Duque became president of Colombia in August 2018 after standing as a candidate for the Democratic Center, a right-leaning conservative party.
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"Standing as a candidate for the European elections is the best way to denounce the regression in democratic values and repression we have seen from the Spanish government," he said.
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In an interview with Reuters last week, he ruled out standing as a candidate for his Movement for Socialism (MAS) coalition in the next election, but said that he would return to Bolivia by next Christmas.
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ROME (Reuters) - Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Thursday he will run in May's European parliamentary election, standing as a candidate for public office for the first time since being found guilty of tax fraud in 2013.
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He has been dogged by health concerns in recent years, undergoing open heart surgery in 2016, but he has never indicated he is ready to retire from politics and is standing as a candidate for the May 26 European elections.
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But his later life saw the former champion become involved with one of twentieth century Britain's most vilified politicians: after his career in the ring was over, Lewis worked with the notorious Oswald Mosley, even standing as a candidate for his party at the 19313 general election.
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"Provincial Tories express anger, alienation over party leadership", YorkRegion.com, July 14, 2017. Tysick had been disqualified from standing as a candidate for the Progressive Conservatives due to his socially conservative views.Cruickshank, Ainslie.
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Shekhawat again contested the Amravati seat in the 2014 elections, as also did Deshmukh. On this occasion, it was Deshmukh, now standing as a candidate for the Bharatiya Janata Party, who emerged as winner.
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See Languages of Sweden. Regional citizenship or the right of domicile () is a prerequisite for voting, standing as a candidate for the Legislative Assembly, or owning and holding real estate situated in unplanned areas of Åland.
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In January 2020, Baillie announced that she would be standing as a candidate for the post of Deputy Leader of the Scottish Labour Party. On 3 April, it was announced she had won the contest by 10,311 votes to Matt Kerr's 7,528 votes.
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Ronnie Fraser Thomas Ronald Leslie Fraser (3 February 1929 – 4 March 2010) was a Scottish writer, broadcaster and Liberal Party politician. He was notable for standing as a candidate for the United Kingdom parliament, even though he was too young to be eligible to vote.
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In 1854 Samuel Hinks was elected Mayor of Baltimore, standing as a candidate for the nationalist anti-Catholic American Party. Members of the party were popularly known as "Know-Nothings" because, when asked about their secret organizations, their members were said to reply "I know nothing".
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Published 14 March 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017. Ouellet was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in a by-election on July 5, 2010, representing the electoral district of Vachon, standing as a candidate for Parti Québécois."Parti Quebecois holds on to a Montreal-area riding in Quebec byelection".
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The new Unionist candidate chosen to defend the seat was Frederick J. Van den Berg. He was born and raised in Johannesburg, before moving to London to practise as a Barrister in 1916. He was standing as a candidate for the first time. The Labour candidate was George Blanco White, a lawyer who had stood here last time.
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Standing as an independent candidate, he was re- elected in the election of 5 September 1976. From July 22, to September 20, 1976 he served as President of the House of Representatives. In the 19 May 1991 parliamentary elections he was elected member of the House of Representatives, standing as a candidate for the Democratic Party in the Nicosia constituency. He was re-elected on 26 May 1996.
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His first venture into politics had been standing as a candidate for election to Exeter City Council, to which he was first elected in 1888.Liberal Year Book, 1907 He first stood for election to Parliament at the 1892 general election, when he was unsuccessful in the Conservative-held Exeter constituency. He did not contest the General Elections of 1895 and 1900. Like his father, he served as a Justice of the peace in Exeter.
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In April 2019, Heartfield announced that he was standing as a candidate for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party in the 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom. He was fourth on the party list for Yorkshire and the Humber and did not gain a seat. In August 2019, he announced that he would be standing as a Brexit Party candidate in Islington North, the constituency of Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn. He later stood down and was replaced by Yosef David.
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Standing as a candidate for the Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands, he obtained 26.6% of the vote, seeing off eleven other candidates.Official biography on the website of the Parliament of Tonga"Election second round: in search of a Prime Minister" , Matangi Tonga (editorial), November 26, 2010November 2010 election: results for Tongatapu, Matangi Tonga In July 2014 Tapueluelu was dumped as a Democratic Party candidate. He ran as an independent in the 2014 Tongan general election, but was not re-elected.
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In November 2006, Ford had the casting vote, which led to the committee rejecting plans for the Menie resort, however, the Scottish Government stepped in and the development proceeded. Ford spoke to BBC's Panorama television programme about the development, following this he received several letters from the council's chief executive. In December 2007, he was unseated from the position of committee chair of Aberdeenshire Council's infrastructure services. In May 2008, he was reported to be considering standing as a candidate for the UK Parliament Aberdeen South seat.
