Sentences with phrase «year election terms»

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ABUJA, April 9 - Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed on Monday he will seek another term in elections next year, ending months of speculation about his future after bouts of ill health.

Meanwhile, Maduro is running for another six - year term in a general election next month.

And in the lame - duck Congressional session that will follow the election, the best anyone can hope for is a short - term deal that punts the issue into the new year.

«An election every four years in Egypt is highly costly both in security and financial terms,» he added.

«We're going in to an election year — it's the second term for the current president — and second - term election years are much more iffy, because we're guaranteed to get something unknown,» McClellan said.

Khodorkovsky is playing a long game, looking well past the Russian presidential election on March 18 that is guaranteed to give President Vladimir Putin yet another six - year term.

The FBI Director has a 10 - year term in office, specifically chosen to be lengthy and not tied to the presidential election cycle, in order to promote independence from politics.

If Sanders, now 74, retires from politics at the end of his current Senate term two years from now, without having won the presidential election, he will be able to collect an annual pension of $ 71,340, MONEY calculated using the current Congressional pension formula.

Now that it's an election year — the technical term for two years before an election, according to comedian Stephen Colbert — one thing new graduates need is a well - calibrated B.S. detector, he told departing students.

In second - term election years, then, equities dipped an average 4 percent, compared to an average increase of 7 percent during all election years.

NDP's federal council met to review terms for leadership race, which will pick a new leader two years before next election

UK Prime Minister Theresa May then unexpectedly announced elections to be held in June, meaning the scheduled two years of negotiations to determine the terms of the United Kingdom's departure seemed unlikely to make much headway until after the results of the UK vote — and probably the German elections as well — were known.

France's Socialist government announced the first real - terms increase in the minimum wage for six years on Tuesday, but limited the rise to 0.6 percentage points above inflation as it sought to balance election promises with fears of damaging employment.

Wymer: The market's strong rally following the November 2016 general election has continued, as global earnings expectations improved during 2017 — a sharp contrast to the weakness in recent years — and have accelerated recently, spurred by reactions to the long - term impacts of the corporate tax cuts.

Historically, stocks have performed above average during election years, but second - term election years have been the weakest going back to 1928, falling an average 4 percent.

Municipal Affairs Minister Doug Griffiths is expected to introduce amendments to the Local Authorities Elections Act, which would extend terms for municipal elected officials from three years to four years.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

The recent federal election featured something of a debate on fiscal policy, with the Liberals promising to run modest deficits for three years in order to stimulate a sagging economy and finance needed long - term investments in infrastructure and social programs.

Bill C - 25 would also eliminate the potential for abuse of board discretion following these elections and would restrict directors to one - year terms.

By requiring individual elections instead of slate voting and limiting terms to one year, Bill C - 25 would ensure that directors on the board best reflect shareholder wishes.

If you went strictly by Stephen Harper's spoken record, he never resigned as Conservative leader after last fall's election defeat, and he's got no plans to do anything but carry out his full four - year term as MP for Calgary Heritage.

This infographic shows how the U.S. market performs in each year of a presidential term — and specifically, how the market does in election years.

In terms of a global picture, the EU is even further along than the US by 20 or 30 years, where you wont find a single advanced northern European nation that would for ANYONE that goes on about «God» (unlike the US, which seems to require it during elections)... you'd get laughed off the election circuit.

Campaigning for the French presidency last year, Nicolas Sarkozy ran hard against what Europeans still refer to as 1968, describing the post-1968 New Left as «immoral» and «cynical» and defining the choice before the French electorate in stark terms: «In this election, the question is whether the heritage of May «68 should be perpetuated, or if it should be liquidated.»

Yes, obama will always be the president who got bin laden, but it would be so much more politically powerful, in terms of elections, if it happened a year from now.

First, the conventional wisdom on the role of economic factors in elections is overstated; even in a year when such short - term factors were particularly strong, they operated within the context of long - term cultural alignments.

Elsewhere at the conference, the shadow hancellor promised to cut ministers» pay by 5 % and to reduce child benefits in real terms if Labour wins next year's general election.

The appointed members would serve out a two - year term, then their seats would be up for election.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOMINATING PETITIONS AVAILABLE FOR PARK BOARD Two Park Commissioners for the Arlington Heights Park District will be elected to four - year terms at the April 7, 2015 consolidated election.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOMINATING PETITION FILING FOR PARK BOARD Two Park Commissioners for the Arlington Heights Park District will be elected to four - year terms at the April 7, 2015 consolidated election.

Two Park Commissioners for the Arlington Heights Park District will be elected to four - year terms at the April 7, 2015 consolidated election.

Traditionally in Glen Ellyn, residents serve in elected posts for one four - year term, and selection at the caucus has been tantamount to election.

Commissioners serve staggered terms of six years with elections every two years.

The 85 - year - old Slaughter has served in Congress since her first election in 1986, making this her 15th term in Congress.

Silver's term is up at the end of the year, and the speakership vote is generally held some time after the November election.

And I am also unapologetic that I think of these things in terms of years not 18 months to the next election.

Anyway, it looks like both sides are calling in the big guns in advance of tonight's Wednesday's dueling chairmanship votes — one that will see Ragusa re-elected to another two - year term, the other resulting in the election of former NYC Council Minority Leader / 2005 NYC mayoral contender and 2010 LG candidate Tom Ognibene.

In the short term, the country needs to hear a) whether there will be mobilizations and if so, under what conditions and for what purpose, b) if and how the opposition will participate in the municipal elections that should take place in the remainder of this year, and, c) how the opposition will ensure that presidential elections will take place in 2018.

Where is it known that there will not be another election for 4 - 5 years, opposition parties may have little incentive to provide opposition to the government, being focused on their long - term electoral strategy.

Kaminsky, elected to fill the chair held by disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, won a special election and won a full term in a presidential election year.

The Senate is once again a key flashpoint in this year's down - ballot elections as Democrats seek to gain a majority eight years after losing control following a tumultuous, two - year term.

The president, as part of his address to the Scottish Parliament on Thursday, March 17, 2016, indicated that «this year's elections will be no exception, in terms of transparency, fairness, and security».

Kenya's election commission declared Friday that the 55 - year - old businessman and son of the country's founding President had received enough votes to secure a second five - year term.

Regular half - Senate elections are held in accordance with section 13, which provides for Senators to have 6 - year terms on 3 - year rotations, and that elections must be held within the 12 months before the 3 - year rotation date.

«We've got a presidential election coming up, and it just seemed a better time than in late September (when his current two - year term officially ends)... You always discuss these things when you're state chair, but listen, my political obituary has been written a lot of times already.

The Fixed - term Parliaments Act 2011 sets the period between elections at five years, and aims to fix the date of dissolution of Parliament and polling day.

Last year's election, as you'll recall, was to serve out the remainder of the term to which former Sen. Hillary Clinton was re-elected in 2006.

Despite a reported anti-incumbent, anti-Democrat mood across the nation, all the seated Democrats won another term in the state Assembly races in western Queens this year, according to unofficial election results from NY1.

2018 is an election year for statewide offices, and Cuomo has said he's interested in seeking a third term, though he has not yet formally announced his candidacy.

In all likelihood, next year's local election results will be less bad for Labour than this year's were, perhaps showing a Conservative lead of 10 - 15 % in terms of national equivalent vote share.