Sentences with phrase «coalitions with party members»

For example, it was important to write this morning that he needs to give building internal coalitions with Party members that same priority as building external coalitions with others.

Not exact matches

Grassroots members of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) decisively backed the party's decision to enter into another «grand coalition» government with Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), thus bringing to an end months of uncertainty following September's general election.

The SPD only agreed to ally with Merkel after promising a list of distinctive policies to secure the approval of party members, many of whom wanted the SPD to regroup in opposition after the last four years in coalition damaged its standing among voters.

Under Day, the party had virtually collapsed, with seven members of its caucus joining a coalition with the Tories.

Thousands of brand - new members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) may very well be the ones who decide on whether Germany will be governed by a grand coalition with Angela Merkel at its helm.

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

In the New Statesman, George Eaton noted that the UK Conservative Party (currently in power as the larger member of a coalition) is experiencing such low membership that it is vulnerable to «entryism», joining a party with the aim of changing its direcParty (currently in power as the larger member of a coalition) is experiencing such low membership that it is vulnerable to «entryism», joining a party with the aim of changing its direcparty with the aim of changing its direction.

Research by grassroots website LibDemVoice.org found 55 % of party members want either a coalition deal with Labour or a more limited «confidence and supply» arrangement in which the Lib Dems prevent a Labour administration from falling.

Holding only 84 seats in the parliament, the Socialists engineered a coalition with the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, a mainly ethnic Turkish minority party, which had 36 deputies, thus securing a total of 120 votes in the 240 - member parliament.

One's growing sense that the leader's smile is fake: de jure coalition with a de facto sense that these - are - not - my - people, by backbenchers, activists, members and supporters of both parties.

Dafis was a Member of Parliament for Ceredigion from 1992 until 2000, having been supported by a coalition of local Plaid Cymru and Green party activists, the latter of which had worked with him on a number of environmental initiatives.

Some MPs and Party members fear that David Cameron doesn't really want progress on this front at all, because he's hoping for a joint Coalition front at the next election, and therefore a joint manifesto with the Liberal Democrats.

Looking at that law by the way, it was initiated by the Lithuanian governing party, the Christian Democrats — who are members of the EPP — in conjunction with their coalition colleagues the Liberals — who are members of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Pparty, the Christian Democrats — who are members of the EPP — in conjunction with their coalition colleagues the Liberals — who are members of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform PartyParty.

Following the general election of 2010, the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with the Conservatives, resulting in party leader Nick Clegg becoming the Deputy Prime minister and many other members becoming ministers.

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In addition it was increasingly clear during the negotiations that many senior members of the Labour party did not want a coalition with us and preferred the option of going into opposition.

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It's impossible to know what their view would be of any proposal to re-form the Coalition with the Liberal Democrats, but my best guess is that David Cameron would find it impossible to drop the 2017 referendum (presuming he wished to)- because Tory MPs» views on holding it are not all that different from Party members».

The Working Families Party on Monday expressed disappointment over the decision by the seven - member Independent Democratic Conference to side with the Senate GOP in a governing coalition while also urging the lawmakers to help bloc the «Trump agenda» in Albany.

These reservations are shared widely in the Liberal Democrat Party, and have given rise to separate reports that Business Secretary, Vince Cable, who is a former member of the Labour Party, was deeply unhappy at the time of the deal being struck and made last ditch appeals to outgoing Prime Minister Gordon Brown in an attempt to strike a Coalition deal with Labour.

Welsh Labour leader Carwyn Jones may need to form a coalition to remain as First Minister after the party lost one Assembly member - ending with 29 out of 60.

The IDC has been under intense fire since Cuomo, during his successful attempt to secure the Working Families Party nomination, warned that all five IDC members will face primaries unless they break their relationship with the Republicans and form a new leadership coalition with the Democrats.

Percoco routinely communicated with members of the coordinated effort and the state Democratic party in the months leading up to the November elections about how to spend the money the coalition raised.

«Cable remains popular both in the parliamentary party and among activists, and would be the ideal leader to enter coalition with Labour, which would be the preference of most party members,» he said.

Liberal Democrat members and MPs are now looking ahead to the party's autumn conference next month, in which Nick Clegg will defend his decision to join a coalition with the Conservatives.

There hasn't been a single post-war coalition where the largest party wasn't a coalition member, so it would be an extraordinary situation if the PVV manages to become the largest party and doesn't end up in the coalition; but then again, we live in strange times, and forming a coalition with the PVV has some unique challenges.

