Sentences with phrase «for electoral law»

Chloe Smith, the minister with responsibility for electoral law, said she would not comment on the allegations while they were under investigation.

By law, they were not supposed to declare a winner, but they had gone ahead with that, in flagrant disregard for the electoral law,» he said.

Not exact matches

One option, cited by Italian newspaper La Republicca, is where the main two parties Lega and M5S agree to allow for an interim technocratic government that would modify the electoral law and pass the budget, with the view to return to elections back in October.

Italy might have just become a smaller concern for investors after the constitutional court ruled on changes to the country's electoral law.

The spectre of a limited technical government looms once again - with a mission to seek a majority for the 2019 budget and to reform the electoral law.

On politics, we think the trickiest votes for the region happened last year (France, Germany, the Netherlands), and while Italy faces fresh elections in March 2018, a new electoral law reduces the risk of extreme outcomes.

It leaves some ends loose (for example, on state nullification of federal laws) and undertreats some areas of current interest (for example, the electoral college).

Cuomo has not yet formally proposed any electoral reforms in the wake of last week's back - to - back corruption scandals, but he has talked about the possibility of rescinding the Wilson - Pakula law following Democratic Sen. Malcolm Smith's arrest for allegeding trying to bribe his way onto the GOP line in the New York City mayor's race.

Several states have laws that purport to restrict or punish faithless electors for their electoral votes.

That for us should be the «gold standard» but for our different contextual background, one that was characterized by many years of mismanaged elections and a lengthy period of minimalism and «structural capture» of the electoral laws.

[v] The last time the Green party formed part of a governing coalition (1998 - 2005), their electoral program had included a demand for the «legalisation of certain drugs such as cannabis under similar laws and regulations pertaining to alcohol» (p. 127).

But regardless who wins the election, a serious case can be made for the need for urgent reform of electoral laws.

As for how to combat the problem, voters were split between law enforcement reforms or the electoral process.

There seems to be a genuine case to (re) investigate whether electoral law is fit for purpose.

says the decisions behind a landmark High Court ruling earlier this year provides the impetus for the Federal Government to reform electoral laws.

Allegations that Vote Leave breached election spending laws in the 2016 referendum add to calls for electoral spending reform.

Husein, a serving commissioner in the state, and one of the two aspirants that were presented for the screening exercise, was disqualified for his failure to comply with the party's guidelines and electoral law.

The laws that had always underpinned Britain's electoral laws were no longer fit for purpose.

A source within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state told DAILY POST on Saturday that Husein, who is a serving Commissioner was accused of flouting the electoral law, which stipulates 30 days for anyone who is in a public servant to resign his / her appointment before vying for an elective office.

For this reason, for a party not to field a candidate in a constituency where it wins the highest share of the party vote, would be a contravention of electoral lFor this reason, for a party not to field a candidate in a constituency where it wins the highest share of the party vote, would be a contravention of electoral lfor a party not to field a candidate in a constituency where it wins the highest share of the party vote, would be a contravention of electoral law.

Both APC guidelines and electoral law made it compulsory for any individual in a public service employment to resign or withdraw before contesting for an elective office.

These could be labelled social or constitutional ones, but citing them shows that a more atavistic label is in order: the EU, the ECHR, law and order, immigration control, electoral reform, Lords reform, English votes for English laws.

But the spokesman for the INEC Chairman, Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi, said the electoral body was guided by the law and took decisions based on the provisions of that law.

[78] In July 2005, a new law for electoral reforms was approved which prevented electoral gerrymandering by cutting the number of electoral districts from 25 to 5.

«As we seek reforms to tighten up our existing campaign finance and electoral laws, it's important that we know more about the New York City experience and what it has meant for hardworking taxpayers.»

I don't have any citations for you, but its illegal to bribe state and federal officials, and electoral are defined by a mixture of state and federal laws, so it would almost certainly fall into existing state / federal bribery laws.

«Instead of rushing to disqualify them [the aspirants] contrary to the due process of law (particularly the right to alter or amend as provided by law and natural justice) and gloating on her competence in the unlawful application of C.I. 94 she should have resigned for failing in her functions to educate the aspirants for the complex nomination electoral process and its purpose.»

