Sentences with phrase «parliamentary candidates»

A representative survey for CND, seen by the NS, shows that Labour's parliamentary candidates - from traditionally safe seats to unwinnable Conservative strongholds through to some of the most vulnerable of Labour's target seats - are overwhelmingly against maintaining the nuclear deterrent when it comes up for renewal.

As a loyal NDC member, I will support most of my political party's parliamentary candidates who have shown honesty and integrity to the Constitution.

Parliamentary candidates have to pay their own deposit (which currently stands at # 500) and cover all of their expenses.

«There were so many people who worked very hard to spread the PPP message of change all over the country and my greatest sorrow and sadness has to do with those parliamentary candidates who could not win their seats even though they worked very hard....

The NEC congratulated Rachael Maskell, Conor McGinn and Kate Osamor on their selection as parliamentary candidates for York Central, St Helens North and Edmonton.

In the former case, this anomaly is reinforced by there being three obvious alternative debaters who are also SNP Prospective Parliamentary Candidates this May: the party's deputy leader Stewart Hosie MP, its Westminster leader Angus Robertson MP — and Alex Salmond, the former first minister at Holyrood, who has fresh experience of televised debates during the Scottish referendum campaign.

Clearly the John Mahama faction, their surrogates like Valerie Sawyerr and the petitioners who admit to being failed parliamentary candidates at the last elections and others mentors within the NDC think they can frighten core NDC members like myself with threats of disciplinary action.

If Nicola Sturgeon and Leanne Wood do end up representing their parties in the debates, they will take to the stage as party leaders but, interestingly, not as prospective parliamentary candidates for the actual election.

He told Citi News, «the increase in the filling fees for parliamentary candidates has a serious potential to affect very good people who have very good intentions yet they do not have resources.»

As with our statement over the weekend, which garnered the support of more than 30 parliamentary candidates, local party chairs and party members, please email us on [email protected] to let us know if you agree with the sentiment of this statement, including what position, if any, you hold within the party.

The NEC agreed that Bristol West, Great Yarmouth, High Peak and Norwich North would choose parliamentary candidates from all - women shortlists, while Bristol North West, Cambridge, Swindon North and Watford will be open.

At the start of the summer, prospective parliamentary candidates enjoyed a breakfast audience with His Royal Blairness.

«His closeness to Unite and [its leader] Len McCluskey gave him the ability to influence, or at least to give the impression he could influence, the selection [of Labour's parliamentary candidates].

This has been corrected to say that Labour members choose parliamentary candidates who then have to submit themselves to the electorate.

Miliband says: «The really important right that Labour party members rightly covet is they select Labour parliamentary candidates.

He was a member of West Glamorgan County Council from 1985 until 1991, President of Swansea West Conservative Association and Chairman of the Welsh Parliamentary Candidates Policy Group in 1990.

In particular, EOCO is asking Dr. Nduom to explain the source of the over GHc1.7 million he used to pay his filing fee at the Electoral Commission (EC) and that of his parliamentary candidates.

Four have now been selected as parliamentary candidates which shows the process to have been a success.»

All four parliamentary candidates in the Korle Klottey Constituency of the Greater Accra Region, have taken a selfie together in a rare show of unity between their respective parties in the area.

Mr. Dzakpasu explained that, the amount they fixed was done in accordance with the law, and as such, the monies will be deposited in the Consolidated Fund if the presidential and parliamentary candidates fail to garner 25 % and 12.5 % votes respectively, during the December general elections.

«The first time I met Tony Blair was in 1993 and at the time he was on a group helping John Smith bring in one member, one vote for the selection of parliamentary candidates.

He displayed his singing and dancing skills to the admiration of the crowd, and asked the youth to vote No. 4 for Nduom and No. 1 for the party's parliamentary candidates since PPP is a jobs - focused party.

Watson said he planned to establish a bursary scheme for parliamentary candidates who do not have the financial means to run for parliament.

«The Council also resolved that regional chairpersons, regional secretaries, regional treasurers, constituency chairpersons, constituency secretaries and constituency treasurers, are also not eligible to contest as parliamentary candidates in constituencies where the party has sitting Members of Parliament, unless they resign three years before the national general elections.»

He urged Ghanaians to vote for him if they want peace; and introduced the party's parliamentary candidates for the 23 constituencies in the region; and asked that they vote massively for them.

