Nicola Sturgeon Quotes
Our MPs will take decisions on how they're voting on a day-to-day basis. But I'm the leader of the party, and in terms of our overall strategy and how we vote on key issues, then ultimately, those decisions will be mine.
In the Israeli system, voters do not vote for individual politicians; they vote for parties. Based on the proportion of votes, the parties are apportioned the number of seats in the Knesset they get. Then each party selects their winning candidates from their full list of candidates in order. The voters do get to see the entire list for each party, and there are party primaries to determine who is on the list and in what order.
In 1989 Russia held contested elections for the first time since the 1917 revolution. Numerous incumbent party leaders lost.
Monroe was then Secretary of State and Jefferson an ex-President.
Whithead’s view which seems intuitively right to most citizens, tends to be the one that the majority espouses but the minority opposes. At the time, the Republicans controlled the White House and there were a number of polarizing issues, where the Republicans could not obtain consensus and then decided. However, then the Democrats gained control of the White House and Congress the next year, it was the Democrats who claimed that they had to decide. The Republicans, now in the majority, argued that significant changes in America should not be made by narrow majorities and major issues should be tabled if there was no substantial majority. That was the position that the Democrats had espoused when they were in the minority.
At that time the Presidential nominee had influence but could not unilaterally determine who his running mate would be as the Party Conventions—especially the Democratic Party Convention—was wide open. The candidate joked in this quotation, but the party leaders were very unhappy with such an open convention and after the 1972 election which they lost handily, the rules were changed to give party leaders more influence. By the 21st century, the primary elections had all but made the party conventions a quaint celebration and no serious decisions were made by the party leaders or the party delegates.
Blair was then the leader of the opposition Labor party. Major, the prime minister, did not have firm control of his own party and was whipsawed between different factions. He was ousted by his own party, not by losing an election.
Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon is a Scottish politician serving as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) since 2014. She has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) since 1999, first as an additional member for the Glasgow electoral region, and as the member for Glasgow Southside (formerly Glasgow Govan) from 2007.
