Sentences with phrase «under a party system»

On a recent all - party parliamentary group trip to Jordan, King Abdullah II asked us to help show his MPs how politics is run under a party system.

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Ours is an adversarial legal system, under which all parties to a dispute are entitled to legal representation.

Under the current system of lax or non-existent restrictions on political spending, billionaire givers are at least as influential as any individual member of the House or Senate, probably a bigger deal than the chairmen of the two major political parties.

The Abacus study also asked those who voted in the 2015 Canadian General Election to rank a ballot that included the main political parties and generated data for 11 regions to estimate, with increased precision, the outcome of the Canadian election had it been run under different electoral systems.

In regard to seniors, the Party is committed to making the Alberta Seniors Benefit inflation - proof by tying it to the Alberta Consumer Index, increasing the number of dental procedures covered under the Dental Assistance for Seniors Program, and improving the province's system of senior centres.

While its very large e-commerce has been a strong driver of the rise of alternative payment providers in the country, Citi points at a number of other factors that have facilitated the rise of those third - party payment companies, among which an under - developed banking system viewed by the public as quite unreliable (unsurprising given how tightly controlled banking is in China, which has stifled customer - oriented innovation), and «relaxed regulation.»

It's true that under a PR system, single party majority governments would probably be few and far between.

Yet even in the case of blood vengeance, biblical law at least keeps the system under the watchful eye of the elders, who arbitrate the claims of the respective parties, just as in the more direct cases of lex talionis.

Such supporters were not so clearly conscious of the end which the system served, though they were aware that they were parties to forms of imperialism which could only survive under a regime of stabilization and peace.

Typically, if a party to litigation is successful in such a transfer, a case would proceed in the federal court system under federal procedural rules.

If they did somehow get through this system (and it's possible that their vote share would swell under the new system), they do have some room for agreement with the main parties.

«It is like once you get into politics, you throw discipline to the dogs, you are not under any law, you can do anything you want as a politician and it is that character that is going through... There are structures, party structures, legal structures but because you are in politics, the people who are actually activating the political system, they think that once I am in politics; I can push discipline and the law to the side and the policeman can not even do anything to me,» he lamented.

Under this view, India is really a one - party system with a large number of minority parties.

Under the current Labour system, the National Policy Forum receives delegates from constituency party associations and has a debate with the shadow Cabinet and affiliates about policy positions.

So how about «Of course, any party can keep its shiny primaries under many different electoral systems.

That members of a reformed Lords would be unable to stand for re-election effectively removes that effect from the equation, and there is no evidence to suggest that Lords elected under an open preferential system would be any more likely to follow the party leadership than those elected under STV.

«Also under our system, if you are leaving office it's because you've failed — either you've voted out or your party has kicked you out.

Friends of Dugdale have since pointed out that Rowley, when seeking election as the Scottish Party's deputy leader last year, promised that if he won he would not accept a protected place at the top of one of the lists from which a 56 of Holyrood's 129 MSPs are elected under a system of proportional representation only to go back on his word as soon as he won that particular race.

With Scottish politics now dominated by two big parties, small parties under pressure and women's representation on the wane, the Electoral Reform Society say action is now needed to ensure that Scotland's political system can continue to meet the original aspirations and expectations of the advocates of devolution.

That the SNP would win a third consecutive victory was never in any doubt but it's a measure of how dominant the nationalists have become in the aftermath of the 2014 independence referendum that the party's inability to win a second overall majority - under a proportional representation system designed to prevent just such an outcome - may be considered something of a failure.

Ken (unlike many in a highly tribal Labour Party) is now used to running for election under a PR system.

The Labour Party has already budgetted a modest # 500,000 to conduct a postal ballot of its members to elect constituency representatives to its NEC and National Policy Forum, which are conducted under the «one - member - one - vote» system.

The U.S. uses a weak party system: candidates can run under a party's name with little or no support or recognition from that party.

Such is the weight of expectation on Nicola Sturgeon's shoulders that failure by the SNP to win each and every one of the Scottish Parliament's 73 constituencies (leaving other parties to pick up seats decided under a proportional representation system) would be seen as some kind of failure.

