Sentences with phrase «last stages of an election»

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Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi staged his stunning political comeback, and came within less than a percentage point of winning the last week's election, on an anti-austerity, anti-German platform, mixed with promises of rescinding a widely resented and highly regressive real estate tax.

In 1992, the last time an election was certain to be called within months, the parties took to the stage within days of the New Year.

The stage may have been set last week for primary bids for East Hampton Town Board nominations in advance of the November election.

As last year's election was called, the final stages of the Higher Education and Research Act were rushed through parliament.

Last month, in my first election prediction, I expected Labour to stage a partial come - back in Scotland and retain 31 of the 41 seats they won in 2010.

Following Scotland's selections last week, the North West and London have now carried out the first stage of selecting candidates for next year's European elections.

The group stated that, they had water tight evidence to support their claim of a meeting held last week in Kumasi at the instance of Akufo - Addo, where Nana Akufo - Addo is said to have deployed Kofi Jumah, Amoako Tufuor and others to form mushroom groups with what the group described as «wicked purposes» in springing forth «outright lies» and «concoction of untruths» that will translate into setting the stage to blame innocent people in the Kufuor faction against the outcome of the 2016 elections.

«Time is running out to make good on our very clear commitment and the Report Stage of the Finance Bill presents one of the last opportunities to put this important measure on the statute book before the next election.

Stephen Metcalfe won the new South Basildon and East Thurrock seat at the general election and made his maiden speech last Thursday during the committee stage of the Academies Bill:

Pataki spent a lot of time in Iowa during the early stages of the last presidential election cycle, but opted not to become a candidate.

Fairer votes would be fine, but the system we've got isn't critically unfair and, as a Labour party member, I can't get a nagging scene out of my head: the announcement of the result of the Labour leadership election last year, with the numbers from each stage of the voting flashing up on the big screen and no - one understanding quite what was happening or who was winning.

India — the world's largest democratic country — is in the early stages of a parliamentary election that won't be wrapped up until the last polls close on May 12 (votes will be counted by May 16).