Sentences with phrase «of electoral mandate»

Maybe Zimbabwe really is a better comparison, given the printing of money and Browns lack of electoral mandate.

In turn, this lack of an electoral mandate constrained the way in which peers could operate.

Police and crime commissioner (PCC) candidates emphasise their autonomy and the importance of the electoral mandate in determining policing priorities and disrupting the cosy complacency that is used to characterise the relationship between chief constables and police authorities.

Not exact matches

But when that agenda means reneging on the EPA's core mission of protecting public health to serve corporate interests, it falls way outside any electoral mandate.

Oh I suppose if you consider the electoral college but in terms of do I have a mandate to implement policy, the 50/49 number is a more telling number to the winner.

The Mayor of London has a greater personal electoral mandate than any other politician in Britain according to theauthors.

The health secretary's plans for NHS reform, which will return to the Commons in September, were «the ideas of one man acting without an electoral mandate», he added.

Cuomo's full - dress speech made the policy case, but the political offensive surged during the following days: The governor and his top lieutenants conducted a series of meetings and interviews that raised doubts about De Blasio's logistical competence to add thousands of pre-k seats by September and that questioned the depth of the mayor's electoral «mandate.»

Many Greens felt that the LGN operated with a «vanguard mentality,» one example being their attempt to bring certain Green electoral work under their LGN «mandates» (which had roots in the anarchist writings of Murray Bookchin and other «movement» thought).

In December 2008, the Commission mandated her to organize the first ever National Workshop on ADR, focusing on the application of ADR to electoral / political disputes.

Electoral systems with election of just one winner in each district (i.e., «winner - takes - all» electoral systems) and no proportional distribution of extra mandates to smaller parties tend to create two - party systems (Duverger's law).

Most democratic electoral processes involve polling booths, which are open for a mandated period of time.

All the pathetic posturing about who has a mandate, and the Tory press baying about a government of the losers shouldn't blind us to the main event: electoral reform.

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 mandates that electoral district lines can not be drawn in such a manner as to «improperly dilute minorities» voting power.»

He said, the commonwealth election observers are given a mandate to observe and consider factors affecting the credibility of the electoral process as a whole.

He did not gain a majority of the popular vote but he won broadly enough that he had a decisive mandate in the electoral college.

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.

In a public hearing conducted by the Senate Committee on INEC on the bill, the commission's Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu said «the establishment of the commission would enable INEC to focus on its mandate rather than attending to electoral litigations.»

Bolstered at last with a mandate of his own, he pressed on until the end of the year, winning an electoral reform referendum.

«The coalition has no electoral mandate, but has a record of abusing its legal authority.

Gambia's outgoing President Yayah Jammeh will not step down when his mandate which ends on Jan. 18, in spite of his electoral defeat, the Information Ministry said on Thursday.

All New Yorkers who are sick and tired of the way our state government works — or doesn't work — have to hope so and believe that a determined new governor armed with an electoral mandate can at least throw a scare into these smug sovereigns of the Legislature.

It now falls to Liberal Democrat leaders to persuade the public of the necessity of cuts for which they have no electoral mandate and VAT increases they opposed.

The study, which is titled «Conduct of an Institutional Assessment for the development of a strategic plan for the electoral Commission of Ghana» was conducted between July and August 2015 and provides institutional assessment of the EC, looking at the commission in the execution of its mandate.

The intellectual arm of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Electoral Institute, which has the mandate to, among other things, train the Commission's staff for core electoral duties, organized a series of capacity development programmes in March as part of preparations for the Ekiti and Osun governorship as well as the 2019 General Elections.

Critics have argued that this low level of voter turnout calls into question the legitimacy and electoral mandate of those PCCs elected.

Alhaji Ahmed said his electoral victory at the tribunal was dedicated to God who saw him through and the good people of the state for entrusting him with their mandate.

It could be recalled that the late Bashorun MKO Abiola was the winner of the June 12 1993 Presidential elections in Nigeria; an election universally acclaimed as the freest, fairest and most credible in the political annals of Nigeria but was ironically annulled by the military high command under Gen Ibrahim Babangida MKO Abiola was later hounded into detention by the military junta under Gen Sanni Abacha, where he later died for refusing to renounce his electoral mandate

Mr Lansley's plans are «the ideas of one man acting without an electoral mandate», Sir Roger added.

Yet some of his strongest supporters, who agree that a quieter strategy of «consolidation» would risk making the government look as though it has run out of steam when it seeks a new electoral mandate, also worry that Labour's parliamentary divisions will place a brake on future reform.

On July 31st, the 89 year - old former freedom fighter and President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe went to the polls to compete in yet another contest on his mandate and similar to the violent 2008 electoral cycle, the incumbent was again facing opposition leader and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

During the negotiations, the Greek government strongly played the card of its fresh electoral mandate.

In B.C., we await the result of a provincial government mandated citizen's forum on electoral reform, which is expected to recommend a change from the current voting system.