Sentences with phrase «of parliamentary elections in»

In the light of the above and in due regard to the gravity of these violations, I can not imagine what resolution would redress these other than a re-run of the parliamentary elections in the Tamale Central Constituency.

Unforeseen circumstances as well as unfavourable outcomes of the parliamentary elections in India and leadership shift in the Pakistani army within the next months could quickly derail the rapprochement.

Not exact matches

After Yanukovych's ouster, Manafort helped to rebrand his party into the Party of Regions, and made it possible for the party to gain more seats than expected in Ukraine's parliamentary elections.

They shared content on Telegram «channels» and urged followers to vote ahead of Iran's parliamentary elections in February 2016.

The left - wing organisation was only founded two years ago, but managed to win 21 % of the vote and come third in Spain's 2015 parliamentary elections.

The top diplomat for East Asia, Daniel Russel, is criticizing the election commission's disqualification of dozens of parliamentary candidates, many of them Muslims, and the disenfranchisement of stateless Rohingya, who were allowed to vote in previous elections.

The government is considering criminalising abuse of Parliamentary candidates during campaigning and elections, after Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered in the days leading up to the Brexit referendum in 2016.

Take a look at Poland, where the hard - right Law and Justice party became the first party to govern alone since the restoration of democracy when it swept to a resounding victory in October's parliamentary elections.

Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed supporters of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party at a Saturday event in the industrial city of Dortmund, joining the final stage of the campaign for the parliamentary election on September 24.

With Macron having no significant, established political party behind him, we expect those parties whose candidates fell short in the first round of the presidential campaign to push hard for parliamentary seats in the June parliamentary elections in a bid to win influence.

Keep in mind that we have French parliamentary elections due to take place on June 11 and 18, and we expect the outcome of those votes to play a big role in Macron's ability to deliver on his election promises.

This post is in response to the following excellent comment from Stephen Moore, the man who will trounce Ralph Goodale in the next federal election (or at least do better than I did): April 2007 testimony before the parliamentary committee on International Trade saw Industry Canada, DFAIT reps and others stress the importance of the -LSB-...]

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As part of its 2006 election platform, the Conservative Party promised to «create an Independent Budget Authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament about the state of the nation's finances and trends in the national economy; require government departments and agencies to provide timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament; and ensure that government fiscal forecasts are updated quarterly and that they provide complete data for both revenue and spending forecasts».

In looking at parliamentary activity since the last election, issues concerning the wave of media acquisitions over the last year and a half were barely mentioned.

After the election of 1997, Chrétien named him deputy prime minister in recognition of his long service, shrewd political sense and low - key parliamentary skills.

Conservative Party members will gather in Manchester next week for the party's annual conference, against the backdrop of Mrs May having lost her parliamentary majority in a snap election and continued questions about cabinet unity over Brexit.

Dutch parliamentary elections did away with the risk of a eurosceptic government in a core country.

MILESTONES: AZERBAIJAN By Justin Keay Baku: Enjoying the fruits of Azerbaijan's mineral wealth Azerbaijan's parliamentary elections in early November ended in controversy, with critics claiming the opposition parties were prevented from being able to properly challenge Yeni Azerbaijan,...

Since his election in 2008, Mr. Xiao has served as the parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Energy, Minister of Transportation and the Minister of Employment and Immigration.

In the recent parliamentary elections, rightfully fed - up Venezuelans responded by ousting members of Hugo Chavez's United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), giving the opposition party, the more - centrist Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), a supermajority that could challenge President Nicolás Maduro.

Azerbaijan's parliamentary elections in early November ended in controversy, with critics claiming the opposition parties were prevented from being able to properly challenge Yeni Azerbaijan, the party of the authoritarian president Ilham Aliyev.

The strong demand for the issue was somewhat surprising, given that parliamentary elections in the spring of 2018 will likely be followed by additional political instability.

This suspicion of the validity of Western ideals fueled the Communist parliamentary election victories in the»90s, and the subsequent emergence of Vladimir Putin as the dominant political leader in Russia.

Polls opened at 8 a.m. Friday in Iran as Iranians cast ballots in the first parliamentary elections since the 2009 vote that sparked riots and accusations of rigging.

Ireland had just had an election then, and the newly elected Prime Minister, Enda Kenny (now triumphing over his referendum result) in one of his first speeches in the Parliamentary chamber, blamed the Vatican for everything whilst the visitation was underway, thus undermining it completely — as though it were Italian or French priests and Cardinals who were guilty of the Irish abuses, conveniently letting the locals off the hook, and redirecting the anger towards Church discipline and teaching rather than criminal individuals.

