Sentence examples for direct mandate from inspiring English sources

Her lack of a direct mandate from the people is not an issue at the moment.

The prime-ministerial vote is all-important: it gives Israel's leader a direct mandate from the people.

Aides to each panel say the House has more staff to devote and a more direct mandate to oversee the space program.

With Brexit to deal with, a majority of 17 and no direct mandate of her own, Theresa May may soon realise the downside of taking risks.

All this would be a formidable array of challenges for a prime minister armed with a substantial parliamentary majority and a direct mandate from the country.

However, a new democratic second chamber would be unique among our institutions because a direct mandate from voters would compromise the primacy of the Commons.

If direct mandates for any party exceed its second-vote ratio, then all the other parties get compensated so that the ratios again reflect the second votes exactly.

Although both failed to secure direct mandates from their districts, they managed to get elected through Germans' second votes, which are cast for so-called party lists.

The directly elected candidates (known as direct mandates) entered the Bundestag, but a given party might then have more candidates than its share of the second votes would imply.

Crucially, it also hurts one party by withdrawing an advantage it has enjoyed in the past: most of the excess direct mandates went to the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the party of Angela Merkel, the chancellor.

There is longer-term potential here: the development of local government as a site of innovation in the delivery of public services, the promotion of local government leaders to the political premier league as wielders of executive authority with direct mandates: a generation of experienced governors from whose ranks future prime ministers may arise.