Sentences with phrase «running elections in this country»

«Those who expressed negative views stated that running elections in this country was the sovereign and exclusive responsibility of the states, and they did not want federal intrusion, a federal takeover, or federal regulation of that process.»

Deputy General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho says the Supreme Court should be allowed to run elections in the country.

Not exact matches

Last month's G20 meetings in Paris brought into tighter focus the ambitions of International Monetary Fund chief, and failed 2006 French presidential candidate, Dominique Strauss - Kahn to run in that country's next election as the Socialist party candidate.

He'd rather focus on ruling Austria: he launched a political party there this year and plans to run candidates in the country's election in 2013.

National data pointed to continued strength in the Spanish economy but a loss of momentum in France, as French consumers reined in their spending, probably due to political uncertainty in the run - up to the country's presidential election.

In fact, the only people who have displayed any ability to run the country better are Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich — neither of whom have a snowball's chance of even being the candidate, much less winning a rigged election.

Mr. S.D Dombo was a Northerner, LISTEN TO NANA AKUFFO ADDO «Akans must eschew the perception among other groups in the country that they are cowards and would ran away from any little threats «Our predecessors who started the Party that has made us the largest party in the country (i.e Mate — Meho people who used to CUT OPEN THE STOMACHS OF PREGNANT WOMEN AND THROW BOMBS) were not people who were hiding under beds «AT The Atiwa Bye - Elections, we showed a little bit of what we are made of.

«Not only did the election bring an African - American to the presidency, but the Democrat's success on the slogan of «change we can believe in» seemingly brought to a close a long period, running from the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan, in which the Republican Party and conservative values had dominated the country's political discourse.»

Although turnout was high, the 2012 national election was special, both in marking 10 years since independence and the country's first nationally run election.

This year, the East Timorese voted in their country's third parliamentary election since independence — the first to be run by the East Timorese themselves.

Guelleh, who ran on the UMP party ticket, secured 87 percent of the votes cast in Friday's elections, according to provisional results announced by the country's interior minister.

The number of women donating to political campaigns is climbing to new heights ahead of this year's midterm elections as women swarm to politics and run in record numbers for Congress and other elected posts around the country.

They will be doing so during the run - up to May's country council and other elections, many of which will take place in the Tory shire heartlands.

She said there are 11,000 women running for office across the country in Tuesday's elections.

For the purposes of elections knowledge, a candidate receiving the most votes can be elected in some electorates, while in some countries this can instead require a majority, and there may be a form of run - off procedure.

According to him, God is punishing the NPP for the needless scathing attack at him in the run - up to the 2012 elections, when he was caught on tape promising party foot soldiers that he will get them enlisted into the country's security agencies should they work to retain the party in power.http: / / ghanapoliticsonline.com

The party has taken due cognizance of the fact that the government of His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo and His Excellency Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is very much on course to delivering on all the electoral promises we made to the good people of this country in the run - up to the 2016 general elections.

Yacob, 63, was the only candidate deemed eligible to run in the country's Elections Department after the other two contenders, Salleh Marican and Farid Khan, were both denied eligibility, having fallen short of a constitutional rule that required any candidate from the private sector to have led a company with shareholder equity of at least 500 million Singapore dollars (372 million dollars).

It was the prime minister's first visit to the country in the run - up to the Holyrood elections, and he will be hoping his visit helps overturn the SNP's lead in the polls.

Also, a one - time Buhari's running mate in the 2011 presidential election and Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has also at some point in time pointed a finger at the President for the poor state of the country's economy.

A brief introduction to me: I joined the Liberal Democrats in March 2010, campaigned as part of Bosworth PPC Michael Mullaney's team in the run - up to the 2010 General Election (where Michael gained one of the largest swings to the Lib Dems in the country), I joined the Social Liberal Forum shortly after that.

New Patriotic Party's (NPP) running mate for the 2016 elections, Dr. Mahamoud Bawumia, has chastised government's continuous borrowing warning that the country's debt in dollar terms, would reach as much as $ 42 billion dollars by the end of December 2016.

Now that President Buhari has formally declared his intention to run in the 2019 election and seeks a fresh mandate I fear that what is coming our way is not just an election but a series of cataclysmic events that will change our lives and our country forever.

People are alleging that the Benjamite is in bed with Yaanom, and that he is behind a plan for Yaanom to declare their own results in this year's elections, using an Accra - based private radio station which has many affiliate stations all over the country; and that a test run for the strategy was made on April 1, this year on that station.

In the run - up to the 2016 election, Mrs Rawlings who broke away from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to form her own party, labelled accusations on members of the NDC, calling them corrupt and undeserving to lead the country.

MONROVIA (Reuters)-- Former soccer star George Weah has won Liberia's presidential run - off election and will succeed incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf next month, the country's first democratic transition in over 70 years.

