• According to its program, the party is dedicated to the concept of an independent Silesian state in tradition of interwar Silesian movements such as Silesian People's Party (1908-1938) and the Union of Upper Silesians (1919-1924), which wanted to realise this concept. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hussen accused the Conservatives of 'discarding facts' in an attempt to peel support away from Maxime Bernier and his People's Party of Canada. (cbc.ca)
  • Maxime Bernier, leader of the People's Party of Canada, will speak at a rally on Parliament Hill today with opponents of the UN Global Compact on safe and orderly migration. (cbc.ca)
  • But that UKIP has become the people's party is a real surprise, considering its beginnings on the marginal, eccentric right. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • Kim Dong-gill, left, a professor emeritus of history at Yonsei University, receives a New Year's greeting from Rep. Ahn Cheol-soo, the then presidential candidate of the minor opposition People's Party, at his residence in Seoul, Jan. 20. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • Republicans push the fear of gays, Muslims, atheists and others who aren't evangelical Christians onto conservatives voters, using those fears to bypass many economic issues that could normally work against them. (timegoesby.net)
  • In many ways Trump and Pelosi are reflecting the state of play in our politics: Base voters control the parties, and compromise is fundamentally seen as weakness," he said. (nbcnews.com)
  • The opportunity lost for both the speaker and the president is to keep or bring into their tent the restless middle begging for a more responsible government - the voters that arguably put Trump over the top in 2016 and Democrats over the top in 2018. (nbcnews.com)
  • Speaking after the vote, Henry Ramos from opposition party Acción Democrática argued that voters were not entirely 'persuaded' by the Government's arguments and its sometimes questionable tactics, pointing to the increased opposition vote in the important states of Táchira, Mérida and Lara. (newmatilda.com)
  • DeSantis defended the tactic and the political ramification of highlighting the issue to voters. (reviewjournal.com)
  • They lured traditional Southern Democrats and blue collar voters away from a party which rejected them as it embraced social welfare programs and affirmative action while it sent their sons to die in Viet Nam and allowed near anarchy in our cities. (ashevilletribune.com)
  • While the contest south of the border saw voters embracing culturally conservative politics and Brexit, the Scottish National Party's moderate pro-independence progressivism seems to have been very successful in Scotland. (worth.com)
  • His bid was propelled forward in September 2011 when he won a straw poll vote in Florida, instantly becoming an alternative candidate for Republican voters concerned that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was not conservative enough. (equities.com)
  • He's focused his campaign on appealing to moderate voters, while Luna has leaned into the conservative base. (tampabay.com)
  • But he also has supported ideas popular among Republican voters, such as investing money in police and securing the U.S. border. (tampabay.com)
  • All polls give this party the lead, but in an atmosphere of political instability and fear for a potential return to the national currency, several voters, especially older ones, might finally hesitate to support a political change. (globaltimes.cn)
  • Jacob Rees-Mogg was pilloried in some quarters as arrogant and out-of-touch when the leading Brexiteer declared he didn't need to visit the Irish border to understand the challenges Brexit posed for border communities. (sky.com)
  • Barely discussed during the EU referendum campaign, the Irish border has become one of the most politically charged and biggest stumbling blocks of Brexit. (sky.com)
  • Michel Barnier, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, is clear that any solution to the border conundrum must respect the integrity of the single market and customs union. (sky.com)
  • John Sheridan, an anti-Brexit sheep and cattle farmer based just north of the border, worries that any change to the status quo could ruin his business. (sky.com)
  • The unrest might return, but in the meantime it has prompted another round of the most popular pastime in British politics: arguing over whether or not Brexit is to blame . (politico.eu)
  • Euroskeptics - including many in the ruling Conservative Party - argue that the unrest is a product of the nefarious Northern Ireland protocol, a part of the United Kingdom's Brexit deal with European Union that has effectively erected a sea border with what many unionists refer to as "the mainland. (politico.eu)
  • A Conservative majority is what Boris Johnson wanted in order to ensure that his Brexit deal passed the Commons. (worth.com)
  • The exit day of January 31, 2020 seems more certain that any of the previous "Brexit days" due to the lack of domestic political hurdles. (worth.com)
  • She would need to stand up to the party's hardline Brexit faction, risking a permanent split in the party . (minnpost.com)
  • The disruption that the nomination of Trump represents for the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower and Reagan has been cast as a freakish anomaly, the equivalent of the earthquakes that hit the other side of Ohio in recent years. (politico.com)
  • But just as those earthquakes had a likely explanation-gas and oil fracking in the Utica Shale-so can the crackup of the Republican Party and rise of Trump be traced back to what the geologists call the local site conditions. (politico.com)
  • It's just the latest front in a battle between President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - one that has implications reaching far beyond the annual address, the prospective $5.7 billion border wall or the very real, record-long partial government shutdown. (nbcnews.com)
  • Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, who attended a meeting with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday to discuss Trump's plan to fund the border wall while protecting certain immigrants in the country illegally from deportation for three years, said that her members are mostly still with Trump. (nbcnews.com)
  • In Florida, Jared Kushner, the former president's son-in-law, questioned using asylum seekers as "political pawns" by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who along with Donald Trump is eyeing the 2024 presidential race. (reviewjournal.com)
  • Even among those who identify as just 'liberal' rather than 'very liberal', 43% would be in favor of firing a Trump donator…22% of conservatives would be in favor of firing a Biden donor. (chicagoboyz.net)
  • Congress rolled toward resolving its border security brawl with President Donald Trump in uncommonly bipartisan fashion Thursday, preparing to approve a compromise averting a new government shutdown this weekend but providing a mere sliver of the billions Trump has demanded for a wall with Mexico. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
  • It was a political fiasco for Trump and an early triumph for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
  • That's less than the $1.6 billion for border security in a bipartisan Senate bill that Trump spurned months ago, and enough for building just 55 miles of barricades, not the 200-plus miles he'd sought. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
  • Luna, a U.S. Air Force veteran and conservative commentator, has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump and the political action committee of the House Freedom Caucus. (tampabay.com)
  • They are political competitors now - Donald Trump clearly considering a 2024 run, Ron DeSantis already having mapped his out. (wknofm.org)
  • The Trump presidency is given by many as an example of post-truth politics, a political culture in which facts are ignored and political discourses are characterized by alternative facts and conspiracy theories. (lu.se)
  • Patronage networks in the cities (dominated by Labour) and the rural areas (the Unionists, as Conservatives were known) bolstered support both for the parties and for the union. (h-net.org)
  • From the 1960s, the gap opened again as the Unionists/ Conservatives (dominant in the 1950s) went into long-term decline. (h-net.org)
  • It is also because more unionists and nationalists have voted for the middle ground, as seen in the surge of support for the moderate pro-Remain Alliance Party and Social Democratic and Labour Party. (worth.com)
  • The party is affiliated with a Silesian regionalist organisation People of the Silesian Nation and the Silesian Autonomy Movement, and Grzegorz Kot ran for the Senate of Poland in the 2007 Polish parliamentary election on behalf of this party. (wikipedia.org)
  • The party participated in the 2007 Polish parliamentary election and the 2010 Polish local elections, where the member of the party Grzegorz Kot ran on behalf of People of the Silesian Nation and the Silesian Autonomy Movement. (wikipedia.org)
  • McGarry is the not the first MP forced to resign from the party amid a whiff of financial scandal since the SNP's general election success in May. (politico.eu)
  • Scottish votes have rarely decided the outcome of a UK election and the first-past-the-post electoral system usually produces enough seats for the winning party in England to guarantee a majority across the UK as a whole. (h-net.org)
  • Robert Garcia speaks at his election night party at the Maya Hotel in Long Beach, Tuesday June 7, 2022. (lbpost.com)
  • Garcia easily won the Democratic Party nomination in the June Primary election and has since been endorsed by a long list of officials and organizations including Vice President Kamala Harris, Gov. Gavin Newsom, U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, three dozen members of Congress and more than 30 labor unions. (lbpost.com)
  • Turnout in the 42nd District was 15% going into Election Day, according to Political Data Intelligence. (lbpost.com)
  • Sked quit as leader shortly after the 1997 general election that swept the Labour Party to power. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • The Conservative Party won the 2010 election, with enough seats to form a coalition government, on the strength that it wasn't the Labour Party-but it lacked broad-based popular support or the enthusiasm of its restive right-wing base. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • This chapter explores the developing politics of the region from the early 1970s to the events of early 2005, when the election of a new Palestinian prime minister and the proposed removal of Israeli settlements in some of the Occupied Territories brought new hope for peace. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The petitioners asserted that a referendum for indefinite re-election would fundamentally change the political principle, peculiar to Latin American democracies, of alternabilidad . (newmatilda.com)
  • Boris Johnson's Conservative Party has won a large majority in the 2019 general election. (worth.com)
  • This election result shows the continuing political divergence between Scotland on the one hand, and England and Wales on the other. (worth.com)
  • It won a plurality in the first election, in 2011, and formed a coalition government with two secular parties. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • She is greatly weakened politically, only surviving a vote of no confidence because her Conservative Party dreads a general election. (minnpost.com)
  • But many hope the vote will end a political crisis that has lasted more than a year, when then-President Mohamed Abudallahi's term ended in February 2021 without an election. (time.com)
  • Sunday's election was delayed by 15 months as Farmaajo launched in April 2021 a widely-condemned bid to extend his five-year term by another two years, prompting political infighting and violent clashes that brought the country to a political standstill. (time.com)
  • The party received 4,61 percent of the votes in the last (2022) parliamentary election. (lu.se)
  • In the last (2022) parliamentary election the party obtained a narrow win. (lu.se)
