Sentences with phrase «national electoral issue»

Not exact matches

Did nobody ask whether ScoMo could really wave the deal through right now given it would spell the certain electoral defeat of Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce in New England, and a host of other Nationals in battleground seats where foreign investment is a hot - button issue?

Indeed, can't I equally argue that Neal Lawson risks narrowing his coalition of support for electoral reform by suggesting that the existence of a national campaign on PR means postponing or vetoing any consideration of party reform issues on their merits (where he seems to argue that the principle would be one he would support, were it not for this context)?

The issue of electoral reform for the National Assembly is back on the agenda after the Secretary of State for Wales indicated she may change how AMs are elected.

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;

The lawmakers at the plenary on Wednesday resolved to mandate the Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission to probe into why the electoral umpire found three of its workers guilty in the registration scandal but chose to issue a new card to Bello.

Elsewhere, a lawmaker's profile online would refer to his or her electoral history, committee assignments and ideological positions on key national issues.

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.

The Director of Elections for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, however, disclosed that one of the issues that impressed him so well was the fact that even the police are going to be trained alongside polling agents in the electoral rules and processes.

Global warming never ranks in the top issue list to which electoral candidates attend, giving it little priority in national electoral contests.