Sentences with phrase «parliamentary election campaigns»

Twenty one years ago I was first elected to the House of Commons and I have altogether fought nine parliamentary election campaigns at Westminster and European elections since 1974.

The NPP intends using portions of the «Blue Book» and one other dubbed the «Greed Book» as its campaign manuals for the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections campaign by tagging the Mahama administration as saddled with corruption scandals.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

When it was all over, the tally of alleged wrongdoing cited here today, assigned to one party or another, included unpaid taxes (NDP), abusing election laws (Conservatives), improperly taking money from charities (Liberals), improperly claimed expenses (Liberals), illegal campaign debts (Liberals), illegal political donations (NDP), flouting Hill security (NDP), a potentially illegal cheque (Conservatives), secrecy (Conservatives) and sabotaging the committee to select the parliamentary budget officer (Conservatives).

Opposition Social Democrats won Lithuania's parliamentary election on Sunday after campaigning on promises to reverse unpopular austerity policies and boost social spending in the recession - scarred Baltic state.

In the run - up to the Scottish Parliamentary elections, BASC launched a unique campaigning website which allowed all those interested in shooting to lobby candidates and seek their views on shooting and conservation.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

She began working for Theresa May during the 2010 general election campaign, after a few attempts to win selection as a parliamentary candidate.

And in this week's parliamentary elections, after a very dull electoral campaign, Poles again voted in the same two - party coalition.

The campaign for the fifth Scottish Parliamentary election since Holyrood opened for business in 1999 was a pretty drab affair but the result threw up some real surprises.

The campaign was launched as a result of genuine concerns that sufficient parliamentary time would not be made available to debate and vote on the reforms prior to the 2015 General Election.

«I am in this race because during the 2016 elections, I was in the Upper East Region campaigning for the NPP and I saw some gaping holes; there was no party unity and parliamentary candidates were not resourced adequately and party chairmen were struggling to work.

A group calling itself Concerned Members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Tema West Constituency of the Greater Accra Region, have accused the incumbent MP, Naa Torshie Addo, of scheming to campaign against the party's newly elected parliamentary candidate, Carlos Ahenkorah, ahead of the 2016 elections.

He held various party political appointments, including deputy chairman of the party, parliamentary private secretary to Margaret Thatcher during the 1983 election campaign, and ministerial appointments in transport, energy and environment.

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.

To recap, the disastrous selection process for Labour's parliamentary candidate for Falkirk West, where allegations of malpractice triggered the resignation of Tom Watson MP as its election campaign coordinator — and which even now is subject to wildly differing versions of events — has kicked off a wholesale reform programme of everything from party funding to MP candidate selection and conference voting.

The two major political parties in Ghana, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP), have intensified their political campaigns with just about 60 days to this year's presidential and parliamentary elections.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Candidate for Ashaiman, Ernest Norgbey, has advised his political opponents and their assigns to concentrate on their campaign as the November 7 elections will not be won by badmouthing others.

The Newark campaign was the first major stress test for the Conservatives» parliamentary election team.

Option A — DiEM25 calls upon French progressives to: (1) Vote in the 1st Round of the Presidential Election for any candidate other than Le Pen or Fillon, (2) Campaign for a single progressive internationalist list of parliamentary candidates in the legislative elections.

A shambolic campaign in the Scottish parliamentary election of 2011 (which delivered just 0.35 % of the local vote) and his most recent foray into the 2016 London mayoral election (when he won 1.4 % of the vote) showed that without the right issues and electorate to exploit, his rhetoric could only get him so far.

MPs from all parties expressed frustration that such a controversial bill was given so little parliamentary time because of the election campaign.

«Going into the 2016 elections, we realized the parliamentary candidate whom the onus lies on as the front - runner of the party created his own parallel campaign team ahead of the elections.

The newly constructed Cape Coast stadium, will play host to the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Sunday, tomorrow August 14, 2016, as the party launches it campaign for the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections.

MP for Bolgatanga East constituency, Dr. Dominic Akuritinga Ayine The MP for Bolgatanga East constituency, Dr. Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, on Sunday, took the lead to launch his campaign for the December 07 Parliamentary elections in Zuarungu in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East region.

