Sentences with phrase «last parliamentary elections»

«The potential of a tool like this to help boost participation is enormous - in the Netherlands, 1 - in - 3 voters used Vote Match's sister site «Stemwijzer» in the last Parliamentary elections and is seen as a trusted tool that can help boost turnout.»

Ultra-nationalists were not successful in the last parliamentary elections, but the tragic situation in Donbas has allowed them thrive.

Votes for Green parties doubled in when compared to the last parliamentary election three years ago in Spain; however the absolute majority obtained by the Read more»

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, last month marked the largest show of dissent since the fall of the Soviet Union, when tens of thousands took to the streets over alleged tampering by Putin's United Russia party with parliamentary elections.

In looking at parliamentary activity since the last election, issues concerning the wave of media acquisitions over the last year and a half were barely mentioned.

«Following the 2015 election, the chair of the all - party group, Stephen Lloyd, was not re-elected as an MP, and so, as vice-chair of the Group, I called an AGM for the group on 1stJuly, and informed all officers of the group who served in the last parliament, as well as all other MPs and members of the House of Lords, in accordance with the strict parliamentary requirements for publishing proper notice of such meetings.

I think it gives us lessons of persistence and courage», Mr Nyaunu who left the NDC to contest the 2012 parliamentary elections as an independent candidate and only returned to the party last year observed.

Large - scale protests followed the last federal parliamentary elections on Dec. 4, 2011, after widespread reports of electoral fraud and rigged elections.

During the last elections, many opposition parties boycotted the presidential and parliamentary election, denouncing massive electoral fraud during the municipal elections and claiming that municipal elections were not free and fair and the next polls unlikely to be so.

On the last day of Parliament, before the parliamentary election in 2013, violating procedure, the Speaker failed to bring the bill to a vote.

Andreas Gross, head of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's (PACE) observer mission, told reporters in Kiev last week that «Ukrainians deserve better than these elections.

A review by Sir Eric Pickles into last year's general election called for parliamentary candidates to be in place in «battleground seats» by June 2018 «to ensure they are well - established within the seat before the next scheduled General Election on 5th May 2022election called for parliamentary candidates to be in place in «battleground seats» by June 2018 «to ensure they are well - established within the seat before the next scheduled General Election on 5th May 2022Election on 5th May 2022».

He was a parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party at the May 2010 General Election and associate editor of last year's Pragmatic Radicalism: Ideas from Labour's New Generation publication.

This May will be the first time 16 - and 17 - year - olds will be eligible to vote in a Scottish Parliament election and follows a change in the law last year which allows this age group to vote in all Scottish parliamentary and council elections.

Last month the UK Independence Party came second in two parliamentary by - elections, in Rotherham and Middlesbrough.

Thus, Turkey remained a parliamentary system with a ceremonial president until the first popular presidential election was held, and Erdoğan was elected last year.

I chaired the largest - ever parliamentary observer missions — 30 MEPs — to the last Palestinian elections, the election of President Abbas (Abu Mazen) in January 2005 and then the parliamentary elections which saw the victory of Hamas in January 2006.

Following the inability of the Huudu Yahaya - led conflict resolution committee of the National Democratic Congress to effectively deal with grievances arising out of last year's parliamentary primaries, the governing party risk losing some parliamentary seats it won or lost to independent candidates in the 2012 elections, investigations by The aL - hAJJ have uncovered.

The last month of 2011 saw José Zapatero lose the Spanish parliamentary elections and quit when unemployment topped 20 per cent.

«Since my election as leader of our party last year, we've won every parliamentary by - election, some with vastly increased majorities.

A report from think tank British Future has suggested that the «ethnic minority vote» cost the Conservatives a parliamentary majority in the last general election.

[18] After the last election Helle Thorning - Schmidt started working towards forming a centre - left government coalition consisting of the Socialist People's Party and the Social Liberal Party with parliamentary support from the small Red - Green Alliance.

[There is a] very strong Conservative case for reform — the whole thrust last election was moving power from the centre to the voters and the whole Conservative approach to having a smaller government, limited government and having better parliamentary control over executive.»

But the defeat of Mandelson by Livingstone in last year's NEC election, support for Livingstone for London mayor and black members» use of OMOV to try to select black candidates for inner city parliamentary seats showed that the individual membership can not be totally controlled by the leadership.