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Williams attempted to form a new government, but the following month he lost a vote of no-confidence to the opposition Democratic Alliance Party and the New Alliance Party. Terepai Maoate became the new prime minister. He lost his seat when the overseas electorate was abolished in 2003. Williams later attempted to start a political career in New Zealand, standing as a candidate for the New Zealand First party at 15th place in the party list and contesting the Maungakiekie electorate seat in the 2005 parliamentary elections.
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Until 1848, Opdyke was a Democrat, although he "took no conspicuous part in the affairs of that party." He left the party to become a delegate to the Buffalo Free Soil Party convention in 1848, and served on its committee on resolutions, as well as standing as a candidate for the U.S. Congress on the Free Soil ticket in New Jersey. When the Free Soil party merged with the Republican Party, he joined with it on its anti-slavery platform. In 1856, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the New York State Assembly.
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Garro-Jones was private secretary to Sir Hamar Greenwood from 1919 to 1922The Times House of Commons, 1935 while Greenwood was firstly Secretary for Overseas Trade and then Chief Secretary for Ireland. Greenwood was a Liberal Minister in the Coalition Government led by David Lloyd George. This close association led Garro-Jones into standing as a candidate for National Liberals at the 1922 General Election. He was selected to contest Bethnal Green North East, where the sitting Liberal member, also a supporter of the Coalition Government, was retiring.
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Merepeka Ruakawa-Tait was elected to the Rotorua District Council in 2011. In 2013 Merepeka was re- elected to the Rotorua District Council. Previously, in 2001, she made a high- profile bid for the mayoralty of Wellington; however, after a weak performance at a candidates' meeting and a perceived failure to articulate policies and vision for the city, her support tapered off and she eventually placed sixth. Shortly before the 2002 elections, it was announced that Raukawa-Tait would be standing as a candidate for the Christian Heritage Party.
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Batting at number eight or nine, he played some useful innings while leading Natal to victory in the Currie Cup in 1966–67, then retired from first-class cricket. An excellent tactical captain, he was warmhearted and devoted to the game. He wrote the books Cricket Crisis (about the 1964–65 series against England) and Six for Glory (about the 1966–67 series against Australia). In retirement, he briefly threw in his hat with pro-apartheid politicsat one point standing as a candidate for the ruling National Party, before moving into business.
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There is only one other qualified mediator in Tonga. His career in national politics began when he was elected People's Representative for the eighth constituency of Tongatapu in the November 2010 general election. Standing as a candidate for the Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands, he obtained 34.1% of the vote, seeing off nine other candidates.Official biography on the website of the Tongan ParliamentNovember 2010 election: results for Tongatapu, Matangi Tonga"Election second round: in search of a Prime Minister" , Matangi Tonga (editorial), November 26, 2010 In July 2014 Taione was dumped as a Democratic Party candidate.
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Sergey Verlin in 2013 Sergey Verlin (Сергей Верлин; born October 12, 1974 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Verlin also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1994, 1995), two silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m: 1995), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1998). After retiring, Verlin went into politics, standing as a candidate for the United Russia party of Vladimir Putin.
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Ciarán P. Murphy (born 30 May 1940) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician who was a Teachta Dála (TD) for Wicklow from 1973 to 1982. A secondary school teacher before entering politics, Murphy was elected to Dáil Éireann on his first attempt, at the 1973 general election. He defeated the sitting TD Paudge Brennan, who had left Fianna Fáil over the Arms Crisis and was standing as a candidate for the short-lived breakaway party Aontacht Éireann. Murphy was re- elected at the next three general elections, before losing his seat at the November 1982 general election to Paudge Brennan, who had rejoined Fianna Fáil.
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Influential in the Rural Community Council which promoted local theatre as a way of developing local communities he also was involved with the formation of Tideswell Community Players in the next village and starred in its first production, Ambrose Applejohn's Adventure in 1930. After the war he also produced a number of large-scale theatrical pageants in Sheffield, Manchester and elsewhere. Peach also entered the world of politics, standing as a candidate for the Liberal Party at the 1929 General Election in the dual member seat of Derby, without success. He was made an OBE for services for literature in 1972, and recognised with an honorary DLitt from Sheffield University in 1964.
