Sentences with phrase «through national elections»

No other EU institution is directly elected, with the Council of the European Union and the European Council being only indirectly legitimated through national elections.

«We just went through a national election where Democrats did not campaign aggressively in every community and as a result, there were voters who felt as if they were left behind,» Jeffries said.

[2] While Europarties have the right to campaign EU - wide for the European elections, campaigns still take place through national election campaigns, advertising national delegates from national parties.

In the last year alone, for example, we've come through a national election, a changing of the guard at NAR, and a series of natural disasters that has touched many thousands of lives and is impacting our industry in many ways.

Not exact matches

Stories on the U.S. election tend to focus on national polls, ignoring the fact that the president is chosen through the electoral college, not a popular vote.

SEAN HANNITY: My question is, are you concerned within the process of this, we did discover that a foreign national, Christopher Steele, was paid through Fusion GPS, used Russian sources that not only weren't verified, but were debunked — are you concerned that was paid for, to manipulate the American people in the lead - up to an election?

«Having just come through a divisive national election, I am urging pastors across this country to lead their congregations in praying daily for our president, Barack Obama... for wisdom, Divine guidance, and that God would accomplish His will and purposes,» Graham said in a statement.

We will have a better immigration policy when we have a national consensus — expressed through elections — about what that better immigration policy should look like.

«Having just come through a divisive national election, I am urging pastors across this country to lead their congregations in praying daily for our president, Barack Obama,» Graham said.

INEC had recently through its National Commissioner and Chairman Voter Education (IVEC), Prince Solomon Adedeji Soyebi, announced that the Ekiti governorship election will hold on July 14th, 2018, pointing out that the tenure of the incumbent governor, Ayodele Fayose will expire on October 15th.

It will interest you to know that the National Council of Elders of the party through the instigations of the flagbearere Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, wrote a petition to the Disciplinary Committee, to demand amongst other things that, the National Chairman, Mr. Paul Afoko, be made to step aside until after the 2016 elections which goes contrary to the party's constituetion.

And as we've seen in lower - turnout elections through the entire 2010 cycle, both special elections and primaries, national money can make a decisive difference: Lisa Murkowski and Mike Castle may be the latest victims, but Scott Brown's win back in January had already shown the way.

Claim 19: «The Chairperson through her arrogant posture brought embarrassment to the Commission by refusing to grant audience to the members of the National Peace Council and the leader of the Africa Union Delegation Mr. Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa during the 2016 General Election.»

There are countless motivations in general elections and even more in locals - the results are reflected through a prism of local issues, local connections, local parties, national politics and national issues.

The next general election is not due until 2020 under current laws, but could be staged within months if the next Conservative leader decides to seek a mandate through a national vote.

Instead, they had to go through a National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) election, which can often be a cumbersome, delay - ridden process.

The faction expressed worry that the state chapter of the party issued directive that only forms that come through the party office in the state would be valid for the ward election in the state contrary to the national position.

In the parliamentary elections called for 25 May and 1 June, the National Front plans to stand 566 candidates for the 577 assembly seats and hopes to poll the 12.5 per cent necessary to proceed through to the second round.

Labour currently holds the seat with a near 9,000 majority vote and would be likely to retain it at the forthcoming election, with a resignation now ahead of a national poll preferable to a departure mid-way through the next parliament when Purnell's move would have triggered a byelection, more high profile and potentially more perilous for the party.

For instance, during the recent Presidential election in Liberia, the country's National Electoral Commission (NEC), through the United Nations, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC), which I currently chair, requested the services of INEC staff to sort out issues with their register.

Clegg said after the election that he had no choice but to go back on his word: a national economic disaster loomed, national interest trumps party politics, amassing power and all its trappings through brazen dishonesty was actually an act of sacrifice!

Flagbearer of the National Democratic Party (NDP) and her running mate, Kojo Mensah Sosuh, have petitioned the Electoral Commission Chairperson Charlotte Osei, through private legal practitioner, Ace Ankomah, to reinstate them, after they were disqualified from participating in the December presidential elections, alongside twelve other aspirants.

Comrade Aremu said only INEC has the responsibility to organize a cost effective, transparent, free and fair elections adding that National Assembly could only make laws to strengthen institutions not to run them through what he called «self - serving serial amendments».

The Democratic National Committee has lost fewer people, probably due to the fact that Chairman Howard Dean is staying on through the 2008 election and wants to keep his current team in place.

Is the head of government or other chief national authority elected through free and fair elections?

In 2013, the Liberal Party of Canada membership elected Justin Trudeau as party leader through IRV in a national leadership election.

The independent expenditure arm of the National Republican Congressional Committee has canceled three weeks of television in the Buffalo media market that would have been aimed at vulnerable Rep. Kathy Hochul (D) after the GOP - aligned American Action Network came into the district with $ 600,000 worth of television time from Oct. 12 through Election Day.