  • In the last parliamentary election (2022) the party secured 20,5 percent of the popular vote and became the largest party on the right block. (lu.se)
  • Losing two looks like carelessness," Scottish political commentator Iain Macwhirter tweeted earlier this week. (politico.eu)
  • Kim Dong-gill, a renowned scholar, writer and conservative commentator, has died of illness. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • With a bow tie and mustache as his trademarks, Kim was a conservative political commentator, writing newspaper columns, appearing on TV programs and operating his own YouTube channel until last year. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • Hussen said the fierce opposition from Canada's Conservatives is politically motivated. (cbc.ca)
  • Many conservatives who came of age politically during the past fifty years accepted a myth: if we look deep into the soul of the Republican Party, we will find a core of conservatism. (ashevilletribune.com)
  • While these aspects of Trump's political playbook are usually defined as generic populism, it is their specific similarity to Germany's actual example that resound. (shankerinstitute.org)
  • At its core, the fight is about who controls the agenda for the rest of Trump's first term, and which party is best positioned for the 2020 elections. (nbcnews.com)
  • Trump's latest proposal is a move in that direction, as is the House Democrats' new plan to pass a bill that would provide at least an additional $5.7 billion in border-security funds with none of it available for a wall. (nbcnews.com)
  • That sentiment weakened Trump's hand and fueled the bipartisan deal, a pact that contrasts with the parties' still-raging differences over health care, taxes and investigations of the president. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
  • MARTIN: So this was clearly a reference to Trump's proposed border wall at the time. (wknofm.org)
  • It was such a shocking ad to watch a candidate position his toddler children in a room building Donald Trump's wall that the news of the ad itself penetrated the political mind, if you will. (wknofm.org)
  • In an earlier study I show that Trump's discourse in several respects only constitutes an extreme of what characterizes political discourses in general, namely that they are not primarily based on facts, but that they are judged on the effects they have. (lu.se)
  • Elmar Sepp and Ivo Parblus, the eastern money scandal, former Prime Minister Edgar Savisaar and now Hillar Teder and Porto Fanco are all chapters in the long and shady story of the Center Party's party finances. (err.ee)
  • Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre spent the summer speaking about housing affordability, a core focus that attendees at the party's Quebec City convention were quick to praise him for. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Women for Independence was widely seen as the most capable pro-independence group, and commanded cross-party support. (politico.eu)
  • The Republican party and the pundits who support them, use an agenda of fear. (timegoesby.net)
  • For example, the owner of the Väinamere ferry line Vjatšeslav Leedo's "lemon" scandal where €4 million was offered for political support from Reform Party member Aivar Kiil in 2014. (err.ee)
  • This conditional support runs as a counter-current to the polarising effect within Venezuelan politics, often encouraged by Chávez himself, and commonly seen in the way Venezuela is discussed outside its borders (see the reader responses to Antonio Castillo's measured article on newmatilda.com ). (newmatilda.com)
  • History and experience reveal a frightening truth -- Goldwater and Reagan are, at best, aberrations in an otherwise unbroken line of support for oppressive government and rejection of the first principles of conservatism. (ashevilletribune.com)
  • While he was a student Lapointe had been an active supporter of the Liberal Party, missing school to campaign for candidates, and as a young lawyer he continued to work at political rallies, especially in eastern Quebec, gaining experience and building support for his political future. (biographi.ca)
  • Among strong conservatives, 36% would support firing an executive who donated to Biden. (chicagoboyz.net)
  • Chamberlain did retain the support and affection of most of the Conservative Party. (hnn.us)
  • They present themselves as patriotic, conservative, solidary, and fiercely anti-communist, and they enjoy considerable public support - around 30 per cent of the vote. (eurozine.com)
  • This roughly matches the support for another party that styles itself as the Right: the Civic Platform (PO). (eurozine.com)
  • 20 years to see that this approach, let alone this policy, has not always delighted in the spoils of political support. (lu.se)
  • Despite being ostracized by the other parties due to its ideological roots, the party has grown in public support over the last couple of years. (lu.se)
  • For example the wall debate extends to the immigration policy, the crime associated with undocumented immigrants, the illegal drug problem and the dreamers or DACA and terrorism and to government welfare. (hubpages.com)
  • Territory usually seen as belonging to the Conservatives, Sir Keir Starmer is talking tough on immigration. (sky.com)
  • Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer lashed out at the compact this week, warning it could lead to an erosion of Canada's sovereign authority to make decisions on immigration and could exert inappropriate influence over media outlets. (cbc.ca)
  • It attempts to influence how our free and independent media report on immigration issues and it could open the door to foreign bureaucrats telling Canada how to manage our borders,' he said. (cbc.ca)
  • The maintenance of our borders and limited merit-based immigration are essential to our rights and well-being,' the petition reads. (cbc.ca)
  • WASHINGTON - U.S. agents have arrested a record 2 million undocumented immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border this year and 1 million have entered legally to seek asylum, making immigration policy and enforcement a political flashpoint before midterm elections. (reviewjournal.com)
