Sentences with phrase «national election issue»

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The Times «attorney also argued that Trump's proximity to the nation's highest office, and the fact that Trump's past treatment of women has become a major talking point in the election, mean that the article in question addresses «an issue of national importance.»

Those hoping for calm, political discourse on these issues should cheer the election of Alison Redford, who has been supportive of Alberta's participation in the national economy.

Coming of Age in the Asian Century: The Need for a National Conversation By Sarah Eaton, Post ‐ Graduate Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Political pundits tell us this federal election will be fought not over big ideas but along a narrow set of economic wedge issues.

But for many voters — the ones the National Rifle Association delivers election after election — the race comes down to one issue.

«We and many allies made Canada Post an election issue in 2015, and the Liberals were elected on a promise to restore door - to - door and to consult on a new vision for Canada Post,» says Mike Palecek, National President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW).

Judicial action and appointments can, and sometimes do, become major issues in national elections.

The 455 - page Report by the Professor Botchwey Committee that probed the National Democratic Congress 2016 election defeat must be of great value to the New Patriotic Party because the party is not «immunized» against the issues spelt out by the committee.

Local elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national level.

Still, plenty of elections will buck the national trends, hinging on local issues and local personalities.

Former President John Dramani Mahama has said that it is too early for the National Democratic (NDC) to be engrossed in a debate on the issue of who leads the party into 2020 general elections.

The fact that there were around three times more male journalists shaping election coverage than female ones demonstrates that the dearth of women is not just an issue for political parties, but that national media outlets also need to consider why it is that national political journalism in the UK continues to be a domain where men write about other men.

But while those are considered issues, Merkel confirmed that election campaigns by foreign nationals are legal and that she is hoping for a good relationship between Germany and Turkey.

There are countless motivations in general elections and even more in locals - the results are reflected through a prism of local issues, local connections, local parties, national politics and national issues.

Because of the issues raised by David Davis in the by - election, many parties other than the Conservatives, such as Labour, Liberal Democrats, United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and British National Party (BNP) chose not to stand.

Former President Jerry John Rawlings in his address to National Democratic Congress (NDC) members in Wa in the Upper West Region on Sunday to mark the 38th - anniversary of June 4 revolution, touched on a number of issues, including the NDC's election defeat, the need for an overhaul of the party he founded, and the killing of army officer, Captain Maxwell...

For his part, Schreibman argues that his upbringing — he was the first person in his family to go to college — and his legal work on security issues make him best suited for an election he predicts will be about the economy and national security.

The national Republican State Leadership Committee, the force behind the party's surge in state legislative elections, attributes its victories to candidates who better represent the values and issues important to their communities.

The meeting will bring into focus the full palette of issues that colour the US - Russia relationship: from allegations of Russian interference in the election that brought Trump to power to sanctions levied on Russia owing to its incursion into Ukraine, premature discussions about which forced the resignation of Trump's first National Security Advisor, to the threat of escalation in Syria as military tensions increase and each country's political objectives in the country remain opposed.

The faction expressed worry that the state chapter of the party issued directive that only forms that come through the party office in the state would be valid for the ward election in the state contrary to the national position.

Although European elections will not change the national political landscape, where Labour enjoys a nine - seat parliamentary majority (out of 69), national issues predominate.

It is clear from the election campaign and the terrorist atrocities in Manchester and London that national security is likely to remain a major issue in British politics.

As for Bramson, what can you say about someone who ran on issues that are only important in statewide or national elections (i.e., gun control and abortion)?

He added: «It is irresponsible of many in the commentariat to ignore these issues and to pretend that the mayoral election is only a battle between two personalities with no real national consequence for the wider society.

The row over National Insurance is expected to be one of the crucial issues in the election campaign.

and the BNP hadn't been standing last time so no one knows what vote they would have got last time - Council by elections though frequently are very localised, there isn't the focus on national issues that there is in a full set of Council Elections or a General Election or a Parliamentary By - elections though frequently are very localised, there isn't the focus on national issues that there is in a full set of Council Elections or a General Election or a Parliamentary By - Elections or a General Election or a Parliamentary By - eElection or a Parliamentary By - electionelection.

It's an issue that will undoubtedly be a focus of the fall election, both national and statewide.

GRACIE MANSION — Mayor Bill de Blasio, who supporters describe as a «national hero» among progressives, has dipped his his toe into presidential politics with a push to make income inequality a central issue of the 2016 national elections.