INEC, initially, made its position clear regarding Akko Federal Constituency of Gombe State to the National Chairman of APC that the submission of the name of a new candidate for the court - ordered election is «not acceptable» because «the period for nomination of candidate for the election has since elapsed,» but failed to follow it through to a logical conclusion.

Dr Hassan Ayariga said the ground that he did not properly fill his nomination form as cited by the EC is baseless considering he went through the same process before contesting the 2012 presidential election on the ticket of the People's National Convention (PNC).

The National Assembly should go through the Electoral Act and see the areas that can strengthen INEC to conclude elections and the matter will not go beyond that.

As national parliaments appear to bring greater legitimacy than the European Parliament, he argues that the EU should consider returning to a system in which MEPs are appointed by national politicians rather than through European elections.

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 National Assembly had recently reordered elections through the amendment of the Electoral Act.

As the 2019 general elections draw closer, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has expressed fears over the increasing incidence of election meddling through the use of technology in many countries.

The National Organizer stated that the party does not do anything contrary to what is contained in its constitution, hence there is no way unqualified people would make it through the election.

For a nation that was waiting for a messianic vision and direction from his government, President Buhari does not have the privilege or the right to remain silent on issues such as the current fuel scarcity (save for a one - page press release signed by him), the Mainagate, the NNPC $ 25bn contract scandal, the continued Fulani herdsmen attack on communities, despite their being listed as the fourth deadliest terror group in the Global Terrorism Index, and the full report of the Presidential Panel of Inquiry set up to investigate a former Secretary to Government of the Federation, Lawal Babachir, and a former DG, National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke, because beyond election, the validation of the legitimacy of any government through good governance rests on this core element which is communicating.

If at a General Election the national figures were Conservative 44 % Labour 26 % Liberal Democrat 17 % then I rather suspect that actually the majority would be of over 150 - the Liberal Democrats might manage to hold onto as many as 40 seats, Labour would go way down though below 200 seats, the Conservatives would probably break through 400 seats, it does depend a lot on tactical voting, however the likliehood of a such a result in the next 10 years is virtually nil, in the longer term I would say it was quite probable at some stage in the future once the Labour government finally collapses.

According to Huffington Post's Paul Waugh, Jeremy Corbyn wants Labour's national executive committee to agree that Labour MPs who want to stand again at the election have to go through a «trigger ballot» so that local activists can vote against them if they want an alternative candidate.

Election barometer The Political Forecasting Unit's «election barometer», designed to capture the changing state of the race as it unfolds through the campaign, shows the Conservatives just one seat ahead of Labour, with both parties well short of an overall majority, assuming a uniform nationaElection barometer The Political Forecasting Unit's «election barometer», designed to capture the changing state of the race as it unfolds through the campaign, shows the Conservatives just one seat ahead of Labour, with both parties well short of an overall majority, assuming a uniform nationaelection barometer», designed to capture the changing state of the race as it unfolds through the campaign, shows the Conservatives just one seat ahead of Labour, with both parties well short of an overall majority, assuming a uniform national swing.

In a statement signed by Mr. Reuben Abati, Special advicer on media and publicity to the president, Jonathan also commended the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, its personnel and the nation's security services for ensuring that the elections were free and fair in keeping with his administration's commitment to continually strengthen democracy in Nigeria through the establishment of a more credible electoral system.

Agbaje, who spoke through his spokesperson, Mr. Felix Oboagwina, said he was not a betrayer as being claimed, adding that he decided to contest the election in the national interest.

In the view of the constituents, this is a ploy to manipulate the election of party executives at the constituency level, through to the national level.

In the last 2 years, the MCFA has gone through an intensive, exciting, and promising series of developments with the establishment of national groups in virtually all member countries of the EU and the election of an administrative board during the first Annual General Assembly in November 1998.

Freischlag is also a member of the National Academy of Medicine, considered the highest recognition of professional achievement and commitment to volunteer service in medicine, as determined by her peers through election.

Two states are pulling out of a leading national education group in the most visible sign yet of the political tensions rippling through many policymaking organizations since the 1994 elections.

They are governed by school boards chosen through nonpartisan elections often held on days other than the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, when national elections are held.

Choosing a school is one of the key points at which parents experience national policy through a local lens, and as such, should be an important election issue both in the big debates and on the doorstep.

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Katia Santibañez's most recent video piece A National Nightmare will be on view at Petzel Gallery through February 11, 2017 as part of the group exhibition We need to talk... The exhibition aims «to address the myriad issues presented by the election results of November 8th.»

As South Africa prepares to celebrate 20 years since the election that brought Nelson Mandela to President, and with Jacob Zuma recently securing a controversial second term to lead the governing African National Congress, Iniva reflects on the nation's social and political history through the work of internationally acclaimed artist and writer Peter Clarke.