Mr Stephen is widely regarded to be the front runner in the two-horse race, but with the new leader to be elected under a one-member-one-vote system, Mr Rumbles said there is "all to play for".
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Each Member State has one vote, irrespective of its size or the extent of its contribution to the budget.
And last week, when she announced she couldn't support the profiling bill, she said she would permit a vote and vowed not to pressure any council member to vote one way or the other.
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Referring to the upcoming conclave, during which the next leader of the Catholic Church will be chosen, Father Lombardi also suggested that the media was exerting "unacceptable pressure to condition the vote of one or other member of the college of cardinals".
Morocco has bid three previous times for the World Cup while South Africa, a long-time favourite to get the 2006 edition, was beaten by Germany by one vote after a sole executive committee member decided to abstain.
If supporters of one party were asked to vote for a member of the other, they might well revolt.
There is some evidence to suggest that one of the reasons for the Irish vote was a perception that smaller member states would benefit less from the Lisbon Treaty than would their larger partners.
The islanders have American citizenship and may be recruited by the armed forces (around 4, 000 serve in the navy, for example), but they cannot vote in presidential elections and have only one (non-voting) member in the House of Representatives.
One investor accosted an FDA panel member with harsh words in a hallway minutes after the Sept. 16 vote, according to people who were there.
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