Sentences with phrase «enough votes in parliament»

It's just that the Conservatives will have enough votes in Parliament and not get defeated often.

Not exact matches

A general election on March 4 resulted in a hung parliament in which no one party or coalition of parties won enough of the vote to govern alone.

«You're so ridiculously proud of your self - declared majority, but you don't have enough votes to approve the Afghanistan decree,» Berlusconi said in parliament.

But AfD, the populist, anti-Europe and anti-immigrant party, is likely to increase its share of the votes enough to be represented in parliament.

If enough MEPs support the objections, tabled by Green MEP Keith Taylor, the proposals will be voted on by the whole Parliament next week in Strasbourg.

(In these elections United Left has not received enough votes to enter the parliament.)

If the electoral districts are large enough (possibly nationwide), a party does get a weight in parliament roughly equivalent to the number of votes they received in the election.

Malcolm Turnbull says he is «quietly confident» the Coalition will secure enough votes to form a majority government, but is reaching out to crossbenchers who could prove kingmakers if the election results in a hung parliament.

We elect people to represent us in parliament, not a bunch of has beens most of which are never wasers, collecting # 305 per day for having a kip at our expense, and casting their demented opinions and wake up for long enough to vote.

All I know is that in Europe, even in the post-Soviet countries, you can create an idea, then collect enough signatures from people (who have the right to vote), then submit the idea as proposition (they call it a petition) to the house (may that be called parliament, house, senate, congress etc), and then they will organize an election for it, and the people will vote and decide.

In practice, the parliament is bigger when a party is strong enough to win districts by a plurality of the vote but has a (relatively) low share of the overall vote.

While some left - wing propositions command 40 % support or more — easily enough to provide a majority in Parliament if they all voted Labour — only 16 % regard themselves as «very» or «fairly» left - wing.

If Westminster's relationship with Holyrood comes increasingly to resembles that between a federal and state parliament in a decentralised federal system, many will feel that McKay does not go nearly far enough and a more hard - edged version of «English votes for English laws» is called for.

The polls all point to a hung Parliament and one in which Labour have just enough seats (even if they come third in the popular vote) to do a deal with the Lib Dems.

Scotland voted 62/38 to remain, there is a majority of pro-independence MPs amongst the Scottish contingent at Westminster (and Mrs Thatcher said that this would be enough for independence), there is a majority of MSPs in the Scottish Parliament, which has also passed a motion demanding another referendum, The SNP and Greens have between them almost a majority of Councillors in Scotland.

Simon Woolley, director of Operation Black Vote, which ran a high - profile campaign featuring prominent black British stars with white faces, welcomed the progress made but added: «Although this is encouraging and a positive development, it's simply not good enough in terms of composition of parliament.

Today, the European Parliament's Environment Committee voted in support of the EU Commission's «Stop - the - Clock» proposal which derogates flights to and from Europe from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) for one year to give enough time to negotiate a global agreement for addressing emissions from international aviation by autumn 2013....