Sentences with phrase «national elections because»

Mr. Owusu Afriyie was optimistic he will win the national elections because «the grassroots love to see Sir John, they love what they hear and how I say things.

«We did not want to do two posters, local elections and national elections because people aren't going to have two posters in their gardens.

Ultra-conservative Grover Nordquist just said that he's not worried about the national election because his party added new governors: «Our strength is state by state,» Norquist said, adding that it is there that Republicans would enact the policies — ending teacher tenure, reining in public employee pensions, promoting school choice — that would invigorate the national party from the bottom up.»

Not exact matches

Her critics hope this will be repeated in this year's national election, with voters rallying around either Emmanuel Macron or François Fillon simply because they are not Le Pen.

He has been backed up by the Republican National Committee, which launched a website «Lyin» Comey» last week that makes the case that Democrats should hate the former FBI director because he cost Hillary Clinton the election by reopening an investigation into her emails days before voters went to the polls.

The race for New York's 9th Congressional District has attracted national attention because polls give Republican candidate Robert Turner an edge, a potential sign of trouble for President Barack Obama and for the Democrats ahead of next year's election.

But they will all know what Mormons believe by the general election because the electronic national media by and large is the in the tank for Mr. Obama.»

Because midterm elections take place in distinct races, 472 of them this year, rendering a national verdict involves administering a very rough justice.

Christendom destroyed itself because its constituent nationalities worshiped their own ethnicity and preferred the illusion of national election to membership in the People of God.

If Obama wins the election it will be because millions ofnewly registered voters got their first taste of national politics on theirdoorsteps.

He also encouraged the youth that their efforts will not be in vain because the National Democratic Congress will come back to power in the next general election.

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.

And is Akufo - Addo willing to tell Ghanaians how the Italian financiers of his campaign for Election 2008 who were arrested by the Ghana Police and paraded at the National Police Headquarters got out of the web because of what the late Jake Obetsebi Lamptey and Co. did by harping on mere sentiments instead of reasons related to National Security?

Popular radio personality and member of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Abeiku Santana, has said the party will win the 2016 elections because Ghanaians will not vote for a leader who can not keep his house in order.

According to him, though he knew many National Democratic Congress (NDC) supporters were disenchanted with the party's leadership, he chose to endorse Mr Mahama because the former president reached out to console him after the Electoral Commission disqualified him from contesting the elections.

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.

Because of the way Maryland election law works, however, the Task Force Action Fund's registration as independent expenditure committee meant that Penn National Gaming was effectively able to hide this expenditure during the time the legislature considered whether to press forward with the measure.

The Artvoice comments are the latest example in a long history of Paladino making offensive statements, some of which caught national attention because of his role as a co-chairman in Donald J. Trump's New York State election campaign.

«Though I have quite a number of reasons not to contest the up and coming election, I want to draw the attention of our great party APC in Niger state to the disconnect between the governance (sic) in the state and the membership of the National Assembly, the state assembly and other key stakeholders because there is an absence of synergy,» he wrote.

By contrast, Rallings and Thrasher predict that the Liberal Democrats will make gains because they have been doing well in local by - elections and so expected to be up 7 points in their National Equivalent Vote (NEV).

In 2010 there was cross-party consensus in support of proposals to make PSHE a statutory entitlement for all young people as part of the national curriculum, which were only dropped because they were not passed before the general election.

The Mayoral election in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets on 22 May is of national significance because of the concerted campaign to unseat Britain's first and only Muslim directly elected Mayor.

Pidot's primary opponent, Jack Martins, a state senator from Old Westbury, wants to move the general election from Nov. 8, the date of national presidential and congressional elections, because a court moved the district's Republican primary from June to Oct. 6.

She said she is a member of the Eleanor Legacy Committee and that Higher Heights is important because it focuses on black women but focuses more so on national elections.

ALBANY, N.Y. — From the top of the national Republican ticket, the concern that somehow the integrity of the outcome of the election should be questioned because of potential fraud persists.

Following the redrawing of boundaries prior to the 2011 elections, the Liberal Democrats had dropped out of the picture, affected by the national swing against the party because of its participation in the UK coalition government.

They were indicted because (presumably) foreign nationals have no business making their opinion have undue influence on US elections.

Vice Chairman of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo has urged Ghanaians not to make a mistake of voting for the largest opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Flagbearer, Nana Akufo - Addo, in the upcoming December 7 election because he lacks the strength and mental capacity to govern Ghana.

Actually Danny is a straight shooter and I doubt he changed any of his ways because of the national election.

