Sentences with phrase «to elect a new leader»

She could step down and allow her party to elect a new leader who could try and do the same.

At a meeting of Scottish Labour's Scottish Executive Committee today (the timetable was agreed for electing the new leader of the Scottish Labour Party.

Only the Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru are not currently embroiled in a leadership race — although, perhaps not wishing to be left out, the Lib Dems are electing a new leader of their group in the House of Lords in September.

Today, however, such a system is not commonly practiced and most parliamentary system parties» rules provide for a leadership election in which the general membership of the party is permitted to vote at some point in the process (either directly for the new leader or for delegates who then elect the new leader in a convention), though in many cases the party's legislators are allowed to exercise a disproportionate influence in the final vote.

In theory this could be interpreted to support an argument that a parliamentary party ought to have the power to elect their party leader directly, and indeed, at least historically, parliamentary system parties» leadership electoral procedures usually called for the party's legislative caucus to fill a leadership vacancy by electing a new leader directly by and from amongst themselves, and for the whole succession process to be completed within as short a time frame as practical.

In the open letter, Macintosh asked that Scottish Labour Party elect its new leader by using a One Member One Vote system and that they move to a system of open primaries.

2.15 pm Local Government: «Cllr Hall was elected the new Leader last night by 31 votes to 24 after a number of Independent Labour councillors abstained or voted for her.

Mandelson's intervention could give a boost to David Miliband's campaign at the start of the week in which MPs, MEPs, party activists and members of affiliated organisations will start voting in the postal ballot to elect a new leader on 25 September.

This may all change once Labour elect a new leader, but right now both Harman and her party seem devoid of ambition, enthusiasm or inspiration.

This afternoon, the Cardinals of the Catholic Church elected a new leader.

The Welsh nationalists are to elect their new leader today in a contest which its chief executive claims has «united the party».

Democrats have noted that their conference has elected new leaders since 2009, the last time it held the chamber majority.

Meanwhile, East Hampton Democratic chairwoman Jeanne Frankl, after more than six years in the job, is stepping down, and the party will elect a new leader Feb. 21 at St. Michael's Lutheran Church in Amagansett.

It's true that there would be little point in electing a new leader until the party has done some soul - searching and re-established itself.

After Silver was effectively removed from his leadership post in February, days after his arrest, the chamber elected a new leader, leaving the former speaker to serve as a conspicuous back - bencher.

The various groups pushing for reform then had to unify to campaign for a system they didn't want, but while they were doing so, Labour was spending five months tortuously electing a new leader.

«This will allow the Scottish Labour party, its members and affiliates the opportunity to not only elect a new leader but a new leadership team focused on winning in 2016.»

As a national organizer of our party, we wish to remind him of his role as a leader and must remain as neutral as possible till the party elects a new leader at congress, at a later date to be determined by the same body of which he is part,» the statement added.

I also do not believe it will be at all easy to change the leadership of Labour so soon after electing a new leader in such a short space of time - It shouldn't be discounted also that Corbyn could do very well as party leader in the next few years and stop dead in their tracks any attempts by his rivals within the party to challenge his authority.

There is no talk of rebuilding Dauntless In the book, the remaining of Dauntless elect new leaders.

Just days before Hong Kong elects its new leader, Art Basel Hong Kong opened to the public on Thursday and continues through Saturday.

The Guardian columnist Owen Jones has argued that the big red line among Labour Party members for electing a new leader is the candidates» position on the war in Iraq — a prominent issue with only a few days until the release of the Chilcot report — rather than who is more left - wing.

Cllr Hall was elected the new Leader last night by 31 votes to 24 after a number of Independent Labour councillors abstained or voted for her.

If you want a party that simply is about support for the leading clique then Mr [James] Schneider, the chair of fringe group Momentum, should set up their own party, nominate Jeremy as the leader and get on seeing how many votes they get in a general election... There is going to be a general election, everybody now understands that, once the Tories have elected their new leader on 9 September.

He also argued that the problems facing Scottish Labour won't just be remedied by electing a new leader but that the party needed radical change to repair its relationship with the people in Scotland.

The Prince George Citizen - Burton backs building base When the federal Liberal party elects their new leader, the votes coming from the less - populated ridings will be just as important as those from the urban centres... Read More

«We enjoin our members nationwide to come together as one family, as we march to Eagle Square, Abuja on Saturday 9 — Sunday 10, December 2017 to elect our new leaders who will manage the affairs of our Party at the National Level.

As voting to elect the new leader of the British Labour Party draws to a close, former leader Tony Blair is telling the party faithful that they are on the horns of a dilemma: remain true to the core values of the party or vote for a leader who will make the party electable.

Just as Conservatives gathered to elect a new leader, Statistics Canada released income data for 2015.

On March 18, the PC Party will elect a new leader.

It's become especially important for the team to do its work because Germany, France and the Netherlands will elect new leaders this year, and fake news can definitely play a role in an election.

With the Labour Party seemingly willing to gift the Tories half a year to do whatever they want with the country, the Liberal Democrats have a shorter path to electing a new leader and getting on with the business of rebuilding.

(Reuters)-- Battle lines were drawn for South Africa's ANC on Monday as voting began to elect a new leader to succeed President Jacob Zuma as head of a party that has ruled since the end of apartheid but faced scandals and corruption allegations.

Announcing the timetable for the election, Ms Harman said: «Our challenge now is to use this time to listen and learn, to elect a new leader and deputy leader who will rebuild the Labour party in order to take the fight to this Tory government and to stand up for Britain.»

In the same week that the state assembly was roundly criticized for employing a closed - door process to elect a new leader, it's distressing that the progressive borough of Brooklyn would follow suit.

An open letter was published by a group called #LibDems4Change urging fellow party members to elect a new leader «who will get a fair hearing from voters about Liberal Democrat achievements and ambitions for the future».

The victories were an undoubted success and Osborne's tin ear should sound alarm bells ringing for Conservative MPs when they come to elect a new leader.

The spokesperson for the caretaker committee, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, who stated these in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday, said Nigerians who had been complaining about the running of the country, would be able to elect new leaders.

Also in her interview, Abbott criticises rival Labour leadership teams for complaining about the voting system used to elect the new leader.

President Mahama lost the presidential election to Nana Akufo Addo on December 7, 2016 after voters went to the ballot to elect a new leader.

The Labour Party wants to hold televised hustings in the parts of the country where it lost when it elects a new leader over the summer.

Oladiti said the conference was also an occasion for members of the union to elect new leaders to pilot the affairs of the union for the next four years.

Regular polling remains sparse given the ongoing inquiry and that we're in that odd sort of political interregnum with Labour yet to elect their new leaders, but there have been a couple of polls on the Labour contest and the EU.

As Silver resigned his post and the Assembly scrambled to elect a new leader, the governor added ethics reform and greater financial disclosure of law clients to his long list.

Now that Miliband has resigned, the main imperative for the Labour party is to elect a new leader.

Once Labour has elected a new leader, he wants to «invite them into Number 10 straight away to sit with David Cameron and myself and try and resuscitate some of the stuff that we need to do on a cross-party basis».

Following the meeting of Labour's National Executive Committee, a party spokesman said they had agreed to meet again «in the days and weeks ahead» to determine the timetable and the procedures for electing a new leader.