Sentences with phrase «coalition partner loses»

First and most importantly, there is no clear pattern whereby the smaller coalition partner loses in a grand coalition.

Ministers will then be sworn in later in the day - almost six months after last September's national election in which both coalition partners lost support to the far - right Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Not exact matches

More than 75 % of the city is now cleared of ISIS fighters, he said on Thursday, adding that Syrian Democratic Forces, a mainly Kurdish force partnering with the coalition, «have made clear progress and we are seeing ISIS begin to lose its grip on their self - declared capital in Raqqa.»

Thus, «one of the consequences of having a fixed - term Parliament [is] that the Prime Minister loses that bargaining power, the ability to be able to threaten a recalcitrant minority coalition partner with the consequences of an early election» (House of Commons, PCRC, 2013, HC440; Ev.

The two partners in the coalition government, the centre - right Fine Gael and the centre - left Labour Party, have been losing support steadily in opinion polls.

The junior coalition partners were predicted to lose around 50 seats but ended up ceding more than seven times that number.

Their performance stands in stark contrast with that of their coalition partners the Liberal Democrats, who lost roughly a third of their councillors.

If Labour does lose its control of the Assembly and forms a coalition, Plaid is set to demand a rotating First Ministership as the price of being a coalition partner.

We have to assume that many of those lost Tory votes went to the Lib Dems as the coalition partner with the greatest chance of winning.

This is in no small part because the Conservatives with their one Scottish MP see little to lose from pushing it (although some Conservatives are weary, as are their potential coalition partner the Northern Ireland DUP).

Her coalition partner in the last government, the Social Democrats (SPD), came second, but it, too, lost support, and has pledged to move into opposition.