Sentences with phrase «parliamentary leader of»

Meanwhile, Ai has been saddled with controversy yet again, this time after Alice Weidel, the parliamentary leader of the German conservative political party Alternativ für Deutschland, posted a selfie with him to Twitter.

The allegations have sparked a political and government crisis of a magnitude «never seen in Malaysia's 58 - year history,» said Lim Kit Siang, parliamentary leader of the opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP).

Not exact matches

The Conservative leader called the snap election to strengthen her parliamentary presence ahead of tough negotiations to take the country out of the European Union.

«There seems to be no tracking of dollars and no real understanding of whether these have worked or not,» said Tory parliamentary leader Vic Fedeli.

The U.S. Senate recently passed a resolution condemning the prosecution and continuing incarceration of former prime minister Yuliya Tymoshenko and her political allies.8 Various European leaders, including OSCE Parliamentary Assembly members, have made a special point of visiting Tymoshenko in prison and lobbying for her release.9 Her incarceration has become one of the main obstacles in Ukraine's relations with the EU, stalling Ukraine's hitherto successful bid for a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with Brussels.

«As the leader of the Liberal Party noted, it was in fact this party, this government, that established the parliamentary budget office,» the Prime Minister congratulated himself, «so this government is more than familiar with its intention in terms of the mandate it set up.»

«Had Howard followed the example of previous political leaders in their dealings with gun massacres, he could have dropped the matter into the abyss of the parliamentary committee process,» Simon Chapman, a professor emeritus at the University of Sydney, writes in his book Over Our Dead Bodies.

Ottawa — On the cusp of Thursday's federal election debate on the economy, the Trade Justice Network, (www.tradejustice.ca), a coalition of Canadian unions, environmental groups and citizens» groups, is calling on federal leaders to mandate the Parliamentary Budget Officer to do real fact - based analysis before they sign «free trade» deals that are destructive to Canadian -LSB-...]

So, Mr. Kenney, who just this week was appointed to the parliamentary committee studying electoral reform, could be abandoning plans to replace Rona Ambrose as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and setting his sights on uniting - the - right and challenging Rachel Notley «s moderate New Democratic Party government in 2019.

It is the duty of the Caliph or Imam, the leader in Islam, to consolidate public opinion, execute judgments, administer state machinery, encourage the faithful in the practice of their faith, such as prayers and the religious tax, and look after affairs of public interest with the guidance of a parliamentary democracy, the basis of government in Islam.

This suspicion of the validity of Western ideals fueled the Communist parliamentary election victories in the»90s, and the subsequent emergence of Vladimir Putin as the dominant political leader in Russia.

The «social market» program put forward by Konrad Adenauer, the leader of the Christian Democratic Party in the Federal Republic's first parliamentary elections in 1949, was a key element in this social and political transformation.

Gramsci himself, by that time the leader of the Italian Communist party, was arrested in 1926 after his parliamentary immunity was violated and died in 1937 after years of bad food and maltreatment in a Fascist prison.

During the term of 2004 - 2008, she respectively held the positions of Vice-Speaker of the Parliament, Leader of the Democratic Coalition Parliamentary Caucus and Chairman of Sub-Committee on Millennium Development Goals and poverty reduction.

Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman appeared to back down quickly, tweeting that parliamentary questions on the matter would be suspended until after key figures give evidence to the Leveson inquiry by the end of the month.

Claude Moraes is a Labour MEP for London and deputy leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party

The night was marked by high drama, with reports of the prime minister jabbing his finger at Tory rebel leader Jesse Norman, who was then forced to leave the parliamentary estate following threats from his own party whips.

The Speaker, not the leader of the opposition, is now David Cameron's number one parliamentary enemy.

The former defence secretary, now viewed as a standard - bearer for right - wing Tories within the parliamentary party, will use a speech to business leaders in Birmingham to make the case for a change of tack, the Guardian reports.

We must rise to the challenge of being a world leader on women's parliamentary representation.»

«It's very difficult to see how the current leadership could possibly unite the elements of the party, the Parliamentary Labour Party being a key part of the that,» he argues, before singling out the role of Momentum, the grass roots movement whose aim is «to build on the energy and enthusiasm from the Jeremy Corbyn for Labour Leader campaign», for its part in creating the current civil strife.

Arguably it might be better to have a leader outside Parliament, as they can concentrate on leading the party in a wider sense, without being constantly distracted by the day - to - day compromises of Parliamentary life, or by the heavy workload of a constituency MP, or by having to physically travel between their constituency and Westminster.

Although 58 % of Australians think that Rudd would make a better leader, Gillard's parliamentary colleagues support her by a ratio of two to one.

To avoid choosing a leader that is unacceptable to the parliamentary party, members are presented with a «shortlist» of candidates nominated by MPs.

