Sentences with phrase «hold early elections»

If the President and vice president could collude to nominate a successor for the remainder of their term, with the help of Congress they could, in effect, hold early elections.

Back in 2007, Brown opened himself up to accusations of dithering when he considered holding an early election, refused to dampen down speculation and then finally announced there would not be an early election after all.

If the Congress and the president want to hold an early election, the president could use this implicit power to appoint the president - elect

His announcement of inheritance tax reform plans at the 2007 conference played a major role in convincing Gordon Brown not to hold an early election.

Even Harold Wilson didn't always succeed in early elections - the 1970 General Election which the Conservatives won unexpectedly and the October 1974 General Election despite Edward Heath being still Conservative leader only had limited success - in fact the only time that such a strategy of holding an early election has worked since 1945 for a government has been for Harold Wilson while Edward Heath was Conservative leader, because it worked people assume that somehow Harold Wilson was some kind of elections genius when in fact he might just have been lucky that he wasn't faced by someone more electable.

Not exact matches

The party lost a by - election earlier this month to the Conservatives for a Toronto seat that had long been held by the Liberals.

MILESTONES: BURMA By Thomas Clouse Suu kyi: Free at last Burma held its first election in two decades in early November.

The death of Progressive Conservative MLA Manmeet Bhullar on Nov. 23, 2015 means that a by - election will be held to choose the next MLA for the Calgary - Greenway constituency early this year.

This could have a big impact on whether an early election is held.

A poll that surveyed nearly 1,000 Albertans earlier this month found the United Conservative Party have a large lead over the NDP and would win if an election was held...

The current legislative timeline, according to Mr. Resler, would not give the commission and Elections Alberta staff enough time to prepare for the next election, scheduled to be held in early 2019.

Even worse, separate primary elections are held in each state over six months, meaning states that vote early have far greater influence over the outcome as underperforming candidates drop out

When she also mentions the election that was held in Charlotte earlier in the week, I laugh.

Messi is reportedly unhappy with the running of the club by head coach Luis Enrique and the Barcelona board, with the club announcing on Wednesday that they will hold new presidential elections over the summer — a year earlier than scheduled.

Two vacancies are yet to be filled in yet - to - be-called special elections, which could be held as early as April.

Cuomo even took the rare step of holding a telephone news conference with the Fair Elections group earlier this year and before the Smith scandal broke.

There will be no early general election because no Conservative prime minister could risk holding one, but I will be surprised if May is still in Number Ten by March 2019 when the UK is supposed to have left the EU.

Earlier this month, it came to our attention that the New York City Board of Election might have some difficulty holding a special election for the three open Assembly seats in the city on the same day as the Republican and Democratic Presidential primaries, which is AElection might have some difficulty holding a special election for the three open Assembly seats in the city on the same day as the Republican and Democratic Presidential primaries, which is Aelection for the three open Assembly seats in the city on the same day as the Republican and Democratic Presidential primaries, which is April 19.

Theresa May's decision to hold an early general election came as a huge surprise to most.

But a final decision was put on hold in early 2017 after the election of President Donald Trump, who will ultimately decide with Mattis whether an East Coast missile defense site is worth the expense.

Beales had first proposed the idea in an internal memo two years earlier, but Miliband decided to hold it back until 8 April, a month before election day — despite his team's terror that Osborne might outflank Labour by unveiling the same policy in his final budget in April.

The election, which was held in the fall of 2012, wasn't decided until early 2013.

Optimistic partisans digging through the data have even found reason to cheer some of the special election defeats: In one of the Democratic losses, a race for a Connecticut seat held by Republicans for more than a century, the GOP candidate won by 10 percentage points, compared with a 22 - point GOP victory margin in an election for the same seat just three months earlier.

On 19 April 2017, the UK Parliament approved a motion for an early general election, to be held on 8 June (BBC News).

In the early 19th century, most states did not hold popular elections for presidential electors and the legislature just chose them directly; as time went on, more and more states changed to doing popular vote for them, but as recently as 1876, the Colorado legislature appointed its electors rather than hold an election because it was newly admitted and didn't have the time to do so.

