Sentences with phrase «purpose of political parties»

In order to have a coherent point of view on this question it seems critical to properly take on the question of the purpose of political parties in a modern democracy.

What people tend to forget is that the purpose of a political party (and so politicians) is to be elected, the aim is to make the electorate grateful.

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Expanding on its allegations, WSJ said on Tuesday that hundreds of millions worth of unreported political spending flowed from public sources or programs intended for other purposes, including at least $ 140 million that was spent on charity projects to boost the party's election chances.

Confusing matters is that a number of exemptions were phased into the law that protect email exchanges between businesses, emails by charities and political parties for fundraising purposes, the first email sent after a third - party referral and emails in response to consumer complaints or inquiries.

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 problem isn't the immigrants, it's the politicization we're confronting the purpose of which is to give one American political party a strategic governance position while ignoring the reports from US Border agents as to who is coming over the border.

The use of and appeal to religious communalism is effective (at least in the short run) precisely because increasingly more people are finding a greater sense of common purpose in traditional religions than in political parties or secular ideologies.

It is the convergence of disagreement with the appointment by the members of the two biggest political parties that makes Malik Kweku Baako believe Martin Amidu is «fit for purpose.»

Unlike Okudzeto Ablakwa who conveys the impression in his articles that constitutionalism, democracy and the rule of law mandate that I should have protected the crimes and graft I exposed simply because of membership of a political party, I take the right and correct view that the constitution enjoins every citizen to uphold and defend it by exposing any activity of any person or group of persons who abuse Article 55 on political parties for criminal purposes.

For the purposes of exercising the powers conferred on it by subsection (2), the Electoral Commission may require a political party to supply to it a list of the party's current financial members within any reasonable time that the Electoral Commission specifies.

According to New York law, state - level campaign contributions can be used for «any lawful purpose,» but they «shall not be converted by any person to a personal use which is unrelated to a political campaign or the holding of a public office or party position.»

If the secretary of a political party notifies the party's intention to the Electoral Commission under section 146B (1), that notification remains in force for the purposes of the general election unless --

But I am saying claims of its significance are being exaggerated for political purposes and this has been done at huge cost to our movements and communities and to many individual people in and outside of our party.»

Ukip leader uses conference speech to hit back at critics who accuse his party of using child abuse scandal for political purposes

Liberal Labour would cut off the ideological purpose of this party, so Labour taking seats in this region, as part of a re-colonisation of the political centre, should be possible too.

What do we mean by democracy, what place do political parties have, and what is the purpose of an electoral system?

Even this was in breach of the 1952 Directive from Home Secretary David Maxwell - Fyfe that the security services not provide information for party political purposes.

Ms. Mark - Viverito's team was Brooklyn - infused for this purpose and included a paid operative, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz's chief of staff John Paul Lupo, and an operative with the controversial Advance Group, Jonathan Yedin, who has been working in Brooklyn Democratic Party politics for more than a decade and belongs to Mr. Seddio's political club.

The former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell, the MP for North East Fife, who made a similar recommendation for a new Scottish conference in 2012, said it would be «a remarkable opportunity for Scotland as a whole — not just the political parties — to create a relationship with the rest of the UK which to all intents and purposes would be federal».

(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.

If approved, the constitution will require that «districts shall not be drawn to discourage competition or for the purpose of favoring or disfavoring incumbents or other particular candidates or political parties» — language that will allow courts to strike down gerrymandered districts.

Serious party political opinion is best kept separate from a show of which the sole purpose is to entertain — something they manage painfully well at PMQs, so surely they can do it here..?

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).

Mr Hain suggested the system whereby criminal law intervenes in the system of politics was manipulated for party political purposes.

«We are a political group but non-partisan (almost) all political parties were here, we are fighting for unity of the country we are not having anybody in mind, we want to have a common purpose.»

He said, «The purpose of our meeting is not to form a political party.

Some are suggesting that this breaches section 6 (b)(ii) of the GLA code of conduct which states that the mayor «must, when using or authorising the use by others of the resources of your authority,... ensure that such resources are not used improperly for political purposes (including party political purposes)».

The sense that conservatism has a moral purpose, that the Conservative Party is its political expression, and that it is for everyone who agrees with that purpose is indispensible not only if that party is to win in 2015, but if it is ever again to become Britain's natural party of government (which, at present, is LabParty is its political expression, and that it is for everyone who agrees with that purpose is indispensible not only if that party is to win in 2015, but if it is ever again to become Britain's natural party of government (which, at present, is Labparty is to win in 2015, but if it is ever again to become Britain's natural party of government (which, at present, is Labparty of government (which, at present, is Labour).