In the 2016 Scottish Parliamentary elections, Labour fell to third place behind the Scottish Tories, whose Ruth Davidson is now leader of the opposition and the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon main challenger to be First Minister after the 2021 election.

An open letter (also released to the press) sent on 2 February to Harriet Harman as Leader of the House, emphasising the urgent need to find Parliamentary time to debate and vote on the reforms.

In June 1997, with the Conservatives in opposition, he became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Leader of the Opposition William Hague.

A compromise was reached with the result being announced in 15 August, so the new leader would be in place for the start of the next parliamentary session.

Corbyn is unlikely to stand down voluntarily and under Labour Party rules, challengers to sitting leaders need to be nominated by 20 % of the parliamentary party.

He was the acting Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party (as chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party) from 1940 during the time Clement Attlee was in government.

In a flash of parliamentary procedure, Libous called a vote installing Dean Skelos as the majority leader and Espada as temporary president.

He had opposed British involvement in the war at its outbreak in 1914, a highly principled position to take in the face of its huge popularity among members of his own party, resigned his position as the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constituents).

The LibDems aren't going to lose «a bit of ground» to the Tories, they're going to lose 30 - 40 seats to them (i.e. about half the Parliamentary Party), not least because they have their most ineffective leader since Clement Davis.

Despite the deep opposition to Corbyn in the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), the leader's base of support among the grassroots remains solid.

As leader of the Compass group inside the Commons, he also has a community of support around him, if not in the parliamentary party, and various networks through which to disseminate his work.

Steve Hitchins, leader of Islington Council, complained to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Sir Philip Mawer, that Thornberry had «altered an electronic copy of an Electoral Commission news release by inserting a quotation from herself».

Many MPs were concerned about losing their one - third share of the votes and insisted on greater gatekeeping powers to ensure leaders enjoyed sufficient parliamentary backing.

He joined Clegg's parliamentary office 2006 after meeting the Lib Dem leader during a lecture he was giving at the University of Sheffield and went on to be a key link person during the collation years.

The extent of insults aimed at Miliband, emanating from No 10 on a matter as sensitive as response to the use of chemical weapons, suggests the prime minister has personally authorised a concerted counter-attack on the Labour leader as he seeks to divert blame before the new parliamentary term, which begins on Monday, and before a meeting of G20 leaders, including President Barack Obama, in Russia on Thursday.

The face to watch in Norwich South is in fact our Parliamentary candidate, Cllr Adrian Ramsay, Leader of the Opposition on the Council and national Deputy Leader of the Green Party...

Brown makes good use of up - to - date political science research to dispel myths which «strong» leaders often believe of themselves; namely that they have a determining effect on election outcomes and a voter's party affiliation though he notes that obvious discrepancies will exist between parliamentary and presidential systems in these regards.

Led by Roy Stone, Private Secretary to the Chief Whip and Mike Winter, Head of the Leader of the House's office, they operate in the dark, agents of the secret state of the most over-centralised political system in the Western world without so much as a Parliamentary Business Committee (promised but not delivered by the last government) to hold them to account.

We recommend that the President also extent a hand to the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, undoubtedly the country's leader of the opposition, to a similar meeting to discuss their differences, and set the tone for peaceful presidential and parliamentary campaigns, leading to the vote in December 2012.

The NDC Scribe conceded that the party's register for the parliamentary primaries was not perfect because some persons contracted to compile it compromised it in their favour because they had the intentions of contesting unknown to national leaders of the party.

Alban Bagbin has become the face of Ghanaian politics not for his 25 years so far in parliament and still counting, but for the extraordinary role he played as two terms Minority Leader, twice Majority Leader and Chairman of some strategic committees of Parliament such as Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Committee, which he chaired twice, Public Accounts and Appointments Committee.

That is why the Whitehouse Consultancy has written to the leaders of all three main political parties urging them to work to achieve a political consensus on statutory regulation as soon as parliamentary time allows.

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

I have no idea where to place my vote: after forty years of liberal belief I am stunned by the complete loss of faith displayed by the leader and his parliamentary colleagues who have done nothing to curb the insanity of the conservative Prime Lunatic.

His Shadow Cabinet disintegrated; his Parliamentary Party passed a huge Vote of No Confidence against him — something that would have ended any other leader's time in office then and there — while large numbers of councillors, the Labour London Mayor and the Party's Leader in Scotland, Kezia Dugdale, all lined up to condemn his ideas, or his performance, orleader's time in office then and there — while large numbers of councillors, the Labour London Mayor and the Party's Leader in Scotland, Kezia Dugdale, all lined up to condemn his ideas, or his performance, orLeader in Scotland, Kezia Dugdale, all lined up to condemn his ideas, or his performance, or both.

The 301 was first organised by Kris Hopkins (Keighley), a former soldier and leader of Bradford Council, and Jessica Lee (Erewash), a former barrister, and now Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve.