Sentences with phrase «nominate leadership candidates»

But MPs would retain the sole right to nominate leadership candidates.

Sources said the party's ruling body was ready to accept a compromise deal on the so - called McDonnell amendment, named after the shadow chancellor, who is in favour of reducing the number of MPs needed to nominate a leadership candidate.

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Despite being in the midst of a leadership contest, which ends with a vote on October 18, 2014, the NDP continues to nominate candidates for the next election.

Currently, candidates must be nominated by 15 % of MPs and MEPs when the leadership position is vacant.

They would have to wait a year to challenge Corbyn for the leadership, which would require a candidate to be nominated by 20 % of Labour MPs.

Morris was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015.

Sources familiar with the conversations said the party leadership is considering not nominating an AG candidate this weekend, but rather opting for a «placeholder candidate.»

Field nominated Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015, [23] stating that while he did not think Corbyn could win a general election, he hoped his candidacy would force the party to confront its «deficit denial».

All leadership candidates need to be nominated by 15 % of Labour MPs (up from 12.5 %) to even stand in the election.

The article says candidates nominated by the Americans Elect leadership need 10,000 «clicks» from the ranks of people who have signed up to be voters in the Americans Elect primary.

The German Green Party has never won over 11 percent of the national vote, yet for three decades has consistently won seats and promoted women's leadership by having a 50 - 50 rule for female / male candidates, prodding other major parties to nominate more women.

Having won the votes of only 15 MPs in the leadership contest (the other 20 MPs who nominated him did so to ensure the Left had a candidate), Corbyn has struggled to maintain his legitimacy within the parliamentary party.

But confusion surrounds whether he would automatically be a candidate in any leadership election, or if he would need to be nominated by at least 35 MPs.

2007 did us no favours, and if I was a potential leadership candidate I'd even think about asking some of my supporters to nominate McDonnell regardless of whether they then voted for him, to make sure I was viewed as having been elected properly in a contest where all sections of the party had been included.

Under the present rules it takes 51 MPs and MEPs to trigger a leadership election before the party conference by nominating an alternative candidate.

Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn says criticising the MPs who nominated him is «uncalled for in any kind of politics».

Campbell was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015 [8] and one of a handful of Labour MPs to publicly support leaving the European Union.

Labour's leadership election procedures require candidates to be nominated initially by their fellow MPs.

After paying tribute to the four other leadership candidates for their comradeship and collegiality during the campaign, and thanking the broad range of people who nominated her (from Phil Woolas to John McDonnell), she announced her intention to stand for the shadow cabinet.

I do not think the threshold of one - eighth of all Labour MPs is unreasonable, and in 2007 the same threshold produced a deputy leadership election with six validly nominated candidates.

This year the Conservative leadership tried to force Republicans to nominate their registered Conservative Party candidate, by holding their caucus ahead of the Republican caucus.

As a way around that, MPs will now get to select a shortlist of leadership candidates for the membership to vote on, along similar lines to the system operated by the Conservative Party - candidates will need to be nominated by at least 15 % of Labour MPs.

However, the primaries, as well as earlier, were not binding for the leadership of United Russia: a number of winners of the primaries were withdrawn by the leadership without any explanation of reasons, and in 18 single - seat constituencies the party did not nominate any candidates.

Grossman says she encourages her brokers to nominate their agents as candidates for the association's leadership academies, which offer ongoing training in a variety of areas, from professionalism to community service.