Sentences with phrase «of factions of the party»

He said the former presidential candidate has become the face of a faction of the party that could be trying to circumvent the will of primary voters.

Jibrin insisted that the threat by those behind the formation of a faction of the party known as the Fresh PDP was feeble.

Not exact matches

He led a neo-Maoist faction in the party that favours old - style patriotism and central control of the economy.

We don't know the extent of factionalism within the Chinese Communist Party, though we do know how often its existence is condemned — by Xi and his faction.

In WA, for instance, the right is presently divided into old and a new factions, largely because party strongman and former premier, Brian Burke, remains a formidable behind - the - scenes operative, to the displeasure of Premier Geoff Gallop and Attorney - General Jim McGinty.

The Progressive Conservatives, meanwhile, are in the middle of a leadership race that has exposed a growing rift between party factions.

«All through Europe, you will find a number of factions, parties and groups emerging,» says Vranitzky, who served on Magna's board of directors from 1997 to 2011.

Different Kinds of Democrats: A new poll breaks down the differences between three factions of the Democratic Party.

The leader of a faction in British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative party demanding a clean break from the European Union, has denied issuing an ultimatum after asking her to drop a proposal for a customs partnership with the bloc.

At most, guest worker programs are a policy that a faction within the Republican party happens to support — and Gardner is a member of that faction.

It is constituted by the actions of officials, administrations, agencies, parties, factions and citizens.

Last November I pointed out that a significant faction of the Tea Party is a subset of the religious right and that, despite the perception of the movement being comprised of economically - oriented libertarians, the majority held social conservative views.

He could have nudged the platform of the Republican party's establishment faction closer to the beliefs of grassroots conservative voters — and closer to the views of the general public.

But Romney could have done more than split one faction of the Republican party.

The extremist faction of the GOP / Tea Party has been rooting out the rational moderates by disparaging them with RINO labels and condemning those who don't toe the party line through conservative litmus tParty has been rooting out the rational moderates by disparaging them with RINO labels and condemning those who don't toe the party line through conservative litmus tparty line through conservative litmus tests.

The solid liberals are also the best educated and most affluent segment of the Democratic party's factions.

In many cases it [impeachment] will connect itself with the pre-existing factions... and in such cases there will always be the greatest danger that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt.

And what war spares, revolution will destroy; the division of the people into parties and factions will shatter Israel.

Stephen Crabb today launched his bid for the leadership of the Conservatives, promising to bring together the factions of his party in a government of «unity and opportunity».

A senior activist from the leftwing Social Liberal Forum of the party says Cable's leadership fills that faction with «dread», given he was in charge of the business department that pushed through the fees rise.

Andy gave an awesome — and I suspect intentionally perverse — speech, were he spent most of his time discussing the various factions that were present at the foundation of the Labour Party in 1900, and the values they aspired to.

The political combustibility of internal corruption, the internecine political warfare between the so - called Kufuor - Asante and Akufo - Addo - Akyem factions, Kofi Jumah's and Kennedy Agyapong's martial postures and warlike rhetoric, the suspensions of Kwabena Agyapong and Sammy Crabbe and Paul Afoko, the acid - bathing assassination of Adams Mahama, and the murder of other party supporters within the NPP fraternity... are certainly not the work of the NDC.

In the process, they usually try to forward the overall interests of their particular party or faction as best they can.

This was just as the INEC stated that it is yet to decide who will fly the flag of the Peoples Democratic Party as the party's two main factions have submitted two nParty as the party's two main factions have submitted two nparty's two main factions have submitted two names.

After independence, control of the land of the highlands and the funds raised by the export of its produce lay at the heart of the battles between individuals, parties and factions that we all know.

Unless and until that happens, the full weight of Labour's left factions - which include not just Momentum, but the Labour Representation Committee, the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy and Labour Briefing - is behind Corbyn.

