Sentences with phrase «as coalition negotiations»

Unlock Democracy's protest on Saturday succeeded in attracting support from Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg and the group is hoping its efforts will help strengthen the party's resolve in calling for a referendum on electoral reform as coalition negotiations continue.

Not exact matches

People should start putting pressure on these parties to begin such negotiations as soon as possible so that immediately after the election they would be prepared to go to the Governor General with the request that they be recognized as a majority coalition government.

David Cameron has entered No 10 as prime minister, after a day of negotiations in which the details of a full Conservative - Lib Dem coalition were finalised.

Second, unlike 2005, during the latest coalition negotiations the SPD managed to bring social democratic issues to the fore, promoting its popular image as the party of social justice.

The details of the stillborn coalition negotiations between the two centre - left parties comes as senior figures in both parties start building bridges ahead of what is expected to be another hung parliament in 2015.

Nick said only the Liberal Democrats will provide «stability, unity and decency» after Polling Day, highlighting six «red lines» that must be agreed to as part of any coalition negotiations in the next government.

I thus claim it as evidence of why renegotiation / reform is a rock on which a second series of coalition negotiations post-2015 could founder.

In response to the alliance, reported by the Hebrew media Sunday, a senior Likud source involved in the coalition negotiations accused the national - religious Jewish Home party of «voter fraud,» for forming an agreement with Yesh Atid instead of allying with Likud - Beytenu, as it had promised it would in its elections campaign.

While it took almost a full hour - and - a-half for it to be formally acknowledged, what viewers were actually seeing from the start of the debate were coalition negotiations unfolding before their very eyes — as the Conservative Party press office pointed out on Twitter.

Befitting its status as the senior coalition partner, contributing 306 of the coalition's original 363 MPs, and both the prime minister and chancellor of the exchequer, the Conservative Party provided the the primary inspiration for the programme for government that ensued from the negotiations between the two parties.

Mr Huhne acted as home affairs spokesman when the Lib Dems were in opposition, but was given the energy and climate change brief after playing a prominent role in the coalition negotiations.

The Lib Dem leader has a huge stake in the outcome of the referendum, as it was a key demand for his party during the coalition negotiations.

His idea of offering Nick Boles as a hostage to the Lib Dems during particularly fraught Coalition negotiations brought the house down.

Speaking ahead of a visit to Cardiff, Nick Clegg has highlighted the Liberal Democrats» six red lines that must be agreed to as part of any coalition negotiations in the next government.

A statement by Penguin Random House added: «The book will provide critical insights into key relationships in Westminster, global conflicts, the coalition negotiations of 2010, as well as the referendums on Scottish Independence and Britain's exit from the EU — in each instance, offering vital lessons for the future.

So the chancellor can propose whoever he / she wants, and the president will usually oblige (in theory... in practice the minister posts are handed out as bargain chips during the coalition negotiations).

The report is particularly badly timed for the Lib Dems, who argued this morning that they sacrificed policies like tuition fees in order to secure items such as the pupil premium in the coalition negotiations.

The governor told reporters that while the state is «entering the political season now,» he would still work with the Republican - dominated Senate leadership coalition, which he denounced as a failure in a video message recorded, after tense negotiations, to win the Working Families Party endorsement last weekend.

The LibDems will have significantly fewer seats after 2015 — perhaps as few as 30 — and their bargaining power in coalition negotiations will be reduced accordingly.

It is why he went into the coalition negotiations ready to drop his party's tuition fees pledge - and much else besides - but with electoral reform as non-negotiable.

They pointed to the debate as evidence of what left - wing coalition negotiations would look like.

Brown remained as Prime Minister while the Liberal Democrats entered separate negotiations with Labour and the Conservatives with a view to forming a coalition government.

It's unclear whether that coalition will endure, as progressives questioned Cuomo's commitment to re-taking the Senate — a promise that was made in the course of tense negotiations to secure the Working Families Party nomination.

The universal benefit will form the centrepiece of the Coalition's work on welfare and it is possible only after months of fearsome, eyeball - to - eyeball negotiations with George Osborne — although Mr Duncan Smith cheekily refers to it as «a polite conversation.»

Whether there existed something acceptable which Labour could offer in exchange would of course depend on negotiations, However, this sort of agreement has significant advantages over post-election deals about coalitions or lesser forms of cooperation — they require neither agreement of a programme (which inevitably means political compromise) nor standing down in areas (which can have detrimental effects in the longer term or on other elections such as Euro elections fought over larger geographical units).

Alexander had been tipped for a peerage as it was believed if he lost his seat in Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey he would be needed to help oversee coalition negotiations, although it would not have required him to hold a peerage for him to play that role.

As secretary of State, she helped lead international climate negotiations and she created the Climate and Clean Air Coalition with other countries to reduce climate superpollutants like soot and methane.

Anyhow, there were no major developments on German coalition negotiations, which likely contributed to the lull in the euro's price action as traders waited for actionable news.

Through her work on the Collective Leadership with La Via Campesina North America (LVC - NA) region as a representative of the Rural Coalition, she has collectively developed strategies that advocate for a stronger civil society voice on food sovereignty and in negotiations that represented the Global south in the North.

While the ongoing Fijian COP23 in Bonn and the coalition negotiations in Berlin capture media and public attention, Germany quietly released a self - review of their own fossil fuel subsidies as part of the G20 peer review process.

Coalitions for action on SLCPs outside the UN climate convention, such as the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, help to demonstrate that success is possible and build confidence for advancing action in the negotiations.

Speaking to Carbon Brief earlier this year, former secretary of state Ed Davey described coalition negotiations over the fourth carbon budget as «a bit of a war».

Commenting on criticism of the Lavoisier Group by Clive Hamilton, the Cooler Heads Coalition notes that «Hamilton accuses the Lavoisier Group of painting the UN's global warming negotiations as «an elaborate conspiracy in which hundreds of climate scientists have twisted their results to support the climate change theory in order to protect their research funding» and adds, «Sounds plausible to us.»

We are a member of the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) as well as the International Coalition for Sustainable Aviation, and the Clean Shipping Coalition, civil society observer groups that monitor negotiations in the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) respectively.

Families are rated on these two dimensions by the structure and flexibility they display in areas such as power, parental coalitions, family mythology, goal - directed behaviour, negotiation, autonomy and family affect (Anderson & Gavazzi, 1990).