Sentences with phrase «local party members join»

In some 40 towns, local party members join activists from as far away as L'Aquila, 400 miles to the south.

Not exact matches

Edmonton, AB — Matt Jeneroux, Member of Parliament for Edmonton Riverbend and co-chair of the Alberta Jobs Taskforce, today joined Nathan Cooper, interim leader of the United Conservative Party, and representatives from Restaurants Canada in Edmonton to highlight how Alberta's restaurant industry is being negatively impacted by federal and provincial policies that are increasing costs for local businesses.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

Militant's tactics were to take over moribund constituency parties by the simple expedient of joining the party, getting themselves elected to local committees and then boring and antagonising more moderate members into resigning.

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.

Before joining UKIP he had been at various times a member of the Conservative Party (for whom he was a local councillor), the New Britain Party and the Referendum Party.

The idea that party supporters should be somehow included in the leadership election (originally proposed by David Lammy) should therefore be rejected for the same reason as primaries at a local level — non-membership should not be rewarded at the expense of members: instead, supporters should be encouraged to join with lower membership fees and the opportunity to participate in a leadership election as they were in 2010.

Thousands of members of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party from the two Isoko North and South Local Government Areas of Delta State on Sunday officially joined the ruling All Progressives Congress.

They say it will weaken local parties, giving members even less reason to join up, and lead to bland, centrist candidates.

The unionist community, through its political representatives — the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) which has been the largest and most popular unionist party since the last elections held for the NIA in November 2003 — must be satisfied that Sinn Fein: is genuine in its support for the law and order agencies of the province; encourages Catholics to join the police; ensures representatives sit on the local police boards, which supervise and monitor the police; encourages members of the Catholic community to accept the legitimacy of the police as the only law enforcement agency in Northern Ireland; and will co-operate with them in all law and order matParty (DUP) which has been the largest and most popular unionist party since the last elections held for the NIA in November 2003 — must be satisfied that Sinn Fein: is genuine in its support for the law and order agencies of the province; encourages Catholics to join the police; ensures representatives sit on the local police boards, which supervise and monitor the police; encourages members of the Catholic community to accept the legitimacy of the police as the only law enforcement agency in Northern Ireland; and will co-operate with them in all law and order matparty since the last elections held for the NIA in November 2003 — must be satisfied that Sinn Fein: is genuine in its support for the law and order agencies of the province; encourages Catholics to join the police; ensures representatives sit on the local police boards, which supervise and monitor the police; encourages members of the Catholic community to accept the legitimacy of the police as the only law enforcement agency in Northern Ireland; and will co-operate with them in all law and order matters.