  • His amnesty agenda and open border policies have led to record-breaking illegal immigration, and with it, an unchecked deluge of drugs pouring into the United States," wrote U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., the National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman, in an op-ed that appeared in the Washington Times. (reviewjournal.com)
  • Raw numbers suggest that immigration was a political accident waiting to happen. (institutionalinvestor.com)
  • It is no wonder that democratic politics have reacted to these pressures, yet the economic and security fears aroused by immigration risk distorting the picture. (institutionalinvestor.com)
  • There is a compelling argument that this is less about the EU than it is about an existential crisis over what it means to be British , obscured by complex bureaucratic questions regarding trade, borders and immigration. (minnpost.com)
  • The findings confirm that discourses related to requirements, stringency, and security regarding integration and immigration, combined with the hegemonic status of the Swedish language, enable different political agendas to discursively portray language requirements as a desirable course of action to promote integration. (lu.se)
  • With the Moderate Party2 (M) now in office, alongside the supporting party Swedish Democratic Party3 (SD), language requirements have been afforded a secure position in the overall discourse on integration and immigration, characterized by an emphasis on stringency, urgency, and restrictiveness. (lu.se)
  • To enjoy a parliamentary majority the party decided to cooperate with the Swedish Democratic Party which has generated several controversial policy proposals on matters related to integration and immigration. (lu.se)
  • The Party informally forms part of the "Tidö-agreement" and has since been able to successfully negotiate its demands on integration and immigration into the government's formal policy stance on these matters. (lu.se)
  • But while Sked hoped to create some grand coalition of the high-minded, the early party quickly became a bolt hole for ex-Conservative Party members concerned with what they saw as growing softness within Torydom. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • The Reform Party started coalition negotiation with the Center Party a day after the party resigned due to corruption allegations. (err.ee)
  • At the same time, Soonvald highlights that EKRE and Isamaa, which are now actively playing the corruption card, were in coalition with the Center Party for the last two years. (err.ee)
  • The parties who were left out of the coalition negotiations are now trying to talk about a big corruption case forgetting about everything they have done during the last years, but this is all the beauty of the game. (err.ee)
  • Mayor of Tallinn Mihhail Kõlvart said straight after the coalition resigned that the Center Party should go into opposition. (err.ee)
  • In the lead up to the referendum the Government outspent the 'No' coalition by a ratio of 4:1 and its opponents have accused it of misspending public money on demonstrations and voter 'reward' programs. (newmatilda.com)
  • It formed a coalition government with two secular parties. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Party leader Rachid Ghannouchi said that Ennahda had always preferred a coalition government because it didn't want Tunisians to feel "that they have moved from a single party dominant in the political life to another single party dominating the political life. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Not the choice of the ruling Tories, Churchill owed his selection as Prime Minister to the refusal of the Labour Party to back Neville Chamberlain in a coalition government. (hnn.us)
  • In the case of a Syriza win, the party will be immediately under pressure to form a coalition government as it will be probably unable to govern alone. (globaltimes.cn)
  • Where the Conservatives won 13 Scottish seats under Ruth Davidson as leader in 2017, the party seems to have been fulsomely rejected this time around. (worth.com)
  • The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin-both triumphant in 2017-each received blows. (worth.com)
  • In this Aug. 11, 2017, photo, a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol vehicle passes along a section of border levee wall in Hidalgo, Texas. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
  • 2 The Moderate Party (Moderaterna) is a liberal-conservative party in favor of market liberalism. (lu.se)
  • A few days earlier, the chairman of the Republican party in Jackson County, Arkansas, insisted electing Obama is destroying America in the same way electing Nelson Mandela destroyed South Africa. (timegoesby.net)
  • Last July, Edwin Lyngar wrote a stunning essay in Salon about his conversion, at age 40, from the Republican Party to the Democrats. (timegoesby.net)
  • For the past few years, Phillips even let the Montgomery County Republican Party use a room at the Mandalay for its headquarters. (politico.com)
  • While Phillips was under no illusions that his letter had played a part in Boehner's decision, he saw his own discontent with the party leadership as part of a swelling dissent that had, by that point, upended the Republican presidential campaign. (politico.com)
  • This is just to make sure, as a proactive approach, that people continue to play it," said Gruters, who doubles as chairperson of the Republican Party of Florida. (tampabay.com)
  • His Republican successors soon sank to a level of political corruption which would become a model for the future. (ashevilletribune.com)
  • He is an idol to the Republican right, but he had absolutely no lasting impact on the direction of the party. (ashevilletribune.com)
  • The recent spectacle of Cheney and Powell fighting like dogs over the remains of the Republican Party recalls the Biblical story of Jezebel. (ashevilletribune.com)
  • Former Pinellas County Commissioner Susan Latvala, who served as a Republican but is now registered without a party, also endorsed Lynn. (tampabay.com)
