Sentences with phrase «for its parliamentary elections in»

It seeks to change the voting system for parliamentary elections in the UK to a model of proportional representation.

As Germany gears up for its parliamentary elections in fall 2013, the parliamentary group of the German Green Party has released a tool called betatext to allow supporters to comment on position papers, motions or legislative drafts.

Not exact matches

After Yanukovych's ouster, Manafort helped to rebrand his party into the Party of Regions, and made it possible for the party to gain more seats than expected in Ukraine's parliamentary elections.

The top diplomat for East Asia, Daniel Russel, is criticizing the election commission's disqualification of dozens of parliamentary candidates, many of them Muslims, and the disenfranchisement of stateless Rohingya, who were allowed to vote in previous elections.

In his first interview since Macron was elected, the outgoing Finance Minister said that Macron could achieve a majority despite stiff competition from right - wing politicians when the country goes to the polls once again for its parliamentary elections on June 11 and 18.

Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed supporters of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party at a Saturday event in the industrial city of Dortmund, joining the final stage of the campaign for the parliamentary election on September 24.

In Poland, parliamentary elections will take place October 25, where the opposition party is currently gaining power for the first time in eight yearIn Poland, parliamentary elections will take place October 25, where the opposition party is currently gaining power for the first time in eight yearin eight years.

With Macron having no significant, established political party behind him, we expect those parties whose candidates fell short in the first round of the presidential campaign to push hard for parliamentary seats in the June parliamentary elections in a bid to win influence.

As part of its 2006 election platform, the Conservative Party promised to «create an Independent Budget Authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament about the state of the nation's finances and trends in the national economy; require government departments and agencies to provide timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament; and ensure that government fiscal forecasts are updated quarterly and that they provide complete data for both revenue and spending forecasts».

Conservative Party members will gather in Manchester next week for the party's annual conference, against the backdrop of Mrs May having lost her parliamentary majority in a snap election and continued questions about cabinet unity over Brexit.

London was high on Caisse's priority cities for investment, but the fund turned cautious after Prime Minister May lost her parliamentary majority in her snap election gamble in June, weakening her ability to negotiate the U.K.'s exit from the EU.

In July 2016, he was appointed the Minister for the Environment and Energy, having previously served as Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia, Assistant Treasurer and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister since the 2013 election.

The strong demand for the issue was somewhat surprising, given that parliamentary elections in the spring of 2018 will likely be followed by additional political instability.

The Liberal Democratic Party's victory in Japan's parliamentary election Sunday virtually ensures that Shinzo Abe, who resigned as prime minister for health reasons in 2007 after just a year in office, will get a second chance to try to lead Japan out...

Islam online 7 April 2007 • A Muslim man stood as a candidate for the Christian Peoples Alliance in the Scottish parliamentary elections in April.

During my year in Italy when the blood failed to liquefy, the priest announced that this sign indicated God's displeasure over the large communist vote the public opinion polls were predicting for the upcoming national parliamentary elections.

Ireland had just had an election then, and the newly elected Prime Minister, Enda Kenny (now triumphing over his referendum result) in one of his first speeches in the Parliamentary chamber, blamed the Vatican for everything whilst the visitation was underway, thus undermining it completely — as though it were Italian or French priests and Cardinals who were guilty of the Irish abuses, conveniently letting the locals off the hook, and redirecting the anger towards Church discipline and teaching rather than criminal individuals.

And yet, despite winning the largest block of votes in the 2013 parliamentary elections, Grillo refused to articulate concrete proposals for how the energies of M5S might be unleashed for the betterment of Italy.

«Following the 2015 election, the chair of the all - party group, Stephen Lloyd, was not re-elected as an MP, and so, as vice-chair of the Group, I called an AGM for the group on 1stJuly, and informed all officers of the group who served in the last parliament, as well as all other MPs and members of the House of Lords, in accordance with the strict parliamentary requirements for publishing proper notice of such meetings.

In his report, Mr Burrowes applauds Mr Cameron's efforts to ensure parliamentary candidates be chosen so early - the next general election is not due for three or four years - but warns a central list of candidates is not the best way to get Tories elected.

The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has scheduled the party's Parliamentary election in the North Tongu Constituency of the Volta Region for Sunday December 20, 2015.

Since 1991, all candidates of parliamentary or presidential elections, as well as candidates for the Assembly of Experts, have to be qualified by the Guardian Council in order to run in the election.

After many postponements for other reasons, the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the NPP, called for a re-run of all elections in the Manhyia North Constituency from the polling station level to the Constituency executive level before the election of a parliamentary aspirant could take place.

... Even at the parliamentary level when he stood for elections and won against Owuraku Amofa in 1996, what he did to our party people there is still there, it's evident.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ghana believes in the principles that democratic societies provide individuals with the best conditions for political liberty, personal freedom, equality of opportunity and economic development under the rule of law; and therefore being committed to advancing the social and political values on which democratic societies are founded, including the basic personal freedoms and human rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prosperity.

