Sentences with phrase «government elections this week»

Voters in London are expected to punish Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party at local government elections this week.

Not exact matches

Portugal's minority center - right government collapsed this week after the three leftist parties that won the majority of seats in September month's general election refused to support its continuation of bailout - dictated austerity policies.

After weeks of discussions with the Justice Department, Democrats on the House intelligence committee released Saturday a classified memo that counters GOP allegations that the FBI abused U.S. government surveillance powers in its investigation into Russian election interference.

In a commentary earlier in the week, Liberal deputy leader Ralph Goodale said the Harper government was in «denial» about the jobs picture in Canada all so it «can concoct a surplus on the eve of an election.»

India's stock market has been jittery the last few weeks, on news that the BJP would lead a minority government at the end of the three - month long national elections.

Just last week, the Globe and Mail reported that the Government is planning a bare - bones budget in early February, saving major policy announcements for the 2015 budget, just in time for the 2015 election.

This week, lost in the media circus caused by the resignation of Premier Stelmach and Finance Minister Morton, the announcement of the Alberta Government's Oilsands Panel and the David Suzuki CBC documentary on the oilsands was a very important announcement in advance of the next Federal Election.

'' The government sector has been a drag, there is still one more budget fight coming in the next few weeks and that's going to be a challenge, but if we get through that we are into the part of the election cycle where government drag turns into a small boost, we are already seeing some rehiring at the state and local level and that is significant as well.»

In America's Forbes Magazine this week, Alejandro Chafuen praised the leadership of the conservative policy think - tanks that helped set the stage for the election of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative majority government in 2011 and the success of conservative politicians across the country.

Last week, the Iranian government rounded up activists after Karrubi and Moussavi called for supporters to gather at Azadi Square - the site of mass protests by Iran's opposition movement after the disputed 2009 presidential elections.

Colonel George Wigg, who has been the watchdog for scandals and security leaks in Harold Wilson's government and a close confidant of the Prime Minister (he helped win the election for the Socialists by exposing Profumo), became the No. 1 man in British racing last week.

President Mahama on Wednesday urged the striking workers of CLOGSAG to end their two weeks strike because government can not succumb to their demand since it has resolved not to overspend in an election year.

In the same way that Blair made some immediate policy announcements post 1997, Cameron and Osborne are using the weeks following their election victory to show what a majority Conservative Government really looks like.

The Conservatives and SNP called a vote of no - confidence in the Callaghan government, which lost by one vote, forcing (a few weeks early) the 1979 General Election that brought Margaret Thatcher to power, and killed Scottish devolution for 18 years.

Boko Haram attacks escalated in 2014 and into 2015, forcing the Nigerian government to postpone presidential elections for six weeks until March 28, 2015.

The prime minister will make particular reference to how the election of a new government in Iraq provides a direction for other states, building on his comments made earlier this week alongside Mr al - Maliki.

Welsh Labour today promised to put children and young people at the heart of government if elected for a third term in next week's assembly election.

Chancellor George Osborne says the government will be «100 %» focused on the economy after last week's bruising election results.

The Conservatives lost 405 councillors in local elections across England, Wales and Scotland last Thursday, following weeks of negative headlines for the government about the «pasty tax», the «granny tax» and the 50p tax cut for Britain's richest.

Education has become the latest election battleground this week with criticism from Westminster of the Welsh Government's record.

Norwegians go to the polls next week to chose a new government, but the issue of joining the European Union is not one that has featured in this year's election campaigns.

On Tuesday, about a third of union members petitioned the federal government to decertify the union — a move that could bring an election challenge to the union's representation within weeks.

The clash came a week before the government's pre-Budget report, the last before next year's election.

Just weeks before a general election, in February 2010, the government finally published a strategy for the private rented sector.

Letters certifying last week's election results were to be delivered on Friday by the Government Accountability Board.

Garba said, «we started this election two weeks ago in Maiduguri; we now came back to complete it here in Gombe with the remaining two local governments that were unable to vote.

