Sentences with phrase «parliamentary elections with»

Such complicated arrangements incline me strongly to support adopting the practice of some countries, long backed by the Electoral Commission, the 2007 Councillors Commission and others, of a single four - yearly national or at least regional Local Elections Day for all councils — though not, as in Sweden, on the same day as parliamentary elections with different coloured ballot papers, and probably not in mid-November, like Denmark's.

Sam George beat one of Ghana's longest serving MPs, Enoch Teye Mensah to emerge as the candidate for the Ningo - Prampram constituency and eventually beat his closest opponent in the parliamentary elections with 10272 votes.

He won a parliamentary election with this party in June 1992 and became Prime Minister of the Czech Republic.

Not exact matches

Theresa May called a snap election, hoping to increase her parliamentary majority and her negotiating power with Brussels.

He added that the choices are «consistent with President Emmanuel Macron's strategy to maximize his chances of forming a parliamentary majority after the mid-June legislative elections.

Meanwhile, last month marked the largest show of dissent since the fall of the Soviet Union, when tens of thousands took to the streets over alleged tampering by Putin's United Russia party with parliamentary elections.

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.

His dismay with the Finance Department's forecasting record led to his commitment in the 2006 election, to create a Parliamentary Budget Officer.

Macron's enthusiastic persona and his image as a «winner» — having been elected with a 66 percent majority, followed by a landslide victory in parliamentary elections giving him full constitutional powers — has charmed and impressed Donald Trump.

Dutch parliamentary elections did away with the risk of a eurosceptic government in a core country.

MILESTONES: AZERBAIJAN By Justin Keay Baku: Enjoying the fruits of Azerbaijan's mineral wealth Azerbaijan's parliamentary elections in early November ended in controversy, with critics claiming the opposition parties were prevented from being able to properly challenge Yeni Azerbaijan,...

Azerbaijan's parliamentary elections in early November ended in controversy, with critics claiming the opposition parties were prevented from being able to properly challenge Yeni Azerbaijan, the party of the authoritarian president Ilham Aliyev.

For those unfamiliar with Westminster systems, most parliamentary votes are, as the British say, subject to the party whip: that is, members are expected to vote with the party leadership and are subject to severe retribution (such as being «de-certified» as a party - supported candidate at the next election) if they resist the whip.

The emir, selected from within that family, rules in accordance with Shari'a law and in consultation with members of his and other leading families, though some moves have been made toward having elections and a more parliamentary form of government.

«Following the 2015 election, the chair of the all - party group, Stephen Lloyd, was not re-elected as an MP, and so, as vice-chair of the Group, I called an AGM for the group on 1stJuly, and informed all officers of the group who served in the last parliament, as well as all other MPs and members of the House of Lords, in accordance with the strict parliamentary requirements for publishing proper notice of such meetings.

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!»

With the Commons sorely in need of a makeover at the 2010 general election, it is worth noting that the House of Lords will provide an important source of parliamentary continuity over the election period.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ghana believes in the principles that democratic societies provide individuals with the best conditions for political liberty, personal freedom, equality of opportunity and economic development under the rule of law; and therefore being committed to advancing the social and political values on which democratic societies are founded, including the basic personal freedoms and human rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prosperity.

But it later emerged that the party's rules allow the selection of a parliamentary candidate to be decided by its national executive council in consultation with the constituency committee in the case of by - elections.

Certainly, the urge to get women involved some 60 years ago can not be downplayed with the involvement of Dr. Nkrumah himself in affirmative action policies and appointment of women propaganda secretaries and organisers right from inception of his government, It is remarkable that parliament under the CPP in 1960 passed Representation of the People (Women Members) Bill into law which amongst others made it possible for women to stand for parliamentary elections unopposed and subsequently saw the election of first ten female parliamentarians into the first session of the first parliament.

No doubt, there should be a thorough parliamentary debate on the issue, but instead of forcing a decision in this parliament, which could well be as controversial and divisive as the ill - fated referendum, I strongly agree with Nick Clegg that by far the best and most dignified way out of the current mess would be to ask the people in the proper constitutional way by calling an snap general election:

If the party's aim was to quickly grow out into a permanent political force with a more elaborate ideological profile and substantial parliamentary representation, the 2015 election has provided little reason for optimism.

I could not find a lower voter turnover, the closest being Parliamentary elections in Haiti with 17.82 %, Haiti having more than 5M registered voters.

When the parliamentary stakes are high enough, a determined government with tough whips would know that votes on a particular bill are subsumed in noise at election time.

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.

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.

Instead, it has acted with the sole purpose to maintain power and preserve the status quo after the parliamentary elections of 2018, regardless of the costs for relations with the EU.

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.

I have successfully filed my nomination documents together with all the necessary attachments today to our Constituency Executives to contest for the Parliamentary Primary Elections in Suame.

In the case of parliamentary elections there shall in addition be a National Electoral Committee with no fewer than five members.

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.»

[9] New expenses rules published by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority coming into force after the 2010 General Election allow employment of one relative but replace funding for a second home with a London Allowance of # 3,760 for MPs with seats within 20 miles of Westminster.

In the case of parliamentary elections the County Electoral Committee distributes all the seats in the county in accordance with Sainte - Laguë's modified method with the exception of one.

After the 1997 election, he was a parliamentary officer for the NHS Confederation from August to December 1997, before taking up the post as an administrator with the Football Task Force for a year.

According to Egypt's newly adopted constitution, those elections are to be held before the end of April, with the parliamentary polls held before end of July.

The National Electoral Committee shall also deal with appeals relating to parliamentary elections.

Even in the first week after an election, the Whitehall agents of the 800 lb gorilla of executive power are hard at work on the tiny but irritating squeak of the parliamentary mouse rather than fixing the broken democracy in partnership with parliament, «back to normal working» is not the slogan that will restore the reputation and capability of our democracy.

Thus, Turkey remained a parliamentary system with a ceremonial president until the first popular presidential election was held, and Erdoğan was elected last year.

It entered a government coalition with the conservative party after a sweeping victory in the 1999 parliamentary elections.

However, speaking in an interview with Class 91.3 FM's parliamentary correspondent Ekow Annan on Tuesday 21 March, Mr Naabu said Mr Mahama will perform poorly in the 2020 elections if he decides to run for president again.

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.

With their high - profile defections causing two by - elections, Douglas Carswell and Mark Reckless sparked both parliamentary panic and media meltdown.

In June 2016 following the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, in which 51.9 % of those voting voted in favour of leaving the European Union, Tim Farron stated that if Liberal Democrats were to be elected in the next parliamentary election, they would not follow through with triggering Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union and leaving the EU («Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements») but would instead keep UK part of the EU.

[18] After the last election Helle Thorning - Schmidt started working towards forming a centre - left government coalition consisting of the Socialist People's Party and the Social Liberal Party with parliamentary support from the small Red - Green Alliance.

Hardly anyone in the Parliamentary Labour Party, apart from Tony Blair, wanted an alliance with the LibDems prior to the election.

It is also a «sister party» of the Liberal Party of Gibraltar and contests the South - West England constituency at European Parliamentary elections on a joint ticket with them taking place six on the party list.

Parliamentary elections held three years later saw Zanu - PF lose it majority for the first time in 28 years and in September 2008 a power - sharing agreement was signed with the opposition.

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 1parliamentary 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 1Parliamentary Elections being conducted by the 1st Defendant.