Sentence examples for candidate parliament from inspiring English sources

My cause is Bulgaria," Radev said ahead of Sunday's contest for the largely ceremonial post that pits him against the ruling GERB party's candidate, parliament speaker Tsetska Tsacheva.

Last Saturday, the ruling centre-right chose its presidential candidate, parliament speaker Bronislaw Komorowski, who will run against Kaczynski this autumn.

Australian politics is a self-reinforcing club delivering new candidates into parliament on travelators, candidates who then set about dancing with the people who brought them, sometimes appearing to forget the voters are even there.

By Peter Hessler Yusuf, a candidate for parliament in Upper Egypt, greets a supporter.

"This is her decision," said Dr. Hisham el-Soly, a Muslim Brotherhood candidate for Parliament.

He ran twice as an independent candidate for Parliament, but lost both times.

In 1979, he ran as a Labor Party candidate for Parliament and lost to Margaret Thatcher.

In the 1970s he stood as a Trotskyist candidate for parliament.

By The New Yorker March 2, 2016 Yusuf Hasan Yusuf, a candidate for parliament, greets a supporter.

As my CiF profile states, I am a failed candidate for parliament.

The Green party got its first candidate into parliament when Caroline Lucas won Brighton Pavilion.