Puerto Rico does participate in the internal political process of both the Democratic and Republican parties in the U. S., accorded equal-proportional representation in both parties, and delegates from the islands vote in each party's national presidential convention.

The Libertarian Party is democratically governed by its members, with state affiliate parties each holding annual conventions at which delegates are elected to attend the party's national conventions, held every two years.

National convention delegates vote on changes to the party's national platform and bylaws, and elect representatives to the Libertarian National Committee ( LNC ).

The official process is identical to the one by which the presidential candidates are chosen, with delegates placing the names of candidates into nomination, followed by a ballot in which candidates must receive a majority to secure the party's nomination.

Although the party's conservatives could not stop FDR from winning the nomination, the obvious physical decline in the President's appearance, as well as rumors of secret health problems, led many delegates and party leaders to strongly oppose Henry A. Wallace.

During a PNP assembly on May 22, 2007 a large group of delegates unanimously acclaimed him as the party's candidate for Governor.

A state's primary election or caucus usually is an indirect election: instead of voters directly selecting a particular person running for President, it determines how many delegates each party's national convention will receive from their respective state.

These delegates then in turn select their party's presidential nominee.

Each of these conventions is attended by a number of delegates selected in accordance with the given party's bylaws.

While MacKay was roundly criticized in some Red Tory circles for permitting a union under his watch, MacKay's efforts to sell the merger to the PC membership were successful: 90. 4 % of the party's elected delegates supported the deal in a vote on December 6, 2003.

Riots and protests raged outside the convention venue, and disorder reigned among convention delegates tasked with leading the party after the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., the increasing casualties of the Vietnam War, and Johnson's decision not to seek his party's nomination for a second term as president.

Roosevelt refused to endorse anybody other than Wallace, but preferred Byrnes as the best alternative to Wallace and sought to push him as the party's nominee for president if the party's delegates refused to renominate Wallace at the 1944 Democratic National Convention.

At an automatic leadership review held at the party's provincial convention in April 2012, 76. 4 % of delegates voted in favour of Horwath's continued leadership.

The majority of the more than 2000 delegates decided to continue the party's " revolutionary way to Socialism "— i. e., to retain its Leninist ideology.

During the party's first national congress in January 2000, Veltroni received the support of the 79. 9 % of delegates, while the left wing of the party, at the time led by three women ( Anna Finocchiaro, Fulvia Bandoli and Pasqualina Napoletano ), had the support of 20. 1 % of them.

In-je was elected the party's Presidential candidate by the delegates on October 14, 2007 but received poor results in the election on December 19: He obtained only 0. 7 % of the vote

In addition, delegates are often selected by the party's youth and women's associations in each riding, and party associations at university and college campuses.

These ex officio delegates are automatically entitled to attend by virtue of being an elected member of parliament for that party, a member of an affiliated party in a provincial legislature, a member of the party's national or provincial executive, of the executive of an affiliated women's or youth organization.

The Senator was appointed the party's leader for the duration of the war in November 1941 by a unanimous vote at a national conference of several hundred party delegates after a motion to hold a leadership convention was defeated.

Although only about 1 % of the nation's delegates are chosen by the Iowa State Convention ( 25 Republican delegates in 2012, assigned proportionately ), the Iowa caucuses have served as an early indication of which candidates for president might win the nomination of their political party at that party's national convention, and which ones could drop out for lack of support.

In the United States, Super Tuesday, in general, refers to the Tuesday in February or March of a presidential election year when the greatest number of states hold primary elections to select delegates to national conventions at which each party's presidential candidates are officially nominated.

More delegates can be won on Super Tuesday than on any other single day of the primary calendar ; accordingly, candidates seeking the presidency traditionally must do well on this day to secure their party's nomination.

The point is further discussed under the history of the party's leadership.

Apparent authority ( also called " ostensible authority ") exists where the principal's words or conduct would lead a reasonable person in the third party's position to believe that the agent was authorized to act, even if the principal and the purported agent had never discussed such a relationship.

The party's purpose was to unite a variety of dovish Zionist movements with the dovish wing of the Israeli Labor Party.

Fawcett served as her party's caucus chair from 1990 to 1992, and held a variety of critic positions.

Individual topics, and a party's, person's, or organization's opinion on them are often called the " planks " of their platform in reference to a basic stage made out of boards or planks of wood, similar to what can be assembled for public speaking or debates to be held on.