In real terms, these rules which exist in virtually every jurisdiction, include laws and regulations which forbid the unauthorized use of state resources for political purposes, contributions from dubious sources, violation of campaign funding limits as prescribed by enabling laws, the use of money to influence voters and election outcomes, non-disclosure of campaign spending, abuse of media, broadcasting and political advertising rules, and rules on declaration of assets, academic qualifications, health and other disclosures and internal party guidelines and rules.

Several Labour MPs boycotted the recall of the Commons today, citing the financial cost of the exercise and concerns around the use of the occasion for party political purposes.

Next month's event looks uncomfortably like a partisan attempt to hijack one of the great glories of our common history for party political purposes on the eve of a general election.

«In the light of the above, you are advised to strictly adhere to Section 99 (1) of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended), which stipulates that for the purpose of this Act, the period of campaigning in public by every political party shall commence 90 days before polling day and ends 24 hours prior to that day.

Cuomo said the purpose of the bus tour was to help inform women voters that abortion is a campaign issue this year, and help increase female voter turnout statewide for the Women's Equality Party, which he said he hoped would become a political force in Albany this November.

In reference to the poll, the Commission stated that it «appeared to be designed to elicit a particular response for the purpose of criticising the party» and that «the wording chosen by the charity was party political in character and went beyond the sort of statement that a charity can properly make.»

«We have had many assurances that taxpayer - funded government communications will not be used for party political purposes and that the Labour Party respects the impartiality of the Civil Serparty political purposes and that the Labour Party respects the impartiality of the Civil SerParty respects the impartiality of the Civil Service.

«The Special Adviser's Code of Conduct clearly states that Special Advisers «must not:... ask civil servants to do anything which is inconsistent with their obligations under the Civil Service Code» and that they «should avoid anything which might reasonably lead to the criticism that people paid from public funds are being used for party political purpose».

There are currently no prohibitions in the state constitution that prevent lines from being drawn to discourage competition or for the purpose of favoring or disfavoring incumbents, particular candidates or political parties.

By allowing the channels of racism (including antisemitism) to mobilise discontent for narrow party political purposes, the Labour Party follows a game that is unacceptable to my mind, and extremely dangerous for Labour itparty political purposes, the Labour Party follows a game that is unacceptable to my mind, and extremely dangerous for Labour itParty follows a game that is unacceptable to my mind, and extremely dangerous for Labour itself.

«We need,» Watson notes, «to build a party that sets out a sense of long - term national purpose and mobilises broad political support».

(f) The Commission, or on the authorization of the Commission any subcommittee of two or more members, at least one of whom shall be of each major political party, may, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, hold such hearings and act at such times and places as the Commission or such authorized subcommittee may deem advisable.

The problem is that it would defeat the very purpose of gerrymandering, which is one of the rewards for gaining the upper hand as a political party.

A portion of workers» dues is often given to specific political parties for the purpose of influencing legislation that favors the workers.

But in Poland — a country where museums are regular sites of protest, the morality and purpose of art are publicly debated in ongoing culture wars, and an Israeli artist representing the country in Venice could arguably found a political party — this distinction hardly matters.

Its political battles, formed in the dark days of the 1970s, won, the Tory party struggled to identify itself or its purpose, and it collapsed into its own internal chaos while the Labour party had rescued itself from its own malaise by cutting the party machine off from its traditional constituency, and reinvented its image.

There is no way that the Republican party, one of the only two political parties that we have permitted ourselves here in the world's oldest democracy, would embed in its official statement of purpose, approved by acclamation at its national convention, a bizarre conspiracy that is literally the product of the John Birch Society.

Included in the Bill is a requirement for unions to disclose: a yearly balance sheet indicating their assets, liabilities, income and expenditures; the details of all transactions over $ 5,000, including the name and address of each party, a statement regarding the purpose of the transaction, and a description of each transaction; a statement indicating the total disbursements, including salary, made to each employee, contractor, officer, director or trustee; and a statement indicating the percentage of time each employee, contractor, officer, director or trustee dedicates to political activities.

When selecting candidates for elections, political parties are not a «qualifying body» for the purposes of s 12 of the Race Relations Act 1976 (RRA 1976).

Contributions to RPAC are voluntary and will be used for political purposes and support of state, local, and federal candidates and political parties and in issue initiatives.