Sentences with phrase «new parliamentary elections»

In response to the protests, Borisov resigned prompting new parliamentary elections which were held on May 12, 2013.

In Turkey, new parliamentary elections will be held November 1.

Not exact matches

Although Italy has still not been able to form a new government after the parliamentary elections, this hanging game is not detrimental to the EBI survey.

This new regime went ahead to introduce multi-party democracy and the arrangement of parliamentary and presidential elections to be held on June 18, 1979.

Manhyia North is one of the new constituencies created by the Electoral Commission ahead of the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections.

Insiders say, Captain Koda is the heartbeat of the opposition New Patriotic Party's (NPP) planned reign of terror expected to be unleashed ahead of the high - stakes 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

However, there are points in every parliament's lifecycle when no government can lay claim to such support — between parliamentary dissolution and a general election; after a general election and before the new government is formed; or when an incumbent government loses the confidence of parliament.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ghana believes in the principles that democratic societies provide individuals with the best conditions for political liberty, personal freedom, equality of opportunity and economic development under the rule of law; and therefore being committed to advancing the social and political values on which democratic societies are founded, including the basic personal freedoms and human rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prosperity.

If a new treaty is signed before the French (parliamentary) elections in June, and public opinion does not grow more favourable to the EU, then pressure to hold a referendum will be high.

The New Patriotic Party parliamentary candidate for the Karaga constituency in the Northern region for the 2016 elections Shaharawi Bashiru has stepped down, party executives in the region have confirmed.

But 52 members of the new parliamentary group of MPs have to support a challenger for there to be an election.

[9] New expenses rules published by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority coming into force after the 2010 General Election allow employment of one relative but replace funding for a second home with a London Allowance of # 3,760 for MPs with seats within 20 miles of Westminster.

He was a parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party at the May 2010 General Election and associate editor of last year's Pragmatic Radicalism: Ideas from Labour's New Generation publication.

A group calling itself Concerned Members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Tema West Constituency of the Greater Accra Region, have accused the incumbent MP, Naa Torshie Addo, of scheming to campaign against the party's newly elected parliamentary candidate, Carlos Ahenkorah, ahead of the 2016 elections.

Following a boycott of the December 1992 Parliamentary elections by the main opposition party, the New Patriotic Party, under allegations of malpractices in the presidential, there was a decision to hold both elections on the same day so as to be able to prevent a similar boycott in the future.

Mr Mahama and the NDC lost both the presidential and parliamentary elections to the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

One of the election flashpoints in Accra, Odododiodio Constituency erupted into violence Friday evening when supporters of National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) clashed at a 3FM parliamentary debate.

The parliamentary candidate of the National Democratic Congress» (NDC) for the Weija - Gbawe constituency, Obuobia Darko - Opoku says she will not fail in her bid to snatch the seat from the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2016 elections.

Helena Catt, chief executive of the Electoral Commission in New Zealand, analyses how the Mixed - Member System for parliamentary elections there has bedded down and is effect on New Zealand's politics

In the run - up to the Scottish parliamentary elections due to be held in 2016, The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) is calling on Scotland's political parties to prioritise the four tax principles of Adam Smith: equality, certainty, convenience and economy, in their design of a new council tax system.

National Democratic Congress (NDC) incumbent Member of Parliament MP for Shai Osu Doku, David Tetteh Assumeng, has announced he will not participate in the party's primary to elect a new Parliamentary aspirant going into the November elections.

The two major political parties in Ghana, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP), have intensified their political campaigns with just about 60 days to this year's presidential and parliamentary elections.

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.

He was also the New Patriotic Party's Parliamentary candidate for the Chiana - Paga constituency in the 2016 general election, and was made the District Chief Executive of the Kassena - Nankana District Assembly in 2017.

«It's a new parliamentary party since the election thank goodness, with lots of new Conservative MPs so we're able to look at this again, not entirely through the prism of the 2013 vote, which was a vote on a slightly different basis and which of course predated the Isil surge across Iraq last year.

According to him, the cold murder of Mr Joseph BoakyeDanquah - Adu, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North Constituency in the Eastern Region few months to the presidential and parliamentary elections was for ritual purposes for Akufo - Addo's victory.

The wife of the three - time opposition leader, has taken to hospital theaters, Out Patients Department (OPDs), maternity wards, carrying babies, and spreading gifts wrapped in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) paraphernalia, ahead of the November 7, Parliamentary and Presidential Elections.

