Sentences with phrase «parliamentary elections winning»

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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.

France's Finance Minister Michel Sapin has said that he wants the newly - elected President Emmanuel Macron to succeed and win a majority in the country's upcoming parliamentary election, though he insisted a cohabitation government would not hamper the country's prospects.

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.

It is now almost two years since the BJP, led by Narendra Modi, won a landslide victory in India's parliamentary elections.

Unlike in the USA however, winning an election in a Parliamentary system doesn't necessarily guarantee control.

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.

The nation's general election on June 8 resulted in Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party failing to win a parliamentary majority.

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.

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.

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.

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

... Even at the parliamentary level when he stood for elections and won against Owuraku Amofa in 1996, what he did to our party people there is still there, it's evident.

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.

Yet Mugabe was determined to retain his office and did so by any means necessary — including alleged violence and corruption — winning the vote in the 2005 parliamentary elections.

Would more independent / single issue candidates win parliamentary elections?

The likely win of the Socialist Party in the November 2018 parliamentary elections would completely derail Moldova's already shaky path of rapprochement with the EU.

A smooth MEP Andrzej Duda, age 43, recently won presidential elections in Poland, and now Beata Szydło, age 52, led her party to victory in parliamentary elections.

In a parliamentary system the party in power is the one with the most votes in parliament and that would always correspond to the party that won the most actual votes in the election, even if they didn't get the most seats.

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

Electoral results bear out the opposition's resurgence despite the obstacles and obstructions created by the governing administration: It won the majority of the popular vote in the 2010 parliamentary elections, narrowed the gap to Chavismo in the 2012 and 2013nd finally won a supermajority in the parliament in 2015.

The Five Stars will win a large parliamentary delegation at the next general election in spring, but it is impossible to say what will happen next.

When the FIS won a landslide victory in the 1991 parliamentary elections, all its top leadership was in jail; it was also its salafi rivals who unleashed the violence that followed annulment of the results, sucking the radical fringe of the movement in with them.

If she called an early election she might win her own landslide majority, a much more formidable parliamentary context for her bumpy Brexit ride.

The NPP won a resounding victory over the NDC in the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections, and the party's presidential candidate and now president - elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo has promised to unite Ghana going forward.

Each election, they invent names such as «Essex man» or «Worcester woman'to describe archetypal voters representative of marginal constituencies necessary to win a parliamentary majority.

I think activists can work to get Greens and Respect elected in a handful of FPTP seats and we must all hope for an embarrassingly massive Tory landslide (300 seats or so) on < 50 % of the vote that will make everyone see what an absurd situation we are in, make Cameron's parliamentary party more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left forces.

London (CNN) British Prime Minister Theresa May has failed to win a parliamentary majority in the UK election, leaving the country with what's known as a «hung parliament.»

Away from the local elections, here's Liam Young boasting that Corbyn's Labour has won every parliamentary by - election.

This result is both the highest place gained and the highest percentage of the votes won by any English Democrat candidate in a parliamentary election or parliamentary by - election.

I've just returned from a remarkable fringe meeting at the party's annual autumn conference, in which Ian Dexter, a Ukip member, former candidate in county and district elections and potential parliamentary candidate for 2015, outlined his strategy for winning over Labour voters.

He said he's motivated to lead the party at the regional level in order to unite all of its members to collaborate to win at least six parliamentary seats in the region at the next general elections in 2020.

She explained that her outfit was working tirelessly in the constituency to win both the Parliamentary and Presidential elections for the Party, having achieved 70 per cent of her promises to the constituents and promised to add more when voted again into parliament.

Following the inability of the Huudu Yahaya - led conflict resolution committee of the National Democratic Congress to effectively deal with grievances arising out of last year's parliamentary primaries, the governing party risk losing some parliamentary seats it won or lost to independent candidates in the 2012 elections, investigations by The aL - hAJJ have uncovered.

«Since my election as leader of our party last year, we've won every parliamentary by - election, some with vastly increased majorities.

[11][12] She first stood for election in the 1992 general election as the SNP candidate in the Glasgow Shettleston constituency, and was the youngest parliamentary candidate in Scotland, failing to win the seat.

The party has also held a parliamentary candidate selection blitz since the referendum — fearing a snap general election — so many candidates for 2020 seats have already been selected to try to win back those lost in 2015.

In the 2017 election, the Conservative manifesto will be more heavily scrutinised than the Labour or Liberal Democrat manifestos, since the Conservatives are expected to win a parliamentary majority on the basis of the published polls.

Despite numerous attacks and killings, parliamentary elections in 2002 saw ZANU - PF win only a slim majority.

After graduating, the lifelong Tory then worked for Daventry MP Chris Heaton - Harris as a parliamentary assistant, before mucking in with party activist Christine Emmett's failed bid to win nearby Corby in a by - election.

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

Dr. Zanetor polled 2,403 votes against 1,348 votes garnered by sitting MP, Nii Armah Ashitey to win the mandate of the people to represent the party in the 2016 parliamentary elections.

Former trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai led his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to victory in 2008 parliamentary elections and won the first round of the presidential vote.

As a constituency party we now look to begin the process of finding our parliamentary candidate for the 2015 general election and winning a Labour majority.

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.»

The council election was held on the same day as the national General Election, when the Labour Party government lost power and the Watford parliamentary constituency was won by the Conservativelection was held on the same day as the national General Election, when the Labour Party government lost power and the Watford parliamentary constituency was won by the ConservativElection, when the Labour Party government lost power and the Watford parliamentary constituency was won by the Conservative Party.

In an address to the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) he accepted the party was still not in a position to win the next election under his leadership.

In this context, the vote shares of both the Conservatives and Labour have declined steadily, as has turnout, but Labour are the only one of the two major parties to have won a parliamentary majority in the last four elections (they managed it in three), suggesting their death twitches, as you may describe them, are a little more animated than the Tories.

Tories say the atmosphere in the parliamentary party has changed over the past week after a consensus had been formed around Easter that the prime minister was secure at least until next year's European parliamentary elections, which Ukip is expected to win.