The Libertarian Party will hold a national convention June 26-29 in Columbus, Ohio, at the Hyatt Regency. The party holds national conventions every two years.
The Green Party will hold a national convention July 24-27 in St. Paul, Minnesota, at Macalester College. That is the same venue at which the first national Green Party meeting was ever held. In 1984 the framework for the Green Party was set forth at that location.
Steven St. John, an independent candidate for U.S. House in Nevada’s Third District, says if elected, he will arrange to let registered voters in the district vote tell him how to vote, on certain important issues. See this story for more details.
This In These Times story describes the January 22 meeting of the Chicago Socialist Campaign, a new coalition with the goal of electing a socialist to the Chicago Board of Alderman in February 2015. Chicago city elections are non-partisan. Thanks to Independent Political Report for the link.
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January 1, 2014 – Volume 29, Number 8
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On May 22-25, 2014, voters in the countries that are part of the European Commission elect a new European Commission Parliament. Afterwards, the European Parliament will elect a President of the European Commission. Ordinary voters in Europe do not vote directly for president of the European Commission.
Nevertheless, five European parties are choosing a proposed president, in advance of the voting for Parliament, so that voters will have a sense of which presidential candidate these particular parties prefer. The five parties that are doing this are: European People’s Convention (which is a coalition of Europe’s center-right parties), the Party of European Socialists, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party, the Party of the European Left, and the Green Party. Here is a wikipedia article about the 2014 European election.
Among these five parties, only the Green Party is holding a European-wide “presidential primary.” The vote is being conducted on the internet and any citizen of a nation within the European Union who is at least age 16 may participate. There are four Greens running, and the primary will choose two of them, to guarantee that at least one woman is in the running. They four Greens running are Jose Bove of France, Monica Frassoni of Italy, Rebecca Harms of Germany, and Ska Keller of Germany. For more about the Green presidential primary, see greenprimary.europeangreens.eu.
