Sentences with phrase «as junior coalition partners»

One is in 2012, when Wylie was 21 and working for the Liberal Democrats in the UK, then in government as junior coalition partners.

Not exact matches

Martin Schulz, the head of Merkel's current junior coalition partner, the Social Democrats (SPD), also laid into the auto industry on the weekend, slamming «irresponsible managers» that have not invested in electric cars as they should.

Also a former PM, Pawlak has not engaged in any symbolic political acts, as many junior coalition partners often do, even though his party represents a sizable, partisan agrarian electorate.

As for the LibDems, it's a truism of coalition politics that the junior partner frequently suffers in the polls.

The correct comparison for influence is between Tory - LibDem coalition as junior partner, or supply and confidence deal (leaving aside either alternative outcomes or new electins).

Part of making politics more sophisticated is admitting that when your party is in power as a junior partner in a coalition government, that it may have to support things that as a party it doesn't corporately agree with to gain influence on less palatable elements of the bigger partner's agenda and to implement at least part of its own.

«I don't have a solution, but as Plaid Cymru found out in the One Wales Agreement with Labour, it's often difficult for junior partners in coalitions to retain ownership of policies.

These referendum campaigns are not sideshows, as the lingering bitterness the coalition's junior partners feel about the way they were treated by the Tories in the electoral reform fiasco shows.

Many advocates have pinned their hopes on getting the IDC, whose four members all support GENDA, to use their influence as a junior partner in the governing coalition to wrest an agreement to bring the measure to the floor.

Lib Dem ministers still don't seem too worried about their position in the polls, commonly dismissing it as just what happens to a junior coalition partner until they find their voice, but presumably it will become a cause of concern for some point (not just for the Lib Dems, but presumably also for Conservatives who fear it placing pressure upon the coalition.

In other words, the IDC bloc was critical in giving the lead role in the Senate to Long Island Republican Dean Skelos, though Klein served as the junior partner in the chamber's governing coalition.

In the event of a coalition government after the next election, voters would prefer the Liberal Democrats to Ukip as the junior partner by 42 % compared to 35 %.

Others are concerned about the effect a strong carbon market could have on their economies at a time of financial upheaval, such as Germany's junior coalition partners, the Free Democratic Party.

Nonetheless, home secretary Theresa May is annoyed at the Liberal Democrats, her Conservative Party's junior coalition partner, for blocking moves to reintroduce a repeatedly floated, and repeatedly shot - down, «Snooper's Charter» — more properly known as the Communications Data Bill.