As Muslims have come to become more than an insignificant share of the left wing coalition in many parts of Western Europe and North America, despite the left wing not many any real policy concessions to attract them, members of left wing parties have come to have more interpersonal contact with Muslims which has led to reduced fear and increased mutual understanding, and political leaders in left wing parties have felt it politic and appropriate to refrain from emphasizing policies and issues that actively antagonize a not insignificant share of their coalition even when (if push came to shove) they might be uneasy with some of the political and social views of this part of their coalition.

Faced with an existential threat (i.e. a threat to their very existence of people in the society) from the right and overt symbolic and interpersonal expressions from members of right wing political parties that Muslims are not welcome, in a world with only a finite number of available political parties (even in countries that don't have a two party system), Muslims are going to tend to choose to join the left wing coalition rather than the right wing coalition.

Darren Johnson, a London Assembly member, said the Lib Dems had made a «huge error» and were paying the price of entering a coalition, instead of going into opposition and working with other parties.

To deal with situations in parliamentary systems where no clear majority to support a government exists, two or more parties may establish a formal coalition government, commanding a clear majority of the parliamentary members, or a party might enter into less formal alliances or agreements with other parties, or individual members, to allow the minority government to stay in office.

Though the party has been meeting with individuals to form a coalition against the ruling All Progressives Congress in the past, it was however gathered that the main opposition party had stepped up consultations following the open declaration by the members of the nPDP, who are in the APC, that the ruling party and President Muhammadu Buhari last week were marginalising them.

However, on 6 July 2007, Welsh Labour Party members voted for a coalition with Plaid, which was followed by a similar result from Plaid Cymru members the next day.

It was the first coalition government in the UK since the Churchill war ministry and was led by Cameron with Clegg as Deputy, composed of members of both the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats.

The coalition of activists and members of the Democratic and Working Families parties launched a second website, Smart Vote NY, urging people with second homes in swing districts to register to vote there.

Among the voices joining with PSC was Bill Lipton, State Director of the New York Working Families Party; members of 32BJ; Henry Garrido, Executive Director of DC 37; Vincent Álvarez, President of the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL - CIO; Zakiyah Ansari, Advocacy Director of the Alliance for Quality Education; and Rabbi Michael Feinberg, Executive Director of the Greater New York Labor - Religion Coalition.

And for weeks now in New York City, people have been turning on their television seeing Andrew Cuomo with his daughters and his girlfriend all urging the voters not to vote for him as a Democrat or as a member of the Working Families, but as a member of the Women's Equality Party — an attempt to basically use the third - party movement, basically, to promote himself without having to be accountable to other groups in the normal Democratic or progressive coaliParty — an attempt to basically use the third - party movement, basically, to promote himself without having to be accountable to other groups in the normal Democratic or progressive coaliparty movement, basically, to promote himself without having to be accountable to other groups in the normal Democratic or progressive coalition.

78 % of party members approve of the decision to enter into coalition with the Conservatives.

Majority Conservatism is viewed by Party members as a better course to pursue as we prepare for the next Parliament than Coalition Conservatism (with its strong points, such as the deficit reduction programme and the Gove / Duncan - Smith reforms, as well as its weak ones).

The vote which was believed to be the first time since 1946 that members of a governing party have voted against a Queen's Speech, and reflected deep Conservative unhappiness with Mr Cameron's coalition deal with the Liberal Democrats and concern over the inexorable rise of Ukip.

Despite the current problems of the Coalition it is certainly true that the PM's alliance with the Liberal Democrats has meant the Cameroonians at the head of the Conservative Party have been able to pursue their policies on tax, renewable energy, Europe and crime that would have been much harder if Brady, Carswell, Davis, Redwood and other members of the Conservative mainstream had held the balance of power.

It shows that 84 % of members support the party being in coalition with the Conservatives, even though 59 % of them think this will be bad for the party's electoral prospects at the next election.

The union is one of a handful of labor groups, including the United Federation of Teachers, the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Workers» Union and the Hotel Trades Council, that agreed to form a coalition along with Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio and members of the Working Families Party to help Democrats take control of the Senate, which the Republicans have controlled for all but two of the last 50 years.

The conference is an eight - member coalition that collaborates with Republicans, allowing that party to control the chamber despite being outnumbered by Democrats.

Despite the views of some of his party members, it seems that five years of meetings with other European leaders and maybe even his time rubbing shoulders with Liberal Democrat coalition partners might just have changed Cameron's outlook.

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The coalition, which included the FCNL, Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN), Environmental Defense Action Fund, and Citizens» Climate Lobby, among others, has been meeting discreetly with moderate House and Senate members of both parties in the hopes of defusing the partisan vitriol that clings to the climate issue and eventually forging policy.