Sentences with phrase «primaries of political parties»

She said the primaries of the political parties have already begun in earnest and the impending district assembly elections present an opportunity to elect more women and prepare them for other national leadership positions.

«The primaries of political parties shall follow the following sequence (i) State House of Assembly (ii) National Assembly (iii) Governorship, and (iv), President.

Similarly, section 87 was amended by adding a new section 87 (11) with a marginal note «time for primaries of political parties».

The party primaries of political parties will not only be free and fair, but transparent.

Not exact matches

If McConnell can fend off his conservative challenger on May 20, guide four of his fellow incumbents through a thicket of Tea Party primary challenges, and survive the November election — a difficult hat trick — he is likely to emerge as the one Washington Republican who can return the Grand Old Party to the grand old political center and put an end to Tea Party extremism.

By holding our primary earlier, we will ensure that issues important to Californians are prioritized by presidential candidates from all political parties,» California Secretary of State Alex Padilla said in a Tuesday release.

While that may play well to some of the more extreme members of the Republican party in the primaries, political experts don't see such talk surviving in a general election campaign.

Swann's bill defines PACs as «a corporation or group established or maintained for the primary purpose of accepting political action contributions and incurring political action expenses to engage in political promotion but does not include (i) a registered party, or (ii) a registered constituency association.»

The decline of the party press and subsequently of political parties themselves as primary means of communication with voters limits the viability of the liberal theory of the press as a pluralistic ideological advocate.

You can register for any one of dozens of political parties in the U.S., but to vote in the primaries, you must be either Dem.

The primary source of the South African Listeria outbreak is still unknown, according to the main opposition political party in the country.

After many political schemes to get the incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Manhyia North in the Ashanti Region, Collins Owusu Amankwah, out of his current position, he has won the Constituency primaries for the second time in a tense competition.

In a small political party that is unlikely to elect anyone to office, or is likely to elect only a handful of officials, the drafting of the party platform is often seen as the primary mission of the party since it articulates the ideas that are associated with the party and provides a marketing document for the party and for its ideas.

In Spain there is no need for primaries; as long as the political party internal workings are democratic, the way of chosing a candidate is up to each party.

For instance, if all political parties, including the APC which was then in opposition, could hold their primaries in the state, why would the PDP that was in control of the State Government come down to Abuja for its primaries against the provisions of the Electoral Act and the PDP constitution?

The Usual Suspects moved quickly as news spread of Eric Cantor's sudden fall in Tuesday's primary election: my inbox filled fast with fundraising messages from the Democratic party committees, outside political funding groups, individual candidates and more.

Instead, she laid the blame at the feet of the Democratic Party — speficially the Rev. Al Sharpton, who publicly declared his support for keeping the partisan primary system in place last weekend, saying nonpartisan elections would enable self - financed candidates like the billionaire mayor to take over the political system and disenfranchise minority voters.

If we're talking about Straw - style closed primaries then what we're really talking about is making political parties a more established part of the political framework, with US - style party registration.

INEC also released the guidelines for the conduct of primaries by political parties, submission of names and addresses of party agents to electoral officer, last day for submission of forms CF001, CF002 and nomination forms at INEC Headquarters; last day for publication of forms CF001 and nominated candidates.

Chilean political system can be seen, to easy understanding, as a bipartisanship (similar to US, except that instead of two dominant parties it has two big coalitions - of - parties) At presidential primaries, Bachelet coalition (Nueva Mayoría) more than doubled its challenger coalition (Alianza).

Bill Lipton, the state political director of the Working Families Party, told the AP that if Nixon should lose the September Democratic Party primary to Cuomo, his party leaders will meet with her and «make a decision that puts the interests of working families first.&rParty, told the AP that if Nixon should lose the September Democratic Party primary to Cuomo, his party leaders will meet with her and «make a decision that puts the interests of working families first.&rParty primary to Cuomo, his party leaders will meet with her and «make a decision that puts the interests of working families first.&rparty leaders will meet with her and «make a decision that puts the interests of working families first.»

Pigeon and several other disgruntled democrats recently formed a Political Action Committee to support several candidates mounting primary challenges against a number of party endorsed democrats.

However, it also means that the Democratic Party leaders will dictate the selection of a candidate, protecting their contender, political newcomer Matt Zeller, from a primary challenge.

This is because the Tories have been promoting primaries for a good while, and not as far as I can see on the basis of any other argument except that they think it would be good to engage more of the public in party political democracy and because it makes them look more welcoming as a party which might garner votes in the long run.

Political party primaries were treated as a private commercial project by the Deputy Chairperson Ops, with funds paid directly into the personal accounts of key staff for functions to be performed for party primaries.

In September of 2013, when it was clear Bill de Blasio was destined to become the mayor of New York and not a political footnote, there were two people ready to introduce him to the raucous crowd at his primary - night party.

And now we have a more explicit outlining of an emerging new Tory constitutional doctrine in an extraordinary Guardian report on Tuesday — based on anonymous briefings from «senior shadow Cabinet members» — that the Conservatives intend to mount a partisan attack on existing constitutional conventions, and the Cabinet Secretary's protocols for handling a hung Parliament, even though a primary motivation for these has been to protect the Monarchy from being dragged into party political controversy.

Local political parties get all of their funds from donations, although the mechanics of primary elections (voting machines, space rental, ballot counting staff) are often publicly funded.