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Douglas made his first foray into politics in 1975 when he unsuccessfully sought the Labour Party candidacy for following the retirement of Hugh Watt. In early 1977 he contemplated standing as a candidate for the Labour Party nomination in the Mangere by-election, however he ultimately decided to withdraw from the candidacy race. He then put his name forward for the newly created seat in south Auckland, , defeating former cabinet minister Colin Moyle to win nomination. He won the election and represented the electorate from 25 November 1978 after the 1978 general election, until 24 May 1979, when he was unseated by a decision of the Electoral Court in favour of National Party candidate Winston Peters.
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He was elected for the Whangarei electorate with the swing to Labour in the 1972 general election but was defeated in the next election in 1975. In early 1977 he contemplated standing as a candidate for the Labour Party nomination in the Mangere by-election, however he ultimately decided to withdraw from the candidacy race. Formerly a Public Trust accountant, he was made managing director of the Development Finance Corporation and executive chairman of New Zealand Railways by Labour. From his time in Parliament, he was a friend of Roger Douglas, and of Michael Bassett who said that his "contribution to New Zealand went well beyond what he managed in three short years to do for the people of Whangarei".
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At the 1918 general election, he was elected as Coalition National Democratic member for Bradford East, and served in the House of Commons until the 1922 general election. After the Coalition government ended he remained an advocate of close co-operation between the Liberal and Conservative parties; He was a supporter of Winston Churchill and like Churchill contested the 1924 General election as a Constitutionalist at Nottingham West. He was unsuccessful at the election and before the 1929 General election, he had joined the Conservatives, standing as a candidate for them in 1929. He lived in Hong Kong and became the chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association in 1953 and first chairman of the Reform Club of Hong Kong which was founded to campaign for direct elections to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
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Rowland's first introduction to politics was while he was studying at the University of Newcastle. He stood for Deputy President of the Students' Union in 1987, and on failing to win that position, the 5 March 1987 issue of the student newspaper, the Courier, reports that he stood unopposed for election for the Convener of the Disciplinary Committee, but lost by 335 votes to 395 against "Re-open Nominations (R.O.N)." In the 10 March 1988 edition of the Courier, he wrote a letter directed at what he dubbed "the fascist left," and defending freedom of speech, and opposing the practice of providing "no platform" to speakers whose views were considered objectionable by some. In 2019, Rowland chose to return to politics, and at a European level, by standing as a candidate for the Brexit Party.
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The result was a gain for the Liberal Party from the Unionists with Johnstone gaining 60% of the poll and a majority of 5,176 over Stanley. The Liberal victory was described by Austen Chamberlain as a “smash” and a bad omen for the by-election at Mitcham being held on the same day, The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letters: The correspondence of Sir Austen Chamberlain; Royal Historical Society, Cambridge University Press, 1995 p221 which the Unionists also lost, this time to Labour. Clearly the absence of a Labour candidate at Willesden meant the Liberals were able to present Johnstone as the only progressive and anti-Tory candidate.The Times, 3 March 1923, p10 This tactical advantage was underscored by an unproved allegation against Stanley that he or his supporters had tried to bribe a Labour man into standing as a candidate for the purpose of splitting the Liberal vote.
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Kaveinga Faʻanunu (July 30, 1962Official biography on the website of the Parliament of Tonga – July 24, 2011"Tongatapu MP dies", Matangi Tonga, July 25, 2011) was a Tongan politician Having a Bachelor of Science degree in Forestry, he worked for nine years in various "forestry, agroforestry and managerial" positions in the government's forestry department, before going into politics. This included working for a time as Chief Executive Officer of Tonga Timber, a government-owned company.Official biography on the website of the Parliament of Tonga"Tonga Timber to be investigated over possible fraud" , Taimi Media Network, December 22, 2010 His brief career in national politics began when he was elected People's Representative for the ninth constituency of Tongatapu in the November 2010 general election. Standing as a candidate for the Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands, he obtained 34% of the vote, seeing off fourteen other candidates.
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Mattarella with the U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen in March 2000 In October 2000 the PPI joined with other centrist parties to form an alliance called The Daisy (DL), later to merge into a single party in March 2002. Mattarella was re-elected to the Italian Parliament in the 2001 and 2006 general elections, standing as a candidate for The Daisy in two successive centre-left coalitions – The Olive Tree and The Union (L'Unione). In 2007 he was one of the founders of the Democratic Party (PD), a big tent centre-left party formed from a merger of left-wing and centrist parties which had been part of The Olive Tree, including The Daisy and the Democrats of the Left (heirs of the Italian Communist Party). On 5 October 2011 he was elected by the Italian Parliament with 572 votes to be a judge of the Constitutional Court.