I was somewhat concerned that the Government's amendment gave too much wriggle room to returning officers - but the measure was passed into law last week, and it clearly focused minds as over 100 more returning officers have informed the Electoral Commission in the last week that they will indeed be counting on General Election Night.

«I think it is appalling that, during election week, senior members of the Labour party chose to walk out of government, criticise the prime minister and generally undermine our campaign,» said Mr Martin.

He said that the congress election conducted two weeks ago was declared inconclusive due to some challenges which resulted in the two local governments not casting their votes.

The follow - up installment dealing with the county government's possible assumption of election costs should be in the news in a few weeks.

The Town of Oyster Bay government will stop sending mailings to residents ahead of the Nov. 7 election, Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino said last week.

Last week, the Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC) released the final results of the 2017 Local Government Elections conducted to elect chairmen and councilors of...

Fire on Saturday razed the two - storey building of Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (KADSIECOM), few weeks before the Local Government Election in the state.

This week on the Campbell Conversations, host Grant Reeher talks with two highly respected political scientists who have recently co-authored a very provocative book on American democracy, titled «Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government».

However, looking at last week's local elections results, there seems to be little to suggest that the Conservative government's focus on rejuvenating the economic fortunes of the North has encouraged greater citizen participation.

But we might have a Lab - Lib government in five weeks rather than four years, once the Scottish elections take place on May 5.

The Irish Labour Party — founded by national hero James Connolly over a century ago — faces the prospect of annihilation in this week's election, despite having been part of a government that has delivered jobs and growth.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and top Democrat Dianne Feinstein warned in letters to those testifying next week that they need to «preserve all relevant documents in your possession... related to Russian interference in the 2016 election, including documents related to your or the Trump campaign's contacts with Russian government officials, associates or representatives.»

The only other possibility is that the Liberal Democrats are now seriously countenancing trying to prop up a discredited Labour government which came off worst at last week's general election.

Andrew Neil asked the MEP if last week's local election results had changed government plans for legislation.

Calls for Voter Reform: Voter turnout was low as usual for this week's elections, and on Tuesday, the «Vote Better NY» coalition, led by NYC Votes, the voter outreach arm of the city's Campaign Finance Board, along with other advocacy and good government organizations launched a petition drive to highlight the importance of election reform and call on lawmakers to pass legislation to modernize elections in New York.

«The past few days have seen us enter a political landscape not considered possible a few short weeks ago - with the outcome of the election leading to no single party able to form a majority government.

That's the question nagging away at Tory MPs as they disperse, ragged after a long, hard election campaign and a dizzying first few weeks in government, for far - flung summer holiday destinations.

Last week, the Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC) released the final results of the 2017 Local Government Elections conducted to elect chairmen and councilors of the 17 council areas and 260 electoral wards in the state, respectively.

New York's state government pension costs could be nearly $ 1.6 billion above previously projected levels over the next four years, according to the Mid-Year Financial Plan Update that was finally issued today — 11 days behind schedule, and nearly a week after Election Day — by Governor Andrew Cuomo's Division of the Budget (DOB).

In many ways during last week's local government elections, voters across the state have tried to prove they are not the optimists who can't learn from experience.

Nothing makes this more obvious than the APC ward congresses and Local government elections held last week in which there were accusations of vote buying, harassment, violence, parallel congresses, anti-party activities, and corrupt practices.

In tomorrow's Week In Westminster on Radio 4 the Labour MP, George Mudie, an old admirer of Brown's, tells me that if Labour is slaughtered in the elections this June and the government presses ahead with the part privatisation of the Post Office, there will be a «perfect storm» which will sweep away the Prime Minister.

The febrile political atmosphere around Westminster ahead of next week's pre-budget report, as the political dividing lines of the next general election start to take shape, has seen our old friend «the snap election» back in the game, as commentators ask whether the government might now go to the country by the spring.

The Lib Dems have been in talks about forming a coalition government following the results of last week's general election which saw no party gain a parliamentary majority.