Perhaps her one regret this weekend is that she has so firmly ruled out trying to hold an early general election.

Executive Director Bill Lipton said special elections could be held as early as March 13, more than two - and - a-half weeks before the budget is due.

The swearing - in ceremony on January 19 was held at a fraught time for the tiny west African nation, as Jammeh was refusing to step aside and acknowledge the result of the election Barrow won several weeks earlier.

President John Dramani Mahama is expected on Tuesday, December 13, 2016 to join other regional leaders on a trip The Gambia, to hold talks with the country's leader Yahya Jammeh after he rejected results of that country's election held earlier this month.

The plan, predicated on a special election likely to be held after the state budget is approved in late March or early April, would bring together the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference and 23 - member mainline Democratic conference in the state Senate.

Because the primary is being held so early, it's more or less tantamount to a special election, which means turnout will be low and victory will likely go to whoever has the stronger GOTV operation.

Held by Labour in 2015 with a 6.5 % majority, the Tories won it comfortably in a by - election earlier this year after the centrist Labour MP Jamie Reed decided to quit parliament.

Elections should be held early enough to allow sufficient room for litigation before any winner is sworn in.

The unification plan put forth by leaders of the New York State Democratic Party, predicated on a special election likely to be held after the state budget is approved in late March or early April, would bring together the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) with the 23 mainstream Democrats in the Senate.

Earlier in the day CNN reported that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will hold Election Day events.

He did not hold that line earlier that year, when he first secured his legislative seat in a special election against Riverhead Town Supervisor Sean Walter, which he also won handily, 7,152 to 3,447.

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).

Krueger said she supports holding the elections in early March, before the budget is due.

But then the SNP did win previously safe - as - houses Glasgow East from Labour at the by - election earlier in the summer on a swing of over 20 per cent, and they start with an advantage in Glenrothes in that the party already holds the almost identical Fife Central seat in the Scottish Parliament.

Although they held Newark earlier this year, they were swept away in the Corby by - election of 2012 following the resignation of Louise Mensch.

Fresh from observing Liberia's general elections held on 10th October, Head of the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC) and Chair, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of Nigeria, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, in company with INEC and ECONEC officials earlier today met with the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) Coordinator and Resident Representative in Cote d'Ivoire, Mr Babacar Cisse to advocate for support for the Commission Electorale Independante of Cote'd» Ivoire (CEI).

I thought it was a bit early in the election to start slinging mud, but apparently Gibson and his supporters don't have a whole lot to say about their positions nows that the government shutdown and the attempt to hold the payment of the government's debts for blackmail has come to such a pitiful end.

Mr. Ato Dadzie was speaking on Joy FM's Super Morning Show on Parliament's rejection of a proposed amendment of the Constitution to hold the elections a month early.

Giwa had challenged Pinnick's victory at the poll, stating that he won an earlier election held in Abuja, which was not recognised by FIFA, which meanwhile okayed Pinnick's emergence as President.

The special election is also an early test for Flanagan to keep a district that has historically been held by a Republican for the last century.

If the House of Commons resolves «That this House has no confidence in Her Majesty's Government», an early general election is held, unless the House of Commons subsequently resolves «That this House has confidence in Her Majesty's Government».

But, in case of emergency, an analogous power was granted to the House of Commons (not Parliament) subject to a 2/3 vote — this meant that an early election could be held if there was a broad political consensus that it was necessary.

Scared at the prospect of a Conservative victory in an early general election, EU powers are apparently willing to prioritize British agenda items in the coming months, lest the Conservatives come to power and hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

During the leadership contest Ms May ruled out an early general election, saying that not holding one would create stability during Brexit negotiations.

«Everyone has anticipated a lower turnout than a usual primary simply because there's only one election, one position and also because of the first time in a long time this primary is being held in June,» Meng said, acknowledging the reality of the situation as she cast her vote early in the day.