Republicans and a group led by former state Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk challenged for control of the party, and a Supreme Court judge in Niagara County ruled in mid-September that all three groups were enjoined from nominating any candidates.

There have been war between Melaye and the Kogi State governor over the battle for the control of the party in his state.

The Queens GOP would not rule out the possibility of backing him against Ulrich, who has been battling with Ragusa et al in the never - ending fight for control of the party.

Meanwhile a separate battle for control of the party will play out at the conference as Scottish and Welsh Labour try to push through a plan to give them seats on Labour's ruling executive.