Sentences with phrase «parliament elections approach»

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As we are approaching a key electoral year, with the elections of the European Parliament as well as with national elections in several countries including Germany, it is about time to draw some lessons from what happened in Europe and to envisage a possible way to move forward.

As the election approaches, a hotly debated topic has been the comparison to 1992, when a catastrophic opinion polling failure led almost everyone to predict a hung parliament, with Neil Kinnock as Prime Minister, only for John Major's Conservatives to win with a 21 - seat majority.

The textbook approach to elections in Scotland has been one of «general election, vote British; Scottish parliament election, vote Scottish».