  • He is a former Republican congressman from the state of Florida, now a political strategist and analyst for NBC. (wknofm.org)
  • JOLLY: Broadly speaking, Ron DeSantis has always occupied the most conservative wing of the Republican Party. (wknofm.org)
  • If today's party was a traditional chamber of commerce Republican Party, that's probably what Ron DeSantis would campaign on. (wknofm.org)
  • And frankly - and by some estimations - Ron DeSantis has the hottest hand in Republican politics right now. (wknofm.org)
  • the subordination of a national party to a dominant leader asserting sole capacity to save the nation. (shankerinstitute.org)
  • Protesters have blocked border crossings and taken over the centre of Ottawa for weeks demanding that governments eliminate pandemic restrictions. (cityautosglasgow.com)
  • What do the policies Poilievre's party passed say about the Conservatives' future? (ctvnews.ca)
  • Conservatives believe in the Constitution, of limited government, of individual freedom and of free enterprise capitalism. (hubpages.com)
  • Adolf Hitler, once handed power, acted swiftly to supplant the existing constitution by emergency decree, directed widespread repression against political opponents, purged Jews from state institutions, and held elections and referenda under conditions of mass intimidation to cement Nazi rule. (shankerinstitute.org)
  • Lincoln destroyed the republic which was embodied in the constitution and substituted a national government with no limits to its power except its own self-restraint. (ashevilletribune.com)
  • The first post-revolutionary government focused heavily on a new constitution, especially basic rights and the role of Islam and women. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • More conservative Islamists called for making Sharia, Islamic law, the principal source of legislation, and some demonstrated to pressure Ennahda to take a more conservative position on the role of Islam in the constitution. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Can 'Scotland's party' weather another controversy? (politico.eu)
  • Today's contribution, by Michael Keating (University of Aberdeen), examines Scotland's position as a minority nation within the UK political union. (h-net.org)
  • Discussion now will turn to Scotland's constitutional future, and whether a newly emboldened Conservative government will feel sufficiently able to dig its heels in and resist Nicola Sturgeon's calls for a second independence referendum. (worth.com)
  • The Scottish National Party had hoped to dominate British political headlines last week with a Westminster debate on scrapping the Trident nuclear deterrent, long a totemic party policy. (politico.eu)
  • Over the last five years, Poland's two major rightwing parties have come to dominate the political landscape. (eurozine.com)
  • Rather, they remain exceptions to the norm of majoritarian Westminster politics. (h-net.org)
  • The British government has taken pains to stress that it administers a unitary state in which power resides in Westminster, but the devolution settlement that saw the establishment of Scottish and Welsh parliaments at the end of the century tells a different story. (politico.eu)
  • These results, particularly in light of the new landscape in Westminster, will concentrate all parties' minds toward success. (worth.com)
  • In a very real sense, [Churchill's] political survival depended upon how he calculated the day-to-day politics of Westminster," observed Churchill biographer Norman Rose. (hnn.us)
  • As in any nation, the criteria for membership are multiple but the exercise of political rights is defined by territorial criteria, as shown in the franchise for Scottish Parliament and local elections and the independence referendum of 2014. (h-net.org)
  • By contrast, America saw three years of generally unhindered political opposition, media criticism, and free (if flawed) elections in which an opposition party made serious gains. (shankerinstitute.org)
  • The Center Party currently has to deal with the scandal very actively and I think that it weakens them as the elections come closer. (err.ee)
  • Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed that he will not lead his party in any future elections but will stay on during a period of reflection about what happened in this campaign. (worth.com)
  • After a political crisis, sparked by the assassination of an opposition leader in 2013, Ennahda handed over power to an interim government to organize new elections. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • A wide array of leftist parties, civil society organizations and labor unions formed the National Salvation Front and demanded the Ennahda-led government's resignation and new elections. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The same communication strategy had been also applied before the twin elections of May and June 2012, in which the conservative New Democracy eventually managed to win over Syriza. (globaltimes.cn)
  • With re-elections set for 21 October, it seems unlikely that Poland will alter its political course rightwards. (eurozine.com)
  • He said - you can have open borders or you can have an entitlement society but you can't have both. (hubpages.com)
  • On the surface the scandal should not cause any lasting damage to Nicola Sturgeon's party. (politico.eu)
  • They" referred to media and society generally, but also to political and business leaders and, sometimes specifically, to leaders in less extreme nationalist parties who shared a negative view of the Weimar Republic. (shankerinstitute.org)
  • 3 The Swedish Democratic Party (Sverigedemokraterna) is a nationalist and right-wing populist party. (lu.se)
  • As a young Treasury economist, Barder set up the first UK government website, to put details of the 1994 budget online. (cgdev.org)
  • He first ventured into national politics in 1994 when he publicly challenged President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, on his proposal to force employers to buy health insurance for their employees. (equities.com)
