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Referring to the accusations that she had "played the gender card" by calling out sexism, she said her position as the first female incumbent "does not explain everything about my prime ministership and does not explain nothing about my prime ministership".
He has done many good things to help people," she said, hitching up her dress emblazoned with the red and green of Nigeria's incumbent People's Democratic party.
From the million-pound apartments of Deansgate to the red-brick terraces of Moston, so many tens of thousands of people here didn't bother to vote at the last election that Lucy Powell, the incumbent Labour MP, was elected in a 2012 byelection with just 12% support in the lowest parliamentary poll turn out since 1945.
It is an approach that reaped rewards, with a leaked email from a Mirabella staffer admitting that the incumbent has been "outgunned" by McGowan's refreshing campaign, which has more than 400 volunteers and has raised $82,000 via crowdfunding.
After a visit to the constituency, the Labour MP Tom Watson stirred the pot by saying: "I have never encountered such animosity on the doorstep against an incumbent MP – particularly one as high-profile".
For many liberal critics, the overwhelming defeat in Tuesday's primary of Greg Brannon, the Tea Party's preferred candidate to take on incumbent Democratic senator Kay Hagan, by Thom Tillis – an establishment favourite with a conservative track record in state politics – simply proves the radical right has been assimilated by the Republican hierarchy, not vanquished.
François Hollande's lead over Nicolas Sarkozy is narrowing just two days before France's presidential elections, but the incumbent still has a formidable challenge to overhaul the deficit in time for Sunday's vote.
But there are calls led by Robert Hazell, professor of British politics and the constitution at UCL, to go further and declare that an incumbent prime minister faces a "duty" to remain in office until a clear successor emerges.
The election of a new mayor for Tower Hamlets, prompted by the ejection of the last incumbent for widespread fraud, is already the subject of 16 separate allegations of electoral irregularities, police have confirmed.
They are worried his rhetoric to take over government nationally will bring a defensive, authoritarian response from the incumbent government and that his young coalition lacks the experience to address the growing national problems exacerbated by Abdullah's mismanagement.
This alliance has set its sights on removing the incumbent National Front coalition, which has governed the country since independence in 1957, from office.
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The word "incumbent" functions primarily as a noun , referring to the current holder of an office or position. It can also be used as an adjective , describing something that is currently in place or is a duty. Ludwig AI confirms that "incumbent" is correct and widely used.
Expression frequency: Very common