The campaign coordinator of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Kofi Adams said there is no alternative to President John Dramani Mahama in the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections.

On Sunday morning, Mrs. May's Conservative Party and the opposition Labour Party announced that they were suspending campaigning for the parliamentary elections — for less than a full day, in the case of Labour — out of respect for the victims.

Europarties have the exclusive right to campaign for the European elections; their parliamentary groups are strictly forbidden to campaign and to spend funds on any campaign - related activity.

For true political junkies, the Premier of Nova Scotia just called elections this week for June 13 (note how much more unpredictable and quick elections and campaigns are in parliamentary systems).

We could now be entering a cycle of never - ending leadership campaigns in which Corbyn gets elected, the parliamentary Labour party passes a vote of no confidence in him and triggers another election.

After a rancorous campaign littered with insults; a violent election which had to be rescheduled for a day, the «small boy» in the father and son battle of Ningo - Prampram has pulled the biggest shock in the National Democratic Congress Parliamentary elections beating the incumbent ET Mensah.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has outdoored its campaign team for the 2016 parliamentary and presidential elections.

I worked closely with Conservative parliamentary candidates during the 2010 General Election and produced creative campaign videos.

Married with three children, he is an entrepreneur with interests in a range of businesses in the North East, where he was a parliamentary candidate in 1997 in Newcastle East and Wallsend, in the 2004 European Election in the North East, and in the 2004 Hartlepool By Election; he was Constituency Chairman in Newcastle East between 1995 and 1998, and active in the «North East says NO» Campaign against the Regional Assembly.

[9] After unsuccessfully campaigning in European and Westminster parliamentary elections for UKIP since 1994, he was elected MEP for South East England in the 1999 European Parliament election.

And there are some other Holyrood players being touted: James Kelly, Scottish Labour's business manager, for example, who has spent a decade before the parliamentary mast, but was in charge of the party's Scottish election campaign last year when they came in third behind the Tories.

Johann Lamont said Scottish Labour wanted «to work with Europe» as she launched the party's campaign for the European Parliamentary elections.

Public confidence is likely to be tested again in this parliament — not least when the Standards Committee considers the findings of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards on allegations about Alistair Carmichael MP leaking a government memo during the election campaign.

There are unconfirmed but reliable reports that Angela Smith who is MP for south Basildon and East Thurrock and also Gordon Browns Parliamentary Private Secretary purchased some 70000 leaflets for an election campaign.

Neither Ministers, nor any other Parliamentary candidates, should involve Government establishments or offices (such as Jobcentres) in the General Election campaign by visiting them for electioneering purposes.

As the New Patriotic Party (NPP) gears up for its national delegates» conference next week, some of its parliamentary candidates in the 2012 elections are warning the campaign team of Paul Afoko, one of the aspirants for the chairmanship slot to desist from dragging their names into the mud for his political gains.

I suspect that in the event of a Scottish Parliamentary election both the Conservatives and Labour would do well, as we are currently in a position where the reputation of the UK - wide Conservative Party is severely damaged following the results of the general election and Scottish Labour doesn't even have a leader yet... With focused campaigns based in Scotland, both parties can make gains on 2017 in Scotland.

«As we draw closer to the next Presidential and Parliamentary elections we all as Ghanaians expect ALL parties involved in the process to base their arguments and campaign rhetoric on the truth and desist from emotional and non-factual statements, especially where my name has to be mentioned.

His Sex and Politics series began late in 2016 at the peak of campaigning for Ghana's presidential and parliamentary elections.

The campaign in favour of crime comics was considered pressing enough that the issue was the subject of the maiden parliamentary speeches of a number of MPs elected in the 1949 general election.

Last month a former Cambridge Analytica (CA) employee, Chris Wylie, told a UK parliamentary committee that the London - based company, deeply embedded in the ongoing data mining scandal, had potentially shared some of its Facebook harvested data with the Canadian AggregateIQ consultancy, which is accused of targeting social media users for political campaigns — including during the 2016 US election and the UK's Brexit campaign.

Spending limits are the bedrock of our parliamentary democracy: our electoral laws control the amount of money that can be spent in elections — which for the official designated campaign group is # 7m.