How will this affect electoral reform, and the devolution agenda — in particular the English votes for English laws question?

Instead of rushing to disqualify them contrary to the due process of law (particularly the right to alter or amend as provided by law and natural justice) and gloating on her competence in the unlawful application of C.I. 94 she should have resigned for failing in her functions to educate the aspirants for the complex nomination electoral process and its purpose.

In a statement, Martin Amidu said: «Instead of rushing to disqualify them [the aspirants] contrary to the due process of law (particularly the right to alter or amend as provided by law and natural justice) and gloating on her competence in the unlawful application of C.I. 94 she should have resigned for failing in her functions to educate the aspirants for the complex nomination electoral process and its purpose.»

As Douglas W. Rae points out in the standard reference work The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws, majoritarian electoral systems are extremely rare for multi-seat legislatures, only being well established in Australia, and for second round voting in some French elections.

The language in the Moreland Commission's report on legislative corruption is scathing, and validates what crusading journalists, watchdog groups and prosecutors have been saying for years: Albany is a place where laws are bought, and nothing will change until the «dysfunctional electoral and political systems» are reformed.

Whatever comes of the allegations being investigated by the Electoral Commission, there is now a considerable case for a review into electoral law in the UK as it currently stands.

For example, several localities in USA have laws that, in case of an electoral tie, the winner is determined by a random choice (lots, or coin toss).

Advocates for abortion rights, too, criticized Jung's stance on the issue, which in recent years come to the forefront of both Democratic electoral politics and policy in Albany after Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed for a codification of the Roe v. Wade decision in state law.

Members of the Parliament's Lower House previously attempted to revise Afghanistan's electoral laws to remove the requirement for female representation on provincial councils; while conservative MPs have called for the repeal of the Elimination of Violence Against Women Law.

Now, a string of emails released under Freedom of Information laws to WhatDoTheyKnow and seen by openDemocracy demonstrate the full scale of the loophole in Britain's electoral rules which allowed Grimes and Vote Leave to spend this extraordinary sum — and the worrying implications it has for British democracy.

A professor of constitutional law, Prof. H.K Prempeh, has blamed the Supreme Court for the Electoral Commission's delay in implementing the electoral reforms recommended after last year's election petition ruling.

«It may surprised you that we made a proposal for certain amendment in the electoral law but the amendment came two days to the elections of 2019.

OSSIEC had announced its plan to conduct the state councils» polls on Saturday, January 27, 2018 but a human right activist, Barrister Kanmi Ajibola approached the court, urging it to declare as unconstitutional and illegal the electoral law which proposed parliamentary system for the exercise.

Los Angeles Times: Healthcare is a headache for GOP candidates in California Republican candidates across the nation are confident that opposition to President Obama's healthcare law will deliver them electoral victories.

Nigerian opposition parties on Friday called for a change in electoral laws to allow municipal polls to be overseen by the national election commission and not «partisan» state authorities.

The party's flagbearer, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, wife of former President Rawlings, was disqualified by the Electoral Commission for failing to meet some requirements of the electoral laws ahead of the December polls.

Mr. Alphonsus Arthur, the Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education, said the Commission had been educating the electorate on the electoral law C.I 94 in its public engagements and expressed the optimism that the electorate would cooperate with the EC to ensure a smooth exercise.

In their mutually reinforcing recommendations, the two committees strongly advocated the establishment of Electoral Offences Commission / Tribunal for the enforcement of laws, to address all forms of electoral offences and consequently stem the incidence of electoral violence that has undermined the stability and progress of Nigeria's electoral democracy.

The electoral body has yet to arrest a single person for flouting the electoral law.

«For Obidigbo, he was ignorant of the law and the electoral process to have brought this petition to the tribunal, because we never sponsored him at all.

But — and here we have the best argument possible for increased local autonomy instead of less — because of state law, hammered out in back rooms by powerful union interests, local voters were denied their electoral rights.

Despite special status of Srebrenica and its exception from the electoral law this difficulty was evident even in last local elections 2012, confirming deep gap between the two ethnic groups and lack of willing to find a common solution, necessary for functioning of the community.

Though an extremely controversial law, much contested in legislative, administrative, and even electoral venues for the past several years, No Child Left Behind (NLCB) has not generated a large volume of litigation.