Sentences with phrase «leader of the opposition party»

Canadians would have been worse - off if Layton, in his role as leader of an opposition party (and later as Leader of the Official Opposition), had been more polite.

Edith Nawakwi, a former finance minister in Zambia and now leader of an opposition party, said large infrastructure projects were often wasted opportunities that failed to lead to economic development.

And everyone should expect that such news will sell and achieve the likely political capital especially when leaders of the opposition parties appears to be the very people consoling and leading the crusade towards recovering their fortunes.

The crisis of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP deepen as the embattled factional Chairman of the party, Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, reiterated that he remains the authentic leader of the opposition party, stressing that any other Chairman is «counterfeit, carbon - copy and a photocopy.»

Dr. Henry Lartey becomes the first leader of an opposition party to publicly declare his support for the agreement.

The governor said the state was peaceful and recalled that on December 10 during the re-run elections, leaders of the opposition party allegedly invaded the state with security agencies allegedly maiming and killing innocent voters with an intention to allegedly rig the elections.

The Ondo State chapter of the Alliance for Democracy has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress of planning to arrest and jail leaders of the opposition party.

Serge Lohman is the charismatic leader of an opposition party poised to take power at the next election, a few months away, making him a strong candidate for the next Prime Minister of the Netherlands.

If the leaders of the opposition parties have not yet realized that it is futile to ask the Prime Minister to account for the things he says and does — what he has said so far having only passing relation to what he has done and what he did yesterday having no necessary bearing on what he might do tomorrow — Mr. Harper is perhaps beginning to understand that he is best off bringing as little attention to himself as possible.

That criticism, mild as it may be for the leader of the opposition party in Albany, was too far for Executive Director Geoff Berman.

The Hansard Society say the incumbent «caretaker» prime minister has first call on forming an administration: «Only if the incumbent prime minister fails to put together a deal with one or more of the other parties, or, after having chosen to «meet» parliament, he loses a confidence motion, will the leader of the opposition party be invited to form a government.»

I haven't paid much attention to the voting intention polls over recent months since without a Leader of the Opposition party politics are in a bit of a limbo.

With Ed Miliband as the leader of the opposition party, the adoption of an expansionist visit strategy has the potential to boost Labour's local vote share — a factor that may be key in marginal constituencies.

Despite his removal, the former Borno State governor has continued to insist that he remains the leader of the opposition party, stressing that he will only vacate his office if allowed to select his successor and to organise a new National Convention for the party.

SCL Group, reportedly entrapped the leader of the opposition party in St. Kitts and Nevis with a $ 1.4 million (# 1 million) bribe, in order to secure an election win for the country's Labour party, who was a client of SCL Group, The Times reported.