Sentences with phrase «left coalition leader»
After Greek conservatives failed to create a government, the baton passed to the Radical Left Coalition leader Alexis Tsipras.
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Still, there was degree of complacency in markets that the polls, which had shown a Bersani - Monti coalition, would be able to gain control,» said Westpac Bank's senior currency strategist Sean Callow, referring to center - left leader Pier Luigi Bersani and Mario Monti, the outgoing prime minister who leads a centrist alliance.
And the issue has not yet become a political litmus test, requiring leaders to revise their tradition's ethics in order to remain in coalition with their allies on the political and cultural left.
Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom coalition is heading for a decisive win over the centre - left Democratic Party which is still reeling from the disastrous local election results which forced the resignation of opposition leader Walter Veltroni.
Yiannis Bournos is head of European policy at Synaspismos whose leader MP Alexis Tsipras is also head of the coalition of the radical left Syriza — currently polling around 12 %.
Not only did the Liberal Democrats alienate left - leaning voters by entering the coalition, but its leaders did as much as David Cameron and George Osborne to brand Labour as spendthrift and irresponsible — Nick Clegg by playing up the comparison between the UK and Greece, David Laws by brandishing the now - notorious note from Liam Byrne.
After a few months of indecision the centre - left coalition agreed to select its leader through real and contested open primaries.
Such moves could appear to leave party leader Nick Clegg, who is seen by many voters as being wholly associated with his coalition partner David Cameron, extremely isolated.
Senator Jeffrey Klein, the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference, says that his coalition has helped push the Senate Republicans to the left and pass progressive legislation.
The LibDem leader knows that he can't rule out a coalition with Labour or he'll risk losing a large number of his left - leaning voters.
His Left - wing rhetoric will alarm many Conservatives and business leaders, who point out that the Coalition is asking the private sector to take the lead in hauling the economy out of recession as the public sector is cut back.
As Muslims have come to become more than an insignificant share of the left wing coalition in many parts of Western Europe and North America, despite the left wing not many any real policy concessions to attract them, members of left wing parties have come to have more interpersonal contact with Muslims which has led to reduced fear and increased mutual understanding, and political leaders in left wing parties have felt it politic and appropriate to refrain from emphasizing policies and issues that actively antagonize a not insignificant share of their coalition even when (if push came to shove) they might be uneasy with some of the political and social views of this part of their coalition.
Either way, it is also difficult to see the public accepting the notion of one party being permanently in government — the Liberal Democrats are currently the only viable coalition ally for both Labour and the Tories — and leaving their controversial leader in place is likely a bridge too far.
Commenting on the publication by the Department for Education (DfE) of «National Standards of Excellence for Headteachers», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «With increasing difficulties in recruiting new headteachers, and with record numbers of teachers wanting to leave the profession, the Coalition Government has failed to recognise the damaging effect of its policies on the morale and confidence of teachers and school leaders.
Influential right - wing opinion formers (a) expect that a potential leader of a nominally left wing party will take economic positions «to the right» of a right - wing coalition simply because they offer him an opportunity to do so (b) bemoan him for not doing so.
Mr. Cuomo and leaders including state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Coalition co-leaders Dean Skelos and Jeffrey D. Klein are set to leave Tuesday night on a commercial flight to Tel Aviv as a «demonstration of solidarity» with Israelis during the continuing conflict between the nation...
Rank and file activists, who are more left wing than Mr Clegg, reject many of the more right wing policies adopted by their leader since he entered into coalition with the Tories.
Independent Democratic Conference leader Jeffrey Klein, left, D - Yonkers, and Sen. Tony Avella, D - Queens, talk in the Senate Chamber at the Capitol on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Avella will become the fifth member of the IDC, which has ruled the state Senate in a coalition with Republicans since 2011.
That victory effectively removed State Senator Jeff Klein — the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference and a de Blasio ally — from the chamber's coalition leadership, leaving it under the sole control of Republican majority leader Dean Skelos.
Mr. Klein and Mr. Skelos forged a coalition deal in 2012 which allowed them to run the State Senate as co-majority leaders, after elections that year left the Republican conference short of a majority.
A senior member of the Obama administration met with labor leaders and advocates in Manhattan on Thursday morning to discuss efforts to bring paid family leave to New York, Donna Dolan, executive director of the New York State Paid Leave Coalition, leave to New York, Donna Dolan, executive director of the New York State Paid Leave Coalition, Leave Coalition, said.
«The governor in his time and office has swayed back and forth between the right and the left, and I think he has found the most goodwill and the broadest support from the largest number of people when he's fought for things that are broadly popular,» said Michael Kink, leader of the labor - backed Strong Economy for All coalition.
Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of a group of breakaway Democrats who lead the Senate in a governing coalition with the Republicans, is under intense pressure from the left over the campaign finance issue.
Leaders of several groups in the state's institutional left — VOCAL - NY, Citizen Action, and the labor - backed Strong Economy for All coalition — marched on Third Avenue in midtown, saying Cuomo should push the seven - member Independent Democratic Conference and wayward Sen. Simcha Felder to join with the 24 mainstream Democrats led by Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins.