Pro-democracy lawmakers have been expelled and more radical candidates barred from standing for office.
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Chow is not the first to be barred from standing for office in Hong Kong.
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The opposition's most popular leaders, Henrique Capriles and Leopoldo Lopez, are banned from standing for office.
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In 2015 and 2016 around 900 women consulted Emily's List about standing for office; since Mr Trump's election, over 26,000 have.
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The 21-year-old Chow becomes the 13th politician barred from standing for office or disqualified from the legislature in recent years.
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Various opposition politicians, including twice-presidential candidate Henrique Capriles, remain banned from standing for office on various charges of corruption or plotting.
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The island's latest political crisis was sparked in April by a legal amendment that would have prevented Ravalomanana from standing for office.
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A dozen politicians, especially aspiring ones from a young generation, have either been disqualified after the election or barred from standing for office.
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The island's latest political crisis was triggered in April by a legal amendment that would have prevented former President Marc Ravalomanana from standing for office.
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Madagascar was rocked by a fresh crisis in April sparked by a legal amendment by Rajaonarimampianina's government that would have prevented Ravalomanana from standing for office.
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So long as former justices were prevented from standing for office, becoming lobbyists or lawyers after stepping down from the court, this would be an improvement.
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But the island was hit by a fresh political crisis in April, sparked by a legal amendment by Rajaonarimampianina's government that would have prevented Ravalomanana from standing for office.
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Unless his current conviction is overturned, he faces little chance of returning, anyone jailed for over three months is barred from standing for office in Hong Kong for five years.
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Last year, Edward Leung, another independence activist previously barred from standing for office in Hong Kong, was jailed for six years for his part in the riot in the Mongkok district.
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She herself is standing for office in Hénart, and, by way of backup, she needs someone to run as mayor—a local candidate, scandal-free, and already familiar with the area.
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Some fear that forcing politicians to disclose their tax affairs discourages people from standing for office, but this is now the norm for London mayoral candidates and would-be American presidents, for example.
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ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Madagascar's president approved a new election law lifting a provision that would have prevented the main opposition candidate from standing for office, which had provoked a political crisis and deadly street demonstrations.
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Following Thursday's verdict, neither Law nor Wong will be able to stand in the by-elections to fill those seats, as anyone jailed for more than 3 months is banned from standing for office for five years.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Dozens of candidates standing for office in Romania's local elections on Sunday are either already subject to graft investigations or have not been sufficiently screened for any past abuses of power, anti-corruption groups say.
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Many of those protesters also believe they have no other avenue to voice their frustrations -- radical lawmakers have been ejected from the legislature, and others banned from standing for office, cutting off Hong Kong's already limited democratic organs from their influence.
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Ng was hopeful that there would be a record turnout for those elections -- as there was for votes last year -- but wary that many protest leaders would be blocked from standing for office, as multiple pro-independence candidates were in the past.
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Conversely, ordained monastics are forbidden from standing for office or voting in elections.
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Meanwhile, the party gained ground electorally. The 1987 general election saw the 133 Greens standing for office take 89,753 votes (1.3% on average), an improvement on 1983. The next two years would see growing membership and increasing media attention. This coincided with greater concern over the environment following the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and concern over CFCs.
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However, the National Security Council that had been established following the 1980 military coup banned İnönü from standing for office. Standing down as chairman in order to be replaced by a politician that could seek office, İnönü was succeeded by Cezmi Kartay. However, SODEP was banned completely from contesting the election, resulting in İnönü taking over as leader for a second time shortly after.
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MacRenato, Ternot. Somoza: seizure of power, 1926-1939. La Jolla: University of California, San Diego. 1991. 260-261. “All relatives of incumbent presidents were forbidden by the constitution from standing for office for a period of six months. Somoza, as the husband of ex-President Sacasa’s niece, came into this category. Somoza sorted out this problem by having the elections put back from November to December”.
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Kaufman was born in Leeds, the youngest of seven children of Louis and Jane Kaufman. His parents were both Polish Jews who moved to England before the First World War. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School, and graduated with a degree in philosophy, politics and economics from the University of Oxford (Queen's College). During his time there, he was Secretary of the University Labour Club, where he prevented Rupert Murdoch from standing for office because he broke the Society's rule against canvassing.
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They were also prohibited from standing for office until 2006, following a ruling by the French courts that struck down the prohibition."Is France’s new chief rabbi staging a reformation?", The Times of Israel, 14 November 2014 In the wake of a series of terrorist attacks in France by Muslim extremists in January 2015, in which some victims were Jewish, Rabbi Korsia called on the Jewish community to help invigorate French society's concept of fraternité (brotherhood). He rejected the idea that the solution to such attacks is emigration or capitulation.
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Schama, pp. 419–420; the qualification for standing for office was 200 guilders in annual city taxes or 300 guilders in house rent; 10,000 guilders of real estate or 20,000 guilders worth of securities; Schama, p. 425. Most important was the change in personnel of these organs, mostly as a consequence of this electoral change. The "democrats" were mostly replaced by Patriot regents, who had no patience with democracy, and by the old Orangist regents, who did not even have to disguise their allegiance as in early 1801 a convenient amnesty was proclaimed.
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In an editorial on 11 January, the Lyttelton Times implied that Sewell's election was a foregone conclusion; no other candidates having come forward, so Sewell would simply be declared elected on nomination night. The editorial urged Sewell to address the issue of improved education when he again represented Christchurch in Parliament. On 14 January, the Lyttelton Times repeated and increased its criticism of Sewell's policies and plans being unknown to the public, and it talked of the option of rejecting Sewell.Note that the rejection of a candidate was not possible if he was the only one standing for office.
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He involved himself in Christian associations and then moved on to politics, successfully standing for office in Mouscron in the local elections in October 1994. He was elected as a municipal councillor in 1997 and as an alderman in 2001, serving under Mayor Detremmerie, with a broad portfolio of responsibilities that covered planning and development, land use, housing, youth, mobility issues, pensions and religions. He retained his municipal responsibilities till his death in 2014. In addition, after Catherine Fonck moved on to become francophone Minister for Children, Youth and Health, on 19 July 2004 Yzerbyt took the seat that she had vacated in the national Chamber of Representatives.
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The ruling party announced candidates for an "upcoming election" over a month prior to dissolution of the House, and all parties claimed that they had anticipated the announcement. Former Premier Ralph O'Neal stepped down and did not contest the 2015 election, the first general election he has not contested since 1967. He was the longest serving politician in the Territory's history, and had held the seat for Virgin Gorda and Anegada (now the 9th district, originally the 7th district) continuously since 1975. Although political dynasties have not been a large feature of British Virgin Islands politics, the 2015 election witnessed descendants of each of the first three Chief Ministers of the Territory standing for office.
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