Although the different factions within the Party are strongly divided over policy, they agree on the ultimate objective of keeping the CCP in power.

Hajia Fati said she was told by her sponsored paymasters to attack the person of Mr. Afoko and others because to them they represented a big threat to their quest for controlling party funds in the run - up to the November 7th polls.Secondly, she said they were told of some agenda 2020 and were asked to undermine President Kuffour and anyone who was seen to be his loyalist in order to kill the Kufuor faction in NPP, leaving only the Akuffo Addo blog to project Dr. Mahamoudu Bawumiah after the flagbearer's tenure.

He had not grown out of a large Party organization, such as Hu Jintao (who came out of the Communist Youth League), or one of the leading factions, such as the Shanghai or Qinghua cliques.

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.

A faction of the party led by Soji Adagunodo had earlier opened another secretariat of the party at the Ota Efun area of the state capital last year.

What remains to be seen is if Democrats run primaries against members of the Independent Democratic Conference or IDC, something Governor Cuomo does not want to see as he publicly calls for the two warring Democratic factions to come together in a show of party unity.

President Buhari's directive followed a submission by a faction of the opposition Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, that Nigerians under the president's watch were facing unprecedented hardship.

The faction of the party led by former minister of Information, Professor Jerry Gana has refused to renege in its plan to hold its own convention.

GOP sources said separate factions of the party are pushing two better - known names to enter the race.

Individuals (or small groups) tend to make mistakes, but the looming risk of losing power make the ruling faction to listen up to the opposition: to the electors if there are elections, or at least, to the opposition factions existing in the same political party; this is how, basically, the self - regulation works everywhere;

But Koppell is apparently siding with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party that feels the reunification of the warring Democratic factions in the Senate, which was engineered by the governor a few weeks ago as he started to significantly feel pressure from his own primary challenger, actress and activist Cynthia Nixon, is too little, too late.

A year later, town of Amherst Council member Mark Manna challenged Zellner's chairmanship, arguing large factions of the party were unhappy with his performance.

I think different factions of the Labour party often misunderstand each other.

But the party is split among various factions within the chamber, even if Republican incumbent Michael Venditto ends up losing a razor - thin Senate race on Long Island to Democrat John Brooks, which is now the subject of a court challenge.

Once that democracy allows the formation of parties, then choosing to deny a faction based on their expression is a denial of that freedom that is required for democracy.

Ervin said there is «a lot of back and forth» between Mahoney and various factions of the Republican Party.

The expulsion had come amid the lingering crisis between factions loyal to the party leader and former Governor of the state, Chief Timipre Sylva, and that of Orunimighe.

The congress held by Sylva's faction, which was attended by the Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri and other party members, elected the Chairman of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, Jonathan Amos, as the chairman.

Conversely, whatever the result of the referendum, Boris coming out in favour of Leave places him at the helm of the increasingly dominant faction in the Tory party and well placed to win the subsequent leadership election.

Also there was Niagara County GOP chairman Henry Wojtaszek, who took on Cox for the state chairmanship and was the favorite of a faction of unlikely allies, including Rudy Giuliani, Rick Lazio and George Pataki — the party's older guard.

But the Binabo faction, comprising party stalwarts such as the Bayelsa representative on the board of Niger Delta Development Commission, Prof. Nelson Brambaifa, Mr. Preye Aganaba; among others, returned the acting chairman of the APC in the state, Joseph Fafi, as the substantive chairman.

Another faction of the party led by a former governor of the state, Chief Orji Kalu, held its congress which produced Chief Donatus Nwankpa as chairman at the Umuahia Township stadium.

In December 1972, the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, a centrist faction within the Democratic Party, was created after the landslide victory of Republican Richard Nixon over anti-war progressive Democrat George McGovern in the 1972 presidential election.

It was learnt that the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, is also pitching tent with the faction in what members described as a renewed effort to wrest the structure from the 2015 governorship candidate of the party, Olorogun O'tega Emerhor.