"Coalition negotiations" refers to the process where different political parties come together to discuss and form an agreement on working together to govern a country or region. They try to find common ground and allocate positions of power, usually after an election when no single party has won enough seats to have a majority on its own.
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The book is also part memoir from his childhood with American academic parents to his time at the heart
of coalition negotiations in 2010.
He also urged any prospective candidates for the position to wait
until coalition negotiations were complete before announcing their candidacy.
The row erupted after the Financial Times and other newspapers, including the Guardian, were briefed by authoritative sources that the Lib Dems would agree
in coalition negotiations with the prime minister to hold a referendum.
Nick Clegg may be preparing to sacrifice opposition to a referendum before the next EU treaty, as part of
coalition negotiations with the Conservative Party.
While Mr Cameron promised before the election to implement the tax break, the issue was been kicked into the long grass
during coalition negotiations because it is considered paternalistic and hectoring by Liberal Democrats.
But last time around, the combination of the electoral maths and the lack of preparation
for coalition negotiation by Labour led to this Tory government.
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.
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.
With most polls as tight as they are, the odds point towards no party having an overall majority, and many foresee the prospect of
complex coalition negotiations involving three or even more parties.
In the event that there is no clear winner - a hung Parliament - the «sitting» Prime Minister is permitted to remain in office until it is necessary to resign, whether that be as a result of
failed coalition negotiations or after the Government's legislative programme (the Queen's Speech) is defeated in the Commons, in which case the Leader of the Opposition would be invited to form a government.
Chancellor Angela Merkel says exploratory talks in Berlin between her conservatives and rival Social Democrats are to go on to
formal coalition negotiations.
The Lib Dem leader, whose popularity could help secure a hung parliament, already seems to be looking toward
coalition negotiations on Friday morning.
It refers to
ongoing coalition negotiations in Germany after their general election, which have seen many prominent figures leave government while Merkel maintains power.
After
intense coalition negotiations, Netanyahu announced a cross-spectrum coalition of 68 MKs, headed by the Likud - Beiteinu and including the Jewish Home, Yesh Atid and Hatnuah.
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 Cabinet Manual — written in 2010 after the
last coalition negotiations — makes clear it is parliamentary legitimacy which is crucial in allowing a government to function.
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.
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.
Political editor Gary Gibbon's analysis Here's what Peter Hain had to say when I caught up with him... you can hear for yourself his thoughts about what happens in
coalition negotiations if getting rid of Gordon becomes a non-negotiable.
How parties in
coalition negotiations abandon their promises and alienate those who did vote for them without winning the support of anyone who didn't.
The 2003
coalition negotiation process was widely seen as a more successful enterprise by the Liberal Democrats than the preceding one, with key aspects of Labour's proposals on anti-social behaviour dropped or limited, and with the promise of proportional representation for Scotland's 32 local councils.
The intervention, which reflects the thinking of English Lib Dem MPs in seats where they face Eurosceptic pressure, has deeply annoyed Nick Clegg who does not want to reveal his hand before
possible coalition negotiations.
Then came the bombshell that the Liberal Democrats had opened
official coalition negotiations with Labour and that the Prime Minister was to resign as Labour leader.
The former prime minister, who has kept a low profile
since coalition negotiations brought to an end New Labour's 13 years in power, spoke in the Ugandan capital on African development issues.
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.
He says he worked for a Labour MP when he left university, spent his adult life trying to defeat Tories and acknowledges for the first time that
when coalition negotiations began «I was one who argued that we should explore a coalition with Labour».
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».
Senior Liberal Democrat ministers are at odds over tactics to adopt in future
coalition negotiations with David Cameron on the contentious issue of a referendum on Britain's EU membership.
As long as elections produced single party parliamentary majorities, this posed no particular problems because government formation did not typically require
complex coalition negotiations.
In that same 22 Days in May postscript, Laws also notes that the Lib Dems» retreat towards economic liberalism, combined with a move towards social liberalism for the Tories under David Cameron, gave the parties some common ground on which to
start coalition negotiations.
Instead they reassert their values and identity, and prepare a clear set of red lines
for coalition negotiations — with the Labour party, of course.
Christoph Bals, Policy Director, Germanwatch, said: «This COP sends a powerful message to the
German coalition negotiations: We expect that Germany implements its climate targets for 2020 and 2030.
In their defence, they only saw the bill for the first time the day before the summer recess and began to debate it on their first full day back, but all the same it is hard to understand the official support of Liberal Democrats, who had made transparency in lobbying a major demand
in coalition negotiations.
Despite polls predicting little room between Labour and the Conservatives and pundits forecasting weeks
of coalition negotiations with a range of possible unions, David Cameron achieved something that had not been seen since Thatcher in 1983.