Sentences with phrase «says elections body»

Kariuki, A., «Kenya to hold polls in March 2013, says elections body», The Citizen (18/03/12).

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Zuckerberg said he «is sure» that foreign bodies will try to exploit his platform during the 2018 U.S. midterm elections

Speaking at a press conference on Thursday June 20 organized by the National Democratic Congress [NDC] to react to some comments made by President Akufo - Addo at a media encounter at the Flagstaff House in Accra, the minority leader said the NDC will resist the «blackmail witch - hunting» of the head of the election management body who was appointed by the past Mahama administration.

As I said previously, I will speak from a generic viewpoint, we must keep in mind that the «legislative framework» for election is a composite of four key authorities, namely and in order of hierarchical authority: The Constitution, the Electoral Act, judgments of courts of records particularly the Supreme Court; and the derivative guidelines for election approved by the election management body and l'm talking of INEC.

He said the Election management body (EMB) had no business to deal with corrections after the expiration of the deadline.

AV IS NOT WANTED - EVEN BY THE YES CAMPAIGN: Before the general election, Nick Clegg described AV as «a miserable little compromise» and the Electoral Reform Society said they did «not regard it as suitable for the election of a representative body, e.g. a parliament».

«What Mr Taylor is saying is at variance with the branch election guidelines released by the party's highest body — National Executive Council (NEC),» an outraged Mr Amegbor said.

Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer accepted a motion at Labour's annual conference saying the Lords had to be as democratic as possible, including direct or indirect elections or appointment by a democratic body, or a mix of the three.

Presenting a communique after its meeting, the Omabala forum made up of four council areas of Anambra North zone and Awka North council area led by former Minister for Health Dr. Tim Menakaya and fifteen others, the body said «Ndi Omabala as a whole shall support and adopt a credible gubernatorial election candidate of Anambra North Senatorial Zone origin in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Anambra State irrespective of political platform

The Electoral Commission has called on the various political parties in the country to desist from declaring results of the 2016 general elections saying the EC is the appropriate body mandated by law to do that.

He said a new election that was conducted by the Caretaker Committee at the instance of the national body brought him in as the new chairman of the union in the state with a mandate to serve his full tenure.

Aina said, «The threat of attack stated as the reason for the postponement of the election could be regarded as a cogent reason, but the question remains that a responsible body charged with responsibility of conducting an election should have envisaged the threat.

«In line with the wishes of the majority of the members of the National Democratic Congress, and in the wake of recommendations made by the election review committee chaired by Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, the National Executive Committee, which is the highest decision - making body after Congress, voted unanimously for the scrapping of the register which was used to conduct our internal elections last year,» Kofi Portuphy said.

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, said after approving the appointments said «We hope they contribute and continue to sustain free and credible elections in Nigeria by ensuring that the practices of the national electoral body in this country meet global standards.»

He said having an electoral management body to take those administrative decisions was key to the successful conduct of this year's elections.

In an address at the event, the chairperson of the commission Charlotte Osei said the logo represents the independence of the election management body.

Shehu expressed pleasure at what he called the world body's accurate observation of the trends in President Muhammadu Buhari's government, which he said could only lead down the path of free and fair elections come 2019.

The Labour party is acknowledging that it will be outspent by the Conservatives by a margin of three to one in next year's general election but believes it will be able to «out - body» the Tories on the ground with a new generation of grassroots activists, shadow cabinet minister Gloria De Piero has said.

At a news conference in Abeokuta on Sunday, where 11 state chairmen of different political parties in the state were present, the body, who spoke through its chairman, Moshood Adesina, said, «The outcome of the election, as announced by OGSIEC, is a true and fair representation of the performance of the different political parties that participated in the process.»

He said there is the need to strengthen the rule of law and to empower professional and independent national bodies tasked with the responsibility to manage the election.

ELECTORAL bodies in West and Southern African countries have made a passionate plea to the private sector to contribute to the funding of elections because of the increasing cost of organising them, which they say government alone can no longer shoulder.

He said: «I like this statement that the Chair made or is it a question, asking whether INEC is actually an election management body or a democracy management body.

Yakubu said, «Given the high stakes of conducting elections in developing countries, electoral commissions must understandably be worried about the twin issues of communication and security especially in situations where data reside with and is directly transmitted to the tallying centres through offshore vendors rather than exclusively controlled within national boundaries by election monitoring bodies.

