Sentence examples for rules for electing from inspiring English sources

25 March The Government suffers a bitter defeat after ministers try to change the rules for electing the House of Commons Speaker, seen as a manoeuvre to oust John Bercow after the election; Labour MPs erupt with rapturous applause in an embarrassing defeat for the Government.

The Bennites then scheduled a special conference for January 1981 to rewrite the rules for electing the leader.

Some 11,700 delegates from across the country are to vote on numerous reforms, including rules for electing a new party president.

States generally play the principal role in setting election standards, but the Constitution explicitly gives Congress the right to step in at any time and remake the rules for electing its members.

Miliband has also been warned that the rules for electing the Labour party leader must be changed or his other wider party-union reforms will leave individual trade unionists with twice as much voting power as mainstream Labour party members.

The party has been close to collapse, with its factions fighting over everything from whether to give the party a new name to the rules for electing a new leader to replace Dulce María Sauri, the current party president.

Charles B. Yates, a banker, businessman and former New Jersey legislator who was a proponent of campaign finance reform and a supporter of stricter ethical rules for elected officials, died on Friday in an airplane crash in Massachusetts.

Mr Juppé received an 18-month suspended sentence and was ruled ineligible for elected office for ten years, a harsher penalty even than the prosecution had demanded.

Harman wrote in the email to Labour MPs: "As you know, the party has an absolute focus on ensuring that the rules agreed in 2014 for electing the new party leadership are complied with and the integrity of the process is upheld.

France has until now had some of the least demanding transparency rules for its elected officials, although the value of the president's assets is made public upon his election.

They must spell out a clear timetable, simplify needlessly complicated voting rules and speed up the procedure for electing a president.