Sentences with phrase «reform last election»

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Martin Schulz, leader of the Social Democrats (SPD), has doubled down on social reform policies in a last - ditch effort to boost his election polls during a public television town hall - style exchange.

While it may feel like a lifetime or two since the last federal election, when Trudeau was promising a very different kind of democratic reform, 19 months isn't a long time to get Canada's electoral system protected from 2019 - style threats to its fairness and integrity.

Prime Minister Modi's election last May and his ambitious plans for economic reform sparked strong inflows of $ 5.1 billion over the last 6 quarters.

Man... healthcare reform, a black man in the Oval Office... twice, a trouncing in the last election that momentarily shattered their alternative reality bubble, the striking down of DOMA and more states legalizing gay marriage, whites soon to be less than 50 % of the US's population, and now even the Pope is calling bullsh!t on their philosophy... it's like every conservative nightmare is becoming reality, and we'll be better off because of it.

Ethics reform was a major topic at the end of last year's session and during this past election, but as leadership turned their attention to the budget at the beginning of this year, some legislators were worried the momentum had stalled.

The Reform Party, a ballot line formed last year by Republican gubernatorial nominee Rob Astorino, filed its first campaign finance report since it was rechristened this election season, showing a single, massive donation from a limited liability company.

Over the weekend and in an address on Monday, Cuomo had announced that election reforms such as early voting and automatic registration, which he proposed last year, would be part of his agenda again in 2017.

released on Wednesday, Cuomo outlined an ethics and voting reform agenda nearly identical to last year's, with the addition of an election cyber security and reporting requirement for online political advertising.

In the State of the State policy book released on Wednesday, Cuomo outlined an ethics and voting reform agenda nearly identical to last year's, with the addition of an election cyber security and reporting requirement for online political advertising.

In the run up to the last general election, the media was full of reports and investigations into the impact of welfare reform.

Steve Brooks, Wales Director of the Electoral Reform Society said: «Our research shows that Labour would have won nearly 70 % of the seats in the National Assembly, had the last election been fought using Two Member First Past the Post.

These common - sense reforms will bring much - needed transparency, modernize practices, and help ensure we do not experience an election day like last week's again.»

Harper believes that Miliband, who wrote the Labour manifesto for the last general election which committed the party to House of Lords reform, is playing a duplicitous game, he told the Guardian.

David Cameron and Nick Clegg have challenged critics in both their parties by declaring that the coalition will last until the next general election in 2015, as they insisted the row over House of Lords reform would not be allowed to disrupt the work of the government.

[There is a] very strong Conservative case for reform — the whole thrust last election was moving power from the centre to the voters and the whole Conservative approach to having a smaller government, limited government and having better parliamentary control over executive.»

The Democratic mayor fully empaneled the commission last month to consider changes to the City Charter with a focus on campaign finance and election reforms.

Certainly all three main parties went into the last general election with manifesto pledges to reform the upper house.

Heavy on rhetoric but light on specifics, the statement from the party called for «targeted political action» to ensure the 124 MPs who voted against Lords reform last night do not keep their seats in the next election.

In their paper following the last General Election, the Electoral Reform Society said that with the extension of the franchise in 1918;

And for those who say that this weekend's Special Conference has cleverly bound the unions in for one last general election push, and if the reforms don't work they can be unpicked in five years?

The only other minor party that has had a gubernatorial nominee on the Virginia ballot in the last forty years was the Reform Party in the 1997 election.

I do not think that Nick heard a great deal about reform of the Lords on the doorsteps of his constituency Sheffield Hallam at the last election.

In the last presidential election the Reform Party was able to place its candidate on the ballot in a single state.

During the 31 - day stalemate last summer, Breslin was among the reform - minded Democrats who expressed strong reservations against accepting Espada back into the conference — even if that meant relegating themselves to the minority until the next election cycle.

That is why, for instance, in a last ditch attempt to keep both sides of the bargain intact, I suggested a solution that would have allowed us to progress with both reforms: a referendum on Lords Reform on election day in 2015, with first elections to the Lords taking place in 2020, while deferring boundary changes to 2020 too.

