Sentences with phrase «coalition arrangement»

There are no democratic obstacles to coalition arrangements between losers, but it may have been considered political unpalatable.

On Tuesday, Alcantara was endorsed by Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. who is an ally of IDC head Jeff Klein, senator from the Bronx, and of Cuomo, who has encouraged the IDC's ruling coalition arrangement with Senate Republicans in the past.

Observers of Mr Cameron yesterday came away with the impression that he views that coalition arrangement as a positive way of showing how much the Conservatives have embraced change in a way that should appear to those centre - ground voters.

Mr Morgan was elected as first minister last week after three weeks of discussions which saw a variety of coalition arrangements considered and fail.

But Klein is still being kept close by the Senate's Republican leadership should a majority coalition arrangement be needed again.

There is also sometimes a point of caution, or perhaps reservation, towards supposing multi-party coalition arrangements are themselves a «Coalition effect».

The wonderful hindsight of the 2015 general election following the publication of this volume showed us that a wafer - thin majority Conservative government could be capably formed while coalition arrangements are rapidly, but with dignity, consigned to history.

Under the old coalition arrangement, Klein, a Bronx Democrat and IDC leader, was co-president and could veto legislation that came to the floor for a vote.

A clear majority for the Senate Republicans leaves the coalition arrangement between Klein and Skelos up in the air.

The governor expressed support for the coalition arrangement as recently as last week, declaring upon passage of the latest budget that «government is working.»

(Although the New York State Senate and Washington State Senate technically had Democratic majorities, in both states a coalition arrangement between several break - away Democrats and the minority Republicans gave the Republicans effective control of those chambers.)

The IDC has pointed to a number of key victories they've been able to approved in the chamber under the coalition arrangement, including a package of gun control laws in 2013.

Sir Menzies Campbell is also thought to be acutely opposed to such a move, with some sources suggesting his support for the coalition arrangement depends on it.

Klein said in an interview last week that the coalition arrangement will likely undergo unspecified changes to its current status, which allows the Bronx Democrat to have say over which bills come to the floor for a vote.

This was presumably intended to balance out the cosiness of his coalition arrangements with the Lib Dem leader.

Their view, therefore, that the implication of the formation of coalitions between the parties is that Parliament, rather than the electorate, has the decisive role in determining who will form the government (84) is problematic in this case — neither Parliament as a whole nor the electorate directly endorsed the Coalition arrangement preceding the Agreement.

Most importantly, Parliament as a whole (as well as the electorate) did not endorse by any kind of mandate the Coalition arrangements, which in turn endorsed the Coalition Agreement.

Ms Jones insisted there was no coalition arrangement with UKIP and she was forming a «a stand - alone Conservative administration with a Conservative - only cabinet».