Sentences with phrase «governed by a political party»

Starting over: Ultimate democracy There is a way to ensure that every single voter is satisfied: simply have each one governed by the political party he or she picked at the polls

Now, two major Commonwealth nations (Canada, Australia) are governed by political parties that are lock - step with fossil fuel extraction industries and the Australian government seems -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

In May 2015, former federal cabinet minister and bank vice-president Jim Prentice, a political moderate and patrician of the province's Conservative establishment, led the 44 - year long governing Progressive Conservatives to a stunning defeat by Rachel Notley «s New Democratic Party.

In previous German governing coalitions, the country's finance minister has traditionally been provided by the second - largest party in the coalition — in the current negotiations, the FDP — so there was also speculation that prevailing German political opinion was likely to become more resistant to any future proposals from fellow EU members to reform the region's financial markets through a mutual underwriting of eurozone debt.

Dealing with the minority parties, therefore, requires lots political tactfulness and diplomacy, however, the NPP appears unperturbed in this period, when most of them appear badly injured, following the daring decision by the Electoral Commission (EC) to disqualify them for failing to meet the criteria set out in the Constitutional Instrument (CI 94) governing the conduct of the 2016 elections.

While the revolutionary nations had been mostly governed during the last decades by secular (and socialist) political elites, the Arab Spring has promoted Islamist political parties.

When one political party holds the governor's office and a majority in both houses of the state legislature, the state is governed by a state government trifecta.

Even with building political pressure to launch a convention that is fully or partially constituted by citizens, it will be at the whim of Parliament (read the governing party / parties) following the next general election as to whether such a convention is established, its form and the task assigned.

But the party retains a sincere commitment to federalism which is lacking in other governing political parties — and it seems to be genuinely appreciated by its grassroots membership.

The petition copied to Mr Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption reads in part: «SERAP considers these amendments to be in bad faith, patently an abuse of legislative powers, politically biased, and demonstrably unjustified in a democratic and representative society governed by the rule of law, and incompatible with the country's international human rights obligations and commitments particularly the UN Convention against Corruption, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.»

The African National Congress, South Africa's now - governing political party, was considered terrorist by the United States until 2008.

«Election to Parliament is on a competitive basis with the participation of political parties and independent candidates who meet the requirements set by the Constitution and other relevant laws governing elections in the country,» he stated.

I believe this is a change for the worse, and the complaint that «they're all the same» - that we're governed by an identikit political class - has much to do with the decline of the Conservative Party and the rise of UKIP, not to mention the fall in voter turnout.

They argue that the expenses crisis «reveals a nation governed by a political elite that has stopped listening and who are accountable to no one but their party machines».

According to him, the decision was a political witch - hunting and a calculated move by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to «at all cost destroy legitimate» businesses being done by Ibrahim Mahama, a brother of the immediate past President of Ghana.

Belize is governed by a parliamentary democracy with two major political parties, the United Democratic Party (UDP) and the People's United Party (PUP).

Despite this, the positions in the Clexit statement mirror those pushed by the likes of US Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, fringe right - wing Australian political party One Nation and some within the ranks of Australia's governing coalition of the Liberal and National Pparty One Nation and some within the ranks of Australia's governing coalition of the Liberal and National PartyParty.

The Law Society of British Columbia has launched an investigation, the Premier has called for a review of the process by which special prosecutor appointments occur, and the Vancouver Sun (B.C.'s major daily newspaper of record) has dutifully pulled out a list of other prominent counsel who have acted as special prosecutors subsequent to making political donations to the governing party in B.C.