Sentences with phrase «on elections of the president»

The Law on Elections of the President of Ukraine was adopted on 25 March 1999... [But] selective interpretation and enforcement of legal provisions at various levels of the State structure prevented the uniform application of the law.

He argues for our modern conception of the Electoral College, though in the case of a tie, the power would be given to the House of Representatives to vote on the election of the president.

Not exact matches

The failure of far - right populist Gert Wilders to win the recent Dutch election was a boost for the EU but a threat awaits in the prospect of French President Marine le Pen, a far - right anti-immigration candidate who has promised to hold a referendum on France's EU membership if elected, the same promise Cameron made.

President Donald Trump condemned as «disgraceful» an FBI raid on the office and hotel room of his longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, who paid $ 130,000 to an adult - film actress and who has been a key figure in the U.S. investigation into Russian election meddling.

The 2008 election showed just how powerful social media could be in driving votes, and President Barak Obama's 2008 campaign was, and is, widely viewed as the first general - election campaign to focus on social media as its primary mode of marketing (Howard Dean's bid for the 2004 Democratic nomination also used social media heavily.)

The FBI is investigating whether Donald Trump's associates coordinated with Russian officials in an effort to sway the 2016 presidential election, Director James Comey said Monday in an extraordinary public confirmation of a probe the president has refused to acknowledge, dismissed as fake news and blamed on Democrats.

President Trump has alienated most of the Republican mainstream, including the powerful GOP leaders on the Hill who collectively have a lot of experience with campaigns and elections and, in most cases, are more popular in their districts than is Trump himself.

ABUJA, April 9 - Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed on Monday he will seek another term in elections next year, ending months of speculation about his future after bouts of ill health.

«The year - old program has been constantly under assault since the election of President Donald Trump,» is the summation of one article on the issue Feld sites.

Whether she'd actually be able to achieve any of these goals as president is hard to judge, as so much hinges on what happens in congressional elections.

President Trump's perpetual election campaign is offering donors the chance to have their names flashed on the screen during the livestream — on Trump's website — of his State of the Union address.

But during an interview with NPR on Friday morning, Ryan struggled to explain the difference between the allegations of sexual misconduct made against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, which Ryan said are credible, and those made against President Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election.

President Obama Tried to Warn Mark Zuckerberg About the Massive Threat of Election Hacking on Facebook

In the days since the presidential election, states across the country have seen increased incidents of racist or anti-Semitic vandalism and violence, many of which have drawn directly on the rhetoric and proposals of President - elect Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- President Donald Trump on Friday seized on what was wasn't in special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of Russians as evidence that his campaign didn't collude in Moscow's effort to influence the 2016 election.

The Cambridge Analytica issue was the reason Zuckerberg was on Capitol Hill, answering questions for the second time in two days about how the group - which has counted U.S. President Donald Trump's election campaign among its clients - got hold of data on many millions of Facebook users.

In just a few months, we have learned that Flynn lied to Mike Pence, Vice President - elect, about obtaining a security clearance for Flynn's son during the presidential transition; that during the same period, as President Obama was imposing sanctions on Russia for election meddling, Flynn communicated with the Russian ambassador about those sanctions, hinting that President Trump would take a softer line, and then lied to Pence about it (and stood by while Pence publicly repeated that lie); that Flynn was not truthful when questioned by the FBI about the same topic; and that Flynn spoke at a gala for RT, the Kremlin - backed propaganda network and received payments from RT, but dissembled about the source of the payments and seems to have failed to follow U.S. regulations about reporting them.

The assertions of voter fraud, which Trump first made shortly after the election, gained traction this week after Trump, as president, repeated them during a closed - door meeting with congressional leaders on Monday.

Wikileaks published over 20,000 emails stolen from the election campaign of French President, Emmanuel Macron, on Monday morning along with a tool to search the documents.

At least one of President Obama's senior advisers urged him warn the Russians that any tampering on election day would be considered an act of war.

Investors are also keeping an eye on other potential risks: U.S. - North Korea tensions, an ongoing probe of possible ties between President Donald Trump's election campaign and Russia and the possibility that Democrats could gain ground on Trump's Republican party in U.S. mid-term elections in November.

Ivy adds, «We did issue statements following both election victories for President Obama, as we have after State of the Union addresses and other situations we felt warranted our voice on how certain issues that the federal government is pursuing would affect the architecture profession.»

On Election Day, more than 69.4 million Americans voted for Obama to become the 44th president of the US — and the first African - American to hold the position.

Long was president of the Saint John Sea Dogs, a junior hockey franchise, before entering politics for the 2015 election, and he unsurprisingly relied on a sports parallel to describe the Liberal caucus dynamic.

