Sentences with phrase «millions of party members»

«It is most worrisome that the Supreme Court judgment is rather seen as a license to victimize millions of party members.»

Not exact matches

MBS's fight brings to mind Chinese President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption efforts, which have been ongoing since Xi assumed power five years ago and have led to the detainment or punishment of an astonishing 1.4 million party members, according to multiple sources.

For the protection of members and all those involved in the management of registered and insured cycling events, British Cycling provides through its public liability insurance policy, an indemnity, limited to # 15 million (3) for legal liabilities arising from claims made against an event organiser, official or participant1 that involves either bodily injury or property damage to a third party.

Miliband took the biggest gamble of his time as leader yesterday when he confirmed that only individual union members who actively opt - in to supporting Labour would contribute to the party, rather than the current system of an automatic «affiliation» fee paid by three million union members.

Out of the over two million party members expected to cast their votes, 61,836 voted «No» representing 4.90 % in relation to President Mahama's candidature in 265 out of 275 constituencies.

The man who secured over a quarter of a million votes from Labour Party members supporters and trade unionists as recently as last September is seamlessly elided into a deranged sect leader, ordering small numbers of isolated followers to top themselves in the fastnesses of a Latin American jungle.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

The over 5 million cedis payment has been described as «criminal» by the New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa KT Hammond.

Fabian polling for our «Facing Out» pamphlet suggests there is a group of at least 2.5 million Labour identifiers, active in political engagement outside parties, and interested in participation in Labour activity without becoming members.

This would indicate that the vast majority of Labour's half a million members are aligned with the unions and the Parliamentary Labour Party in support of remaining in the EU — or at least in the single market and customs union.

State - level candidates and parties reported receiving $ 25.4 million from L.L.C.s in the last election cycle; 38.4 percent of this money came from REBNY members.

«There should have been no question of the right of half a million Labour party members to choose their own leader being overturned.

Economic reform in China, in the form of competition and the rule of law, means attacking important vested interests: the state - owned enterprises responsible for about 40 per cent of output, 82 million Party members and an army of bureaucrats at every level, many of whom benefit from corruption.

Fulani noted there are «nearly one million independent voters, the majority of whom are Black, Latino and Asian, who are locked out of the decisive first round of voting» because of the closed - primary system in New York that only allows enrolled members to cast ballots in intra - party contests, adding: «That is what some like to call an inconvenient truth.»

The eight - member Independent Democratic Conference will disclose on Monday that they have about $ 1 million on hand in its party campaign account, the State Of Politics blog reported Friday.

The major parties used to contain millions of members; today, they are small organisations composed of a few dedicated activists.

The Lib Dems had 65,038 members at the end of 2010 [167] and in the first quarter of 2008, the party received # 1.1 million in donations and have total borrowings and unused credit facilities of # 1.1 million (the «total debt» figure reported by the Electoral Commission includes, for example, unused overdraft facilities).

In the mid 1950s membership of the Conservative Party stood at around 3 million while the Labour Party had around 1 million members.

Speaking to a member of Akufo - Addo's campaign team who blurted out his frustrations against the system on condition of anonymity, he indicated that, last week Friday, the campaign team «approved» and «made available» a cash amount of Ghc 2 million for Hiring of Buses and payments for polling station allowances of the party's agent in all 275 constituencies.

However, former Conservative chancellor Ken Clarke said: «I actually think the vast majority of members of the Labour party would quite like to see the party to stop being dependent on these millions from the trade unions, what is left of the trade union movement, that keeps trying to use that as political leverage which they do not want.»

Those members with properties valued at over a million pounds should be expected to pay a Labour wealth tax of # 1,000 a year to be a Labour party member.

The NDC, prior to the election in 2016, commenced the registration of its members through a biometric system targeting to capture about 1.5 million members of the party.

Let it be stated that, it is this same Joe Wise who colluded with the three other members of the Ohene Ntow committee to dubiously cook and fabricate an investigation report which exonerated established criminals such as Akufo - Addo, Freddy Blay and Abankwa Yeboah in the criminal divertion of the party's over Ghc 6 million into into secret location, later known as the Ecobank account.

With more than 80 million members and 3.3 million branches, China's Communist Party is one of the world's most extensive political organizations.

