Sentences with phrase «of breakaway party»

Dr. Ayeh who is now a leading member of breakaway party, National Democratic Party (NDP), criticized government for denying Ghanaians their political and economic rights by excluding certain individuals...

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Cuomo has come under fire from the left wing of the Democratic Party and its allies in the Working Families Party who do not believe he has done enough to assist the so - called regular Democrats in reuniting with the breakaway, eight - member IDC faction to help them re-take the majority in the Senate.

The chairman of the state Democratic party and a group of influential union leaders are calling on New York Senate Democrats to back the re-election of eight breakaway Dems who recently returned to the fold.

The IDC was first formed in 2011 with a breakaway group of Democrats dissatisfied with the previous leadership of the Senate and the tumultuous two years the party spent in power in the chamber.

Earlier this month, the mainstream Senate Democrats and eight breakaway members of the Independent Democratic Conference announced that they were joining forces for the good of the party.

Another insider said the breakaway Dems won't help control the agenda like they did the past two years, but they do expect to be able to get some bills to the floor — though not contentious ones like the public financing of campaigns that are being pushed by the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

That is the scenario in which most Spanish political parties would veto Scotland entry in the EU, because of the risk of setting a precedent for Spain own breakaway movements.

The Democratic Party actually currently holds a majority of the seats in the Senate but the Republicans control the chamber thanks to Sen. Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who caucuses with the GOP, and a group of eight other breakaway Democrats aligned with them.

If, either immediately or in the longer term, the breakaway parliamentary grouping chose to register legally as a separate political party, there would be a whole range of other obstacles to consider, some of which might descend into legal disputes:

The gang of four — Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Shirley Williams and Bill Rodgers — stepped out in east London's Limehouse to declare their breakaway Social Democratic party.

ALBANY — Democrats unhappy with the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference have added an item to their long list of complaints — the IDC's close relationship with the state's Independence Party.

He made the allegation on Adom FM's Dwaso Nsem morning show of October 15, 2012 while contributing to discussions on the endorsement of former first lady Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings as flagbearer of the breakaway National Democratic Party at the weekend.

«Now that rogue Bill Lipton and his breakaway political party has claimed ownership of this shameful and vulgar push poll we look forward to a review by the State Board of Elections,» said Candice Giove, an IDC spokeswoman.

He told Afia Pokua that the former statesman finds himself in a tight corner as his wife leads the National Democratic Party (NDP), a breakaway faction of the NDC.

Liberal Democrat insiders point to the fact that Kennedy and his supporters emerged from the SDP, the old Social Democratic breakaway party, but that in seeking to «break the mould» of British politics and merging with the Liberal to become the Liberal Democrats in the 1980s, never in their wildest dreams expected to end up supporting a minority Conservative Government intent on the most swingeing cuts in public spending since the Second World War.

Activists point to how Cuomo has enabled Republican control of the State Senate by failing to use the State Democratic Party to support Senate Democrats and actively supporting a group of breakaway Democrats called the Independent Democratic Conference that has empowered Senate Republicans in exchange for a say in policy and perks they wouldn't enjoy as part of the minority.

ALBANY — In an unusual move, the state Board of Elections is suing a group of breakaway Democrats and the Independence Party, claiming a campaign fund they set up together is illegal.

Speaker after speaker demanded the breakaway Dems return to the fold, arguing it's important that the party claim control of the state Senate in light of the Loeb statement, the violent hate rally this past weekend in Charlottesville, Va., and the Trump administration overall.

But then, thrown into the lively mix, I can reveal, is the plan by a former founder member of the old breakaway Social Democratic Party, Professor Stephen Haseler, to stand an anti coalition Liberal Democrat candidate.

But it's clear that Gregorius, as Democratic majority leader, is not enamored with a county legislature that has more members of his own party seated (13 - 10), yet is controlled by Republicans in league with a small Democratic breakaway faction that, together elected Democrat John Parete as its chair.

Whichever party wins control of the New York state Senate on November 8, they will likely have to govern along with a breakaway faction of Democrats who have been key to the power structure for several years now.

If Democrats are hoping to win control of the Senate next year without having to rely on an alliance with the party's breakaway members, they'll probably need to pick up at least one seat that wasn't seriously contested last year, and perhaps more than one.

The party broke into factions over the weekend as 12 of its former governors and no fewer than 14 former ministers led the breakaway group, which is labelled, Concerned PDP Stakeholders Steering Committee.

