Sentences with phrase «into national elections»

«The Government and the main opposition party are heading into the national election boasting that each will achieve a fiscal surplus in the coming year.

Not exact matches

Rudd's $ 43bn fast web gamble The global recession has forced Kevin Rudd to scrap plans for a high - speed national broadband network funded by the private sector and wager at least $ 21.9 billion of taxpayers» money to fund his election pledge to bring internet speeds into the 21st century.

Much like Mitt Romney in the 2012 election cycle, he'll need to try recasting his more elite experiences into a cohesive national agenda with a strong populist appeal, political experts say.

«I think the Tanaiste (deputy prime minister) should recognize that unless she does stand aside, she is going to force this country into an election nobody wants, that nobody needs and is not in the country's interests,» senior Fianna Fail MP Jim O'Callaghan told national broadcaster RTE.

On October 7, 2016, the US intelligence community released a statement publicly accusing Russia, for the first time, of hacking into the Democratic National Committee's email servers and for interfering with the US election process.

Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty in December to lying to federal agents and is providing cooperation to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and whether the Trump campaign was involved.

By contrast, Front National leader Marine Le Pen, currently leading the opinion polls in France's Presidential elections due in May, routinely attacks the ECB's policy as too tight and Germanic (albeit she recently diluted her comments on taking France out of the euro into something much less coherent than the brutal «Frexit» she threatened earlier).

The charges were announced less than an hour after The Intercept published a top - secret document from the U.S. National Security Agency that described Russian efforts to launch cyber attacks on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and send «spear - phising» emails, or targeted emails that try to trick a recipient into clicking on a malicious link to steal data, to more than 100 local election officials days before the presidential election last November.

Whether President Donald Trump was involved or not, and whether they actually affected the vote or not, it's very clear that Russian operatives took part in the 2016 U.S. presidential election in a number of ways, including hacking into the Democratic National Committee's emails, according to FBI, CIA, and NSA investigations.

In early January, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a declassified report documenting the results of the investigation former President Barack Obama had requested into Russian election interference.

According to documents released on Oct. 30, 2017, in an interview conducted as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference, Papadopoulos misrepresented the timing of conversations with an individual known to be substantially connected to Russian government officials, his knowledge of the individual's Russian connections and the nature of his interactions with a female Russian national.

Jean Charest is the leader of the Quebec Liberal Party and leader of the Official Opposition in Quebec's National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) going into the 2003 election.

He has been backed up by the Republican National Committee, which launched a website «Lyin» Comey» last week that makes the case that Democrats should hate the former FBI director because he cost Hillary Clinton the election by reopening an investigation into her emails days before voters went to the polls.

In remarks to Croatia's religious, political, business, and cultural leaders in Zagreb's National Theater, the Pope refined into six digestible propositions the case he has been making about religion - and - society ever since his election to the papacy in 2005: 1.

The election cycle happily fading into the rear - view mirror brought the sorry condition of many white working - class communities to national attention; no one tells the story of one part of that world, its strengths and its pathologies, better than J.D. Vance in Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Harper)-- a tough and occasionally hilarious book that also suggests, inadvertently, an enormous evangelical failure on the part of both Protestants and Catholics.

As she understood, the idolatrous conceit of national election got Europe into its world wars in the first place.

In conclusion, we urge the teeming Konkomba Youth to campaign assiduously to canvass more votes to retain H.E John Dramani Mahama and the National Democratic Congress as we go into the general elections.

All 10 Regional Chairmen of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) backed the candidature of former President John Mahama to lead the party into Election 2020.

Former President John Dramani Mahama has said that it is too early for the National Democratic (NDC) to be engrossed in a debate on the issue of who leads the party into 2020 general elections.

The Editor - in - Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Kweku Baako, has said in a broadcast discussion that former president John Mahama is a better candidate than all those aspiring to lead the National Democratic into the 2020 elections.

E. O'Brien Murray, who worked with former state GOP legend / Chairman Bill Powers and former Gov. George Pataki, was credited with master - minding Turner's win in the long - shot special election in former Rep. Anthony Weiner's Democrat - dominated Queens / Brooklyn district that turned him into a national Republican rockstar overnight.

He came into office on the ticket of the People's National Party (PNP) after winning democratic elections organised by the Rawlings - led Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), which overthrew the Supreme Military Council (SMC) led by General Akuffo, on June 4, 1979.

This would have very little effect on national elections, but a huge effect on local ones; there are an awful lot of people who commute into major cities, use many local services, but have no influence over any local policies where they work.

As the election into various offices of the national body of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) is around the corner, no fewer than 31 persons have shown interest in replacing the current President, Mr. Augustine Alegeh (SAN).

Democrats are hopeful that their national momentum since the election of Trump will carry over into New York, where they're trying to wrestle away from Republicans the state Assembly seats previously held by Steve McLaughlin and Pete Lopez.

