Sentences with phrase «called majority government»

So - called majority government that gives power to an administration for five years, supported by only 37 % of voters and 24 % of the population, is an outrage.

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The ongoing dispute between so - called Remainers and Brexiteers about this relationship took another turn last week when a majority of the U.K.'s House of Lords — the upper house of parliament — voted that the U.K. should stay in a customs union with the EU, something the government under Prime Minister Theresa May has said would not happen.

The motion, a broadly worded declaration of support for foreign policy, received 158 votes in favor, below the necessary majority of 160 votes and was followed by a chorus of opposition calls for the government to «quit, quit, quit».

That's because nearly all members of Canada's vast punditocracy have declared that a minority government is, first, inherently unstable, and second, disappointing for Harper insofar as it is not the majority he is said to have wanted when he called the election.

Similarly, respondents are nearly as divided on whether the B.C. government's tactic of calling for more time to study the potential effects of a spill on its coast is appropriate, although the majority tilt slightly the other way:

While a majority of those from younger generations in Canada's westernmost province tend to side with the B.C. government in this dispute, seven - in - ten (70 %) residents over 55 say it is making the wrong call.

By: Martin Creamer 4th October 2017 The majority call by the Joburg Indaba for the government to replace Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane with a new Minister would be communicated to the African National Congress (ANC), which was committed to facilitating an enabling environment for the South African mining industry, ANC... →

Prior to the election being called, the Progressive Conservative Party held a majority government with 31 of 52 seats in the Nova Scotia legislature.

If exporters continue to ignore their regulatory obligations, the government should do what the vast majority of Australians have been long calling on governments to do — and that is end the live export trade.

Legislation needs to be responsible and in the best interests of the majority: so let's keep Britain great and support a call for the government to do its duty come budget time.

May would require either the support of two thirds of MPs for an election, or she could call a vote of no confidence in her own government, which would only require a simple majority.

The federal government refused to grant immunity to Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, who has threatened to take the Fifth Amendment if called to testify at the political corruption trial of former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn responded by saying that his party wanted the election, calling it a chance to get a government that puts «the majority first».

Theresa May has this morning announced that she intends to call a general election on June 8 in a bid to increase the size of her parliamentary majority and to reduce the ability of opposition parties to extract concessions from the government during Brexit negotiations.

It should be rightly called as «Government by majority people», which it really means, how it works.

Interestingly, we haven't heard a PUBLIC word from Skelos since Klein's big reveal, although Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous went on Talk 1300 this morning with the NY Post's Fred Dicker and called Klein's coalition government statement «very powerful,» without either confirming or denying that talks to form a coalition are actually underway.

The Fixed - term Parliaments Act (FTPA) was introduced by the Conservative - Liberal coalition government in 2011, primarily to prevent David Cameron, the prime minister at the time, from seizing on the first significant poll lead for the Conservatives to call an early election and win a Conservative majority.

The background to Mrs May's decision to call a snap election is the government's small majority of 17 and the abiding weakness of the Labour Party under Mr. Corbyn.

In theory, the government could also repeal the act with a simple majority, but option (ii), i.e. a bipartisan call for an early election, is by far politically the best option for the government.

Leaders of four New York government reform groups are calling for Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan to stop allowing the unused stipends of Senate committee chairs to be passed to vice-chairs.

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.

On Tuesday government reform groups called on New York State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - 2) to bring to a vote a bill that would close what's known as the «LLC Loophole.»

In much the same way as government ministers motivated the Asylum and Immigration Act and defended their treatment of refugees in Rochester Prison, the manifesto states that «the vast majority of so - called «refugees» pouring into Britain every year are not real refugees at all but simply people seeking to better their living standards».

(Albany, NY) In a letter delivered today, a coalition of government reform organizations called on Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie to hold a series of open public leaders» meetings to discuss and negotiate — in public — ethics reforms necessary to restore New Yorkers» battered confidence in Albany.

Nick Clegg's call for a permanent seat in government was dealt a blow this morning after a new poll found an overwhelming majority do not want another coalition government.

McCain himself has begun to raise the specter of unified Democratic control of all levers of government; at a speech this morning in Cleveland, McCain condemned the «spending spree» that Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.)-- a group he called a «dangerous threesome» — would take the country on if elected.

This option could play out a number of ways — formal coalition, or a Cameron minority government given limited tacit support to pass a budget, but looking to call a general election that would perhaps give them an overall majority some time later in 2010, or in early 2011.

