Sentences with phrase «social democrat party»

He is married to Helle Thorning - Schmidt, the Social Democrat Party Prime Minister of Denmark, who he met when he won a scholarship to the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.

The biggest political party in Romania is the Social Democrat Party (PSD), which is in the Alliance coalition with the National Union of the Progress of Romania (UNPR) and the Conservative Party (PC).

Then there is the left - liberal or social democrat party, which claims the allegiance of Hughes, former leaders Menzies Campbell and Charles Kennedy, rising star Tim Farron and probably poor Vince Cable.

He also warned that Labour was increasingly able to describe the Lib Dems as «Tories in disguise», as they did toward the Social Democrat party when it was set up in 1981.

His biggest asset is the former Social Democrat party network which pervades the policy unit and its lobbyist links.

Despite representing the relative obscure Social Democrat Party and announcing his sudden foray into politics whilst still playing football, Blanco handily won the election.

occupy the minds of the Social Democrat party.

Sir Alan writes of the two major political events to occur during his time as Berwick MP; the merger with the Social Democrat Party in 1988 and the talks between Paddy Ashdown and Tony Blair over a possible Lib - Lab coalition.

Martin Schulz, the leader of the Social Democrat Party (SPD)-- which was part of Chancellor Merkel's coalition in the previous government — had previously ruled out another partnership, but at the start of December decided to enter talks.

Germany's Social Democrat party (SPD) just made history, electing its first female leader in 154 years, Andrea Nahles.

On Sunday, Germany's Social Democrats party voted overwhelmingly to form a coalition treaty with incumbent conservatives in order to usher in a new government.

Nigel Farage says that we have three social democrat parties now.

News: Ireland Live (UTV Ireland): Interview relating to electoral prospects of the newly founded Social Democrats party (15th July 2015).

Not exact matches

Grassroots members of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) decisively backed the party's decision to enter into another «grand coalition» government with Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), thus bringing to an end months of uncertainty following September's general election.

The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer seats.

The new party has yet to be named, but even so, a recent Gallup poll reported Stronach had 8 % of voter support, compared to 28 % for the governing Social Democrats (SPO), 21 % for its conservative coalition partner the People's Party (OVP), and 20 % for the opposition Freedom Party (party has yet to be named, but even so, a recent Gallup poll reported Stronach had 8 % of voter support, compared to 28 % for the governing Social Democrats (SPO), 21 % for its conservative coalition partner the People's Party (OVP), and 20 % for the opposition Freedom Party (Party (OVP), and 20 % for the opposition Freedom Party (Party (FPO).

But in Germany the labor movement remains strong, and on workplace issues the mainstream political parties, the Christian Democrats as well as the Social Democrats, are well to the left of their American and British counterparts.

It is too early to say whether the election will result in the continuation of the grand coalition between the conservatives and the social democrats, a revival of the conservative - liberal coalition with the Free Democratic Party (FDP), or even a three - way coalition between the conservatives, the FDP, and the Green Party.

Many in Silicon Valley gravitate toward Democrats, because the party is seen as more in sync with the tech community on social issues such as gay marriage.

The two main contenders of the election are two centrists from the dominant center - right and center - left parties: conservative incumbent Angela Merkel and social democrat Martin Schulz.

In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel's center - right Christian Democrat Union party comfortably won a small regional election, doing better than expected against its main rival, the Social Democrats, and providing a welcome boost for the German leader, ahead of national elections due in September.

Final comments and conclusion By the 2008 banking crisis there no longer was a partisan political difference between Republicans and Democrats in the United States, or between social democratic and neoliberal parties in Europe.

The Social Democrats, who are part of the ruling «grand coalition», scored 23.5 percent, while the Alternative for Germany stood at 11 percent, the Left Party at 10.5 percent and the Greens at 6 percent.

But another «social conservative» or family / natalist guy, Allan Carlson, is big on saying that the Democrats were the more pro-family party through the Sixties.

It may sound simplistic to describe Democrats as the party that wants to tax the rich and help the poor, and Republicans as the party that wants to keep taxes and social spending as low as possible.

Either social conservatives will devise effective new political strategies now, in 2018, or the Republican party will turn against them, and Democrats will exercise their power more aggressively, unhampered by fears of opposition.

In response to the realism of the Nixon - Ford years, a new, morally urgent human - rights activism was born in the mid-1970s within those elements of the Democratic Party aligned with Senator Henry M. Jackson, including pro-democracy social democrats and the trade - union movement.

Democrats say they are the compassionate party, because they vote on social issues over fiscal ones.

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But today, more than a hundred years after the first of the parties affiliated to the Second International won a plurality in a parliamentary election (in Finland in 1907; Anderson, 1992, 307), social democrats may finally be running out of rope.

In the 1980s there was a de facto three party system in the U.S., with Southern Democrats siding with Republicans on defense and social issues, while siding with Northern Democrats on economic issues, before realignment ran its course.

The other Christian party, ChristenUnie has a much more progressive and social party program, and the Christian Democrats (CDA) are not all that Christian (similar to the Christian Democrats in most countries).

The Social - Democrats (SPD), the largest opposition party, are divided.

This, in turn, helped the Social Democrats take over as the majority party in 1969, putting an end to 20 years of Christian Democratic dominance.

Not only the party's radical left (the Bennites and their successors), but also many classic social - democrats fought New Labour and its fathers in the name of socialism, welfare and unionism.

This strategy protected the Social Democrats from the losses to the Left Party and the increase in non-voting among outsiders that occurred in 1998, but it had other costs.

Back in 2001, during Chancellor Schroeder's time, a Social Democrat - Green Party coalition government put their heads (and money) together to embark upon procuring the Euro Hawk, a variant of the US - developed Global Hawk, a spy drone, built by the American company Northrop Grumman [1].

In both 2006 and 2010, the center - right parties, and especially the Moderate Party, made a targeted electoral appeal to insiders, whereas the Social Democrats were seen to protect the interests of outsiders.

The Social Democrats, the Left Party, and the Green Party objected to most of these reforms, both in 2006 and in 2010, defending the interests of outsiders.

For months, centreright Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek's ODS party has trailed former Prime Minister Jir Paroubek's Social Democrats.

Both Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats / Christian Social Union and the opposition Social Democrats (SPD) face the prospect of losing seats to smaller parties.

Austria is currently ruled by a «grand coalition» of Social Democrats and the conservative People's Party.

But Biased BBC consistently provides evidence of biases towards social liberalism and the US Democrat party

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This strand of thought is not alien to the party, and for much of the history of the Liberal Party, and then the Liberal Democrats, it has been able to coexist happily with centre - left social liberaparty, and for much of the history of the Liberal Party, and then the Liberal Democrats, it has been able to coexist happily with centre - left social liberaParty, and then the Liberal Democrats, it has been able to coexist happily with centre - left social liberalism.

The party has merely been posturing as progessive social democrats whilst acting like second rate Conservatives.

And influential think - tanks such as the Resolution Foundation and the Social Market Foundation are now giving credence to the idea that the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party may have more credible post-2015 deficit reduction strategies than a majority Conservative government.

Like all Liberal Democrats, the Social Liberal Forum is very proud of our party's uniquely democratic approach to policy making and as we enter the run up to the 2014 and 2015 elections, we look forward to further statements from our ministers in government that set out clear ideological differences between us and the Tory Pparty's uniquely democratic approach to policy making and as we enter the run up to the 2014 and 2015 elections, we look forward to further statements from our ministers in government that set out clear ideological differences between us and the Tory PartyParty.

Chancellor Merkel's party has beaten its rival Social Democrats in their stronghold in North Rhine - Westphalia, projections showed.

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