Sentences with phrase «minister after elections»

Chryssanthos Laziridis advises Antonis Samaras, leader of New Democracy which is ahead in the polls at around 28 % — Samaras could well be the new prime minister after elections in late April or early May (the date yet to be announced).

The Social Democratic losses in 1998 were associated with a surge in support for the Left Party, allowing Göran Persson to remain as prime minister after the election.

For the other half of the sample I put the question in a slightly different way: irrespective of what they wanted to happen, did they think David Cameron or Ed Miliband was the most likely to be Prime Minister after the election?

Not exact matches

Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said the protest was just whining by parties that lost an election in 2015 after eight years in government.

The regional elections were called by Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy hours after the Catalan parliament made a unilateral declaration of independence on 27 October.

He explained that the current Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who's also the Dutch finance minister, gathers significant support among the other finance ministers but failed to get enough backing to continue with his European role after having lost the general election, putting an end, at least for now, to the idea of a permanent president.

Ireland was on the verge of a snap election on Monday after the opposition party propping up the minority government said the deputy prime minister's refusal to quit would force the country to the polls next month.

Prime Minister Theresa May, weakened after losing her parliamentary majority in a June election, loses a loyalist at a time when she is trying to break a deadlock in talks to leave the European Union.

His election was made possible after Hariri endorsed him for president, based on an understanding that Aoun would then appoint him as prime minister.

Morgan is a close friend of Trump's — Trump spent more time talking to Morgan on the phone after the election than he did with British Prime Minister Theresa May.

Soon after the 2015 federal election, Prime Minister - designate Justin Trudeau affirmed that Canada was back as a «compassionate and constructive voice in the world» after a decade of Conservative governments.

Friday's opposition vote to defeat the Conservative government for «contempt of Parliament» was an exercise in self - delusion, testosterone and faulty logic that will surely result in Stephen Harper returning after the May 2 election as prime minister — and likely with a majority.

For sure, Mr. Moore would be on surer footing here if the Conservative Party of Canada hadn't pleaded guilty to violating election spending limits in 2008 and if the Harper government wasn't the only government in this country's history to have been found in contempt of Parliament and if the RCMP wasn't said to be presently investigating Mr. Harper's former chief of staff and and if two Conservative MPs weren't presently in court with Elections Canada and if the Prime Minister hadn't left for Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't have.

As Parliament resumes after Canadaâ $ ™ s historic 41st election, all eyes are on Prime Minister Stephen Harper and how he delivers on his campaign promises of growth and stability.

At that time I wrote: «Friday's opposition vote to defeat the Conservative government for «contempt of Parliament» was an exercise in self - delusion, testosterone and faulty logic that will surely result in Stephen Harper returning after the May 2 election as prime minister — and likely with a majority.

Heng Swee Keat, Singapore's education minister and former central bank managing director, was named the nation's next Finance minister after a landslide election victory in September by the ruling People's Action Party and prime minister Lee Hsien Loong.

The Minister of Finance, Jim Flaherty, tabled a budget on June 6, 2011, just over two months after he tabled his last budget, which died on the order paper with the dissolution of Parliament due to the election.

After the election of 1997, Chrétien named him deputy prime minister in recognition of his long service, shrewd political sense and low - key parliamentary skills.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May then unexpectedly announced elections to be held in June, meaning the scheduled two years of negotiations to determine the terms of the United Kingdom's departure seemed unlikely to make much headway until after the results of the UK vote — and probably the German elections as well — were known.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak after his mediocre showing in the May 5 general elections on May 15 announced a new 57 - member cabinet packed with traditionalists, which is also strikingly short of representatives from the Chinese minority.

Greek Prime Minister reversed course after a rebellion within his own Socialist party over the referendum, but ignored repeated calls to resign and call elections.

One possible fix: Finance Minister Joe Oliver might simply forecast a sufficient oil - price rebound in his budget, knowing whether or not he got it right won't be evident until months after the election anyway.

London was high on Caisse's priority cities for investment, but the fund turned cautious after Prime Minister May lost her parliamentary majority in her snap election gamble in June, weakening her ability to negotiate the U.K.'s exit from the EU.

These appointments bring the size of Alberta's cabinet up to 19, which is larger than the initial 12 cabinet ministers appointed after the NDP won the 2015 election but is still the smallest Alberta cabinet in more than a decade.

Mr. Dion is well versed in environmental policy after serving as environment minister from 2004 to 2006 and spearheading the Green Shift policy while leading the Liberal opposition in the 2008 election.

Just weeks after Haruhiko Kuroda, governor of the Bank of Japan, surprised the world with a bold plan to inflate Japanese assets and weaken the Japanese yen by buying 80 trillion yen ($ 680 billion) in Japanese bonds, exchange - traded funds and real estate investment trusts, prime minister Shinzō Abe upstaged him by calling a snap election for mid-December, two years ahead of schedule.

Japan's Abe calls snap election With his popularity on the rebound after a series of summer scandals, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe dissolved parliament this week and called an election for 22 October.