Removing the word " communist " from the party's name was among the topics debated.

The party is led by Altaf Hussain under whose supervision, members of the Rabita Committee ( also known as Central Coordination Committee ) formulate the party's political program.

The second period of Kinnock's leadership was dominated by his drive to reform the party's policies and so win power.

It should also be noted that while more often than not, party members will " toe the line " and support their party's policies, they are free to vote against their own party and vote with the opposition (" cross the aisle ") when they please.

Although a growing number of the party's conservatives — especially in the South — had grown increasingly skeptical of Roosevelt's economic and social policies, few of them dared to publicly oppose Roosevelt, and he was renominated easily when the Democratic Convention met in Chicago.

The KMT pursued highly centralized political and cultural policies rooted in the party's decades-long history of fighting warlordism in China and opposing competing concepts of a loose federation following the demise of the imperial Qing.

The Opposition party's main role in the House is to present arguments against the Government's policies and legislation, and attempt to hold the Government accountable as much as possible by asking questions of importance during Question Time and during debates on legislation.

" Increasingly, the party's program became an uneasy amalgam of free market and welfarist policies.

In the post-1975 period, it was immediately apparent that the effectiveness of Vietnamese Communist Party ( VCP ) policies did not necessarily extend to the party's peacetime nation-building plans.

Hacker sees his task as the initiation of departmental reforms and economies, a reduction of the level of bureaucracy and staff numbers in the Civil Service, and governing the country according to his party's policies.

However the party's manifesto for the 1997 election promised that " Any changes in the admissions policies of grammar schools will be decided by local parents.

Since foundation, the party's policies have broadened from environmentalism to include policies aligned with the philosophies of grassroots democracy, social justice, conservation, and the peace movement.

Some of the party's most important policies include:

However, the party's economic policies vary widely among members, with some Likud MKs supporting leftist economic positions that are more in line with popular preferences.

By 1997, the Reform Party attempted to shed the negative public outlook on the party's views on immigration and minority rights by selecting multiple ethnic minority candidates to run as Reform Party candidates in the 1997 federal election to demonstrate that the Reform Party's policies were not intended to be intolerant.

At the 1984 Republican National Convention, Kirkpatrick delivered the " Blame America First " keynote speech, which re-nominated Reagan by praising his administration's foreign policy while excoriating the leadership of what she called the " San Francisco Democrats "— the Democrats had just held their convention in San Francisco — for the party's shift away from the hawkish policies of former Democratic presidents such as Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy to a more strident anti-war position that the left-wing of the Democratic Party had pushed since Vietnam.

Litigants often benefit from before-the-event ( BTE ) legal expenses insurance against paying the other party's legal costs as part of their domestic or automobile insurance policies ( although many are unaware of it ).

On the other hand, Alexander Stubb, a prominent cabinet minister of the party, has stated that the party's current policies under incumbent chairman Jyrki Katainen are " unambiguously liberal ".

The party's policies include a " Progressive Expenditure Tax " ( with no tax payable on any income that is saved or invested ), universal living allowance tied to basic per capita living costs, rejection of the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) and other taxes for general revenue that it views as regressive, federal funding for the education of students attending non-government schools to be based on an equitable distribution and increased diversification in overseas trade to broaden the base for growth, and on opposition to abortion, euthanasia, therapeutic cloning and same-sex marriage.

In July, MacKay struck up a " Blue Ribbon PC Policy Review Panel ", made up of Tory MPs, Senators, and Orchard himself, that was to be chaired by Tory MP Bill Casey, in order to reexamine the party's policies on NAFTA.

During the party's premierships 2003 — 2011 these policies were also manifested as transferrals of certain government agencies from the capital to smaller cities in the regions.

He suggested that the party's economic policies were insufficient for the 21st century, and that the party as a whole was no longer " worthy of support ".

In keeping with the party's protectionist economic policies his first budget in March of that year saw the introduction of new duties on forty-three imports, many of them coming from Britain.

The last years with the Socialist caucus in the chamber combined with the party's disciplinary policies eroded Laval's attachment to the cause.

KrF has also sought support among the Muslim minority in Norway, pointing to their restrictive policies on alcohol and pornography, although party's support for Israel concerns several Muslim voters.