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Though the presidential election gets the most attention, a fast - approaching primary election is on the minds of local party leaders as they maneuver for control of the state legislature.

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Karnataka Assembly Elections 2018: PM Modi will address a rally in Santhemarahalli town of Chamarajanagar district, where the party has never been very strong, as local leaders believe the BJP has the opportunity to make gains in the region.

AfD seems certain to repeat its local success in a general election - in which case Ms Merkel's critics will see her as the German leader who paved the way for a racist and nationalist party to gain a toehold in the national parliament for the first time since 1945.

Perhaps not where anyone would expect him to be during the last weekend of the campaign, Liberal Party leader Raj Sherman was scheduled to spend today in the traditionally conservative voting Red Deer, where the Liberals nabbed prominent local historian Michael Dawe as their candidate in Red Deer - North.

«As part of measures to de-escalate tension and ensure lasting peace in the town, the military is working with the local government council authorities and community leaders, including the Kagara Emirate Council, to pacify all aggrieved parties and build on the peace so far established.»

How could Party leaders be consistent with the values (fiscal restraint, social conservatism — e.g., high moral code) they have professed for 30 years and nominate someone with zero performance in reducing expenditures even on a local level, someone tainted by giving and receiving political favors as a Commissioner on the Port Authority, and someone linked for 20 years by business and marriage to mobster activities?

Democratic leaders are trying to frame the November midterm elections not as a national referendum on the party in power but as local choices between two candidates.

Even though they have been given a free vote by their anti-war leader Jeremy Corbyn, many Labour MPs will feel pressure from their constituency parties and local left - wing activists not to vote in the same lobby as the Tories.

Zuma used pro-poor populist rhetoric to position himself as a leader who was in touch with the people to build grassroots support from the local party branches up to the provincial level.

There was widespread sniggering early in David Cameron's tenure as leader of the party when candidates started appearing on local election ballot papers tagged as David Cameron's Conservatives.

Plaid Cymru members are hoping their new leader will give nationalists a boost at the polls, as the party launches its local government elections campaign.

That President Xi has accumulated so much personal power is partly a reflection of his political acumen, and partly a recognition by the Party that China needs a single strong leader at the moment as it transitions from a weak local power recovering from the disasters of Japanese occupation in the early 20th century followed the cultural revolution and the great leap forwards, and instead becomes a global power.

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Green councillors will be elected for the first time in Essex, Cornwall and Surrey, the party leader has claimed as she predicted a rise in numbers overall in the May 2 local elections across English shire counties.

Such a case occurred on Long Island in 2008, when leaders of the Suffolk County Conservative Party sniffed out that members of the local police union were switching their party enrollments in an attempt to bring about the defeat of a county sheriff who was seen as cooperating in an effort to downsize the departParty sniffed out that members of the local police union were switching their party enrollments in an attempt to bring about the defeat of a county sheriff who was seen as cooperating in an effort to downsize the departparty enrollments in an attempt to bring about the defeat of a county sheriff who was seen as cooperating in an effort to downsize the department.

The upstate county chairman, meanwhile, said he believed the possibility of an independent slate was being pushed by some local party leaders close to former Gov. George Pataki, who has repeatedly promoted himself as a potential candidate for president.

Meanwhile, in an expected decision, Amaechi announced the removal of his former Chief of Staff, Tony Okocha and others as leaders of the party's caucus in their various local government areas.

Another familiar figure in local politics, district leader Manny De Los Santos, is running for the Assembly seat as a member of the Democratic party.

As Monroe County Democratic Party leaders decide who has enough support to wage a campaign for Louise Slaughter's vacant congressional seat, a local political observer says it's in the party's best interest to not have a special elecParty leaders decide who has enough support to wage a campaign for Louise Slaughter's vacant congressional seat, a local political observer says it's in the party's best interest to not have a special elecparty's best interest to not have a special election.

He said leaders of the party, including state, local government and ward executives as well as National Assembly and State Assembly members met at Imo International Convention Centre, Owerri, to deliberate on issues.

Generally, the parties select members known for their loyalty and service to the party, such as party leaders, state and local elected officials and party activists.

Two local Liberal Democrat parties have called on Nick Clegg to quit, as part of a growing grass - roots campaign to oust the Lib Dem leader.

Former NYPD detective Bo Dietl is trying his luck as a libertarian candidate after he was rejected by local Republican Party leaders to run on their ticket.

Some of Corbyn's close allies in the parliamentary party regard the ferocity of the backlash against Livingstone by prominent backbenchers, such as Wes Streeting, and former ministers, including Andy Burnham, as a «witch hunt», aimed at undermining the leader in the run up to the local elections.

Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.

Editor's note: This article has been amended to correct Tantillo's party affiliation and delete the name of a local political leader who was incorrectly identified as attending and endorsing Cuomo.

On Monday, 42 local Democratic officials, including several New York City Council members, sent a letter questioning Cuomo's credentials as a progressive; hours later they were blasted as a bunch of nobodies by the governor's handpicked leader of the state Democratic Party.

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.

Local Republican leaders brokered a deal last night that assured Tom Dadey keeps his seat as party chairman.

Suffolk County Democrats have found a replacement for local union leader Peter Zarcone, who dropped out as the party candidate in the April 24 special election for the Fifth District Assembly seat.

He introduced Karina Reyes, a local comunity leader and registered nurse, as one of the many women the party is looking to promote.

Yet far from embracing Mr. Milne as the last Republican in the race, local Republican and Conservative Party leaders are telling voters to stick with Mr. Nojay.

The Petition which was signed by the Youth Leader of the party in Idanre, Akinbobola Smart reads «Further to the recent newspaper announcement of the federal board lists where Senator Ayo Patrick Akinyelure, was made Board Chairman and Hon. Akin Akingbesote and Mrs Lola Sessey from Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State was listed as board members, we members of Idanre APC Youths, which comprises of All APC Youths across the 10 wards in Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State, hereby totally reject them as Board Chairman and members for the following reasons:

On the Republican side, the picture is far hazier: Party leaders have spoken to several possible recruits, and Senator John J. Flanagan, who succeeded Mr. Skelos as majority leader, has conferred with local Republicans in Nassau.

• Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, has said that his party will try to use its success in the local elections as a springboard for gaining seats at Westminster next year.

He told the local party chairs and other officials assembled he would place comprehensive immigration reform at the top of his agenda as majority leader.

A few months before the 2012 elections, local party leaders picked Joyce as their nominee after GOP Rep. Steven C. LaTourette unexpectedly announced his retirement several months after the primary.

During the campaign Lichfield was one of the councils visited by Conservative leader William Hague, on the 29 April, with the overall local elections seen by commentators as crucial to his leadership of the party.

«They should've had a primary,» the former Republican National Committee chairman said of the ill - fated decision by local party leaders in upstate New York to anoint Dede Scozzafava as the establishment choice in Tuesday's special election.

Paddy Ashdown last night stunned Liberal Democrats when he announced that he will resign as party leader after this spring's crucial local and Euro - elections - just as he gets closer to the reins of power than any predecessor since Lloyd George.

The local Labour party had selected as their PPC the left - winger Peter Tatchell, who was disowned by the then Labour leader Michael Foot.

Among Labour MPs, there is a particular fear that local parties may use the review as an opportunity to purge parliamentarians who have been disloyal to the party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

This gives union general secretaries the power to write large cheques and defend having significant representation on the party's governing National Executive Committee, the votes at party conference, the choice of party leader as well as local selections.

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.

Compiling data from local and national polls, as well as dozens of original interviews with tea party members and leaders, we find that the tea party is united on economic issues, but split on the social issues it tends to avoid.

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