Why do they need to bribe their own fellow party members will millions or hundreds of millions in special deals to buy their votes?

Voting closed on Wednesday in the complicated electoral college race, where MPs and MEPs have one - third of the vote, with rank - and - file party members and up to three million trades unionists who pay a political fee to Labour sharing the rest.

In the 2014 election cycle, according to Politico New York, members of REBNY gave $ 21.7 million in campaign contributions to state - level candidates and political parties.

The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has set out plans to end automatic affiliation fees paid to the party by millions of union members.

The entire budget is currently worth # 2.6 million, so the cut proposed by the Conservatives equated to just shy of a 10 % cut (the budget is split between every group in the Assembly, with each group allocated roughly 4 % of the budget for every Assembly Member in their party, ie about # 104,000 per Member at present).

There's only around 1 million members of all parties in the UK.

Washington (CNN)-- The Republican and Democratic fundraising organizations in charge of electing party members to the House of Representatives each raised over $ 9 million in March, the two groups announced on Tuesday.

An estimated # 6 million went to political assistants to party groups on local councils in England; Healthy additional sums were spent on allowances to members of the regional assemblies and of the European Parliament.»

Four million Labour members and supporters will be receiving ballot papers, in what Harman called «the biggest election of any organisation or political party in this country».

The Party is dependent on the donations of millions of union members; unions have representatives on the National Executive Committee and the National Policy Forum; they can send delegates to Constituency Labour Parties; they make up a third of the electoral college (thus preventing the most Blairite candidate for the Labour leadership from taking the crown); and they have a major role in selecting prospective Labour candidates.

«All the organs of the party are cueing into the reconciliation and when the reconciliation pulls through, they are out and Senator Makarfi can only come as member of the Board of Trustees and so the N50 million monthly subvention from governors will stop.

Corbyn who was voted in with 121,000 (49 %) of full party members obviously has grass roots support but the Labour party is not yet run by a dictatorship and it needs to be remembered that MPs represent not just Labour party members but the 9 million poeple who voted Labour at the last election.

According to the former Trade and Industry Minister, the NDC ought to investigate and explore the reason why almost one million of its members did not vote for the party in 2016.

In fact, the involvement of more than 3 million people who pay to be affiliated members of the Labour Party makes the contest more open than simply having 140,000 members balloted or allowing 250 MPs to decide.»

«I was elected by hundreds of thousands of Labour party members and supporters with an overwhelming mandate for a different kind of politics... I am not going to betray the trust of those who voted for me — or the millions of supporters across the country who need Labour to represent them.

Not only would there be a conflict of interest if any of those approving this grant were Unite members, but there is an inherent conflict of interest in Labour councillors approving a scheme to hand money and a recruitment opportunity to the body that gives their party millions of pounds each year.

«While it's well - intentioned by them,» said Mike Reich, a member of the Queens party who presided over the meeting, «the executive committee has voted to table this because the additional expenses would be astronomical and the restrictions on it would hamper the ability of the political party to operate in an election time where you have to make quick expenditures in response to Republicans — as you know, Republicans can drop a million dollars in a district in a blink of an eye — and we have to be able to respond.»

Both he and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican from Long Island, suggested that members of the minority party in their chambers would get more funding in the future: Assembly Republicans secured $ 2 million compared to $ 34 million for their majority colleagues, while members of the Senate's mainstream Democratic conference won no funding at all.

The party said it read with utmost disgust the frivolous statement credited to the minister where he reportedly told Nigerians and other members of the public that the attacks on two communities in Benue State that led to the death of over 74 people and destruction of properties worth millions of naira were as a result of the open grazing prohibition law enacted by the state government.

Up until this year I was a member of a serious left - of - centre political party whose focus was to win elections so that we could improve the lives of millions of ordinary people.

«We can no longer go on living the lie with these millions of people signed up as levy - paying members to the Labour Party, and treated as if they were members,» Mr Johnson told BBC Radio 4's The World At One.

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For what it is worth, he has repeatedly argued that school choice will be a priority of his administration, going so far as to say in his first joint address to Congress, «I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African American and Latino children.

I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African American and Latino children.

«I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African - American and Latino children,» he declared.