His corruption trial and the continuing corruption trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) have revived calls by good - government groups and some legislators to deny or restrict pensions for convicted politicians.

Aided and abetted by the new county charter that gave him the power once enjoyed only by majority party chairmen, Hein calls his seven years in office a period during which he's restructured government from being a «who you know» operation to a «what you know» kind of place.

If a government falls and an opposition can muster up a majority then an opposition leader could become Prime Minister without an election (but would probably want to call a General Election soon after).

In his own state of the city address Tuesday evening, Common Council Majority Leader Rennie Scott - Childress (D - Ward 3) offered up a ringing defense of Mayor Steve Noble's progressive «One Kingston» agenda and called on Kingstonians to embrace local government as a force for positive change and economic growth.

Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, who is considering a run for governor against Cuomo, says the governor spent too much time making the federal government «the whipping boy» for the state's problems, and he called the payroll tax proposal a «gimmick.»

Last year, President Donald Trump signed legislation revoking an Obama - era Labor Department rule designed to provide a legal safe haven for the state programs, which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called «more government at the expense of the private sector and American workers.»

The government called Skelos, the ex-Senate majority leader, a «more serious» case, wrote lawyers Nathaniel Akerman and Joshua Colangelo - Bryan.

When the British Columbia considered the question of whether to reform its electoral system from majority rule election of legislators to some form of proportional representation, the Government of British Columbia created a body called the British Columbia Citizen's Assembly, composed of citizens from throughout the province.

Call me pedantic but surely a majority government should be formed along the lines of who is best suited to deal with the immediate crisis?

Astorino clashed with Senate Republicans during the gubernatorial campaign last year, with the top of the GOP ticket calling for sweeping ethics reform in Albany and knocking the majority conference in the Senate as being part of the problem in state government.

This was before Spitzer got into an all - out war with State Senate majority leader Joe Bruno, before Bruno called Spitzer «a rich spoiled brat» and his staff «thugs» and «hoodlums,» before Spitzer may or may not have called Bruno «senile,» before the machinery of government seemed to skid to a halt.

That situation lasted until the prime minister called another election in October that year, following which the Labour Government obtained a tiny majority of three.

The demonstration is being organized by a group calling itself the Ghana First Patriotic Front (GFPF), who have chastised the government for accepting the deal, and the majority in Parliament for ratifying it despite strong resistance by the minority and a host of Ghanaians.

Douglas - Home, then aged 71, stepped down at the second election of that year, called in October by the minority Labour government in the hope of winning a working majority.

Wilson's small majority after the 1964 general election had made the transaction of government business difficult, and in 1966 he called another election in which Labour gained a strong working majority of 96.

After the corruption convictions of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam were tossed on Tuesday, the inevitable call for new ethics legislation came from good - government groups and lawmakers.

Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, who is considering a run for governor against Cuomo, said the governor spent too much time making the federal government «the whipping boy» for the state's problems, and he called the payroll tax proposal a «gimmick.»

Sharkey and House Majority Leader Joe Aresimowicz issued statements Monday blasting the contract that the state Senate Republican caucus has with a Texas - based consulting firm called Align Media LLC to run the Senate Republicans» taxpayer - funded government website, ctsenaterepublicans.com.

Clement Attlee had decided to call the election after the King's concerns that, over leaving the country to go on his Commonwealth tour in 1952 with a government that had such a slim majority, there was danger of a change of government in his absence.

The Liberty Act would also prohibit state and local agencies from expending resources to help the federal government create or maintain a database or registry based on race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or national or ethnic origin — a response to President Donald Trump's so - called «Muslim ban,» an executive order barring immigrants from seven Muslim - majority countries from entering the country.

During closing arguments in the corruption trial against state Sen. Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, a lawyer for the younger Skelos told jurors that the government's case against the former majority leader relies on burdening the jury with heaps of emails, phone calls and witness testimony to distract jurors from the lack of a supposed smoking gun.

The Speaker accordingly suspended sitting and asked the majority side of the House, who are in charge of government business, to call the ministers to come to Parliament.

Not only has the trial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver begun, but the trial of former Majority Leader Dean Skelos is set to begin next week; and, there was the recent release of a report by a state ethics review commission calling for changes as well as a national study assessing state government accountability and transparency giving New York a «D -» grade.