Sentences with phrase «than the incumbent government»

The 2011 Parliament Act instituting fixed - term parliaments was intended to prevent precisely what May is doing - capitalising on circumstances favourable to nothing other than an incumbent government's party - political chances.

There will be no electoral embrace of Miliband if voters judge him less able than the incumbent government of so delivering.

Not exact matches

The onus was to be reversed so that it was incumbent on the government to determine that something was detrimental to Canada rather than providing a «net benefit».

It is worth noting, however, that we believe it is incumbent on the government to keep spending within declared levels, and to appropriately apply any unexpected gains (i.e. from a stronger than forecast GDP growth, higher energy prices, etc.) to the deficit and thus hasten the return to a balanced budget.

However, with cultural angst high on the agenda, dissatisfaction with the incumbent government on the rise and a Eurosceptic campaign that is more sophisticated than some realise, it does appear likely that whatever the result, the Leave vote will be fairly strong.

The expenses upheaval of 2009 means that many dying swans are already dead, so that the Coalition need worry less about unhappy incumbents than previous governments.

At the time, the choice to entrust the incumbent prime minister rather than the leader of the largest party with the first attempt to form a government had cross-party approval.

Local election results tend to differ from general elections in certain predicable ways — for example incumbent government parties have tended to perform worse on average at local elections than their eventual general election results by about 4.5 %.

First, our research shows that voters regard a government's choice to time the election strategically and for partisan benefit as significantly less important to their vote choice than the incumbent's policy performance and party leadership.

The PDP spokesman wondered why Soyinka suddenly turned himself to an image maker of an incumbent governor who lost his reelection bid in all the 16 Local Government Areas of the state, winning less than 20 wards out of 177 wards in the state as well.

Addressing members of the Tertiary Education Institution Network, TEIN, at the Tamale Technical University, Vice President Amissah - Arthur said it is a known fact that some regions are well resourced than others and it is incumbent on government to bridge that gap as part of nation building.

Fasano said that rather than having to explain where his caucus «draws the line» between campaign consulting work and taxpayer - funded government work performed by the same firm, he just decided «to get rid of» the campaign work for any Republican state Senate candidate, incumbent or challenger.

It does become a problem if it is an indication of soft support for Labour, if the government become less unpopular once they have a better economy behind them, if minor parties establish themselves as alternative recipients of anti-government votes or if during an election campaign it becomes more of a choice between two alternatives, rather than a judgement on the incumbent.

Labour as currently organised and funded is actually considerably more effective as an opposition than a government — its competencies and enthusiasms are well suited to holding an incumbent government to account, less so to the actual business of government.

It should be incumbent upon the crown to seek clarification from the government about the circumstances where a s. 172 charge (racing) is appropriate rather than a s. 128 charge (speeding), and until they get that clarification they should charge all defendants with speeding rather than racing.

Regarding those 2002 and 2004 contract tender processes, court documents indicate that the numbers in the tender documents — which were prepared by the government — had led to dramatic overbidding by relocation firms other than Royal LePage, which being the incumbent, knew the actual numbers.