Certainly, the urge to get women involved some 60 years ago can not be downplayed with the involvement of Dr. Nkrumah himself in affirmative action policies and appointment of women propaganda secretaries and organisers right from inception of his government, It is remarkable that parliament under the CPP in 1960 passed Representation of the People (Women Members) Bill into law which amongst others made it possible for women to stand for parliamentary elections unopposed and subsequently saw the election of first ten female parliamentarians into the first session of the first parliament.

The suspended Parliamentary Candidate of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) party for Ejisu - Juabeng in the November elections, Gloria Huzey has cursed the Ashanti Regional Executives of the party for denying her, her share of an amount of money and Christmas present allegedly donated by President Mahama.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

In the event, the parliamentary elections that were held in December 2011 provided the focus for significant protest against the regimIn the event, the parliamentary elections that were held in December 2011 provided the focus for significant protest against the regimin December 2011 provided the focus for significant protest against the regime.

As he argued in the debate which preceded the parliamentary vote to call the election, «this is a good day for Parliament.

The campaign for the fifth Scottish Parliamentary election since Holyrood opened for business in 1999 was a pretty drab affair but the result threw up some real surprises.

The Fidesz parliamentary bloc, which enacted constitutional changes without including or consulting any opposition party, slashed the size of the parliament in half, redrew all of the individual constituencies unilaterally, changed the two - round system to a single first - past - the - post election for individual constituencies, and altered the way votes were aggregated.

The New Patriotic Party parliamentary candidate for the Karaga constituency in the Northern region for the 2016 elections Shaharawi Bashiru has stepped down, party executives in the region have confirmed.

A review by Sir Eric Pickles into last year's general election called for parliamentary candidates to be in place in «battleground seats» by June 2018 «to ensure they are well - established within the seat before the next scheduled General Election on 5th May 2022election called for parliamentary candidates to be in place in «battleground seats» by June 2018 «to ensure they are well - established within the seat before the next scheduled General Election on 5th May 2022Election on 5th May 2022».

I have successfully filed my nomination documents together with all the necessary attachments today to our Constituency Executives to contest for the Parliamentary Primary Elections in Suame.

I think activists can work to get Greens and Respect elected in a handful of FPTP seats and we must all hope for an embarrassingly massive Tory landslide (300 seats or so) on < 50 % of the vote that will make everyone see what an absurd situation we are in, make Cameron's parliamentary party more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left forces.

He has stood as a candidate for the English Democrats in local, parliamentary and European elections.

Hitherto, the coincidence of local and general election results provided an opportunity to estimate a PNS for the parallel local elections by comparing the local and parliamentary election results in those constituencies where all the component wards were contested, and then applying the resulting difference for each party to its share of the Britain - wide parliamentary vote.

«I am in this race because during the 2016 elections, I was in the Upper East Region campaigning for the NPP and I saw some gaping holes; there was no party unity and parliamentary candidates were not resourced adequately and party chairmen were struggling to work.

He had opposed British involvement in the war at its outbreak in 1914, a highly principled position to take in the face of its huge popularity among members of his own party, resigned his position as the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constituents).

Electoral Commission: Guidance for candidates and agents, The 2010 UK Parliamentary general elections in Great Britain, p 39, Rule 60 (3), PER.

Despite some of the strange vox - pops that happened in the run - up to the election where the phrase kept coming out of people's mouths, the British population also did not develop a passion for the relatively obscure concept of parliamentary sovereignty.

He would like to thank the directors of the British Election Study for making Wave 3 of the pre-election panel survey data available and the directors of the European Parliamentary Election Study 2014 (ZA5160) for making the data cited in this article available

I've just returned from a remarkable fringe meeting at the party's annual autumn conference, in which Ian Dexter, a Ukip member, former candidate in county and district elections and potential parliamentary candidate for 2015, outlined his strategy for winning over Labour voters.

A diplomat in the Mahama administration and a failed parliamentary candidate for Abuakwa North, Victor Smith, believes that an overhaul of the NDC's executive structure is non-negotiable following the party's overwhelming defeat in the 2016 elections.

The second parliamentary and presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since independence in 1960 in a few days time on 28 November 2011 are a crucial indicator for the state of the country.

She explained that her outfit was working tirelessly in the constituency to win both the Parliamentary and Presidential elections for the Party, having achieved 70 per cent of her promises to the constituents and promised to add more when voted again into parliament.

However, speaking in an interview with Class 91.3 FM's parliamentary correspondent Ekow Annan on Tuesday 21 March, Mr Naabu said Mr Mahama will perform poorly in the 2020 elections if he decides to run for president again.

Some ward Coordinators and Branch executives of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) have sent a word of caution to the MP for the constituency, Hon. Nii Armah Ashitey to declare his intentions of contesting as an independent candidate in this years Parliamentary elections else they will seek some other person to contest.

The parliamentary candidate of the National Democratic Congress» (NDC) for the Weija - Gbawe constituency, Obuobia Darko - Opoku says she will not fail in her bid to snatch the seat from the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2016 elections.