A leading member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alhaji Alhassan Tapsoba has expressed his happiness at the defeat of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Member of Parliamentary (MP) for Awutu Senya West in the Central Region, Hanna Tetteh in last Wednesday's parliamentaParliamentary (MP) for Awutu Senya West in the Central Region, Hanna Tetteh in last Wednesday's parliamentaryparliamentary elections.

and the BNP hadn't been standing last time so no one knows what vote they would have got last time - Council by elections though frequently are very localised, there isn't the focus on national issues that there is in a full set of Council Elections or a General Election or a Parliamentary By - elections though frequently are very localised, there isn't the focus on national issues that there is in a full set of Council Elections or a General Election or a Parliamentary By - Elections or a General Election or a Parliamentary By - eElection or a Parliamentary By - electionelection.

In this context, the vote shares of both the Conservatives and Labour have declined steadily, as has turnout, but Labour are the only one of the two major parties to have won a parliamentary majority in the last four elections (they managed it in three), suggesting their death twitches, as you may describe them, are a little more animated than the Tories.

In the last of our series detailing what happened to the original 100 members of the party's so - called priority list of candidates, below we list the 26 who are still seeking a parliamentary seat for the next election.

Clearly the John Mahama faction, their surrogates like Valerie Sawyerr and the petitioners who admit to being failed parliamentary candidates at the last elections and others mentors within the NDC think they can frighten core NDC members like myself with threats of disciplinary action.

[3] The party had come close to taking the Maidenhead parliamentary constituency at the last general election in 2001 and were optimistic of taking control of the council.

«It's a new parliamentary party since the election thank goodness, with lots of new Conservative MPs so we're able to look at this again, not entirely through the prism of the 2013 vote, which was a vote on a slightly different basis and which of course predated the Isil surge across Iraq last year.

The Parliamentary candidate - elect of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the Korle Klottey constituency in Accra, Dr Zanetor Rawlings has hailed the decision of the High Court to throw out an application challenging her election in last November's parliamentaParliamentary candidate - elect of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the Korle Klottey constituency in Accra, Dr Zanetor Rawlings has hailed the decision of the High Court to throw out an application challenging her election in last November's parliamentaryparliamentary primaries.

According to the European Parliamentary Research Service, at the last EU elections in 2009 just 43 per cent cast their ballot — ranging from 90 per cent in Luxembourg, where voting is compulsory, to a tiny 19 per cent in Slovakia and 34 per cent in the UK.

In the last election the NPP party won 129 of the 230 parliamentary seats, followed by the NDC with 93 seats.

Atlantic Bridge was supported by the American Legislative Exchange Council, which funded Conservative prospective parliamentary candidates at the last election, three of whom were on Cameron's A-list.

Ali Miraj has been a Councillor and stood as a Conservative Parliamentary Candidate at the last two general elections.

The Conservative MP who announced last night he would stand down at the next election after allegations over his parliamentary expense claims, made the right decision, David Cameron saidtoday.

One year before the next General Election there'll be European Parliamentary Elections and UKIP have done very well in the last two of these eElections and UKIP have done very well in the last two of these electionselections.

And then there is the political wing of the Establishment, the Conservative Party, which failed to win a parliamentary majority in the last election but is still pushing far - reaching policies it never put before the electorate.

«Dianne Hayter, chairman of Labour's National Executive Committee, said: «We do not believe a parliamentary by - election should be held at taxpayers» expense to resolve tensions at the top of the Conservative Party... She claimed that Mr Davis had done a deal with Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, who said last week that his party would not contest the by - election, and never intended to put his seat at risk.»

Calls for protest have been mounting since the parliamentary elections last Sunday, which domestic and international observers said were tainted by ballot - stuffing and fraud on behalf of Mr. Putin's party, United Russia.

And that was why in February last year the doomed Gordon Brown performed his breath - takingly cynical U-turn, announcing after a lifetime's opposition that he was a convert to the Alternative Vote system for parliamentary elections.

Galloway, who lost his Bradford West parliamentary seat in last year's general election, has said he will stand to be MP for Tooting if Labour incumbent and mayoral frontrunner Sadiq Khan wins the contest and calls a by - election.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will have parliamentary elections next Thursday, and the last presidential elections in the United States were on a Tuesday.

But the prime minister indicated it might be held sooner during a tense meeting of the parliamentary Labour party last week where he faced calls for his resignation after a week of cabinet resignations and the European election drubbing.

And there are some other Holyrood players being touted: James Kelly, Scottish Labour's business manager, for example, who has spent a decade before the parliamentary mast, but was in charge of the party's Scottish election campaign last year when they came in third behind the Tories.

Since last year's European parliament elections, where the centre - right European People's party (EPP) emerged as the largest bloc, there have been 13 parliamentary and presidential elections in the EU.

Boris Johnson could «get away» with standing for a Parliamentary seat in the capital at the 2015 general election during his last year as London mayor, said a former Conservative MP.

The EC last week accepted the nomination forms from presidential and parliamentary nominees, hoping to contest in this year's elections, but failed to accept the filing fees over the PPP's suit.

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.