After Mr. Avella joined a group of breakaway Democrats that govern the State Senate with the Republican Party, Mr. Crowley pushed Mr. Liu to run against Mr. Avella: it was this primary, in part, that eventually drove the Independent Democratic Conference to agree last month to eventually govern with the mainline Democratic conference, potentially putting the GOP in the minority for 2015.

That year, the party almost failed to give him their endorsement, until his eleventh hour pledge to oppose the state senate's Independent Democratic Caucus, a group of breakaway Democratic legislators giving the numerically smaller Republican conference an effective majority.

During the primary, Mr. Cuomo's longshot challenger Zephyr Teachout called the Women's Equality line «a sham party,» pointing to reports that the governor had colluded with the State Senate's breakaway Independent Democratic Conference to allow the GOP to continue to control the upper house of the state legislature — which led to the failed effort to pass the complete Women's Equality Agenda.

In his first year as mayor, Mr. de Blasio tangled with a senate that is governed by a coalition of breakaway Democrats and the Republican Party — even with an ally in State Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference, a Republican majority still looms to potentially stifle a leftist, urban platform that polls poorly in many GOP strongholds throughout the state.

Eventually, this led to the breakaway of the NDC founding members for reform, culminating in the formation of the National Reform party.

And Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who brought the parties together to arrange the unity deal, now has a primary opponent in Cynthia Nixon, who has repeatedly attacked him for his countenance of the breakaway conference.

After he and Kruger threatened to lead a breakaway contingent of Democratic senators to upend their party's new majority, Espada was allotted a whopping $ 2.25 million in funds.

A breakaway party would also have problems in terms of leadership.

By lashing out, some argue de Blasio hasn't just further alienated the governor and the breakaway Democrats, but also key party officials like Rep. Joseph Crowley, the head of the House Democratic caucus, and Hector Figueroa, president of the influential Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union.

The yearly stipends — ranging from $ 12,500 to $ 18,000 — went to a variety of Mr. Flanagan's political allies, including five members of his party, and the three senators from the breakaway group: Jose Peralta of Queens, Diane Savino of Staten Island, and David J. Valesky of Syracuse.

The party now controls the chamber with the help of the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of five breakaway Democrats led by Senator Jeff Klein.

More recently, the party has endorsed candidates challenging members of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference in this year's elections.

The bitter divide across the party echoes the acrimony that drove the «gang of four» to form the breakaway SDP.

The letter came two days after Mr. Felder — who actually sits and conferences with the Republican party in the Senate — called for the breakaway Democrats to «unconditionally and publicly rejoin» the traditional Democratic caucus, which has 23 members and is led by Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins of Westchester County.

ALBANY — The chairman of the state Independence Party suggested in an affidavit that he formed an alliance with the state Senate's breakaway eight - member Independent Democratic Conference to show a «commitment» to the needs of minority communities in New York City.

There's no formation of the «Fresh PDP» and there's no breakaway from the party at all.

Asked at an Israel Day parade about his promise to support his party's efforts to take control of the State Senate from his erstwhile Republican and breakaway - Democratic allies, Cuomo told NY1's Courtney Gross, «This is about electing people who support an agenda.

The Working Families Party is escalating its efforts to unseat members of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference of the New York State Senate.

As of last year, the Independence Party has entered into a relationship with the Independent Democratic Conference, the eight - member group of breakaway Democrats that has aligned with Senate Republicans.

Whichever party wins control of the state Senate on November 8th, they will likely have to govern along with a breakaway faction of Democrats who have been key to the power structure for several years now.

Scott Reif, a spokesman for the Republicans, who rule the Senate with the help of a group of breakaway Democrats, said his party had «been fighting for years to expand TAP eligibility,» referring to the tuition assistance program.

Whichever party wins control of the state Senate on Nov. 8, they will likely have to govern along with a breakaway faction of Democrats who have been key to the power structure for several years now.

Our party, the PDP is not aware of a breakaway under whatever guise.

The formation of the SDP wasn't a Sudden thing, at the last stages of talks, Roy Jenkins had approached David Steel, to see if he could join the Liberal party, both had come to the conclusion if Michael Foot did win the leadership, for there to be a breakaway party, and Jenkins would be in more of a position to take one tenth of the CLP with him, and form an electoral pact, followed by a merger years later, of which would really be a take over.

The Republican Party and the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of five breakaway Democrats, currently serve in the majority.

Tensions between Democratic New York Governor Cuomo and the left wing of his party have heightened after the governor attended a fundraiser to raise campaign money for a now disbanded group of breakaway Senate Democrats.

Leaders of New York's Democratic Party recently asked the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference in the state Senate to reunite with the mainstream Democrats.