[3] Citizens also have the right to vote in and run as a candidate in local elections in the country where they live, European elections and European Citizens» Initiative.

Mr. Koomson, in the run - up to the 2008 general election, warned he won't be comfortable in the unlikely event that his friend, Nana Addo, is voted as President of Ghana because, «it is not safe» for a great country like Ghana.

During the 4 year period in the run up to the next general election the whole country will now of the no confidence in the MPs from their Labour Party constituencies.

The country is gearing itself up for the General Elections in February next year and with President Muhammadu Buhari announcing that he will bid for the governing Party, APC's ticket to run fo a second term, all hell has been let loose by the chaotic, ill - prepared opposition camp.

For the past few months, North Country voters have heard a lot about the two Republican candidates running to represent the party in this fall's election for New York's 21st Congressional District.

Labour would refuse to accept «no - go areas» around the country in the run - up to the general election campaign, Harman insisted.

Mr Mac Manu was leading a team of election observers from the Democratic Union of Africa into Kenya in the run up to that country's election, scheduled for August 8th.

Asking whether Mr Miliband would now say what he supports, foreign secretary William Hague said: «Or will he follow the unions who fixed the election for him, and Ed Balls and Gordon Brown who tutored him, in running away from the biggest problem facing the country and abandoning the centre ground of British politics?»

One of the political parties in the country, the Democratic Youth Congress, DYC has instituted a legal action against President Muhammadu Buhari at the Federal High Court in Abuja over his delay in declaring his intention to run for the 2019 presidential election.

I grew up in a country where most elections were fixed, voting made no difference, and the political process was a dull affair run by a party whose politics were as odious as its leaders.

So Mr Corbyn lets have a new G election in MAY 2017 and a joint run Govt put togther to clean us the mess the Tory Govt have made of our country (Also the E.U. mess they are making now.)

«You overlay that with the lousy system of running elections in general — which is, voter registration laws are cumbersome, we have a closed primary system, getting on the ballot is difficult — and as a result New York has anemic voter turnout, one of the worst in the country.»

During a special election in 2009, Dede Scozzafava was one of the Republicans that ran for the North Country's Congressional seat.

As a grassroots activist who organized for Bernie Sanders in four different states — and have since joined NYPAN and the Democratic Socialists of America — I've heard from hundreds of Americans who are fed up with way the country runs its elections.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — In the run - up to national elections on 21 August, the country's top science body, the Australian Academy of Science (AAS), has weighed in on the climate change debate with a report backing the mainstream scientific view that human - induced climate change is real and that a business - as - usual approach to carbon emissions will lead to a «catastrophic» four - to five - degree increase in average global temperatureIn the run - up to national elections on 21 August, the country's top science body, the Australian Academy of Science (AAS), has weighed in on the climate change debate with a report backing the mainstream scientific view that human - induced climate change is real and that a business - as - usual approach to carbon emissions will lead to a «catastrophic» four - to five - degree increase in average global temperaturein on the climate change debate with a report backing the mainstream scientific view that human - induced climate change is real and that a business - as - usual approach to carbon emissions will lead to a «catastrophic» four - to five - degree increase in average global temperaturein average global temperatures.

The audits were carried out after the US mission in Geneva requested information about travel activities and about contracts awarded to executive board countries in the run - up to the election.

Now, nobody seems surprised that «reformer» Marshall Tuck, running for California schools superintendent in the country's most high - profile education election contest, has pulled in every single major newspaper endorsement in California — despite the fact that California and national teachers unions are throwing everything they have against Tuck.

The country is now run by former army chief, president Abdul Fattah al - Sisi, who won a third election in 2014 and who is seeking re-election as president this year.

Third: In Canada we have some 300 long - running Local Governments which replace their members using systems other than the kind of «elections» defined under the various Municipal Acts or equivalent across the country.

Ohio is the only state in the country that elects its judicial candidates via partisan ballots during the primary election, but in the fall, the primary - election winners run as non-partisan candidates during the general election.

Earlier this month, it was also reported widely that Sierra Leone became the first country in the world to run blockchain - powered elections.

In this case, SCL's mandate was to ascertain the scale of vote - buying behavior — a longstanding issue in the southeast Asian country — that had inflated the cost of running an election campaign to around $ 1 billion, according to the company's estimateIn this case, SCL's mandate was to ascertain the scale of vote - buying behavior — a longstanding issue in the southeast Asian country — that had inflated the cost of running an election campaign to around $ 1 billion, according to the company's estimatein the southeast Asian country — that had inflated the cost of running an election campaign to around $ 1 billion, according to the company's estimates.

It could also mean that if you run really good candidates against really, really awful candidates, you can win in places you shouldn't, and Democrats won't have awesome candidates running against jabbering dupes in every congressional district in the country come the November election, so they probably shouldn't get ahead of themselves with all this «blue wave» talk.

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