The document did not name any Americans as willing co-conspirators, and it did not make a judgment on whether the defendants» actions affected the outcome of the election — something the president trumpeted.

President Obama and various members of Congress have called for an investigation of Russian hacking and its impact on the 2016 presidential election.

After one of the most contentious and divisive election seasons in recent history, on January 20 the United States will swear in Donald J. Trump as the country's 45th president.

While Trump has accused Wall Street of trying to ruin the country on the election trail, investors banking on the fact that the next president will be good for nation's biggest lenders.

Even some of the tech industry's most prominent critics of President Donald Trump are opening their checkbooks and donating to Republican lawmakers, as Silicon Valley sets its sights on the 2018 midterm election.

Gold hit a three - month peak on Wednesday as the political risk of European elections and worries over President Donald Trump's policies stoked safe - haven demand.

Vice President Mike Pence and former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus considered a coup to replace then candidate Donald Trump following the release of the «Access Hollywood» tape just weeks before the 2016 presidential election, The Atlantic reported in a lengthy profile of Pence on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters)- Two U.S. Democratic politicians asked a government watchdog on Monday to scrutinize implementation of President Donald Trump's tax law, warning that the administration could use new tax guidelines to create the appearance of a large middle - class tax cut ahead of the 2018 mid-term elections.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Donald Trump on winning the U.S. presidential election in one of the most shocking election upsets in modern American history.

Two weeks after his first post election meeting with CEOs, President Barack Obama is bringing another group of chief executives to the executive mansion, and this time it will include one of the highest ranking CEOs on Wall Street: Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs.

The «Squawk on the Street» news team reports on today's top business headlines, including the likelihood of a government shutdown, President Trump's agenda and the French election.

Carl Icahn, billionaire activist investor, waits for Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc. and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, not pictured, to speak at an election night event in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, April 19, 2016.

But this Presidents Day weekend, the commander - in - chief fired off an unprecedented 14 tweets about the Russia investigation — declaring his innocence, suggesting the FBI could have prevented last week's Florida school shooting if it hadn't been working on the investigation, blaming Democrats and former President Barack Obama for Russia's interference in the election, and accusing the former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton of colluding with Russia.

It speaks solely to the issue of Russia's attempts to influence the election, he said, adding, «this president takes personally any allegation that he won for any reason other than his decisions on the campaign trail.»

Rudy Giuliani, who joined President Trump's personal legal team last week, told Fox News on Thursday that the Trump attorney Michael Cohen had arranged a payment to the adult - film actress Stormy Daniels in order to prevent allegations of an affair from coming out in the closing days of the 2016 election.

On today's episode, I talk to Tom Webster, Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for Edison Research, the organization behind exit polling for national elections in the U.S.. For more than two decades, Tom has conducted political polling for some of the most contentious elections in U.S. history, as well as market research for some of the top companies across the nation.

President Trump took to Twitter again Wednesday to call claims that his campaign colluded with the Russians during the 2016 election a «hoax» and laid out a checklist of issues his administration is working on.

With two deeply unpopular nominees on the presidential ballot this year, the number of voters in Maryland who wrote in their own candidate for president more than tripled, according to state election data.

Newsweek reporter Kurt Eichenwald, who has written many critical stories about President - elect Donald Trump since last month's election, is claiming that people on Twitter have given him seizures by sending him tweets containing GIFs of strobe lights.

Elliot Schrage, Facebook's vice president for communications and public policy, and David Ginsberg, its director of research, said in a blog post on Monday that the company had made «real progress» in dealing with hoax stories and sham accounts since the 2016 election and the campaign, known as Brexit, to withdraw Britain from the European Union.

The WWE has gotten in on the stock market rally since Donald Trump's election victory, and there's even speculation that Linda McMahon, wife of WWE CEO Vince McMahon, could be named to President Trump's cabinet.

The fiscal cliff, off which U.S. taxpayers may have to leap on Jan. 1, 2013, if the Bush tax cuts expire, is seen as being the inevitable consequence of Washington lawmakers» infighting unless President Obama and Congress honestly confront this deadline in an election year.

Deals in the aerospace and defense industry have slowed this year after the election of President Donald Trump sent asset prices soaring, making many buyers hold off on deals.

The president of the Criminal Lawyers» Association is calling on the government of Ontario to make good on its promise on changing the way police records checks are done, before a provincial election later this year.

For Trump and the Republican Party, that could be a devastating development in a midterm election year, when the party is largely pinning its hopes of keeping control of Congress on economic success and Americans seeing a benefit from the tax overhaul the president signed in December.

Several of the students have criticized the president, whose election was strongly supported by the National Rifle Association and who ran on a platform opposing gun control.