Sentences with phrase «on electoral issues»

IPAC was formed in March 1994 to bring together representatives of the political parties on a monthly basis with members of EC to discuss and try to build a consensus on electoral issues.

Educating the gathering on electoral issues, the Ashanti Regional Director of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mr. Serebour Quaicoo, urged the youth in the Ashanti Region not to be passive about issues regarding the 2016 general elections but do their best to fully participate and let their voices be positively heard.

Not exact matches

Find articles on current and past elections in Canada, as well as on the nature and issues of Canada's electoral and political party systems.

Indeed, foreign - policy issues for the moment aside, it is not too much to say that the Democrats» current electoral dilemma boils down to this: their old economic issues no longer work, and on cultural issues they lose.

Now, the Catholic Church of the 1980s was nothing like as potent a force as it had been in the age of Cardinal Spellman, when it could count on the solid electoral support of most of its faithful, and it already faced major revolts over issues of gender and sexuality.

Note that Ivan is describing something very different than traditional mass communications: he's talking about working closely (no doubt frequently one - on - one) with people on Facebook and other networking sites over a long period of time to help build a cadre of very committed activists — something that most electoral campaigns (and even most issue advocacy campaigns) simply can't do, whether because of lack of time or lack of resources.

We're slowly learning, following the rejected referenda on elected mayors and the electoral voting system, that when you give the public a choice on a specific issue the decisive battleground is never the actual issues.

Just as Tony Blair had worked to move Labour away from some of the party's traditional, less electorally appealing positions in the 1990s, so David Cameron, taking Blair quite consciously as his role model, sought to reposition the Conservative party on a number of key issues in a push for electoral popularity.

In response, David Cameron thus relied on the tried and tested method to use EU referendum commitments in order to decouple European issues from domestic electoral agendas and to defuse the appeal of Eurosceptic challengers.

My worry is that it would collapse before it achieved anything concrete on electoral reform, particularly given the additional problems of getting a Lords majority and the ambivalence of the PLP on this issue.

Labour is on the back foot over the issue of electoral and political reform.

Indeed, can't I equally argue that Neal Lawson risks narrowing his coalition of support for electoral reform by suggesting that the existence of a national campaign on PR means postponing or vetoing any consideration of party reform issues on their merits (where he seems to argue that the principle would be one he would support, were it not for this context)?

Secondly, and more importantly when it comes to the future of the party, we had spent decades building up a very local base of electoral support, from council to parliamentary levels, on the basis of populist, or indeed protest, issues that played well with disgruntled voters, but almost impossible to deliver in government.

However, if a more isolationist or nationalist US president emerges from the 2016 electoral process in America, and European electors give ever higher levels of support for nationalist - oriented parties, then we have little reason to expect partnership on foreign policy issues, and even fewer reasons to expect multilateral responses to global problems.

But the electoral commission said on Twitter any questions on the issue should be referred to the UCC.

By focusing Labour's local and European elections campaign on the «bread and butter» issues of housing stock shortage, rising housing prices, zero - hour contracts and a widespread sense of general economic insecurity, Miliband is trying to diffuse the electoral challenge posed by UKIP.

The effect of the issue on non-students rather than students will probably have greater electoral implications.

In the meantime, to those Tom Harris charcaters in the Labour party who want to present electoral reform as an issue of relevance only to bourgeois liberal Guardian - readers (like me), I say: how dare you oppose a system that — on the evidence of Soskice and Iversen's study — is better for social spending and economic equality?

So Rick, go ahead and attack me rather than address the issue the Frank's lack of credibility on the issue and his attempt to equate democratic electoral politics with movement on equality issues.

Where an application for registration as an elector has been received before the issue of a writ and it has not been possible for the Electoral Commission to ascertain, at the time of the issue of the writ, whether the applicant is currently registered as an elector of another electoral district, the Electoral Commission must, subject to subsection (4), include the name of the applicant on any main, supplementary, or composite roll printed as at writ day.

He added: «There is not an electoral mandate on this issue so all you are finding is a political elite — those who draw pay from representing us — foisting their liberal views on the people.»

The issue of electoral reform for the National Assembly is back on the agenda after the Secretary of State for Wales indicated she may change how AMs are elected.

While it may later revive electoral reform should it fail to win a majority in 2020, Labour may decide not to adopt pre-emptive commitments on this issue before first testing the water to see if it can form a single - party government.

The hard - fought referendum on electoral reform was defeated by a huge majority of voters on a turnout of above 40 %, effectively ending the issue for a generation.

