Sentences with phrase «liberals form government»

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A member of the German liberal party blamed the country's Socialist Party for the recent collapse in coalition talks to form a new government.

Western Australia's Nationals say they are getting down to the «business end» of choosing whether to form a government with Labor or the Liberals as both parties submit their power sharing proposals.

Now the BC Liberals will form the next government and dominate the Legislative Assembly with enough votes to impose their version of economics and progress without too much bothersome consultation or compromise.

Third, the Liberals have proposed major changes to how Parliament would function, including resumption of door - to - door mail delivery, restoration of the long - form census, increased access to all government data, among others.

TERRACE — The New Democrats agree with the newly formed Northwest B.C. Resource Benefits Alliance that the B.C. Liberal government should act on their election promise to share Northern resources with Northern communities.

Includes an examination of a possible vote of non-confidence against the Conservative minority government; a request to the Governor General to allow a Liberal - New Democratic coalition to form a new government; and the immediate tasks facing a possible coalition government once in power.

Under this agreement, the Liberals and NDP agreed to form a coalition government, which would be supported by the Bloc.

Yes, the corporate media will wax eloquently about how fortunate Canada is to have the great young new face and hair leading those once detested Liberals back to the prospect of forming Canada's next new government.

Presidents from Truman through Clinton «operated on the ideological conviction that liberal democracy is the only legitimate form of government and that other forms of government are not only illegitimate but transitory.»

Religions = primitive form of government, some are based on democratic values, or some are communist type, some are liberal, or some are conservative.

In our time, or so the argument runs, liberal democracy has attained such extraordinary power and widespread acceptance that it has come to be thought of as the only legitimate form of government.

As the Berlin Wall fell, Francis Fukuyama proclaimed the end of history — «the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.»

The liberal answer is that if all of us, in the form of taxes, are paying, then contractors» programs must exhibit the government's values of fairness and equal opportunity.

The government of a liberal democracy is like every other government in that it coerces its citizens in all kinds of ways for the common good — the dominant form of this coercion being taxation.

«If it becomes clear that the national interest which is stable and principled government can be best served by forming a coalition between the Labour party and the Liberal democrats, then I believe I should discharge that duty to form that government which would in my view command a majority in the House of Commons in the Queen's Speech and any other confidence votes.

Balfour resigned as premier after failing to reach an agreement on tariff law reform, leaving Liberal leader Henry Campbell - Bannerman to form a government.

Local government formed one of the devolved powers and the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 was introduced by a coalition Scottish Executive formed between the Labour party and the Liberal democrats.

While Western - type liberal democracies remain one of the most effective and tested forms of government in history, what is needed, globally, is not necessarily a transition to liberal democracy but rather a more careful consideration of the fundamental human quest for dignity, which often bears interpretations that are «endogenous» and adapted to various socio - cultural settings.

In 2010 a coalition government formed between the Conservative party and Liberal democrats took office.

If the forecasters and betting markets are right in their central forecasts then Con + LD+DUP combined will be short of a majority and so a Labour led government should form if they can secure the support of the SNP and probably others, including the Liberal Democrats, will be needed too: a potentially messy and unstable situation but also one where there is sufficient similarity in ideological perspective for policy agreement on plenty of issues.

The fact that the Conservatives have had to do a deal with Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats to form a government has not pleased members and activists.

They have long memories in Buck House and they still smart from the constitutional crisis that ensued when the governor - general of Australia, John Kerr, dismissed the Labour administration of Gough Whitlam in 1975 and invited Liberal leader Malcolm Fraser to form a government.

After the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with the Conservative Party, Adonis stepped down from frontline politics.

His resignation came as he published Minority Verdict, his critical analysis of why the Conservative Party failed to gain an overall majority in the general election; leading to the Conservatives forming the Coalition government with the Liberal Democrats.

He was reputed to favour a Lib - Lab deal and, given his SDP background, was a member of Labour's negotiation team that attempted to form a government with the Liberal Democrats.

Green Party co-spokesman Peter Eriksson reiterated that his party will not work with the Alliance to form a majority government, but left the door open for possible cooperation with the Liberal and Centre Parties, calling them «natural» partners.

Unless pretty much all the other parties gang up to form an anti-Tory government then this scenario would appear at first glance to be again fundamentally one of Hobson's choice for the Liberal Democrats.

Labour will not be able to form a government in Wales after Plaid Cymru followed the Liberal Democrats» lead and pulled out of coalition talks.

The Liberal Democrats have pulled out of coalition talks to form a Welsh government, reopening the possibility of a Labour - led government.

The latest opinion polls suggest the Scottish National Party could edge Labour out of government and form an alliance with the Liberal Democrats to govern the Scottish parliament.

It is this twentieth - century politics that allowed the Conservatives to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats - the ideological obstacles to forming a government only took five days to overcome.

David Cameron became Prime Minister on 11 May after Gordon Brown's resignation and the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with the Conservative Party, with Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister and other Liberal Democrats in the cabinet.

The first elections for the Scottish parliament were held in 1999 and resulted in the Liberal Democrats forming a coalition government with Labour from its establishment until 2007.

Following the general election of 2010, the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with the Conservatives, resulting in party leader Nick Clegg becoming the Deputy Prime minister and many other members becoming ministers.

[18] After the last election Helle Thorning - Schmidt started working towards forming a centre - left government coalition consisting of the Socialist People's Party and the Social Liberal Party with parliamentary support from the small Red - Green Alliance.

The hung parliament of 2010 produced a Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition but after the Lib Dems» unhappy experience in office — and with neither Labour nor the Conservatives prepared to form a coalition with the resurgent SNP — the UK may be heading for a minority government.

Whilst the election results did not deliver the Conservatives the mandate to form a majority government, the coalition with the Liberal Democrats will not act as a progressive brake on the Conservatives.

Mr Clegg's appointment comes days after Tory leader David Cameron reached out to the liberal party to form a «progressive alliance» against government policy.

They form circles, and flonk liberals with the libertarian wet cloth mantra of less government, low taxes, and feds, get out of my face.

The party was unable to form a majority government after Scottish Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives turned it down.

Even if the Liberal Democrats could replicate their success in 2010 they still wouldn't be able to offer enough seats to either party to form a majority government.

Conservative Way Forward calls on Cameron to form a minority government without the Liberal Democrats

Talks are going on among the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats to see who can form a government.

Earlier, Mr Clegg told media and supporters outside the Liberal Democrats» Westminster HQ that the party with the most seats and the most votes has the «first right» to try to form a government, as he had repeated throughout the campaign.

[71][87] Support for Labour slumped during the recession, and the general election of 2010 resulted in a coalition government being formed by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, which made deep spending cuts in order to ease the budget deficit.

(f) The final option would be if both Labour and the Conservatives were too far from an overall majority to form a government without the Liberal Democrats, and that the Lib Dems (coming either first or second in the popular vote, though still third in number of seats) decide not to allow either to form a functioning government.

Thus, with the acquiescence of Asquith's Liberals, Ramsay MacDonald became the first ever Labour Prime Minister in January 1924, forming the first Labour government, despite Labour only having 191 MPs (less than a third of the House of Commons).

To no one's surprise the Blair - led Tories defeat Labour in 2010 but, without an absolute majority are forced to form a coalition government with the support of the Liberal Democrats.

It's hard to overstate how much that control means to a certain brand of diehard liberals, who long to see unified state government finally crank its policy machinery at full activist throttle (and whose exasperation with Cuomo forms the core of opposition to the governor within his own party).

The election was a disaster for Labour, which had hoped to form at least a minority government, and an outright catastrophe for the Conservatives» partners in coalition, the Liberal Democrats.