  • The Trudeau government has reached a long-discussed deal with the United States on irregular migration which will allow Ottawa to close the Roxham Road irregular crossing at the Canada-U.S. border. (mcgill.ca)
  • Two groups in the Canadian Sikh diaspora are calling for Canada's political parties to 'present a united front' on India after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a 'potential link' between the shooting death of a local leader and the Indian government. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Trudeau revealed in Parliament on Sept. 18 that Canadian intelligence services were investigating possible ties between the Indian government and the fatal shooting of Nijjar in Surrey, B.C., outside of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The Canadian government is doubling the pollution price rebate rural top-up rate, and implementing a three-year pause to the federal carbon price on deliveries of heating oil in all jurisdictions where the federal fuel charge is in effect, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The humanitarian impact of the "unfortunate pull-out" of international forces from Afghanistan, as well as developments at the Belarus-Poland border, are elements of a migration crisis facing the bloc, the prime minister's chief of staff, Gergely Gulyás, said. (xpatloop.com)
  • The WEF, with their allies in governments around the world and in our own government, have spearheaded the call and answered to the people with fear, food shortages, energy shortages, disease, inflation, a migration invasion, economic woes, monumental political corruption and armed conflict. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • In August 2023, I started a six-month-long mobility trip to the Faculty of Political Science of Marmara University in Istanbul as part of a research and training project, "Central Asian Law: Legal Cultures and Business Environments in Central Asia. (lu.se)
  • Cuban's directive went unnoticed for a month, but the resulting uproar from conservative pundits quickly resulted in the Texas law that Gruters seeks to emulate. (tampabay.com)
  • And his latest gambit - aimed at cracking Democrats' wall of opposition to his border barrier - infuriated some portions of his own base. (nbcnews.com)
  • The party currently forms part of the "Tidö Agreement" consisting of the Christian Democrats, Moderate Party, and Swedish Democrats. (lu.se)
  • The idea that the UK and the EU could negotiate an agreement on future relations is not beyond the realms of possibility in the short time-frame available-after all, Theresa May's government managed to get the Withdrawal Agreement in place with the EU. (worth.com)
  • The idea of a delay appears to be gaining in Parliament, if not in May's government. (minnpost.com)
  • It's amazing to see how a very hyperbolic discourse that started in the outer fringes of our society has permeated into a mainstream political party in the name of the Conservative Party of Canada,' he said. (cbc.ca)
  • Within this framework, various European politicians including President of the European Commission JeanClaude Juncker and Commissioner for Economic and Finance Affairs, Taxation and Customs Pierre Moscovici are attempting to influence Greek citizens to vote for mainstream political parties. (globaltimes.cn)
  • For long periods of the twentieth century, the Labour and Conservative parties largely monopolized the Scottish vote, while performing there more or less as well as they did in England. (h-net.org)
  • He said the exact details would be for a potential future Labour government to negotiate with the EU. (sky.com)
  • Us" meant not just the Nazi Party, but also its embodiment in Adolf Hitler, a megalomaniac claiming to be the savior of a German nation threatened by Jews, Bolsheviks and globalism. (shankerinstitute.org)
  • 1 The Liberal Party (Liberalerna) is a conservative-liberal party. (lu.se)
  • Mr Thomas-Symonds spoke to Sky News while Sir Keir Starmer and shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper met European officials in The Hague - and as the party unveiled proposals to treat smuggling gangs "on a par" with terrorists. (sky.com)
  • Biden administration officials say the record number of apprehensions prove the border is not open, as Republicans claim. (reviewjournal.com)
  • Young said she'll be voting for Gov. Ron DeSantis and will still be voting for Lynn. (tampabay.com)
  • I often refer to Ron DeSantis a bit as a mirror of the party. (wknofm.org)
  • The minister called protection of the EU's borders a "patriotic duty", adding that the government would ensure that the necessary resources are in place. (xpatloop.com)
  • And the reason is obvious: The Massachusetts socialist is only apologizing because she hopes to brush aside a major political liability - especially, with polls showing her in second place and gaining on frontrunner, Joe Biden. (worldtribune.com)
  • A surge of immigrants and those seeking asylum at the southern border has vexed the Biden administration and candidates seeking office in November. (reviewjournal.com)
  • President Joe Biden condemned the political-year tactics by Republicans as "playing politics with human beings, using them as props. (reviewjournal.com)
  • Rein Lang, a former member of the Reform Party and a minister, has the same approach: "101 is a magical number [the number of seats in the Riigikogu - ed .] in which, calculations are required and two partners are definitely better than three. (err.ee)
  • and democracy, accountability, and political change. (cgdev.org)
  • During his tenure as a professor of history at Yonsei that began in 1955, he was involved in the pro-democracy movement in the 1970s under Park Chung-hee's military-backed government. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • Indications are that she will try to finesse disagreements among Conservatives and their allies in Northern Ireland to cobble together a majority for a modified version of her plan. (minnpost.com)
  • Federal Conservatives are gathering in Quebec City this week for a policy convention that observers say presents as much political peril as opportunity. (mcgill.ca)