Musah Ibn Wahid went further to add that «if we want to critically outline some of the reasons why we loss in the 2012 and 2016 elections, we would realize that the personal att * cks and riv * lry between our parliamentary candidates was at it peak and after that they couldn't come together to help the one that won the primaries.»

President John Dramani Mahama on a campaign platform in Tamale declared zero tolerance for the emergence of independent Parliamentary candidates after the primaries.

The political parties control the nomination of parliamentary candidates — though David Cameron has now promised primaries, which give you a say.

The Chartered Institute of Building is launching a guide for MPs and prospective parliamentary candidates to highlight the strategic importance of construction to the UK economy.

Nana Akufo - Addo will also be in two other constituencies where two party members have filed as independent parliamentary candidates.

The positions of the presidential candidates were replicated for parliamentary candidates from their various political parties.

In an uncharacteristically short speech at the official launch of the NDC's campaign, Rawlings did not mention Mahama's name nor did he encourage Ghanaians to vote for him and the party's parliamentary candidates.

The Progressive People's Party (PPP) has sued the Electoral Commission (EC) over the filing fees for presidential and parliamentary candidates for the 2016 elections.

In a package of moves hailed by Miliband's team as the most significant since John Smith's «one member one vote» shakeup in the early 1990s, the Labour party is set to introduce a code of conduct for prospective parliamentary candidates, strict spending limits and standard constituency agreements with trade unions.

The EC invited all the parties for Thursday morning's decision on how Parliamentary candidates were to be positioned on the ballot paper for Election 2016.

Balloting for independent parliamentary candidates are to be done at the various district offices.

Going into the 2016 parliamentary elections the young cadres association is poised to go down to the grassroot to undercover the chances of NDC in the upcoming election to ensure massive win for HE John mahama and NDC parliamentary candidates

Nana received me with warm hands and since then I have been working hard to ensure his victory and that of NPP Parliamentary Candidates in the upcoming general elections.

The party will also present its presidential candidate and his running mate, parliamentary candidates in all 275 constituencies and the campaign team for the 2016 general elections to the electorate.

A damaging row over grammar schools policy, unease among the grassroots about the leadership's efforts to introduce more women and ethnic minority parliamentary candidates and Gordon Brown's self - assured performance as Prime Minister in the summer of 2007 imperilled the Tory recovery.

Specified Associated Organisations (SAOs) review and input policies, representing groups including: ethnic minorities (EMLD), [169] women (WLD), [170] the LGBT community (LGBT + Liberal Democrats), [171] youth and students (Young Liberals), engineers and scientists (ALDES), [172] parliamentary candidates (PCA)[173] and local councillors (ALDC).

In theory and in practice parliamentary candidates and their helpers will have no time to read guides, polemics, biographies or memoirs before and during the general election, although a few may turn to them in desperation.

Ashanti Regional Secretary, Samuel Pyne, admits the constituencies were selected because of their peculiar challenges and needs, including threats posed by independent parliamentary candidates to the party.

The EC on September 8, 2016 announced the filing fees for presidential and parliamentary candidates at GH cents 50,000.00 and GH cents 10,000.00 respectively; an amount the party has described as «arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable.»

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says its two suspended parliamentary candidates can not contest on the ticket of the party in the 2016 elections, until they are cleared by the party's disciplinary committee.

Plaintiff says that as at the 1st day of September, 2016, she had completed in electing a Presidential candidate with a vice presidential candidate and also prepared 275 parliamentary candidates ready to sponsor them to the public office of the Presidency and Parliament of the Republic of Ghana through the 2016 Ghanaian Presidential and Parliamentary Elections being conducted by the 1st Defendant.

Selecting the best Parliamentary Candidates we have ever had, with more women candidates in key seats than ever before.

There is no common theme to these volumes, with the Lib Dem, SNP and Plaid Cymru volumes being written by MPs and therefore presumably «official», while the Labour, Conservative and Green are written by parliamentary candidates, or in the case of the Conservative book, by a political commentator.

In 1981, the special Wembley conference increased the influence of trade unions in the selection of Labour parliamentary candidates and was one of the reasons the Gang of Four gave for quitting the Party.

Tim Clark is Headmaster of a Lincolnshire grammar school, recently judged «outstanding» by Ofsted, and on the approved list of Conservative parliamentary candidates.