"Therefore, I have decided to lay down my mandate at an extraordinary elective Congress.
It is essentially clear that the four more liberal members of the Court will vote in favor of the mandate.
We are halfway through the mandate argument; the SG is done.
Now the Harlow MP's mandate will reach beyond policy to inform the way Tory candidates are selected, with an emphasis on diversity of class as much as ethnicity, and the way new supporters are signed up and engaged.
She'd been frozen out of the ruling party, and Mutharika had tried to fire her several times, but she'd clung on for dear life to her constitutional mandate.
We have a mandate for a sustainable solution within the eurozone Yannis Dragasakis Athens is in a race against the clock to unlock €7.2bn (£5.3bn) in rescue loans the EU and IMF have refused to disburse until the government delivers a convincing package of reforms.
This is a massive mandate for action and shows the anger of safety-critical staff across the rail network at attacks on their standards of living and their job security.
A spokesman for Almunia told the Guardian that after discussions with the UK authorities, he would "propose to the college of commissioners to take a positive decision and in principle the decision should be taken during this mandate of the commission in October".
"If I find myself in a difficult position – I hope I don't – that pushes me beyond the limits [of his mandate] I will resort to the people, obviously not through elections but with a referendum.
In a time of collapsing public confidence in the political classes across Europe, Orbán can claim to be unique – a gifted, popular strongman with the most formidable electoral mandate in the EU.
