King Muhammad 5, was known to be most sympathetic to the formation of local self-government and made the first firm promise of elections on May Day, 1957.

Although the elections were for local officials, it was not necessary to conduct the elections so as to prevent parties from publicly identifying their candidates.

The concentration of effective power in Rabat leads not only to party bickering, but to distraction from local activity that might have had many auxiliary benefits in addition to contributing to more meaningful elections.

The political unrest of the late 1920s led to the victory of Republican candidates in local council elections throughout the country, and the abdication of King Alfonso XIII.

In local elections Liverpool remained a Liberal stronghold, with the party taking the plurality of seats on the elections to the new Liverpool Metropolitan Borough Council in 1973.

In East Germany after local election losses, a forced merger of political parties in the Socialist Unity Party (" SED "), followed by elections in 1946 where political opponents were oppressed.

The region's governor is, since 1 January 2011, Stavros Arnaoutakis, who was elected in the November 2010 local administration elections for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement.

A single issue political party, the Valley Party, contested the 1990 local Greenwich Borough Council elections on a ticket of reopening the stadium, capturing 11 % of the vote, aiding the club's return.

* In some Commonwealth countries resident citizens of other Commonwealth countries are entitled to political rights, e. g., the right to vote in local and national elections and in some cases even the right to stand for election.

The nearest CND has come to having an electoral arm was the Independent Nuclear Disarmament Election Campaign ( INDEC ) which stood candidates in a few local elections during the 1960s.

In the past Dublin city was regarded as a stronghold for Fianna Fáil, however following the Irish local elections, 2004 the party was eclipsed by the centre-left Labour Party.

Labour further increased its number of councillors at the 2009 local elections and currently has the largest number of TD's from the city ( 10 out of 22 ).

The DPP suffered a significant election defeat in nationwide local and county elections in December 2005.

The first local elections were held in 1959, and the first Equatoguinean representatives were seated in the Cortes Generales ( Spanish parliament ).

In addition to the presidential and parliamentary elections, there are European Parliament elections every five years, and local municipal elections ( held simultaneously in every municipality ) every four years.

Plurality voting is used for local and / or national elections in 43 of the 193 countries of the United Nations, as well as in the Republic of China ( Taiwan ).

The United Kingdom continues to use the first-past-the-post electoral system for general elections, and for local government elections in England and Wales.

At the 2009 Local elections held on 5 June 2009, Fine Gael won 556 seats, surpassing Fianna Fáil which won 407 seats, and making Fine Gael the largest party of local government nationally.

The non-socialist majority in the new Finnish Parliament took power on 15 November, on the model of the Power Act of the socialists in July 1917, and promptly accepted the Social Democratic proposals from July 1917 for an eight-hour working day and universal suffrage in local elections.

Georgia's Way has said it intends to have candidates for all the seats in Georgia's upcoming local elections, with Zourabichvili hoping to become Tbilisi Mayor.

With multiple member districts the still fragmentary local party organizations could have operated more effectively and parties might have been encouraged to state their positions more clearly.

The general setting of the Moroccan election may also encourage the deterioration of local party organization.

The party competes against the Liberal / National Coalition for political office at the federal and state ( and sometimes local ) level.

According to popular legend, his raiders gained access to the walled town with the aid of a local woman who sympathised with the rebellion, letting a small party in via the Market Street gate at midnight.

The party retains influence in some local councils.

In some areas, the Militant tendency were held to be systematically targeting weak local party branches in safe seat areas in order to have their own candidates selected, and thus become MPs.

Eddie Milne at Blyth ( Northumberland ) and Dick Taverne in Lincoln were both victims of such intrigues during the 1970s, but in both cases there was enough of a local outcry by party members – and the electorate – for them to fight and win their seats as independent candidates against the official Labour candidates.

The story got around that he had refused to join the new party because he feared he would not be able to keep his Hamilton seat at a general election ; local Scottish National Party supporters nicknamed him " Chicken George ".

" After South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond switched his allegiance to the Republican Party in 1964, BJU faculty members became increasingly influential in the new state Republican party, and BJU alumni were elected to local political and party offices.

In 1976, candidates supported by BJU faculty and alumni captured the local Republican party with unfortunate short-term political consequences, but by 1980 the religious right and the " country club " Republicans had joined forces.

This central organ was to become the Central Committee, and it had the rights to decide all party issues, with the exception of local ones.

Leon Trotsky criticised this view, stating " our rules represent ' organisational nonconfidence ' of the party toward its parts, that is, supervision over all local, district, national and other organisations ... the organisation of the party takes place of the party itself ; the Central Committee takes the place of the organisation ; and finally the dictator takes the place of the Central Committee.