«As the independence of members of the House of Commons has decreased under the system of party discipline — it is known as «whipping» by analogy with the fox hunting practice of whipping pack of hounds into order for the pursuit — so both the quality and reputation of MPs has declined, rendering them even less likely to behave independently.

Indeed, so strong was the party system that President Shagari, though an executive president, attended party caucuses under party chairman, Adisa Akinloye; and was bound by party decisions.

Sturgeon requires the continuing support of unionist voters, happy to back the SNP in government if not to endorse their view on the future of the UK, if she is to repeat her party's trick of winning an overall majority in a parliament elected under a system that's part first - past - the - post and part proportional representation.

In fact, it is the lower threshold for winning under FPTP compared with many other systems that often lets extremists parties slip through and win at local election level in the UK.

(Obviously, this couldn't happen under a one - vote system, because then the party would split its votes and hand the election to its opponents.)

It's created liberal democracy and the beginnings of a plural party system, albeit under crappy first past the post.

Four years later the SNP went on to prove that it was possible for one party to win an overall majority under Holyrood's proportional electoral system.

Shadow Defence Secretary Clive Lewis said that under the first past the post voting system, Labour will struggle to form a government without the backing of other left - leaning parties.

He has won two Scottish elections, the first as the largest party in a hung parliament and the second in 2011 with an overall majority, which, under the proportional voting system introduced after the 1998 devolution settlement, was forecast as highly improbable.

Left - wing unions ¬ withholding up to # 4million from Labour under a new ¬ membership system, he said, would have the resources to fund a rival party.

Under the «two in, one out» system of removing peers, each party would be asked to contribute in accordance with their current proportion of members.

In Scotland the Additional Member System agreed for the Scottish Parliament will hand Labour seats to parties to its right — the Liberal Democrats, SNP and even the Tories will benefit — and almost certainly lose Labour the majority it would have under the present sSystem agreed for the Scottish Parliament will hand Labour seats to parties to its right — the Liberal Democrats, SNP and even the Tories will benefit — and almost certainly lose Labour the majority it would have under the present systemsystem.

«I sometimes really think that time is running out for us to get our act together and unless we can get consent from those political parties to work together and actually begin to make a difference then I'm afraid to say the next 10 to 20 years could be dominated not just by the Conservative party, but I feel we could see a breakthrough under the first - past - the - post system of a post-Brexit Ukip party in parts of this country.

Under this system, each party draws up a ranked list of candidates, from which a number are elected based on the parties» shares of a national vote.

The European elections are held under a proportional voting system which gives smaller parties a better chance of winning seats than in general elections.

Basically, under the current first past the post (FPTP) system, if you are a normal non-member and live in a safe Labour seat or an area where we have no chance of winning, the chances are you will be barely aware a local Labour party exists until an election comes along — and maybe not even then.

Under this system, some members are elected for traditional first - past - the - post seats, but others will be returned, in a second vote, in larger constituencies on a party list PR system.

Under rules agreed last year, all Labour Party members, registered supporters and affiliated supporters - including union members - will be allowed a maximum of one vote each on a one member, one vote system.

There is no motivation under this system for parties to go into elections pretending anything other than that they hate each other equally.

Under our first - past - the - post electoral system... you can only win if you are a broad church political party, and for the Labour Party you have to take in everyone from the left to the centre - party, and for the Labour Party you have to take in everyone from the left to the centre - Party you have to take in everyone from the left to the centre - left.

Records show that Connolly has done quite well for himself under a system the party claims to abhor.

Under the old system, statewide candidates could submit 150 signatures from registered party members in - lieu of a filing fee.

That's because, under the new system, minor party candidates must collect a substantially higher number of signatures or pay a sizable filing fee.

Under a system that allows only enrolled party members to vote in primaries — with complex and onerous exceptions — almost 34,000 registered voters are denied a voice.

Under the two - party system NOPs, despite significant numbers, have basically only the right to vote.

In 2012, it became one of the first authorities in the UK to return to a Committee System, abolishing the single party Cabinet, as allowed under the Localism Act [11]