If they survive the election as a major political force — and I expect they will — it will be because of their formidable local campaigning, not their national narrative.

On allegation by another ex-militant leader, Africanus Ukparasia, alias «General» Africa that he bombed pipelines, Tompolo said he alerted the public that some aggrieved All Progressives Congress, APC, members in Bayesla and Delta States wanted to destroy national assets in the Niger Delta and finger him because of the outcome of the Bayelsa State governorship election.

The rank and file of the party feels aggrieved to learn that Zanetor could not vote in the very elections she contested because she is not a registered voter on the Electoral Commission's National voters» register — the very register on which compilation of the NDC biometric register was based.»

With FPTP, in a General Election a good local MP may lose their constituency because of the national swing against that MP's party, regardless of the personal merit and exemplary track record of the MP, because people decide to vote on a «party» basis.

If you don't have competition in your party when you go to the national elections you'll also lose because you've not tested the ground, you've not actually activated your members.

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press, since the central interest of the Commission and Nigerians in this remains the National Register of Voters because it is the bedrock of the 2019 general elections, let me seize this opportunity to share with you a few facts about the current register of voters.

Because Ukip did not contest the constituency at the last election in 2010, it is not possible to calculate any swing from the Tories that could give a clue to impact on the national political map.

Eritrean National elections were set for 1997 and then postponed until 2001, it was then decided that because 20 % of Eritrea's land was under occupation that elections would be postponed until the resolution of the conflict with Ethiopia.

For the avoidance of doubt, the party wishes to state emphatically that, these Annual Delegates» Conferences would NOT include the election or re-election of party executives to occupy the various positions at the Constituency, Regional and National levels because the mandate of the serving officers of the party is yet to expire.

For example, an absolute threshold in the number of votes (e.g. requiring a certain proportion of the whole population or of registered voters to be elected rather than a plurality of the vote) can seem intuitively appealing but has never, to my knowledge, been implemented for a national election, precisely because leaving an important office unfilled is a problem (unless, of course, you subscribe to radical small - government ideas, in which case the question seems moot and you might just as well do away with elections or democracy itself).

Reacting to the allegation by another ex-militant leader, Africanus Ukparasia, alias «General» Africa that he bombed pipelines, Tompolo said he alerted the public that some aggrieved All Progressives Congress, APC, members in Bayesla and Delta states want to destroy national assestsin the Niger Delta state and finger him because of the outcome of the Bayelsa governorship election.

The NDC, realizing the nomination of the said Dr Arhin to the committee, and knowing that it is winning the election and would not want to give room for any displacement, had requested the National Service Secretariat to withdraw the membership of Dr Arhin from the committee because he remains an official of the National Democratic Congress.

«I would expect the national average to be between one per cent and two per cent and, because there are local elections, I would not be surprised if the average in London was below zero,» he said.

The Special Adviser on Political Matters to a leading National Chairmanship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olabode George, Uthman Shodipe - Dosunmu, has denied the rumour making the rounds that his principal has been removed as a member of Board of Trustees of PDP because of his bid to contest the party's national chairmanship election at the convention, coming up on DecNational Chairmanship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olabode George, Uthman Shodipe - Dosunmu, has denied the rumour making the rounds that his principal has been removed as a member of Board of Trustees of PDP because of his bid to contest the party's national chairmanship election at the convention, coming up on Decnational chairmanship election at the convention, coming up on December 9.

The National Chairman, All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie - Oyegun has admitted that winning 2019 General Elections will be tougher for the party because Nigerians are now wiser.

INEC, initially, made its position clear regarding Akko Federal Constituency of Gombe State to the National Chairman of APC that the submission of the name of a new candidate for the court - ordered election is «not acceptable» because «the period for nomination of candidate for the election has since elapsed,» but failed to follow it through to a logical conclusion.

former National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has stated that, former President Mahama lost the just ended 2016 elections to President Akufo Addo because he guarded himself with young «inexperienced handlers.»

But he had to oversee the Edo governorship election in September 2016 because the Commission did not have a full compliment of National Commissioners at that time.

Speaking to Citi News, Alfred Agbesi said he lost the elections because some party big wigs, including the National Chairman of the NDC, backed his opponent.

It is, therefore, necessary that we treat them with great seriousness because they are elections we should do everything to win,» the APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie - Oyegun, stated on February 28, 2018.

National Republicans think a victory by McDonnell, who has led in every poll since June, would resonate well beyond Virginia because it would show that although many new, suburban voters have backed Democrats in recent elections, they're not wedded to the party.