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In 1950, following the removal of party General Secretary Roberto Lucifero (who represented the extreme right of the Liberal Party) and the arrival in the post of Bruno Villabruna, who subsequently launched a determined move to make the party more mainstream, attempting to create a broadly based plotical "third force", Cattani was among those who began to look for ways of drawing together the fractured strands of political liberalism. Through the MLI he set out his conditions for a liberal reunification, calling for a new Italian Liberal organisation that completely excluded the political right. Despite failing to obtain agreement on that, in December 1951 at the party conference in Turin, Cattani was among those calling for a liberal reunification. In 1952 Cattani presented himself as a candidate in the Rome municipal elections, standing as a candidate for a coalition comprising the Liberals, the Christian Democrats, the Republicans and the Social Democrats.
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Following his service in the First World War, Gorman resumed his legal career, building up a large and highly regarded practice, and took silk as a Queen's Counsel in 1929. Gorman had some involvement in politics, unsuccessfully standing as a candidate for the Victorian Legislative Council in 1931, and serving as an influential advisor and intermediary for the Country Party Premier of Victoria, Albert Dunstan, from 1935. In 1940, Gorman retired from active practice from the Bar, although he retained rooms at Equity Chambers, and came out of retirement on several occasions including serving as counsel for former Premier Thomas Hollway at a Royal Commission on bribery charges in 1952, an inquiry into the Petrov Affair in 1954, and to defend the racehorse trainer Harry Bird in 1969. According to his secretary, Gorman ran "the biggest free advisory legal service in Melbourne", offering legal advice pro bono to young lawyers, politicians and businesspeople.
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Tuʻutafaiva has served as an advocate lawyer in a number of high-profile cases. In 2001, he represented ʻAkilisi Pohiva, the main leader of Tonga's pro-democracy movement, when the latter was sued for defamation. Pohiva, a Member of Parliament, was the editor, owner and publisher of the Keleʻa pro- democracy newspaper, in which an article in late 1998 alleged that the Auditor General, Pohiva Tuʻiʻonetoa, had lied and "altered the correct result of [an] independent examination". A jury found for ʻAkilisi Pohiva in the Supreme Court, on the grounds that the article was not malicious, and the Court of Appeal upheld the judgment.Tuʻiʻonetoa v Pohiva, Court of Appeal of Tonga, July 2001 He began a career in national politics when he was elected People's Representative to Parliament for the constituency of Tongatapu 6 in the November 2010 general election, standing as a candidate for the Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands. He obtained 26.5% of the vote in his constituency, seeing off fourteen other candidates.
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Alfred Ghiro (born August 13, 1968 in Baro, MakiraOfficial biography, National Parliament of Solomon Islands) is a Solomon Islands politician. He began his career in national politics when he was elected MP for East Makira in the August 2010 general election, standing as a candidate for the Democratic Party. The Democrats obtained thirteen seats out of fifty, making them by far the largest party in the National Parliament, but their leader Steve Abana failed to obtain the support of a parliamentary majority after the election, and thus became Leader of the Opposition to Prime Minister Danny Philip's government. Appointing his Shadow Cabinet, Abana made Ghiro Shadow Minister for Provincial Government and Institutional strengthening.Official biography, National Parliament of Solomon Islands2010 election data , Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation"SIDP rises to top" , Solomon Star, August 14, 2010"Abana is new Opposition leader" , Solomon Star, September 1, 2010 At some point, Ghiro defected to the parliamentary majority, becoming a government backbencher, despite being a member of the main opposition party.
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Cecil G. Murgatroyd Cecil Godfrey Murgatroyd (22 May 1958 – 21 May 2001) was mainly known for being involved in New Zealand national politics along with Australian Federal and State politics, and for his role in the 1998 Australian Constitutional convention. From 1981 until his death in 2001 he was generally associated with running, and standing as a candidate for, two non-serious parties, the Imperial British Conservative Party (IBCP) and the McGillicuddy Serious Party (McGSP), which both operated in the two countries. Murgatroyd's platforms were typically absurdist and of a 'pataphysical nature.Vos, Inger "Murgatroyd Right All Along". 26 May 2001, Waikato Times p2. Murgatroyd was initially active in New Zealand politics in the early 1980s, as a candidate for the (then) Wizard of Christchurch's IBCP and as the founder of the Waikato Cavalry Regiment of Alf's Imperial Army in the city of Hamilton. In the he stood in the electorate for the Wizard or IBC party, and came fourth with 125 votes. In 1982 he moved to Melbourne. It was there he set up the Australian headquarters of the McGillicuddy Serious Party in 1984. After his move to Australia, he stood in elections there too against, among others, Prime Minister Bob Hawke in two federal elections in the 1980s and 1990s.
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