Since Christianity in the Punjab, particularly in the rural areas, has its origins in that stratum of society, my attention had been drawn to some erstwhile «Christian Associations» (Masihi Sabhas) formed to exert political pressure, and to run candidates in recent parliamentary elections.

And yet, despite winning the largest block of votes in the 2013 parliamentary elections, Grillo refused to articulate concrete proposals for how the energies of M5S might be unleashed for the betterment of Italy.

The same way we're in a propaganda war against Islam, as Bloomberg put it, we have been fed propaganda about Hamas, the group which was almost unheard of until they won parliamentary elections in 2006.

The «social market» program put forward by Konrad Adenauer, the leader of the Christian Democratic Party in the Federal Republic's first parliamentary elections in 1949, was a key element in this social and political transformation.

After losing his Glasgow - Govan parliamentary seat in the 1992 General Election, Scottish National Party politician Jim Sillars condemned Scotland as a country of «Ninety - Minute Patriots,» willing to support Scotland during a football match but unwilling to take the necessary steps to....

The emir, selected from within that family, rules in accordance with Shari'a law and in consultation with members of his and other leading families, though some moves have been made toward having elections and a more parliamentary form of government.

«Following the 2015 election, the chair of the all - party group, Stephen Lloyd, was not re-elected as an MP, and so, as vice-chair of the Group, I called an AGM for the group on 1stJuly, and informed all officers of the group who served in the last parliament, as well as all other MPs and members of the House of Lords, in accordance with the strict parliamentary requirements for publishing proper notice of such meetings.

In his report, Mr Burrowes applauds Mr Cameron's efforts to ensure parliamentary candidates be chosen so early - the next general election is not due for three or four years - but warns a central list of candidates is not the best way to get Tories elected.

The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has scheduled the party's Parliamentary election in the North Tongu Constituency of the Volta Region for Sunday December 20, 2015.

Since 1991, all candidates of parliamentary or presidential elections, as well as candidates for the Assembly of Experts, have to be qualified by the Guardian Council in order to run in the election.

But today, more than a hundred years after the first of the parties affiliated to the Second International won a plurality in a parliamentary election (in Finland in 1907; Anderson, 1992, 307), social democrats may finally be running out of rope.

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.

Reports say some members of the party in Ayawaso Central started the confusion when a group accused their parliamentary candidate in the recent election Afum Ani - Agyei, aka Obama, of overseeing the party's abysmal performance in the constituency.

A parliamentary colleague kindly emailed me after my election as Speaker drawing a parallel with the start of the championships in SW19 - «British player wins on fi rst day of Wimbledon!»

The 72 - year - old Akufo - Addo beat President John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) by over one million votes to win the presidency at the third attempt while his party, the NPP snatched almost 50 of the NDC's seats to win an overwhelming parliamentary majority in the elections.

After many postponements for other reasons, the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the NPP, called for a re-run of all elections in the Manhyia North Constituency from the polling station level to the Constituency executive level before the election of a parliamentary aspirant could take place.

Jeremy Corbyn has proven his election - winning credentials by sweeping to victory in the Parliamentary Beard of the Year contest.

The raging public debate, largely ill - informed, is not premised on what is in Ghana's national interest, but what will give the largest boost to the political fortunes of the NDC & NPP in the run up to November's Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

With the Commons sorely in need of a makeover at the 2010 general election, it is worth noting that the House of Lords will provide an important source of parliamentary continuity over the election period.

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.

First, there is the numerical victory of the 2010 parliamentary elections, in which — despite gerrymandering and other governmental shenanigans — the opposition won 48 % of the vote.

But it later emerged that the party's rules allow the selection of a parliamentary candidate to be decided by its national executive council in consultation with the constituency committee in the case of by - elections.

Certainly, the urge to get women involved some 60 years ago can not be downplayed with the involvement of Dr. Nkrumah himself in affirmative action policies and appointment of women propaganda secretaries and organisers right from inception of his government, It is remarkable that parliament under the CPP in 1960 passed Representation of the People (Women Members) Bill into law which amongst others made it possible for women to stand for parliamentary elections unopposed and subsequently saw the election of first ten female parliamentarians into the first session of the first parliament.

No doubt, there should be a thorough parliamentary debate on the issue, but instead of forcing a decision in this parliament, which could well be as controversial and divisive as the ill - fated referendum, I strongly agree with Nick Clegg that by far the best and most dignified way out of the current mess would be to ask the people in the proper constitutional way by calling an snap general election: