Sentences with phrase «coalition agreement with»

Lack of Lib Dem MPs and the difficulty for unionist parties in finding coalition agreement with the SNP may make minority government the only option.

Since 2012, the leader of the State Senate's Independent Democratic Conference has enjoyed some kind of coalition agreement with the State Senate Republicans, granting him many of the perquisites of power his former colleagues in the mainline Democratic caucus once sought to deny him.

Government ethics, voting, and campaign finance reform do not appear to be particularly high on the list of priorities for Cuomo, the Assembly majority, the Senate majority, or the Senate's Independent Democratic Conference (a group of eight breakaway Democrats that has a coalition agreement with Senate Republicans but nevertheless put forward its own conference budget resolution on Wednesday).

He had been desperate to secure a coalition agreement with the Liberal Democrats and despite Nick Clegg's statement that he could not remain as leader, felt he could remain in place for up to a year in order to secure the nation's economic recovery.

One Conservative MP - far from a right - winger - reckons David Cameron lied to the shadow Cabinet and his backbench MPs at least four times in the hours leading up to the coalition agreement with the Lib Dems on 11 May.

Theresa May is trying to persuade the 10 DUP MPs to enter into a formal coalition agreement with the Tories, as opposed to a less formal «confidence and supply» arrangement, ministers tell me.

It began with the publication of the Orange Book essays in 2004 and was boosted by the coalition agreement with the Conservatives in 2010.

Fast forward to December 2012: Republicans failed to secure full control of the Senate, requiring them to enter into a coalition agreement with the Independent Democratic Conference.

Tsipras renewed Syriza's previous coalition agreement with the Independent Greeks, giving the new government 155 seats out of 300 in the Greek Parliament.

The Lib Dems, whose decision to enter into a coalition agreement with the Conservatives was dependent on a commitment to restoring Britain's civil liberties, celebrated the decision.

They cling to the coalition agreement with increasing desperation — and doing so now feels more an act of faith than a reliance on a contractual arrangement.

All three Democratic incumbents are running for a second term and are top targets for Senate Republicans, who are trying to maintain control of the chamber after the Independent Democratic Conference announced it would end its majority coalition agreement with the GOP.

However, the motion also identified that the health and social care bill contained gross breaches of the coalition agreement with a total absence of locally elected representatives on commissioning bodies, and the proposed abolition of those commissioning bodies (the primary care trusts).

If we had been given a vote two years ago about whether we should enter the five year coalition agreement with the Liberal Democrats, I would probably have voted no.

Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) recently became Europe's youngest head of government after reaching a coalition agreement with the right - wing FPÖ.

Firstly, the Tories are in Coalition and are, willy nilly, straitjacketed by the Coalition Agreement with the Liberal Democrats.

Both Cuomo and de Blasio have pledged to help Democrats regain full control of the Senate, helping broker a new coalition agreement with the mainline conference and the Independent Democratic Conference.

Now that SPD members have approved their party's grand coalition agreement with conservatives, it's time to decide who will take what ministry.

Not exact matches

The Stop Mega Cable coalition — of which the Dish Network is a member — released a statement saying the agreement is «an important first step,» but fails to deal with some of the group's criticisms.

Responding in a statement to The Canadian Press, the U.S. Lumber Coalition said: «It is our understanding that there is no agreement as Canada still appears unable to have a cohesive position that is consistent with their commitment in 2016 to an «at or below market share» or quota agreement construct... An «at or below market share» agreement... by definition is a clean quota agreement.»

Labour would need an agreement with the SNP in addition to a coalition with the Lib Dems, while the Tories would need to group together several smaller parties, probably including the DUP.

Conservatives would obtain the boundary changes they made in the coalition agreement, while AV + is consistent with that agreement as it is still AV.

The coalition agreement contained plans for fixed parliamentary terms - a Labour and Lib Dem manifesto commitment but not a Tory one - along with details of the emergency procedure for getting a government out if it had lost support.

De Blasio, along with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, helped broker an agreement that led to the IDC ending its coalition agreement in the state Senate with the Republican conference.

The issue is a particularly thorny one for the coalition, with the Lib Dems vehemently opposed to tuition fees as a whole - though their agreement with the Tories allows them to abstain on the issue when it goes through the Commons.

We can compare this performance with Conservative aims to cut the cost of politics (as opposed to government) by reducing the numbers of members of both Houses of Parliament, and the Coalition's promise to «cut the perks and bureaucracy associated with Parliament» (Coalition Agreement, 2010, p. 27).

Democrats need to win both races in order to gain a numerical majority in the chamber and move toward a coalition majority with the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, based on agreement hammered out at the end of last year.