FWIW, in decades of active political party involvement in Ohio, Michigan, New York and Colorado I've never seen a political party provide any support to a non-partisan candidate (not counting candidates nominated in partisan judicial race primaries whose affiliation doesn't appear on general election ballots which Ohio once did and may still do).

However, in other cases, including the cases most relevant to partisan limitations on primary participation, the Supreme Court has defended the independence of political parties.

The measures, called the New York Votes Act, would create a system of early voting, automatic and same - day registration, consolidate state and federal primaries and shorten the deadline for registering in a political party.

(The Political Party Change of Enrollment Deadline for 2018 Primary Elections was October 13, 2017.)

A total of 32 aspirants are vying to flag the party's flag in the July 14 governorship election after President Muhammadu Buhari's Special Adviser on Political Matters, Sen. Babafemi Ojudu, had withdrawn from the race, alleging that the processes leading to the rescheduled primary was designed to favour a particular aspirant.

The New York Observer's Will Bredderman reports that comedian and political gadfly Randy Credico, who finished third in the recent Democratic gubernatorial primary, campaigned yesterday at the corner of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan with the Green Party's Howie Hawkins.

But never one to pass up an opportunity to network with political leaders in a key presidential primary state, the vice president also reached out to the state Democratic Party ahead of his visit to help them raise money.

In the recently published book «An Encounter with the Spymaster,» this writer disclosed categorically that «the movement of large cash in local and foreign currencies by the two major political parties, APC and PDP, to win primaries and general elections in 2015 were discovered by security and anti-corruption agencies but tactically suppressed to avoid embarrassing outcries that could tarnish the electoral processes and rubbish the image of the country.

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

She further revealed that «political party primaries were treated as a private commercial project by the Deputy Chair Operation with funds paid directly into the personal accounts of key staff for functions to be performed for party primaries»

Sini said he will attend the Democrats» screening Saturday, but declined to say if he would run a primary or seek the endorsement of other political parties.

Primary races are restricted to registered members of a political party.

Those voters aren't representative of the increasingly millenials - and - minorities makeup of the party's primary base, but the strategist predicted that four years in the political desert will leave Democrats desperate for a leader who can bring them back to the promised land.

Monitor the organization and operation of the political parties, including their finances; conventions, congresses and party primaries.

She's not the only one of this opinion: Rove is reportedly backing a political action committee tasked with finding primary challengers for candidates that might be too far to the right for a party hoping to move towards the center.

The Republican Party is running a 62 - year - old widow with zero political experience and no campaign cash against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — and Silver, the Democratic Goliath of New York politics, is suing his novice challenger to get her knocked off the ballot ahead of the September primary.

(a) Whenever a Party nomination for a public office to be filled at a general or special election is not made at a primary election or by judicial nominating convention, or when no valid designating petition is filed with the board of elections (1) such nomination shall be made by the Executive Committee if for a public office to be filled by the voters of a political subdivision whose boundaries are coterminous with the County of New York or the Borough of Manhattan, and any vacancy in a nomination so made shall be filled by the Executive Committee or a subcommittee appointed by the Executive Committee for that purpose, and (2) such nomination shall be made by the appropriate District Committee if for a public office to be filled by the voters of a political subdivision wholly or partly contained within, but embracing only a part of, the County of New York or Borough of Manhattan, and any vacancy in a nomination so made shall be filled by a subcommittee appointed by said District Committee for that purpose.

(b) Each Democratic organization shall have a written constitution which provides among other things (i) that the annual election of officers be by a secret ballot of the members of the organization; (ii) that membership in the organization be open to all enrolled Democrats residing in the political subdivision for which the organization is to function; (iii) that there be periodic financial reports to the membership, with at least one report each year and that the receipts and expenditures of the organization may be reviewed upon the written request of any member of the organization at a reasonable time and place fixed by an officer of the organization designated for that purpose; (iv) that endorsement of all candidates for party position or public office in the party primary be by a secret ballot of the members of the organization.

But recently, the fallout of the APC's governorship primary in Ondo State has snowballed into crisis within the party and thrown up political intrigues capable of damaging its chances in the forthcoming Ondo Governorship election and even the 2019 general elections.

State Democratic Party Executive Director Geoff Berman said the question of when to allow voters to switch registration to vote in a party primary should be dealt with by the Legislature, not by a political pParty Executive Director Geoff Berman said the question of when to allow voters to switch registration to vote in a party primary should be dealt with by the Legislature, not by a political pparty primary should be dealt with by the Legislature, not by a political partyparty.

However, it added «the Center continues to note with dismay, however, that governmental accountability and responsiveness have remained highly insufficient (despite delivery of considerable voice to citizenry under the 4th Republic); public corruption remains pervasive; progress of the constitutionally - mandated political, administrative and fiscal decentralization has stalled; the economy remains characterized by jobless growth; income and spatial inequality are on the rise in spite of poverty reduction; and the nation's two main political parties which have alternated in power in the 4th Republic have increasingly taken on the features of rival cults (whose primary purpose seemingly is to win elections, achieve «state capture» and practice «winner - takes - all» politics).

The leaders said:» In view of this, the entire leadership of the party from the South West geo - political region hereby calls on all the delegates in Ekiti State to ensure full and active participation at the primary election on Friday.