Sentences with phrase «new leadership vote»

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But a vote to Leave would almost certainly force a change of leadership in the Conservative Party and a new Prime Minister, given Cameron's leading of the Remain campaign.

In Pennsylvania, Katie McGinty, Toomey's Democratic challenger, called for new leadership after Toomey voted for the NRA - backed amendments.

Britain's leadership has warned Scotland that if it votes to leave the U.K. later this year, then the new country walks away from the pound.

The members voted to elect this leadership group which included two new Directors, Rodney Adams and Karen Toby.

UPDATE: Dave Hancock is the new Premier of Alberta until the PC Party is able to hold a leadership vote.

The vacuum in the Liberal leadership is good news for the PC Party, Rachel Notley «s New Democrats and the Alberta Party, who will try to offer Liberal voters a new home to park their votNew Democrats and the Alberta Party, who will try to offer Liberal voters a new home to park their votnew home to park their votes.

Following his election as party leader, Stelmach announced a new cabinet that included all of the leadership contenders who had supported him in the second round of voting.

New Democrats showed little eagerness to heed his pleas before the leadership vote, and will feel less compelled to afterwards.

While there is certainly no such thing today as the «Catholic vote» (unified by issues and / or effective leadership), the majority of Catholics did vote for Obama, and we are informed by Catholic News Service that there is a «historic high» of 163 Catholics in the new Congress.

«I think we're going to be anywhere's from 49 to 51 seats, but I think the significance of being that close, especially in this environment, I think there's going to be some Assembly Democrats across the state that'd be a little reluctant just to vote in lock - step with the leadership and the New York City - dominated Assembly majority.»

«I have a live and current understanding and experience of the changes in the party, both from the two leadership elections and the general election where I was out on the doorstep with all of these new members,» says McKeever, who missed out on the Commons by just 1159 votes.

For example, we are supporting three challengers to New York State Senate Independent Democratic Conference members, who have historically organized with the Republican leadership to block progress on voting rights, reproductive rights, and government reform.

«Those that did not actually vote for the bill had a moral and ethical obligation to demand that their leadership at least remove the New York penalty,» Cuomo wrote.

By partnering with the GOP the IDC Senators have deprived New Yorkers of the democratic leadership and membership they voted into office and prevented the passing of legislation benefiting our communities.

The by - election consolidated Nick Clegg's hold on power, sparked new rumours of leadership bids against David Cameron, saw a surge in support for Ukip and raised questions about Ed Miliband's ability to win votes in the south - east.

In his written judgment, Mr Justice Hickinbottom stated: «At the time each of the claimants joined the party, it was the common understanding as reflected in the rule book that, if they joined the party prior to the election process commencing, as new members they would be entitled to vote in any leadership contest.

Yet, even with the influx of all these new people after the election, the membership which voted in the leadership contest probably looked pretty similar, and thought pretty similarly, to the membership that had campaigned for a Labour victory in May 2015.

In order to find out, we compare these two groups: older members (pre-GE2015) and newer members (who joined after May 2015 but before January 2016 and were therefore eligible to vote in the leadership election).

Bloomberg's Independence USA PAC put $ 6 million in ads behind Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey for his leadership on gun control legislation after the Newtown shooting and punished New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte for voting against it with $ 8.5 million in ads backing her opponent, Gov. Maggie Hassan — while Bloomberg donated another $ 1 million to Planned Parenthood Votes to further boost Hassan.

POLITICO, citing multiple sources, reported Monday that Speaker Paul Ryan and his leadership team discussed replacing New Jersey Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, after he voted against the GOP bill.

But a new YouGov poll reported in The Times has found that Corbyn enjoys the support of 66 % of party members, a remarkable rise of seven points over the 59 % who supported him at the leadership vote.

Jeremy Corbyn could romp to victory in the Labour leadership race with an even bigger vote share than he secured last year, a new poll has suggested.

Anyone who decides to vote with the Senate Republicans and does not insist on Skelos and Libous stepping aside for a new leadership team is a fool.

He was coordinating phone canvassing as a tsunami crashed through Labour politics, with new members signing up in droves — for full membership, or as «registered supporters», who paid # 3 to get a leadership vote.

He vowed independence, and said he has proven himself by bucking the New York Senate's Republican leadership to vote against tax increases.

The original resolution Tuesday that was softened before the vote would have barred the party from providing any resources to the IDC if they didn't commit to a new leadership coalition with the mainline Dems.

The party leadership wants to accompany enhanced devolution for Scotland with a new rule that Scottish MPs can not vote on matters that only affect people in England.

Today, however, such a system is not commonly practiced and most parliamentary system parties» rules provide for a leadership election in which the general membership of the party is permitted to vote at some point in the process (either directly for the new leader or for delegates who then elect the new leader in a convention), though in many cases the party's legislators are allowed to exercise a disproportionate influence in the final vote.

ALBANY - It was a heated scene on the State Senate floor Wednesday as Senate Democrats walked out of the chamber after being refused to vote for new leadership in the wake of the Dean Skelos corruption allegations.

Question topics included what he'll say to Rob Astorino if he bumps into him locally, what he has to say to the anti-fracking protestors, what was most surprising in the campaign, whether he'll be disappointed if he wins by 10 points rather the 20 points that public polls predict, for whom and on what line he and Lee voted, what he'll do to affect the state senate leadership should there not be any single majority conference, what he'll do in a second term concerning state mandates to local governments and what effect Republican control of the United States Senate will have on New York and his administration in a second term.

We need new leadership pronto, I'm definitely considering voting democrat if the candidate is up to taking progressive action in the senate.

Will Labour continue to retreat to its hand - wringing leftist comfort zone under the leadership of Andy Burnham or Yvette Cooper, or could a new leader re-invigorate Labour and mop - up the progressive vote?

Until the party and its leadership can admit to the mistakes made in government, or to the lack of courage shown in not tackling the clear problems that prevent ordinary people from enjoying the sort of life that the middle classes take for granted, then I fear a whole swathe of Labour supporters will simply choose not to vote Labour, whatever promises are made at the next election (this is essentially ditching the last vestiges of New Labour I suppose).

Also in her interview, Abbott criticises rival Labour leadership teams for complaining about the voting system used to elect the new leader.

Ribble Valley and Nottingham Lib Dems are the first local parties to vote for a new national leadership election to be held.

We didn't see this coming until it became clear that (a) the thousands of new «# 3 members» who joined to vote in the Labour leadership election were nearly all Corbynistas, (b) Jeremy was playing to packed houses of adoring crowds everywhere he went to campaign and (c) his rivals were fighting lacklustre campaigns in comparison.

Quinn atttributed the success advocates just realized in New York to the fact that «nobody lost hope,» and instead managed to regroup with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's leadership and continue pushing the Senate until its members were able to take another vote on the marriage bill — this time passing it, 33 - 29.

Some may find it a bit hypocritical for Latimer, a Roman Catholic as is his wife and girlfriend, to raise concerns that Senate leadership did something wrong by scheduling a budget vote on one of the most important days in the Roman Catholic calendar when he left his wife back in New York to attend mass by herself while he was on vacation in Europe with another woman.

I am however deeply disappointed with the discussion and by your failure to recognise that the turmoil after the Referendum vote, a likely Autumn election, the responsibility to hold the Labour Party together and the very wide - and ever widening - concerns about your leadership require a fresh leadership election, with you stepping aside as Leader to seek a new mandate if you aspire to lead Labour into the coming General Election.

ALBANY, NY (09/10/2014)(readMedia)-- Zephyr Teachout's stunning 35 percent of the vote and Tim Wu's 40 percent in yesterday's primary election affirms the political power and clout of the new Public Employees Federation, under the leadership of the Kent / Garcia administration.

«If they want a new leader of the opposition, we must either have a proper leadership election — and this vote of confidence has no status in the rulebook.

Today's Sun carries a new YouGov poll on the Labour leadership race, taking account of the constituent parts of the electoral college taking part in the vote.

House Republican leaderships decision to not vote on the Senate's bill providing $ 60 billion in aid to areas impacted by Super Storm Sandy has led to a barrage of floor speeches from both Democratic and Republican lawmakers from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

«As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in New York, which passed in 1917, three years before women gained the right to vote across the country, we again recognize the leadership role New York must play, and we encourage other States to recognize the responsibility they now have to protect the rights of all American women and girls.

Despite being informed in advance that MORE chapter leaders and delegates intended to raise this resolution for debate and voting, UFT leadership called time on the ten - minute new motion period, thus prohibiting this conversation.

The old three - way electoral college was replaced with a new «one - person - one - vote» system in which leadership candidates are elected not just by party members, but also by registered and affiliated supporters.

Then, in 2008, Supervisor Brian Foley left for greener pastures in the state Senate and sold his soul to New York City leadership with one of the deciding votes to pass the MTA payroll tax.

Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) has decided to ban new members of the party from voting in the upcoming Labour leadership election.

It happened because Higgins finally earned enough seniority to rejoin the committee — and because Democratic committee members immediately voted to make him «vice ranking member,» a new leadership position that charges him with crafting the party's message on issues before the panel.

Part of the reason it hasn't happened is that many CLPs are wedded to the «leader leads» model which is, for them, a reason to prevent a grassroots movement emerging (i.e. it's not that new members are simply «consumer members» who only want to vote in the leadership election).