Now the dynamics identified in your post (together with the simple fact of Tory numerical supremacy within the coalition) mean that those issues not decisively closed off in the agreement will tend to be decided by the Tories in their own favour, and even those items that are dealt with in an apparently decisive way in the agreement will be pulled in a more «Tory» direction in their implementation, especially where being implemented by a Tory cabinet minister (or by David Laws, which amounts to the same thing...).

So, our debate with the Lib - Dems and their supporters should not be about the fairness of cuts - which ends up with short - term / long - term arguments - but the kamikazi economics of the coalition agreement, which threatens at worst a return to recession and at best low levels of growth.

Both Labour and the Liberal Democrats have ruled out a coalition with the SNP, but as Nicola Sturgeon notes, this does not rule out a confidence - and - supply or some other kind of still loser agreement.

That being the case the Lib Dems can use it — whether the agree with it or not — to pretend they have real influence in government — and the tories are not so committed to a bill they didn't put in their manifesto or the coalition agreement that they won't ditch most of it if it is expedient to do so.

The coalition agreement had seemed a done deal on Wednesday, but hit a snag Thursday after Jewish Home representatives skipped a final meeting with Likud - Beytenu negotiators, over the issue of whether Bennett would be afforded a «deputy prime minister» title.

Miliband says he won't do a formal coalition with the SNP (Nicola Sturgeon ruled that out ages ago anyway), nor will there be an informal «Confidence & Supply» agreement with them.

Miliband had first ruled out a coalition with the SNP on 16 March, but it was not until 26 April that he also ruled out a confidence and supply agreement between the two parties.

Given the math, a Kaminsky victory in April would not necessarily flip the majority back to Democrats unless new agreements were struck between mainline Democrats, the Independent Democratic Conference (which has a coalition with the GOP) and Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who votes with the Republicans.

It seems unlikely that Labour would enter into any kind of formal agreement that allowed SNP MPs to become ministers or play a direct role in the management of government departments — indeed, Miliband has ruled out a coalition with the Scottish nationalists.

Tom Quinn's research interests include British party politics, the UK coalition agreement, leadership elections, and the Labour Party's relationship with the trade unions.

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.

We should at least respect the Daily Telegraph's candidness; it's attacks on David Laws and Danny Alexander have been explicitly linked with their specific campaign to prevent the coalition's agreement to harmonise Capital Gains Tax with income tax and to destabilise the coalition more generally.

I thought for a few hours this might be a good thing anyway, but now suspect that the lack of a real - deal on PR will mean that Clegg can't do business - and as the other possible coalitions are unworkable, Cameron will end up trying to run a minority government with no formal agreement.

«The government goes into European negotiations with no policy on European defence; it is not mentioned in the coalition agreement; no policy on European energy - also not mentioned; and on justice and home affairs, all they can say is that they will review cases one by one; no principles, no plans,» he said.

Firstly, Bucharest has just released the first instalment of 60 million euros as part of a financial assistance agreement with Moldova, offering de facto support for the current governing coalition in Chisinau, which is oriented around the Democratic Party and its controversial backer, Vladimir Plahotniuc.

Having negotiated the coalition agreement without the help of civil servants, and with no experience in government myself, I simply didn't see the need to surround myself with teams of officials.

Although many wish to see no bill at all — for good reason — a significant number would support a bill which was amended to comply with what the the Sheffield conference called for last year, so that the bill is more in line with the Coalition Agreement.

Ed Miliband has said Labour would not form a coalition with the SNP, although he has left open the prospect of a confidence - and - supply agreement, or a minority coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

But he seized the opportunity of forming a coalition with the Liberal Democrats to provide economic stability and to achieve and deliver a lot of Conservative policies under the Coalition Acoalition with the Liberal Democrats to provide economic stability and to achieve and deliver a lot of Conservative policies under the Coalition ACoalition Agreement.

It is worth saying to colleagues on the Government Benches who support the Government's proposals and respect the coalition agreement that my hon. Friend's amendment is not compatible with what we set out in the coalition agreement, which was a simple majority referendum, without an outcome - specific threshold.

Cameron clearly lacked enthusiasm for the policy — «the Coalition Agreement mentions this issue of anonymity» — and there is every indication they are both surprised at the reaction and not much up for a fight with women's groups about it.

In line with the coalition agreement, the coalition government announced that there would be a «review of alternatives».

Note that the current government stays in place until either the PM feels that she has enough votes to stay in government (whether as a coalition, or as a minority government with some kind informal agreement with other parties), or it become obvious that another party or coalition has the votes.