For instance, during the recent Presidential election in Liberia, the country's National Electoral Commission (NEC), through the United Nations, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC), which I currently chair, requested the services of INEC staff to sort out issues with their register.

The big issue, in the wake of the drop in support for CSV in the national election last October, is whether or not one of the ruling coalition parties can take a second seat in Brussels from the hitherto dominant CSV.

National groups on both sides of the gun control issue have been pouring money into Connecticut this year, hoping to influence the outcome of the first statewide elections since the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and the firearms restrictions enacted in response.

Former President Jerry John Rawlings in his address to National Democratic Congress (NDC) members in Wa in the Upper West Region on Sunday to mark the 38th - anniversary of June 4 revolution, touched on a number of issues, including the NDC's election defeat, the need for an overhaul of the party he founded, and the killing of army officer, Captain Maxwell Mahama.

And Cuomo took aim at the Trans Pacific Trade Partnership, a pact supported by President Obama that has emerged as a key issue in the election as well as a major talking at the Democratic National Convention this week.

Note that the US has never had a single national referendum on any issue, aside from the presidential elections.

ATHENS (Reuters)- Greece opened its first purpose - built detention centre for illegal migrants on Sunday in Athens, a week before a national election where illegal immigration has emerged as a key issue.

J. whereas electoral campaigns continue to focus primarily on national issues, pushing debate on specifically European issues into the background, which has a negative impact on the level of participation in elections to the European Parliament;

In 2008, none of the political parties had issued its manifesto for study and scrutiny by the electorates at the apogee of the elections i.e. the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), the Peoples National Convention (PNC) and the Democratic Freedom Party (DFP).

The mayor — whose sights lately have been on national issues — may not necessarily be sidelined from the 2016 elections in the state Legislature.

The Independent National Electoral Commission's release of a timetable for the bye - election also came to start another phase of the issues which the death of Adeleke must throw up.

In an era where gerrymandering has made competitive congressional elections a relative rarity, the race for the 19th Congressional District between incumbent Republican Chris Gibson and Democratic challenger Sean Eldridge is garnering national attention and putting the spotlight on issues like Obamacare, energy, taxes and women's health.

On Wednesday November 19, 2014, the leaders and members from the major New York City LGBT political clubs met jointly at the LGBT Center in Manhattan to discuss the results of the 2014 election, issues and strategies for the 2015 session in Albany, as well as issues on the national level for the 2015/2016 session of Congress and beyond.

The governor, in a press statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, cited the case of the National Leader of the APC, Senator Bola Tinubu, who worked tirelessly for the victo ry of the party in the 2015 general elections in the country, but was abandoned by those he helped to put in power.

A 1980 analysis by Karlheinz Reif and Hermann Schmitt concluded that European elections were fought on national issues and used by voters to punish their governments mid-term, making European Parliament elections de facto national elections of second rank.

Cambridge Analytica and SCL Elections laid out three goals for Bolton's group: to help it elect Republican Senate candidates in Arkansas, North Carolina and New Hampshire; to raise the issue of national security; and to boost Bolton's profile, according to a memo obtained by The Post from the second former Cambridge Analytica employee.

The much - anticipated interview had long begun when I started firing my questions on governance in the country, the 2016 elections, his role in the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and many other issues.

The National Chairman, Paul Afoko, on Wednesday issued a statement announcing the launch of the online platform, www.nppcentre.org to both register NPP members and raise funds ahead of the 2016 elections.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) branch of the Bawku Central Constituency in the Upper East Region, has formed a zonal association that seeks to address issues that arose from the party's primaries ahead of the 2016 general election.

The Acting National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, has called on delegates to ensure that they resolve any lingering issues they might have before they leave the party's Extraordinary National Delegates» Conference in Kumasi Mr. Blay said the NPP can take a step closer to retaining power in the 2020 general elections if Sunday's Delegates» Conference...

The Labour national executive has issued a Code of Conduct for internal elections which includes the following:

Yakubu said, «Given the high stakes of conducting elections in developing countries, electoral commissions must understandably be worried about the twin issues of communication and security especially in situations where data reside with and is directly transmitted to the tallying centres through offshore vendors rather than exclusively controlled within national boundaries by election monitoring bodies.

If I the only been Labour Party members voting, with Affiliates disregarded If we had managed to explain to those to young to remember that this sort of experiment nearly destroyed us in the 89's and saying it's better to lose in a far left manifesto as its moral, ignores the fact that any labour gun illite with a majority under 1,000 standing again in 2017, 2018 ought to watch themselves as local elections are fought on national issues