Sentences with phrase «leadership elections which»

Also, I'm restricting the scope of the elections to public office, rather than leadership elections which may occur within private organizations.

I am not happy to disinter the leadership election which his long past.»

The next couple of months will see a Labour leadership election which will test Jeremy Corbyn's support in the party.

However «if the Leader were to lose such a vote (again, on a simple majority basis) they must resign, and they may not stand in the leadership election which is then triggered (Rule 7)».

Then you would have to have a snap leadership election which would likely take at least two months to organise (the last snap election did, after John Smith's death), with Christmas likely in the middle, which means it probably wouldn't happen until January, leaving around three months until the start of the short campaign.

Not exact matches

I think we're on the cusp of a generation of government, political and social leadership that come from the «outside» as barriers of entry to these fields are lowered and we see more competitive elections, which will hopefully be more content - driven.

NDP's federal council met to review terms for leadership race, which will pick a new leader two years before next election

Despite being in the midst of a leadership contest, which ends with a vote on October 18, 2014, the NDP continues to nominate candidates for the next election.

Some members of the party's national council are calling for a leadership election as early as May 2016, which would give an advantage to members who are already well - organized.

The election will also have an important impact on the leadership at key financial regulatory agencies, especially the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), along with the Department of Labor, which is increasingly active in regulating retirement products.

A year before the election they create a big document with the various agreements from which the leadership can create policy.

The next event was the Labour leadership election in which Jeremy Corbyn sought a fresh mandate from his beleaguered party.

He made women's rights a hallmark of his campaign, even going so far as to create the Women's Equality Party, (which is now more or less defunct after a battle over its leadership, though don't be surprised to see it revived in advance of the 2018 election).

That means that even if we see the Tories continue, which would be the path of least change, there needs to be a leadership election.

In its place will be an arguably more democratic «one member, one vote» system, which — had it been in place for the last leadership election would have almost certainly chosen David Miliband over Ed.

She announced that she would also resign as Deputy Leader, prompting a concurrent deputy leadership election, which was won by Tom Watson.

After two bruising leadership elections in less than two years, the second of which strengthened Corbyn's position, there's not much chance of anyone being willing to trigger a third attempt to remove Labour's increasingly embattled leader.

This was a reference to the events of late July and early August 2008 which followed Labour's defeat to the Scottish National Party in the Glasgow East by - election when, with a demoralised Gordon Brown on holiday in Suffolk, with Labour as many as 25 points behind in the polls, and with MPs insurgent and openly discussing a leadership challenge, Miliband made his move.

What's different now is that the ennui, the flatness, the lack of passion which has afflicted Miliband's leadership is becoming replaced with a quickening of the pulse as the general election approaches.

«Those who want to change Labour's leadership will have to stand in a democratic election, in which I will be a candidate.

Labour are reeling from a dreadful general election result and a highly divisive leadership battle, the effects of which were evident this week in Brighton.

The leadership election was triggered after leader Paul Nuttall quit following a year in which Ukip support plummeted.

Yet, even with the influx of all these new people after the election, the membership which voted in the leadership contest probably looked pretty similar, and thought pretty similarly, to the membership that had campaigned for a Labour victory in May 2015.

Corbyn's victory, which means he has now won more Labour leadership elections than -LSB-...]

Rather than spend time understanding why they have lost they have embarked on a leadership election campaign in which all four contenders are political nobodies and completely unelectable.

Yet in a leadership election in which, though Corbyn can be expected to win comfortably, the result is not yet known, what are the stakes?

In far more detail Paul Mason has made a detailed analysis of the problems in which he describes Corbyn's leadership as «shambolic» before going on to propose a way forward and making clear that he is supporting Corbyn in the leadership election.

On the payment of a small registration fee (the level of which has not yet been decided), they too could vote in leadership elections.

The immediate response of the Labour leadership to the European and local election results is to increase the rhetoric on immigration, which only adds to the toxic climate.

Labour now faces a similar conflict of opinion, made worse by the need to hold a leadership election using a system which highlights the divisions in the party.

As a result he was not able to be a candidate in the leadership election of 1983 which he may well have won.

A second leadership election was held in November, which was won by Paul Nuttall.

Would Graham Brady, the» 22's Chairman, start getting the letters which, if received in large enough number, trigger a leadership election?

Given the relative weakness of the left in the PLP, as witnessed by the problems Diane Abbott and John McDonnell had in getting nominations for the leadership election, his 121 votes should actually be hailed a triumph, as it represents both the respect in which he is held by many in the centre of the Party as well as on the left.

If a general election is called later this year, which is a very real prospect, we believe that under Jeremy's leadership we could be looking at political oblivion.

It was part of his dalliance with flat taxation (which wasn't a leadership election gimmick for his buddy, oh no).

If Serwotka is not to be seen as hypocritical, I challenge him to introduce a rule change which will enable supporters to vote in the leadership election of the PCS by paying # 3 and stating they support the aims and objectives of the trade union movement.

Now, as a result of Labour's leadership election, we are in a position that other parties will eye enviously — more than 550,000 people will be able to help to choose our new leadership team, of which 120,000 are new supporters.

He reported arranging to pay for the mailing out of his Assembly campaign funds and his leadership political action committee, which could run afoul of the city's Campaign Finance Board, which is far more stringent than the notoriously lax state Board of Elections.

It is unclear how Heseltine voted in the first ballot of the 1975 Conservative leadership election, in which the challenger Margaret Thatcher defeated Heath.

In mid-1995 Major challenged his critics to «put up or shut up» by resubmitting himself to a leadership election in which he was unsuccessfully opposed by John Redwood the Secretary of State for Wales.

This led to the Labour manifesto for the 2015 general election under Ed Miliband's leadership which promised to «legislate to make three - year tenancies the norm, with a ceiling on excessive rent rises».

One of the reasons which Thatcher gave to close confidants for not retiring on her tenth anniversary as Prime Minister (May 1989) was worry that Heseltine would defeat Geoffrey Howe in any subsequent leadership election.

These two facts suggest that a new factor has been added to those which have destabilised the Party over the past 25 years or so (namely, the failure to win an election since 1992, divisions over the EU, and leadership election rules that encourage secrecy and cowardice: no wonder these have taken place at a rate of one every three years or so).

One such conciliatory option to win them is the request by a swathe of mainstream Labour MPs for a return to MPs voting in shadow cabinet elections, which was abolished under Ed Miliband's leadership in 2011.

[109] The Labour Party held a leadership election, in which Jeremy Corbyn, then a member of the Socialist Campaign Group, [110] was considered a fringe hopeful when the contest began, receiving nominations from just 36 MPs, one more than the minimum required to stand, and the support of just 16 MPs.

Today, however, such a system is not commonly practiced and most parliamentary system parties» rules provide for a leadership election in which the general membership of the party is permitted to vote at some point in the process (either directly for the new leader or for delegates who then elect the new leader in a convention), though in many cases the party's legislators are allowed to exercise a disproportionate influence in the final vote.

During the frenetic campaigning for the party leadership over the next six months, which will overshadow the party's preparations for this year's unprecedented batch of elections, all the candidates are likely to exploit the resentment which has built up at all levels of the party over Mr Ashdown's ever growing links with Mr Blair.

He again stated his desire to rejoin the party during last year's leadership election, a move which would have been deeply unpopular with many in the party — especially the Blairites.

A source at Unite, which has 950,000 members who are eligible to vote in the leadership election, said: «The discussion before the vote was very much whether it should be Ed Miliband or Ed Balls.