On the thorny issue of electoral reform, Tories from the left and right of the party are nonetheless tempted to reach out to the Lib Dems.

We are not on an elementary playground and don't appreciate you «dumbing down» the important issues of the electoral process.

Fourthly, Lib Dem and swing voters especially will not forgive Lib Dems for precipitating the demise of the Coalition government, probably two years before it is due to end, not on a point of principle, such as on tuition fees, tax policy, social policy like gay marriage, Trident, the European treaty veto or the health or welfare bills but on... an issue of narrow partisan electoral self interest, i.e. unhappiness at boundary changes (which they had already voted for in February 2011).

These include proportional representation, which the left and the party generally are divided on, and for which, as indicated by the 2011 alternative vote fiasco, there is little public support, but it is linked to the proposal for an electoral pact with some of the smaller parties, and for that reason needs to be considered well before the election, as does the issue of winning back the Labour vote in Scotland, or at least starting to.

While in terms of electoral races in different constituencies, Nigel Farage's party impacts both the Conservatives and Labour, one area where it damages the Tories more is on trustworthiness on key issues and the electoral implications of this.

She said the talks have focused on environmental and climate change issues, not electoral politics heading into the governor's 2018 re-election campaign.

He said it was on the strength of the position of the electoral act on the developments in the state that he has asked the court to compel INEC to issue him with a certificate of return.

J. whereas electoral campaigns continue to focus primarily on national issues, pushing debate on specifically European issues into the background, which has a negative impact on the level of participation in elections to the European Parliament;

The Democratic Party failed to retain the presidency and make electoral gains last year because they didn't give voters «anything to vote for» in November and failed to boost middle class issues, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a fundraiser on Monday night.

Party bigwigs have opened a new policy consultation on the contentious issue of electoral reform — and suggestions made so far would not look out of place in a Liberal Democrat manifesto.

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.

The opposition party said that it would not take part in the poll, following a legal case it instituted against the House of Assembly over issues bothering on electoral laws.

After refusing to address the issue properly at the General Election and making this speech at a time of increasing electoral vulnerability for the Conservatives, Mr Cameron does look like he's ripped up his own rulebook on how to deal with the issue of immigration.

There is no mention of electoral reform in the Conservative manifesto, although in his speech yesterday David Cameron conceded that an all party committee of inquiry should take place on the issue.

President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, in his remarks, said, «The issue that you're talking about is one that is important because the stability of our democracy depends on the credibility of our electoral processes.

The electoral system, the use of referendum on key issues, a written constitution, devolution of power and resources to the powerless in communities, cities and regions, abolition of the Lords and the end to the attacks on trade unions, charities, civil society, civil liberties and the complacency, inertia and disregard for the weakest and inequality that creates despair must be swept away.

Now, less than three months on, it is still utterly unclear whether Labour did tell Clegg that they would accept electoral reform without taking the issue to the country.

Agboke while speaking at a sensitisation campaign on electoral processes organised by the Oyo State office of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), held at Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Oke - Agbara Ashi, Ibadan declared that it is imperative for religious leaders and their followers not to sit on the fence when issues of elections and electoral processes are mentioned.

Republicans remain wary of a contentious debate on the divisive issue, which could anger their core voters and undercut potential electoral gains in the November elections.

Asked whether Ukip would consider officially teaming up with the Greens to campaign for electoral reform, Farage was coy, saying: «We don't see eye to eye on many issues, but on this one...»

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, in Albany for the state's electoral college vote, insisted to reporters on Monday there were no trades on legislative issues in exchange for a salary increase for lawmakers.

Advocates for abortion rights, too, criticized Jung's stance on the issue, which in recent years come to the forefront of both Democratic electoral politics and policy in Albany after Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed for a codification of the Roe v. Wade decision in state law.

Daniel Tanko, the Assemblyman for the Wallembelle electoral area, appealed to the GETfund to act on the issue, and noted that he had gotten assurances from the District Chief Executive of the area, and the Member of Parliament, Abass Ridwan Dauda.

The report stresses that its gloomy conclusions are based less on the immediate issue of Corbyn's leadership than on long - term issues such as the impact of Brexit, the collapse of support in Scotland and electoral mathematics.

«But we agree on some of the policy issues and even if we have different electoral strategies, we should be together on issues like raising the minimum wage.»

Nwankwo said that Nigerians were keen on discussing the issue of security interference in elections organised by INEC as they would not want a relapse into the pre-2007 and 2010 days which were marked by subversion of the electoral process by security operatives.