Sentences with phrase «said electoral reform»

His comments come after a senior party official has said electoral reform was «not a deal maker and not a deal breaker» for a possible coalition deal.

He said electoral reform and the appointment of Prof. Attahiru Jega as Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman restored his confidence in politics after previous umpires «disappointed» him.

But he said electoral reform would be a deal breaker — a» change in the voting system» was necessary.

Not exact matches

«The electoral advantages of anti-immigrant politics will only shrink over time, suggesting that Republicans should at some point — perhaps before the next presidential election — begin to embrace comprehensive immigration reform,» says Mark Price, a labor economist at the Keystone Research Center, a nonpartisan economic policy think tank in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Opposition leader Mr Raila Odinga, whose legal challenge to the election results led to the vote being nullified, withdrew from the new election, saying the process was not credible because of the lack of electoral reforms.

Conservatives say the dramatic shakeup of Britain's electoral map, which could hand the party around a dozen more seats at the general election, was a quid pro quo for the electoral reform referendum, which took place in May 2011.

If the argument is «those dastardly Tories will now defeat us on electoral reform because they will say we have these shiny new primaries», then I don't see what use this one is either.

Jim Jay: I didn't say they are a substitute for «reform» - I said they are a substitute for «electoral reform.»

Given the Fabian society has a good record on electoral reform, perhaps you might take action / put pressure on the likes of Tom Harris who undermined Lib - Lab negotiations by saying he'd never accept anything other than FPTP.

Let me go out on a limb and say Labour ought to offer this if the LibDems were to accept it ---- so yes to electoral reform, Lords reform, (even PR to local government) and a path to a written constitution — yes to an Iraq inquiry — No ID cards; no heathrow runway.

AV may be far from perfect for those (like ippr) who want genuine proportional representation, but this is the closest we've come to getting electoral reform put to the people (who deserve the chance to have a say on this).

In the meantime, to those Tom Harris charcaters in the Labour party who want to present electoral reform as an issue of relevance only to bourgeois liberal Guardian - readers (like me), I say: how dare you oppose a system that — on the evidence of Soskice and Iversen's study — is better for social spending and economic equality?

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

Regarding electoral reform and AV, I've said this before and I'll say it again: I really don't see it as being much of a goer.

«We have a golden opportunity to implement electoral reforms that expand engagement in our democracy, particularly in communities who have historically faced underrepresentation,» Adams said in a statement.

says the decisions behind a landmark High Court ruling earlier this year provides the impetus for the Federal Government to reform electoral laws.

That said, if the Tories manage to get an actual majority, go about their own electoral «reform» and keep themselves in power for a while without going anywhere near PR, I suspect Nick Clegg will go down as the worst player of a good electoral hand in history.

An extra # 2bn in education spending on Britain's most disadvantaged four - to six - year - olds will be a key Liberal Democrat demand in the event of a hung parliament, rather than their traditional call for electoral reform, Nick Clegg says.

«We don't have to go to Albany and deal with that political dysfunction in order to get this electoral reform,» he said, an apparent reference to that fact that many other voting and election laws are dictated by the state.

Among them, campaigner and musician Billy Bragg said the hung parliament was an opportunity to bring about «genuine electoral reform».

I could not say that I would never support some form of electoral reform, in any circumstances, but I think we have seen all too clearly the downside of coalition government.

That said, there is no reason why a Conservative supporter should not also be a supporter of electoral reform.

He is supportive of electoral reform but he says the proposed change to AV «adds new features of caprice and uncertainty to the conduct of each individual election.»

Criticizing the political power of governmental unions, the billionaire mayor said a «labor - electoral complex» has stymied reform.

When I say Cameron will play the long game he will avoid any major electoral reform, because that will mean that the tories would find it impossible to form a govt without a much bigger share of the vote.

He said there was growing alarm that key policies concerning drugs, land taxes, electoral and constitutional reform could all be ditched because they were opposed by both Labour and the Tories.

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga withdrew Tuesday from a re-run of the presidential election, saying electoral officials had failed to make necessary reforms.

Mr Clegg said he believed Conservative opposition to electoral reform could prove their «biggest strategic error» in one of the most unpredictable general election campaigns of modern times.

What a contrast with the electoral reform referendum of 2011, which the Conservatives said had put the issue to a bed for a generation.

Gordon Brown should hold a national referendum on electoral reform, Health Secretary Alan Johnson has said.

But Sir Stuart Bell, Labour MP for Middlesbrough, said Mr Johnson's electoral reform proposals had little support in the House of Commons and would never be implemented.

Re-elected Green Party MP Caroline Lucas agreed, saying «The political system in this country is broken -LSB-...] It's ever clearer tonight that the time for electoral reform is long overdue, and it's only proportional representation that will deliver a Parliament that is truly legitimate and better reflects the people it is meant to represent.»

After being asked four times to rule out such discussions on electoral reform, Cameron said: «Put the question in, you know, Serbo - Croat, if you want to — but you're going to get the same answer.»

The language in the Moreland Commission's report on legislative corruption is scathing, and validates what crusading journalists, watchdog groups and prosecutors have been saying for years: Albany is a place where laws are bought, and nothing will change until the «dysfunctional electoral and political systems» are reformed.

Asked whether Ukip would consider officially teaming up with the Greens to campaign for electoral reform, Farage was coy, saying: «We don't see eye to eye on many issues, but on this one...»

Advocates for electoral reform say that the outcome has again exposed the limitations of the first - past - the - post system, prompting urgent calls for a change to the way Britain votes.

«Root - and - branch» reform of Britain's electoral system is needed because of increasingly frequent instances of electoral fraud, a report says.

In his words at the public hearing on constitution and electoral reform held at Ogun State Cultural Centre, Abeokuta today, Governor Fayose said; «Even when it inherited a working system that conducted elections adjudged as free and fair by local and international communities, INEC has failed consistently to replicate the inherited working system due to overzealousness and rabid passion to work as appendage of the federal government.

The mayor said his main focus will be on expanding pre-kindergarten to 3 - year - olds, along with increasing investments in affordable housing, putting body cameras on patrol officers citywide and tackling electoral reform.

On electoral reform, Mr Brown said he did not favour proportional representation for Westminster elections as he did not want to break the link between MPs and constituencies.

Dr. Afari Gyan (EC Chairman): Prof. Prempeh says the Electoral Commission not to blame for the electoral reforms delay

On the eve of polling day the Labour leader appeared to lock and bolt the door to electoral reform for a generation, saying he did not support anything other than AV as an alternative to First Past The Post.

Clegg looks set to emerge kingmaker, saying today that electoral reform - favouring proportional representation (PR) will be an «absolute pre-condition» of his post-election demands.

The Chairman said, «It is important that the budget of INEC be made to show more widespread public accountability and transparency of the Commission — which is a significant reform in itself - with a multiplier effect on electoral reform.»

«Politically, Nigeria can not be said to be where it was in 2004 as the Jonathan Administration has embarked on extensive electoral reforms to institute a regime of electoral integrity that all Nigerians can be proud of, believing that governance will be greatly enhanced in the country if the will of the people prevails at elections.

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.

Labour's Lord Mandelson, a keen supporter of electoral reform, said: «I think that's very disappointing, but I'm equally entirely unsurprised by it.

We've said it many times and will again: The best electoral reform Albany could enact would be to end the cross-endorsement system that's nearly unique to New York.

Mr Brown said: «My view is clear, there needs to be immediate legislation on this (electoral reform) to begin to restore the public trust in politics and to improve parliament's standing and reputation.

The Liberal Democrat leader said that the party had examined «every possible outcome» but warned that any alliance would be conditional on support for electoral reform.