Sentence examples for election to replace the from inspiring English sources

The nation's new president, Nicolás Maduro, was elected last month in a special election to replace the country's longtime president, Hugo Chávez, who died in March.

Several weeks later, on January 19 , 2010 Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown was elected to the Senate in a special election to replace the late Ted Kennedy, having campaigned on giving the Republican minority the 41st vote needed to sustain Republican filibusters.

Booker was running for the Senate in a special election to replace the late Frank Lautenberg.

Only in 2016 will Pickles insist on an election to replace the remainder of the council, a situation which has left many locals dumbfounded.

No candidates ran in an election to replace the retiring mayor in November and, more unusual, the top two write-in recipients declined the job.

When Chávez died in March 2013, the opposition again united behind Capriles as its candidate in the special election to replace the late president.

Nearly 60 percent of the voters chose to have elections to replace the government.

Last October, elections to replace the Parliament and president were postponed under a peace agreement.

A reformist group of 500 youths, the Brotherhood Without Violence, has called for elections to replace the main organization's leadership.

They have also said they want new elections to replace the one won by Mr. Gbagbo two years ago during a wave of ethnic bloodshed.

Critics say that Mr. Samaras destabilized Greece with his insistence on calling elections to replace the government led by Lucas Papademos, the technocratic prime minister whose mandate was to sign Greece's second loan agreement.