Sentences with phrase «free and fair election»

He also expressed the commission's readiness to conduct credible, free and fair elections in the state.

He said the government would respect the rules of engagement without interfering in the work of state institutions that have been assigned responsibilities to ensure free and fair elections.

Only states that hold free and fair elections on a regular basis, safeguard the rights of the minority and possess an independent judiciary fall within the province of this definition.

He says it is not enough for the entire nation to call for free and fair elections when the main governance issues have not been addressed.

Is the head of government or other chief national authority elected through free and fair elections?

There are regular free and fair elections and the rule of law is enforced.

So, I am advocating a very free and fair election.

«We express confidence in the ability of INEC to conduct free and fair election in Anambra, but find it nauseating when some political desperadoes and urchins arrogate to themselves powers they do not have.

We will continue working with the government to understand the full extent of Russian interference, and we will do our part not only to ensure the integrity of free and fair elections around the world, but also to give everyone a voice and to be a force for good in democracy everywhere.

The sum total of all these is that one unqualified achievement of Nigeria's democracy - the fact that INEC has conducted reasonably free and fair elections since 2011 in which the will of voters was freely offered resulting in opposition victories, especially in the 2015 presidential elections, is now endangered.

Prasad said any attempt made by Facebook or its associates «to covertly or overtly influence free and fair elections through means that are undesirable» will «neither be appreciated nor permitted», and would attract charges under the IT Act.

«This is very encouraging and I am determined to give Nigeria free and fair elections, no matter which way the results swing,» the President said.

The U.K. is currently providing # 91 million in aid to Zimbabwe for the 2017/18 financial year, including an additional # 5 million announced in February to support free and fair elections in the country.

They undoubtedly will use the protesters and El Barradei, and have, to do the heavy lifting, and once they are elected, will muscle him aside and try to seize power for themselves and dispense with free and fair elections, just as Mubarek did, with a difference!!!! No free speech, press, or religious expression and worship allowed.

For many countries, then, the challenge is keeping the population constructively engaged in the democratic process following successful free and fair elections.

Despite being nominally given the opportunity to choose, the way the Maduro government has set up the electoral process, committed fraud, repressed the opposition and systematically undermined the process of free and fair elections over the past years, all but guarantees authoritarian durability.

In 2016 and 2017, the opposition was able to mobilise millions of citizens demanding free and fair elections, the liberation of political prisoners and the opening of a humanitarian channel for Venezuela.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday assured Nigerians free and fair elections, no matter which way the results swing.

Fayemi said the ruling party should expect a transparent, free and fair election like the June 21 governorship election that produced Governor Ayo Fayose.

«Chief among the many factors we considered was your efforts towards promoting good governance in Africa through the promotion of free and fair elections across the continent.

Comrade Aremu said only INEC has the responsibility to organize a cost effective, transparent, free and fair elections adding that National Assembly could only make laws to strengthen institutions not to run them through what he called «self - serving serial amendments».

Shehu expressed pleasure at what he called the world body's accurate observation of the trends in President Muhammadu Buhari's government, which he said could only lead down the path of free and fair elections come 2019.

According to him, relieving INEC of the power to prosecute electoral litigations and saddling that with a special commission will enable INEC to focus on delivering free and fair elections.

They said it had become imperative to remind the governor that President Muhammadu Buhari's commitment to free and fair elections enabled PDP to win two out of the three senatorial seats in the just - concluded re-run elections.

«That responsibility will now lie with the electoral commission and so INEC can now focus on delivery free and fair election in line with its mandate,» he said.

«I promised the country free and fair elections.

'' It has never happened in a civilise democratic dispensation where a serving governor can deliberately hijack the process of Congresses by hiding the national committee delegated to conduct free and fair election until now,» said Jibrin

At a press conference in Ado Ekiti on Monday, the Nigeria representative / chairperson in charge of social affairs and health in AU - ECOSSOC, Dr. Tunji Asaolu, said Nigeria needed free and fair elections to stabilise and progress.

«That is to tell you that if there is going to be free and fair election today, the PDP will emerge victorious.»

Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has said that the inability of the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct free and fair elections remains the most potent threat to Nigeria's unity.

Thank God Lagos council polls recorded free and fair election in four areas where PDP won.

The Edo state election and its campaigns have since the beginning of this year resulted into different controversial issues, and the Inspector General of police had reiterated his commitment towards ensuring a violence free and fair election in the state.

The Force has therefore, put in adequate security arrangement to guarantee free and fair elections from primary elections of all political parties to period of nomination and campaigns and the election proper throughout the 46 States and the FCT.

He said Buhari lacked the moral right to preach obedience to democratic principles because free and fair elections no longer exists under his administration.

Speaking on the Sunday Politics show, Conservative former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell said the claims about SCL were «absolutely appalling» and «run totally counter to the policy of the British government in promoting free and fair elections in the developing world».

Their testimony paints an extraordinary picture of how far a western company would contemplate going in an effort to undermine the democratic process in a country that already struggles to provide free and fair elections.

According to a White House statement, Mike Pence spoke with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al - Abadi by telephone to discuss the «upcoming May elections in Iraq, reports of Iran attempting to meddle in Iraq's election and government formation, and the need to ensure free and fair elections that include Iraq's citizens displaced by the fight against ISIS».

Jerome Bonso, Chairman of the National League for Free and Fair Elections, told IRIN in Kinshasa underlines that these elections are taking place in a different context from 2006: «We have to consider events such as the Arab spring where the population spearheaded change in their countries» leadership.

However, he said, more clarity was needed on how Washington will force the implementation of the political process and how it «will force the Assad regime into accepting a political settlement that leads to establishing a safe and neutral environment that leads to a transition through free and fair elections.»

The White House said Pence would use his address to the Organization of American States to call on nations to increase pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to address the country's humanitarian crisis, release political prisoners and hold free and fair elections.

From there, we will conduct free and fair elections in which votes will actually count, where the loser will embrace the winner and vice versa, and where at the end of the election, there will be no need to set up election tribunals.

A lack of term limits for the head of government in Germany (and the UK, and other parliamentary states) vs China or Russia is balanced by the fact that in the former, there are regular free and fair elections, credible opposition parties who are free to criticise the government, and a legislature which is more than a rubber stamp for government policies.

While the opposition's request was simple, inter alia, guaranteed free and fair elections and the liberation of all political prisoners, the government was asking for amnesty and impunity for all the crimes it had committed during the past two decades.

In a press conference Wednesday, he added that any attempt «to covertly or overtly influence free and fair elections through means that are undesirable» will «neither be appreciated nor permitted», and would attract charges under the IT Act.

In a post published in September, he vowed to «keep working to ensure the integrity of free and fair elections around the world, and to ensure our community is a platform for all ideas and a force for good in democracy.»

Two Democrat state Senators, who are running for Secretary of State on the promise of free and fair elections, are looking into the new ballot qualification rules that are keeping third parties off the June ballot.