Sentences with phrase «coalition parties»

It seems to me that it would be incredible for coalition parties to fight each other at the next election.

He pledged that if the ruling coalition parties receive fewer votes than opposition parties, the government would step aside and hold new elections later in the year.

It could only be published after the two coalition parties agreed to publish it alongside a tough report on legal highs.

There may well be blood on the floor as the two coalition parties do battle before the autumn spending review.

Junior coalition parties in the British context: explaining the Liberal Democrat collapse at the 2015 general election, Electoral Studies

Best of all, he's incredibly unpopular - a perfect fit with the junior coalition party in the UK.»

Queensland LNP MPs have been among the most vocal in the push to keep coal in the energy mix, since a three - hour Coalition party room meeting in which more than 20 backbenchers raised concerns with the proposed clean energy target.

Speaking at a press conference in Whitehall, Nick Clegg referred to Tory plans to make a further # 25bn of cuts to the welfare budget as a «monumental mistake» and went on to outline ideological differences between the two coalition parties on issues like fairer taxation.

Apart from offering the «normal» second - party services, Microsoft also offered additional services, including enhanced support from The Coalition

Nick Clegg has signalled his determination to press ahead with reform of the House of Lords in a move likely to anger Conservative MPs who have identified the issue as an electoral millstone that contributed to the dismal performance by coalition parties in last week's local elections.

The junior coalition party suffered at the ballot box across England, Scotland and Wales in last week's elections, their first major electoral test since entering power last year.

Speaker Watt who was elected Speaker in 1923, was not a member of the governing coalition parties, but was a member of a party which supported the Government and was the governing parties» nominee for the position of Speaker.20

Compared with the last Holyrood elections, Labour and the SNP are both well up, with the Westminster coalition parties losing, and a partial recovery for the Greens.

But a colleague from D'Alema's Democrats of the Left, the largest coalition party, said that if he resigned, the whole government would have to follow suit.

In the autumn of 2011, the centre - right coalition parties in Slovakia's National Council opposed Slovakia's participation in the bail out of Greece.

And now, finally, one of the two coalition parties which blocked Labour's proposal appears to have had a change of heart.

Kammenos, who is a member of the Greek government's junior coalition party Independent Greeks, said that «If Europe leaves us in the crisis, we will flood it with migrants, and even worse for Berlin if in that wave of millions of economic migrants there will be some jihadis of the Islamic State too,» according to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

Francois Legault, leader of the right - of - centre Coalition party, estimated the budgetary measures would cost families about $ 500 more per year.

So we should expect to see Labour gain and coalition party losses.

Vince Cable has accused the prime minister of «inflaming extremism», as the two coalition parties clash on immigration.

In Germany, the grand - coalition parties secured a wide consensus for the government.

While the Slovenian Democrats demanded it be held simultaneously with the European elections, coalition parties strongly opposed the idea.

Of course, the two coalition parties differed drastically about Europe from the outset.

Fianna Fáil won a landslide victory in the Irish general election, 1977, two out of three seats in many cases, relegating the National Coalition parties to fight for the last seat.

Coalition parties feuding over constitutional reforms or public policy tinkering is one thing: being seen to be falling out over its international agenda is quite another.

But the two coalition parties almost see the Queen's speech as a sideshow to the chief political task of rebuilding an economy over the next year that they say was more damaged than they realised when they took office.

If the voters do decide to embrace the alternative vote, the pact would require each of the coalition partners to urge their supporters to give their second preference vote to the candidate from the other coalition party.»

In the by - elections since the 2010 General Election, UKIP have beaten the junior coalition party time and time again, including all of the last four where UKIP picked up two second places and one third.

The Lib Dems have now become the official coalition party.

Spokesman says Liberal Democrat leader will remain in post until 2020, regardless of whether party forms another coalition

ALP = Australian Labor Party, L+NP = grouping of Liberal / National / LNP / CLP Coalition parties (and predecessors), Oth = other parties and independents.

It's not going to be too long before they're mainly elected and they're doing a great job: trying to prevent a serious constitutional wrong — a significant reduction in the number of MPs in order to give Coalition parties maximum advantage in gerrymandered boundary changes as we previously discussed here.

Even if they share the same fiscal and borrowing targets the two existing Coalition parties can still differentiate themseves by dividing up the spending pie differently (and considering different tax measures).

Reviving tensions between the two coalition parties after Mr Cameron vetoed a treaty to help rescue the euro at this month's Brussels summit, Mr Huhne warned the isolationist approach favoured by Tory sceptics would be disastrous for British jobs and trade and foreign investment in this country.

It seems that everyone other than the Australian Coalition parties know that «the end is nigh» for coal.

«Our base - case assumption is status quo: the Prime Minister and (ruling coalition parties) Barisan Nasional remain in power until the next general election in 2018,» Deutsche Bank said.

Or are these machinations merely to try and drive a wedge between the two Coalition parties on the European issue?

Northern Ireland proved the exception, despite the founding of the Women's Coalition party in the run up to the Good Friday Agreement that led to the foundation of the Assembly at Stormont, with percentages stubbornly hovering in the mid to late teens.

How have Donald Trump and other US politicians responded to the victories by the populist Five Star Movement and center - right coalition parties?

Their polling numbers remain as dire as ever and the brutal truths of what happens to junior coalition parties, seen time and again on the continent, are only now beginning to be talked about in the national debate.

That PASOK would choose last night to strike such a ridiculous pose is a bad sign for how long the coalition will hang together as the leaders of both coalition parties constantly put their own party's short - term interests over the public interest.

By giving the CDU and its coalition parties a slight majority, the voters made a momentous choice that set the course for Germany's — and eventually Europe's — future.

One MP argues that, if approved, «this will really test the marriage» of the Coalition parties.

Laws had a rare vantage point at the centre of Coalition government as he attended the Quad, met regularly with Clegg and his policy advisers, served on important Cabinet Committees, frequently brokering deals between the Coalition parties.

«Now there's an idea that should appeal to ministers from both coalition parties, but I don't see them limbering up for it,» he commented on his blog.

The potential by - election will be the first real test of how the coalition parties will conduct Westminster elections against each other.