Sentences with phrase «interim leader of the party»

The Glasgow Central MP, currently interim leader of the party following Johann Lamont's resignation, said he will remain in that role until the new leader is announced on 13 December.

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Rowley is the current deputy leader of the Scottish Labour party, and as such will become the interim leader in Dugdale's absence.

Ambrose, from Edmonton, has done herself and the federal party a lot of good as interim leader.

-- David Swann, MLA for Calgary - Mountain View and interim leader of the Liberal Party (press release)

Dave Hancock appointed Premier Long - time PC cabinet minister Dave Hancock was appointed Premier and interim leader of the PC Party following the resignation of Alison Redford in March 2014.

Edmonton, AB — Matt Jeneroux, Member of Parliament for Edmonton Riverbend and co-chair of the Alberta Jobs Taskforce, today joined Nathan Cooper, interim leader of the United Conservative Party, and representatives from Restaurants Canada in Edmonton to highlight how Alberta's restaurant industry is being negatively impacted by federal and provincial policies that are increasing costs for local businesses.

The Liberals will choose an interim party leader next weekend but the state of the party remains dire.

Edmonton - Gold Bar Liberal MLA Bettie Hewes became the first woman to lead a major political party when she served as interim leader of the Official Opposition in 1994.

When interim Conservative Party of Canada Leader Rona Ambrose, 48, announced on Tuesday that she would be quitting her Sturgeon River - Parkland seat, the timing seemed synchronistic, auspicious even.

The Green Party of Alberta is pleased to announce our Interim Leader: Coral Bliss Taylor Coral has served on the Green Party of Alberta executive since 2015 and was a candidate in the 2015 provincial election.

Premier Dave Hancock, who is serving as the PC Party's interim leader, has said he will not endorse any candidate as a condition of his temporary position in the Premier's Office.

On July 13, 2004 Mason replaced Raj Pannu as the Interim Leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party.

Prominent among those who have visited him in London at the Abuja House are the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the Interim National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande.

For the sake of the party there has to be a leader who can be followed, even if as an interim measure.

There is also the issue of path dependency and the extent to which decisions taken on the part of the intervening party permanently affect the political trajectory of the state — for example in their choice of interim leaders or governing bodies.

In each of the three parties, an interim leader is possible, to hold the fort until a leadership election has taken place.

The Liberals have gone through 6 party leaders since 2006 (including interim leaders); The Progressive Conservatives went through this kind of phase after the Joe Clark government was defeated, and again when the Reform Party was establiparty leaders since 2006 (including interim leaders); The Progressive Conservatives went through this kind of phase after the Joe Clark government was defeated, and again when the Reform Party was establiParty was established.

He was welcomed back to the party at a ceremony attended by top leaders of the PDP, including the interim National Chairman of the party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi and the Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT), Senator Walid Jibrin, among several others.

Whenever a leadership election becomes necessary on account of a vacancy arising suddenly, an interim leader (often informally called the interim prime minister in cases where this involves a governing party) will be selected by the parliamentary party, usually with the stipulation or expectation that the interim leader will not be a candidate for the permanent leadership.

It should have agreed on an experienced interim leader who commands general confidence to take the party past the Scottish elections and the European referendum and into 2017, while preparing Labour — and its electoral system — for a proper contest between its next generation of leadership candidates in time for 2020.

Some of the party leaders at the meeting were Senator Ayoade Adeseun; a former Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mulikat Akande - Adeola; the party's State Chairman of the Interim Management Committee, (Makarfi group), Muraina Ajibola; a former Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide; Dr. Saka Balogun, Chief Jacob Adetoro, Bisi Olopoeniyan, and the immediate past Deputy Whip of the Senate, Senator Hosea Agboola, who was represented by Dayo Ogungbenro.

Before the election of the first federal leader of the party (the Liberal Democrats having a federal structure in their internal party organisation), the leaders of the two parties which merged to form the Liberal Democrats, the Liberal Party and the SDP, served as joint interim leaparty (the Liberal Democrats having a federal structure in their internal party organisation), the leaders of the two parties which merged to form the Liberal Democrats, the Liberal Party and the SDP, served as joint interim leaparty organisation), the leaders of the two parties which merged to form the Liberal Democrats, the Liberal Party and the SDP, served as joint interim leaParty and the SDP, served as joint interim leaders.

The Labour leader candidate took to Facebook to outline his reasons for his actions after nearly 50 of his party's MPs defied interim leader Harriet Harman and voted against the Conservative's Welfare Reform Bill.

MPs will vote on the government's interim proposals for reforming their expenses next week, despite a lack of agreement in last night's meeting of party leaders.

But in a reversal from its original contract - review plan, the Nassau Interim Finance Authority will not require an accounting of vendors» donations to political party committees and local clubs, which often have close ties to county leaders.

The loss of Obama's former Senate seat, held in the interim by Roland Burris, would illustrate the drop in support for the president and his party in the two years since his election as the nation's first African - American leader.

Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the Nigeria's leading opposition party APC had revealed that Jonathan offered him a Vice Presidency slot under an Interim Govt...

Following the resignation of Johann Lamont, Mr Sarwar became the interim leader of the Scottish Labour Party, until Jim Murphy's appointment in December last year.

He served as Ontario's 21st Premier from 1990 to 1995 and Interim Federal Leader and foreign affairs critic for the Liberal Party of Canada from 2011 - 2013, a time of significant restructuring.

Guest speaker and former interim Liberal Party leader Bob Rae discussed the imbalance of power in the current government and answered questions from students on everything from immigration, to abortion, to Idle No More.

... (7) The person appointed as the Interim Leader may exercise all the powers of the Leader under this Constitution until a new Leader is elected by the supporters members of the Party.

Mere days after Baker's discharge Conservative Party interim leader Rona Ambrose rose in the House of Commons to politicize the issue:

Guest columnist Bob Rae is a partner at Olthuis Kleer Townshend LLP, and a former premier of Ontario and interim leader of the Federal Liberal Party.