Sentences with phrase «held votes of no confidence»

Students protested and held a vote of no confidence in the college president and the chief diversity officer.

If you could have held a vote of confidence immediately after the election, it would have failed.

Each of the five unions held votes of no confidence in the supervisor that were overwhelmingly approved last month, they said.

The Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) have remained defiantly opposed to his leadership since they held a vote of no confidence in July and The Sunday Times reported some rebels are planning to form a «party within a party» if Mr Corbyn prevails on 24 September.

Establish set terms of two to three years, then hold a vote of confidence at the end of each term.

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Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.

They could (read: should) hold a vote of non confidence in Ed Cox.

Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D - Ill., on Monday received the endorsement of the SEIU Illinois State Council, a vote of confidence from labor leaders and a pool of manpower that should help her in the three - way Democratic primary for the Senate seat held by Republican Mark S. Kirk.

A minority government could continue in office on a vote - by - vote basis, without any formal deal with another party - if it can hold the confidence of the House.

Once they pass a threshold of 15 % of the party's MPs, it is his job to tell the prime minister that a no confidence vote should be held.

The 2011 act brought an end to that discretion and now elections are only held at the end of the five year period (unless two - thirds of parliament support early dissolution or there is a vote of no confidence).

Such vote of confidence, which is continually passed on us from time to time as a people with pride and integrity, can not be rubbished by any negative personality that may be holding our people hostage as of today.

A former Deputy Minister and Member of Parliament for Ejumako - Enyan - Essiam said at the Minority's Roundtable on the 2018 budget held on Monday, 13 November that: «This monumental failure is a classic vote of no confidence in the economy and the economic management team led by the Vice-President of the Republic.»

cabinet met in 1979 after a vote of no confidence, a full 18 years before they were re-elected, with the only serious ex-govt minister left in 1997 being the likes of Tony Benn, who was widely held in contempt in the»70s for his performance as Energy Secretary when North Sea Oil was starting up.

Irked by that behaviour, the senate on Tuesday passed a vote of no confidence on the IGP and declared him unfit to hold any public office.

Magee ousted a three - term incumbent, and teachers held a symbolic vote of no confidence in Education Commissioner John King, over what critics call a botched rollout of the new Common Core learning standards.

Magee ousted a three - term incumbent, and teachers held a symbolic vote of no confidence in King, over what critics call a botched roll out of the new Common Core learning standards.

if, after a vote of no confidence, a government can not be formed within 14 days, parliament will be dissolved and a general election held.

A vote was held during the party's June 2005 convention to determine whether Landry continued to have the confidence of the party membership.

The election may be held at an earlier date in the event of an early election motion being passed by a super-majority of two - thirds in the House of Commons, or a vote of no confidence in the government which is not followed by a vote of confidence within 14 days.

One of his most high - profile rulings came in June, when he ruled that a no - confidence vote against South Africa's president, Jacob Zuma, could be held in secret.

, but whatever happens in the end, and regardless of whether the coalition loses its nerve, given Mr. Harper's unilateral delay of the confidence vote (contrary to his readiness to hold «confidence» votes in the last Parliament, taking advantage of the Liberals» reluctance to go to the polls), and whether the Liberal leadership candidates can indeed work together, the last week or so has been a wonderful lesson — and reminder — about our system of government and its constitutional cleverness.