The departments supervised local party officials and ministerial branches within their particular sphere.

Beria was no easy man to defeat, and his ethnicisation policies ( that a local or republican leaders had to have ethnic origins, and speak the language of the given area ) proved to be a tool to strengthen the MVD's grip on local party organs.

Under Khrushchev the local party leadership in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( Russian SFSR ) witnessed the largest turnover in provincial leaders since the Great Purge ; two out of three provincial leaders were replaced in 1953 alone.

* In Turkmenistan, the local party apparatus led by Saparmurat Niyazov was renamed the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan and abandoned communist ideology.

To achieve the envisaged fanaticism, Volkssturm units were placed under direct command of the local Nazi party, meaning local Gau-and Kreisleiters.

It enjoys local autonomy by virtue of an international convention of 1921, implemented most recently by the Act on Åland Self-Government of 1951.

The IDF has a difficult, if not impossible time trying to find hidden weapons caches in Palestinian areas — this is due to the high local support base Hamas enjoys.

Today the territory enjoys laws in certain areas that are significantly different from the rest of France – this is known as the local law.

Babbitt enjoys being the hometown to a few celebrities both local ( Dale Kasten ) and national ( Buzz Schneider ).

) Most of the township enjoys mutual local calling with the Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton as well as Quakertown telephone exchanges.

Located in the picturesque foothills of the Upstate region of South Carolina, Greer enjoys a distinguished past, from its days as a hunting ground for local Cherokees, to its settlement by pioneering families in the 1700s, to the advent of the railroad in the 1800s.

While much of the support that the club enjoys is from the local Stoke-on-Trent area, there are a number of exile fan clubs, notably in London and stretching from Scandinavia to countries further afield such as Australia and the USA.

The College Council enjoys a special status in Hong Kong, in that it is a statutory body incorporated by a local ordinance, the St. Paul's College Council Ordinance.

He also enjoys his new work getting unions to invest money in local projects around transit lines to relieve traffic and smog.

# Three Line Whipping ( October 18, 1987 ) – Alan spends the night at a famed local brothel where he enjoys some BDSM, and an aborted police raid nearly makes him late for a morning television interview.

He still enjoys teaching and playing tennis with the local enthusiasts and is known to enjoy some sake after a match down at the local Mexican restaurant Cafe do Sol.

CIT enjoys a local rivalry with University College Cork.

The show consistently ranks in the top 10 on M-Net and enjoys a local viewership of about 500 000 people every week.

Chexbres is a wine-growing village and enjoys a good selection of local vintages.

The colony, a non-profit organization, enjoys the status of a charity, entitling it to exemption from local property taxes, among other things.

The flagship local newscast, CBC News: Compass, is anchored by Bruce Rainnie, and enjoys very high ratings throughout Prince Edward Island.

TVM is Malta's most watched television channel, while Magic 91. 7 enjoys huge popularity among local and tourist listeners.

The language law declares that ' the Slovakian language enjoys a preferential status over other languages spoken on the territory of the Slovakian Republic ' and as a result of a 2009 amendment, a fine of up to € 5, 000 may be imposed for a misdemeanor from the regulations protecting the preferential status of the state language, e. g. if the name of a shop or a business is indicated on a sign-board first in the minority language and only after it in Slovakian, or if in a bilingual text the minority language part is written with bigger fonts than its Slovakian equivalent, or if the bilingual text on a monument is translated from the minority language to the dominant language and not vice versa, or if a civil servant or doctor communicates with a minority speaker citizen in a minority language in a local community where the proportion of the minority speakers is less than 20 %.

( The local Football League team is Burnley F. C., which also enjoys strong support in the town.

Fritters are extremely popular roadside snacks all over South Asia and are commonly referred to as Pakora ( Pakoda ) or Bhajji ( Bhajia ) in local parlance — the onion bhaji also enjoys a high popularity abroad.

After suffering years of vacant storefronts and increased vandalism during the 1970s, 80s & 90s Roslindale Square enjoys limited success today as a local shopping district.

On the social side, Gareth enjoys some success with women, often in the local nightclub " Chasers ", but in contrast to Tim's interest in Dawn, Gareth's ' success ' with women is sexual in nature rather than romantic.

But during the winter of 1932 a " sweetish sickness ", as he calls nausea, increasingly impinges on almost everything he does or enjoys: his research project, the company of an autodidact who is reading all the books in the local library alphabetically, a physical relationship with a café owner named Françoise, his memories of Anny, an English girl he once loved, even his own hands and the beauty of nature.