In the 2012 election, the Wildrose party blew a lead after candidates» crudely homophobic and racial comments were hit social meda, including one minister saying gay people should burn in a «lake of fire.»

Malaysia's longest - serving prime minister withdrew his support for Najib after the Barisan Nasional coalition fell short of a majority in 2013 elections.

The Liberal Democratic Party's victory in Japan's parliamentary election Sunday virtually ensures that Shinzo Abe, who resigned as prime minister for health reasons in 2007 after just a year in office, will get a second chance to try to lead Japan out...

Thus the antecedent field of the Reform Bill passage is about two years long, or from the accession of the Duke of Wellington as prime minister in the Spring of 1828 (when the issue of Reform was first broached) to the first meeting of parliament after the elections of summer, 1830, when Reform became the focus of political conflict.

Even after his election as prime minister, the biographical attention he aroused was highly partisan and consequently shallow and incurious.

Pressure is mounting on the Prime Minister and Chancellor to relax austerity, with several Tory MPs calling for an end to the pay cap after the party disastrously lost its majority in the General Election to anti-austerity Labour, which has pledged to scrap the 1 per cent ceiling.

The issue of foreign investment has made an explosive entry to the election campaign, with the agriculture minister, Joel Fitzgibbon, left scrambling to clarify Labor's foreign investment policy after Kevin Rudd's surprise comments that he was «a bit anxious» about an «open slather» approach to foreign investment.

Ed Fulton, political trading spokesman for Sporting Index, said: «After yet another enthralling Premier League season in England, timed nicely in the run up to a snap election next month, we thought it would be interesting to identify which manager would generate the most support if they were to run for Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

And Bartomeu showed his support for Catalonia's institutions after Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced on Saturday that Madrid will move to dismiss Catalonia's separatist government and call fresh elections in the semi-autonomous region.

With the final report due after the General Election in May, the decision will be sitting on the in - coming Transport Minister's desk.

In parliamentary systems, that compromise is often made by politicians after elections, when they form coalitions to choose a prime minister.

Now he is running as an independent in a by - election all of his own making, after pledging in 2009 to resign as an MP if ministers backed a third runway at Heathrow.

Nigel Farage has David Cameron firmly in his sights after last week's dramatic election results, suggesting a Tory - Ukip deal could be possible if the prime minister stands down.

In these circumstances it does not fall to the Queen to decide who shall be First Minister, or in Ireland to the President; under their constitutions it falls to the newly elected parliament, whose first business (after election of a presiding officer) is to elect the head of the new government.

Khan, who as shadow minister for London, will have a role in setting the process to select the next mayor, has refused to announce his own intentions until after the general election.

I am about to put up a blog post at http://www.barder.com/ephems/ suggesting the outline of Labour's best line to take with the LibDems after the election has produced a hung parliament, if it does, and before parliament meets, while Brown and other Labour ministers sit tight, refusing to yield to the unconstitutional clamour for their resignation.

And a year later, after her general election blunder, when she needed a trusted ally to be her deputy prime minister in all but name, we shouldn't have been surprised that she sent for Damian once again.

In the 2016 Scottish Parliamentary elections, Labour fell to third place behind the Scottish Tories, whose Ruth Davidson is now leader of the opposition and the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon main challenger to be First Minister after the 2021 election.

@Stuart White: The Cabinet Office rule - book (draft of chapter 6, approved by the House of Commons Select Committee on Justice and drawn up in consultation, I understand, with the party leaders and with constitutional experts) lays it down that after an election the incumbent prime minister has a duty, as well as a right, to remain in office until there's clear and incontrovertible evidence that someone else is definitely in a position to command majority support in the house of commons.

After legal, political and ocassionally physical battles for every vote at certain polling stations, two weeks after the elections took place, the results were finally announced on Sunday 11 November: the Party of the Regions (the President's party) has 30 % of the votes to 25.5 % for the Fatherland Party, the opposition party of the jailed ex-prime minister Mrs. TymoshAfter legal, political and ocassionally physical battles for every vote at certain polling stations, two weeks after the elections took place, the results were finally announced on Sunday 11 November: the Party of the Regions (the President's party) has 30 % of the votes to 25.5 % for the Fatherland Party, the opposition party of the jailed ex-prime minister Mrs. Tymoshafter the elections took place, the results were finally announced on Sunday 11 November: the Party of the Regions (the President's party) has 30 % of the votes to 25.5 % for the Fatherland Party, the opposition party of the jailed ex-prime minister Mrs. Tymoshenko.

«The prime minister's view is that it is no bad thing for a spotlight to be shone on his commitment that should he remain the prime minister [after the 2015 general election] he will have an in - out referendum and that will happen following a period of renegotiation,» the prime minister's spokesperson added.

With the 2015 UK general election David Cameron became the first Prime Minister to be re-elected immediately after a full term with a larger popular vote share since 1900 and the only Prime Minister other than Margaret Thatcher to be re-elected immediately after a full term with a greater number of seats to - date.

After Jeremy Corbyn won the 2015 leadership election on 12 September, Thornberry was appointed Shadow Minister of State for Employment.