At the same time, Clinton pointed the finger at both the alleged hacking by Russian - backed agents of emails at the Democratic National Committee as well as the re-opening of the FBI investigation into his wife's use of a private email server weeks before Election Day.

The state Conservative Party is so far sticking by Hoffman, but GOP leaders are wondering if the lack of national attention on NY - 23 in the upcoming general election could mean last year's Tea Party cause célèbre no longer has sufficient star power to carry their banner into the race.

The U.S. Senate intelligence committee has subpoenaed former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn for documents related to the panel's investigation into Russia's election meddling.

And if you look specifically at Pennsylvania, for example, going into that election, the Democrats had a narrow majority in the statehouse - five or six seats - and that Operation RedMap, this national Republican effort, targeted three, put money in, won all three.

As in the national election, the Greens» recent membership surge didn't really translate into hard results, though they will be encouraged by seven gains in Labour - dominated Bristol, bringing them within touching distance of official opposition.

Democrats are hopeful that their national momentum since the election of President Donald Trump will carry over into New York, where they're trying to wrestle away from Republicans the state Assembly seats previously held by Steve McLaughlin and Pete Lopez.

The senator has called for an investigation into Russia's meddling into the 2016 presidential election that included hacking the Democratic National Committee and the emails of some Hillary Clinton campaign staffers.

The by - election came in the middle of the John Major government and was won by Roseanna Cunningham of the Scottish National Party, but Alexander received enough votes to push the Conservative candidate into third place.

Majority of taxi of drivers interviewed by The aL - hAJJ in the capital city, Accra, on the leadership struggle in the opposition National Democratic Congress over who leads the party into the 2020 elections, endorsed Mr Mahama as the marks man to kick out the Akufo - Addo government.

One of the election flashpoints in Accra, Odododiodio Constituency erupted into violence Friday evening when supporters of National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) clashed at a 3FM parliamentary debate.

And in order to bring peace and tranquility in the party so it could focus on the 2016 elections the National Council of Elders «recommended that a «thorough investigation be conducted into the constitutional breaches of Mr. Afoko.

The meeting will bring into focus the full palette of issues that colour the US - Russia relationship: from allegations of Russian interference in the election that brought Trump to power to sanctions levied on Russia owing to its incursion into Ukraine, premature discussions about which forced the resignation of Trump's first National Security Advisor, to the threat of escalation in Syria as military tensions increase and each country's political objectives in the country remain opposed.

First, you can hook into the National Change of Address database to make sure the data in your voter file is up - to - date (folks in this country move more often than we have elections).

The redistricting of 2012 opened the door for New York Congressman Steve Israel to step into the political consciousness of northeast Queens, but despite conventional wisdom his national job as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) wasn't enough to raise his name recognition, it was a strong grassroots campaign initiative which helped ensure victory on Election Day.

Labour was obliterated by the Scottish National party at the 2015 general election and pushed into third place by the Tories in the election for the Scottish parliament last May.

Never make the case for the EU and its attendant loss of national sovereignty; never go into an election talking of electoral reform; never remind voters of the environmental damage associated with their lifestyles.

Speaking on GBC / Star Ghana one - one - one presidential encounter, President Mahama, who is standing for election on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), said the decision to transform the polytechnics into universities was to give value to technical education as a source of training the youth to be employed by industry.

As the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), struggles to recover from its defeat in the 2016 elections, grassroots members of the party in the Ketu South Constituency in the Volta Region, have waded into the blame game by accusing Former President John Dramani Mahama and his wife, as being the major cause of their defeat.

National Republicans fear they've got a problem on their hands in an upcoming special election to replace former Rep. Michael Grimm, as the party is poised to nominate Staten Island DA Dan Donovan — a figure who could thrust the contest into the heated debate over race and police tactics.

National Democratic Congress (NDC) incumbent Member of Parliament MP for Shai Osu Doku, David Tetteh Assumeng, has announced he will not participate in the party's primary to elect a new Parliamentary aspirant going into the November elections.

Speaking on Adom FM the former Chief Executive of the National Health Insurance Authority said it would be absurd to have all contestants and opponents smiling and holding hands into executive party position elections and presidential primaries.

Yes what a triumph it will be for the National Union of Journalists in particular the over 4000 of them that work for the BBC when Labour wins the next election and effectively turns whatever is left of the UK at that time (given the likelyhood of a referendum on independence for scotland before then) into a one party socialist state.

GRACIE MANSION — Mayor Bill de Blasio, who supporters describe as a «national hero» among progressives, has dipped his his toe into presidential politics with a push to make income inequality a central issue of the 2016 national elections.

Given the Labour Party's geography of support, but also given the increased level of opposition the party faces on the left of the political spectrum from Sinn Fein, Solidarity - People Before Profit, the Social Democrats and other left - wing groupings / independent candidates, it was argued that Labour would struggle to convert votes into seats if their national support levels fall below the 10 % level, as indeed proved to be the case with the February 26th election.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was established by the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to, among other things, organize elections into various political offices in the country.