The mischief embarked upon by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to discredit the Electoral Commission (EC), has backfired in the party's stronghold of Ashanti Region, with many people disenfranchised from voting in the 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary elections by the Supreme Court decision in the Abu Ramadan and Evans Nimako case, against the electoral body.

The New Patriotic Party's losing Parliamentary aspirant for Klottey Korley, Nii Noi Nortey, who has declared his intention to contest the November 7 elections as an independent candidate.

The Haruna Apaw Wiredu, the party's parliamentary candidate for New Juaben North, who also attended the event encouraged his constituents to vote massively for the party in the upcoming elections.

Egypt and Tunisia have held parliamentary elections and put into place new constitutions.

When he lost the first officially scheduled Klottey - Korle parliamentary election on the ticket of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), I advised Mr. Philip Addison to desist from following through with his decision to have the primary election rerun, on the dubious grounds that the time and day scheduled for the election had not favored his supporters.

Madam Elorm Akwambea Mensah had 5,726 votes as a new entrant during the 2016 parliamentary and presidential election as against New Patriotic Party's Kofi Okyere Agyekum who won with 11,new entrant during the 2016 parliamentary and presidential election as against New Patriotic Party's Kofi Okyere Agyekum who won with 11,New Patriotic Party's Kofi Okyere Agyekum who won with 11,274

Currently making the rounds in the New Patriotic Party (NPP), especially among Nana Akufo - Addo's family and friends are claims of two confidential reports purportedly prepared by the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) and National Security Secretariat, giving different possible outcomes of the November 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary Election.

Mr Alan Kyeremanten, a leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has appealed to Ghanaians to live in peace and harmony as the country moves towards the presidential and parliamentary election this year.

The entire Constituency Executive Committee of the National Democratic Congress in Afram Plains South wishes to congratulate our new Parliamentary Candidate and soon - to - be Member of Parliament [Isha Allah], Hon.Kevor Mark - Oliver for successfully filling his nomination to represent our dear party in the 2016 Parliamentary Elections.

In an election widely touted as the most smoothly held Ghanaian election since 1992, the NDC was walloped in both the presidential and parliamentary polls by their arch-rivals, the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo led New Patriotic Party (NPP).

The standard - bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, is being blamed for the turbulence and infighting within Ghana's largest opposition party.

The NDC lost the Walewale parliamentary seat in the 2012 general election to the New Patriotic Party (NPP); the NDC again lost the Kumbungu seat to the Convention People's Party (CPP) in a bye - election held in 2013 after Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni, the then sitting NDC Member of Parliament (MP), resigned from Parliament to take up an international position.

Elections are then held as scheduled at the end of the parliamentary term, since the Monarch does not dissolve parliament if an informateur has been able to negotiate a new coalition agreement.

Morrison had argued that Labour party rules stated that at the start of a new session there should be an election by the parliamentary Labour party of a new leader.

Robert Harris, writing not long before the election was called in the New Statesman, «can't quite understand how the members of the Parliamentary Labour Party can sit there day after day, month after month, year after year, knowing that they're simply heading towards a kind of mincing machine at the next election.»

The new Prime Minister, Theresa May, called in April 2017 for a snap general election with the stated aim of securing a majority for Brexit negotiations; [5] it received parliamentary approval the following day, and was arranged for Thursday 8 June 2017.

Parliamentary candidates standing in next week's UK General Election have signalled their support for the recognition of the state of Palestine in 2015, according a new poll conducted by Dods.

New research by ConservativeHome today shows the extent of the likely historic increase in female and Black and Minority Ethnic representation inside the Conservative parliamentary party after the general election.

Parliamentary aspirant of the National Democratic Congress in the Fanteakwa south constituency, Abigail Elorm Mensah has pledged to win the seat come 2016 general elections from the opposition New Patriotic Party.

With few days to the 2016 Presidential and parliamentary elections, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has opted to freely advertise the baby drink; Kalyppo Fruit Juice, above its policies for Ghanaians for the next four years, should its Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo - Addo, win the 2016 elections and takeover the Flagstaff House from the current occupant, John Dramani Mahama.

Ghana's former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has in a meeting with the new American Ambassador to Ghana, Robert Porter Jackson, called on all stakeholders in the forthcoming Presidential and Parliamentary elections to ensure the highest levels of transparency to guarantee a peaceful process.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has outdoored its campaign team for the 2016 parliamentary and presidential elections.

The Miliband brothers, the only contenders with a chance of becoming Labour leader, both think the party should start choosing Parliamentary candidates this autumn for the next election rather than wait for the new boundary changes, which won't be decided until 2013, more than three years from now.