The electoral body said in a tweet, «It has come to the attention of the Independent National Electoral Commission that some persons, especially on social media have started publishing result of the Edo governorship election, such result should be disregarded as only INEC or its designated officials can do so.»

When asked what should happen next having discredited the Kano State local government election, the INEC boss said the commission lacked the constitutional power to investigate any state electoral body since they are autonomous.

While saying that Ibrahim and Eyitayo Jegede were not parties to the suit, the governor said the national electoral body initially took the right decision by making it clear that it was not state or zonal executives that were empowered by the Electoral Act to conduct elections.

The Electoral Commission Chairperson, Charlotte Osei, has defended the decision of the election management body to accept the filing fee of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), saying the Commission accepted the filing fee because they assumed the party was no longer interested pursuing the case in court.

Yakubu said there was a need for state electoral bodies to work closely with INEC to ensure that local government elections are free, fair and credible.

Yakubu said while it could not be established if children actually voted in the election, he could confirm that the voter register which INEC gave to the Kano electoral body for undertaking the election was not completely used.

As we have merged with other political parties, INEC has merged with President Jonathan to form a formidable body to rig the 2015 elections,» the national leader said.

That gives the GOP at least 32 votes in the 63 - member body — unless Democrats win recounts of two close elections on Long Island, which observers say is unlikely.

Yakubu said the electoral body will continue to work with the State Independent Electoral Commissions (SIECs) to ensure continuous improvements in the quality of all elections conducted in Nigeria.

He said: «Election Management Bodies in our sub-regions and beyond have deployed technology in one way or another to improve on the processes, administration and outcome of elections, ranging from training and capacity - building for electoral officials, promotion of inclusivity in the electoral process (youths, women, PWDs, IDPs and out - of - country / diaspora voters), the biometric registration of voters, delineation of electoral constituencies, geo - referencing of existing as well as the creation of new polling units, establishment of robust electronic databases, accreditation of voters during elections, actual voting and the speedy and more accurate collation / transmission of results.

Fielding questions from reporters after paying a courtesy visit to Akeredolu in Lagos on Monday, the Chairman of the group, Chief Wale Oshun, said the body had kept faith with its tradition of endorsing the most competent candidates in all elections held in the South - West.

«I will not close a gap in an election by opening one in the body politic,» Mr. Cuomo said.

She said, «Election management bodies face the formidable challenge of ensuring that stakeholders have trust in the electoral process.

This is a political party that sat down and said let's collect dead bodies and dump them in the Volta Region so to say our agents were beaten and killed; so to create a situation for an election,» he said.

In 2015, former minister and football executive Austin «Jack» Warner said that he had documents linking the outcome of the general election with himself and the finances of football's world governing body, FIFA.

Mr. Abunde said, the» umpire body stated that it has no power to nullify the election of the Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Mr. Terkimbi Ikyange on the basis of last November ruling of the Federal High Court which ordered it to restore the suppressed Mbagwa constituency.

In the Originating Summons marked FHC / ABJ / CS / 232/2018, the plaintiff 8 issues for determination by the court, including: Having regards to the combined provisions of sections 79,116,118,132,153,160 (1) and 178 of the 1999 constitution as amended, the constitution read together with paragraph 15 (a) of the third schedule to the same constitution, whether the 3rd defendant (Independent National Electoral Commission) is not the only institution or body constitutionally vested with the powers and vires to organized, undertake and supervised elections to the offices of the president, the vice president of the federal republic of Nigeria, the Governor and deputy governor of a state, the membership of the Senate, the House of Representatives and the House of Assembly of each state of the federation, including fixing the sequence and dates of the elections to the said offices?

In that election, in which a political body called the Federal Assembly votes rather than the public, bots accounted for a small fraction of political tweets, Neudert says.

If talking heads like Tom O'Neil and Karger stopped, well, talking, trying to affect Oscar voters like the news media unmistakably shapes political elections, then maybe the Pavlovian dogs that make up the Academy's body might have more naturally gravitated to the talents of, say, Ashley Judd and Anamaria Marinca.

Just days before the highly divisive 2016 US election comes to a head, Swiss artist Marta Riniker - Radich is debuting a body of new work that says to hell with politics all together.