Trump's tax reform push has handed Democrats a «golden opportunity» to get past the party's internal divisions that have raged since last year's election, Clinton's and Bernie Sanders» 2016 presidential campaign managers argue in a joint memo.

Belinda Alexandrenko, Reform Party candidate for Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry secured almost 6 % of the vote in last week's statewide election and in some precincts polled in the double digits.

When initial explorations into voting reform were last made by the late Roy Jenkins, it was shown that, had the 1997 election been held under the alternative vote system, Labour's already huge majority would have gone up from 179 to 245.

Peter Facey, director of research, said: «The three major parties all committed themselves to democratic reform of the House of Lords at the last general election; they can not spin or dissemble themselves out of this commitment.

The Cabinet Office did not want to comment, but officials pointed out that the coalition agreement states that until Lords reform passes: «Lords appointments will be made with the objective of creating a second chamber reflective of the share of the vote secured by the political parties in the last general election.»

That will be the last chance for ballot access reform to pass in time for the 2012 election, because in 2012, the legislature won't convene until May.

It is logical for a coalition fighting one last first - past - the - post election to seek a mandate for electoral reform (though how far the Lib Dems reciprocating would benefit Labour is partly a tactical judgement about how their vote would divide).

Following pledges by all three major parties to reform the Lords at the last general election, the Electoral Reform Society said parliamentarians had «squandered consensus, in the name of cheap point scoring and political games&rreform the Lords at the last general election, the Electoral Reform Society said parliamentarians had «squandered consensus, in the name of cheap point scoring and political games&rReform Society said parliamentarians had «squandered consensus, in the name of cheap point scoring and political games».

Nick Clegg has signalled his determination to press ahead with reform of the House of Lords in a move likely to anger Conservative MPs who have identified the issue as an electoral millstone that contributed to the dismal performance by coalition parties in last week's local elections.

NEW YORK, NY (04/04/2018)(readMedia)-- ICYMI: last week as lawmakers negotiated the final NYS budget, which ultimately exculded early voting and other election reforms, civil rights leaders issued the following statements:

After the merger with the Liberal Democrats in 1988, Owen continued in a much smaller «reformed SDP» which lasted barely two years, dissolving after a series of humiliating by - election defeats.

A professor of constitutional law, Prof. H.K Prempeh, has blamed the Supreme Court for the Electoral Commission's delay in implementing the electoral reforms recommended after last year's election petition ruling.

The Coalition Agreement said that pending reform of the Lords «appointments will be made with the objective of creating a second chamber that is reflective of the share of the vote secured by the political parties in the last general election».

But his energy for reform flagged and his re-election victories in last year's primary and general election were solid but not spectacular.

And at the last general election, reforming the House of Lords was included in the Labour manifesto by its author, Ed Miliband.

It's incredible because all three parties committed in their manifestos before the last election that they would do just this and finish reform of the Lords left unfinished by Blair.

And on Tuesday, state Senate Democrats announced a package of bills aimed at reforming the state's election system which they called a «relic of the last century.»

In the last election, the Reform Party's candidate only had ballot access in Florida.

No party went into the last election defending the status quo, and if Lords reform is ever to see the light of day it will require all parties to stay committed.

Mr. Powell said he hoped Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson, an African - American prosecutor who won election last year on a platform of police reform, would ultimately be able to bring charges against Mr. Liang.

In his State of the Union speech last night, President Obama praised the work of his bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Administration, emphasizing that it «has offered reforms so that no one has to wait more than a half hour to vote.»

The Reform Party of New York has announced that it has aided 328 candidates in win elections since it gained ballot access last year.

Graham Allen, who was Labour chairman of the Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee in the last parliament, said MPs should be recalled next Monday, if no party wins a majority to discuss the election outcome — including the electoral system.

On the ballot last November here in Ohio was a slew of election reform amendments, one of which would have created a nine - member committee in charge of drawing competetive legislative districts.

Sure, there have been outriders floating radical ideas about policy and party reform, yet despite the fears among MPs that there would be a period of blood - letting following Owen Smith's emphatic defeat in the second leadership election last summer, there has been no abuse of the party's internal processes by Corbyn, evidenced by the failure of his supporters to secure berths in the pre-election carve - up of safe seats.