  • Emerging by 1914 as Laurier's chief political lieutenant and organizer for the Quebec City district and the eastern part of the province, he had become a leading spokesman for a growing number of Quebec Liberals. (biographi.ca)
  • Meanwhile, on the topic of Covid, Gulyás noted that the level of antibodies begins to wane six months after a second shot of a Covid vaccine, and may drop drastically after 7-8 months, which is why the government advises Hungarians to get a booster jab. (xpatloop.com)
  • Concerning Covid jabs, Gulyás said the government will approve the vaccination of 5-11-year-olds once it is approved by either the Hungarian or European drug regulator. (xpatloop.com)
  • Vaccinated travellers need a pre-arrival COVID PCR test taken at least 72 hours before crossing the border, and may be subject to a random on-arrival test. (cityautosglasgow.com)
  • Meanwhile, provincial governments are rolling back COVID measures, and doing away with vaccine passport requirements. (cityautosglasgow.com)
  • Provincial premiers have denied they are loosening restrictions to appease them, saying instead that the limits are no longer needed to contain COVID On Monday, MPs defeated a Conservative Party motion calling on the government to table a plan for the lifting of all federal mandates and restrictions by the end of the month. (cityautosglasgow.com)
  • Ennahda, or the "Renaissance" party, has its roots in the 1960s, and was forced underground in the 1980s. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • In particular, a potential win of the leftist Syriza party might disrupt continuity in the implementation of the current bailout terms and structural reforms. (globaltimes.cn)
  • But the cash scandal has highlighted tensions within the SNP about party management, candidate selection and the question of whether the elusive goal of Scottish independence is getting any closer. (politico.eu)
  • A dedicated government department, the Scottish Office, with its own minister in the UK government, administered domestic policy outside of taxation and welfare. (h-net.org)
  • The British political parties dominated political representation but took care to present a Scottish image and cultivate their local roots. (h-net.org)
  • This week, the British government let it be known that it intends to launch a legal challenge against legislation passed by the Scottish parliament to incorporate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into local law. (politico.eu)
  • Scottish politics has been interesting since at least 2014, and it promises to remain so. (worth.com)
  • By employing various qualitative and quantitative methods, we will analyze the number of churches and their geographical location to process trace when and how the discourses over territoriality and actual legal borders of the state (mis)match. (lu.se)
  • Rishi Sunak hit back at Labour's assertion that the government has "lost control of the borders" and claimed Sir Keir's plan would see the UK accept 100,000 migrants from the EU every year - although he did not say how he had calculated this figure. (sky.com)
  • Migrants gather their personal items as they wait to be processed by the Border Patrol after illegally crossing the Rio Grande River from Mexico into the United States at Eagle Pass, Texas, Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. (reviewjournal.com)
  • One of the reasons is ideological - the party was the largest one in a conservative government and now it is moving straight to a liberal government. (err.ee)
  • Conservatives today would do well to remember a lesson learned from our fifth grade math teacher. (ashevilletribune.com)
  • The main lesson learned from Greek politics since 2009 is that opposition parties tend to deliver easy promises in order to come to power, but then have to land into reality by applying for bailout terms. (globaltimes.cn)
  • The roots of the party go back to Hamilton and Clay--proponents of a powerful national government backed up by national banks, national currency, federal spending and high taxes. (ashevilletribune.com)
  • Nädal': Is the new government normalizing corruption? (err.ee)
  • Nädal" looked at whether the Reform Party is normalizing corruption when forming the new government and what it will mean for the new government. (err.ee)
  • Removing Savisaar as chairman did not entirely remove corruption scandals from the party as was hoped by many. (err.ee)
  • Even when taking corruption into consideration, the political reality needs to be considered as well, he said, which means that the government has been formed by those with the most votes. (err.ee)
  • Lang said it would be naive to think the last government collapsed only due to the Porto Franco corruption allegations. (err.ee)
  • The skeptics in society say that every party at one or another time gets caught with a corruption scandal or they have been suspected of one, which is true, but we cannot be that pessimistic. (err.ee)
  • The party has declared its goals to be the national and territorial separation of Silesia and the recognition of the Silesian nationality, and believes that the Polish government ignores the interests of Silesian people. (wikipedia.org)
  • Labour's plans include giving more powers to the National Crime Agency, real-time intelligence sharing with European partners and setting up a new cross border policing unit - paid for by scrapping the Rwanda scheme. (sky.com)
  • Sen. Joe Gruters, R-Sarasota, sponsored a bill that would require Florida professional sports teams receiving government money to play the national anthem before every home game. (tampabay.com)
  • The Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee backed a proposal ( SB 1298 ) that would require Florida professional sports teams receiving government money to play the national anthem before every home game. (tampabay.com)
  • We'll send you a rundown on local, state and national politics coverage every Thursday. (tampabay.com)
  • In a sane society, Warren's political career would be finished, and she'd be a national joke. (worldtribune.com)
  • Weinstein has also worked at the highest levels of government on major foreign policy and national security challenges, engaging in both global diplomacy and national policy-making. (cgdev.org)
