Sentences with phrase «leaders of the party prior»

During the governorship primaries, the bulk of Yahaya Bello's votes came from some party members who had earlier defected to Accord Party after the alleged imposition of candidates by leaders of the party prior to the 2015 general election.

Gordon Brown had been tipped as a potential future leader of the party prior to the death of John Smith.

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Previous tradition had seen a successor identified at the gathering after the head of the party had served one five - year term, prior to a transfer of power at the end of the leader's second five - year term.

In the days prior to the vote, devo - max was promised by the leaders of the three main Westminster parties, as a panicked attempt to shore - up the «No» vote.

The borough's Democratic Party endorsed Rice prior to the convention in Rye, but Schneiderman has made in - roads there and has a number of key Brooklyn backers, the most notable of which is Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson.

The graphic above shows the popularity of party leaders in terms of prime ministerial potential in the month prior to two key general elections, in 1979 and 1997.

The Labour leader does have a higher profile than Ruth Davidson and Willie Rennie, who were both elected leaders of the respective parties some months prior to Lamont.

Kofi Filippo and his father, Valter Sansalone, met the leader of Ghana's largest opposition political party, Nana Akufo - Addo, at the CDH Hotel Villa Ducale, on Saturday, prior to a fundraising event for the politician in...

In October 2003, just prior to the ousting of IDS, YouGovfound that the public's preferred leader of the Conservative party was — surprise, surprise — Ken Clarke.

Despite the electoral setback suffered by her party, Pelosi sought to continue leading the House Democratic Caucus in the position of Minority Leader, the office she held prior to becoming Speaker.

The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, on Tuesday said the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, he and other leaders of the All Progressives Congress in Kwara State have no reason to return to the Peoples Democratic Party, which they left prior to the 2015 general elections.

Prior to the 2010 general election, Conservative party leader David Cameron proposed replacing the Human Rights Act with a new «British Bill of Rights».

Underlying party support in Britain is pretty stable — if you graph opinion polls over the last couple of years it's clear that the only events that have actually shifted political support have been David Cameron's election as Conservative leader, which moved the Labour and Conservative parties pretty much neck and neck, and the week prior to the local elections when Labour was hit by both John Prescott's affair and the foreign prisoner release scandal, since when the Conservatives have had a consistent lead.

The Ben Achour Commission — an umbrella organization comprised of 150 members responsible for the National Constituent Assembly election (NCA)-- established a number of agreements between major political parties, including: a «process first» view that addressed only those matters necessary to return order and stability to Tunisia; a constituent assembly vote that took place prior to a vote for the president so that incentives were present to build consensuses and party platforms that were prioritized over electing a leader who might otherwise wield too much power; ensuring that women are given ample representation in writing the constitution; and the creation of an electoral commission to ensure that all parties were confident in the legitimacy of the elections.

It's reasonable to assume they know the difference between the two — the three leaders of the Liberal Party prior to the current one all promised to introduce an ETS.

Prior to our last Federal Election, the CFIB sent a questionaire to each of the party leaders to assess their level of support for entrepreneurs and small business.

Prior to that she was a health policy advisor to the Federal Australian Labor Party, working for Simon Crean when he was Leader of the Opposition and then Julia Gillard when she was Shadow Minister for Health.