  • Neither possessed firm control of his party, many of whose members doubted that they had the leadership skills needed by the national crisis. (hnn.us)
  • Uncertainty over the Irish border risks disrupting trade and stoking sectarian divisions put to rest through the peace process. (sky.com)
  • But the sight of an upper-class Englishman pronouncing on the fragile politics of Ireland from a parliament that sits over 400 miles away undoubtedly grates with many people. (sky.com)
  • She would have to allow - or be forced to accept - members of Parliament from all parties openly negotiating compromises that could command a majority. (minnpost.com)
  • One group, including members of several parties, is pressing for a delay if Parliament can't approve a plan by Feb. 26. (minnpost.com)
  • It's a game of chicken the Brexiteer is certain London would win, with the prize being no return to a hard border and no need for the UK to remain in some form of customs union with the EU. (sky.com)
  • He is the winner of the 2015 Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting and the author of The Cynic , a 2014 biography of Senator Mitch McConnell. (politico.com)
  • He is the author of Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence (Cambridge University Press), which received the William Riker Prize for the best book on political economy. (cgdev.org)
  • Premier Jason Kenney threw Alberta politics into a tailspin on May 18 when he narrowly won a United Conservative Party (UCP) leadership review vote only to announce he was quitting the top job. (mcgill.ca)
  • A Tory MP has labelled the government "a s***show" and said he would not vote Conservative. (independent.co.uk)
  • Passage is virtually certain, with sizable numbers of both parties' members set to vote "yes. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
  • A soldier stands in front of the dried up Jubba river in Dollow, Jubaland, Somalia, on the border with Ethiopia, on April 12, 2022. (time.com)
  • The human tide from Syria, Europe's largest refugee crisis since the aftermath of World War II, is sure to add more dependents - and raise the political temperature - in the short term. (institutionalinvestor.com)
  • Key to Mohamud's success as president will be his ability to unite rival political forces, according to Omar Mahmood, senior Somalia analyst at the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank. (time.com)
  • It's not about a wall anymore," Charlie Sykes, an MSNBC political analyst and editor in chief of the conservative opinion journal The Bulwark . (nbcnews.com)
  • The movement supports other independence movements such as the Catalan independence movement, and petitioned Polish government to legally recognise Silesian as a regional language in 2012. (wikipedia.org)
  • Israeli politics became deeply divided over how to deal with Palestinians and surrounding Arab countries, but a strong desire for peace influenced almost all political movements during this time period. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In pursuit of this end they have benefitted, just as the street-level opposition movements to the government have benefitted, from the canny utilisation of political events like Israel's assaults on Lebanon in 2006 or Gaza in 2008-09, which evoke angry sentiments and throw into sharp relief the detachment of the ruling elite from the mass of public opinion. (newstatesman.com)
  • In 1974, Kim was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his involvement in an anti-government organization. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • Federal leaders have spoken out against possible Indian involvement in Nijjar's death, with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre saying shortly after Trudeau's announcement that Canada 'must be united for our home and for each other' while asking the prime minister to present 'more facts' surrounding the case. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Those advisory bodies commonly use a ries, government structure, public involvement, re- `` weight-of-the-evidence' approach, in which all of search and development, and cultural characteristics. (cdc.gov)
  • This is an important point because the changes were specifically called 'amendments' by the Government in order to bypass a legal obstacle that prevents the same 'reforms' to be put to the same electoral constituency, which became a problem for Chávez after these reforms were popularly rejected in 2007. (newmatilda.com)
  • Republicans have roundly criticized Biden's efforts as failed "open border" policies. (reviewjournal.com)
  • Barely six months on from that historic win, McGarry's political career hangs in the balance. (politico.eu)
  • The myth began with Barry Goldwater -- a libertarian whose politics barely overlapped conservatism, but whose failed presidential campaign was seized upon by conservatives desperate for a spokesman. (ashevilletribune.com)
  • Yet Palestinian politics were also deeply divided, with violent factions and corrupt leadership that often slowed progress toward a united Palestinian people. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Meanwhile, the UK has committed to leaving the customs union and single market, which Brussels says makes leaving the border completely open impossible under EU rules. (sky.com)
  • This year there have been 2.4 million arrests of people entering the country, with 2.1 million arrests occurring along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. (reviewjournal.com)
  • One was the late nineteenth century, when Conservative dominance in England co-existed with Liberal hegemony in Scotland. (h-net.org)
  • Forty-eight hours after that column hit the newsstands, Eissa - a 46-year-old who in recent years has done more than any other individual to challenge the state's hegemony over public narratives on Egypt and its politics - was summarily sacked . (newstatesman.com)
  • Its manifesto was Thatcherite, with a prominent libertarian streak: no gay marriage, but perhaps some decriminalization of drugs and a hearty endorsement of flatter taxes and smaller government. (theamericanconservative.com)