Sentences with phrase «entering coalition government»

With the Assembly Elections in May representing Labour's worst performance at the polls in Wales since the First World War there was a realistic opportunity for the Welsh Conservatives to consider entering a coalition Government.

We also have parties in Government coalitions in Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and following recent elections should soon be entering a coalition Government in Romania.

It comes just over a month after the Tories entered a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats.

The decision to enter a coalition government with Labour was controversial at the time.

The Greens have now indicated they will not formally enter a coalition government with the SNP, after the nationalists failed to meet their stringent environmental policies.

When Clegg entered the coalition government with the Conservatives, the Labour party, always quick to feel betrayed, duly howled blue murder.

When asked whether it was a mistake for the Lib Dems to enter a coalition government with the Conservatives, 44 % of respondents agreed compared with 34 % who disagreed.

Not exact matches

As a result, either the SPD agrees to enter a coalition with Merkel, she heads a minority government, or the country holds news elections.

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.

Martin Schulz, the leader of the Social Democrat Party (SPD)-- which was part of Chancellor Merkel's coalition in the previous government — had previously ruled out another partnership, but at the start of December decided to enter talks.

Plaid leader Ieuan Wyn Jones then attempted to lead a coalition government, entering into talks with the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives.

Many former Likud voters cast their votes for his party, wishing it to enter a future coalition government headed by Netanyahu.

But he has earned Cameron's gratitude by taking a hefty pay cut to enter No 10 on a special adviser's salary of # 140,000 a year, having helped with the negotiations that created the Coalition Government.

It seems unlikely that Labour would enter into any kind of formal agreement that allowed SNP MPs to become ministers or play a direct role in the management of government departments — indeed, Miliband has ruled out a coalition with the Scottish nationalists.

It entered a government coalition with the conservative party after a sweeping victory in the 1999 parliamentary elections.

Coalitions mean political leaders picking and choosing which parts of their manifesto they seek to implement after you've voted for it, meaning you can not have confidence that they will stick by any of the promises they have made if they enter government.

Deny that you would enter a coalition with any other party, even if you have no chance of being in government on your own.

The view that the Liberal Democrats will be «wiped out» is a result of declining popularity for the Liberal Democrat and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg since entering into coalition government with the Conservatives.

No recovery if we hadn't decided to enter into coalition in order to provide the country with strong government.

His second book, The Prince of the Marshes and Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq, outlines his experiences as deputy governor shortly after coalition forces entered Iraq, and describes his efforts to lead development projects and establish a functional government.

Although the coalition parties legislated to secure fixed - term parliaments of five years - a precondition of entering into government together - there are two ways in which a general election could take place before 2015.

(c) But if Labour fall to third in the popular vote, it must either enter coalition with the Lib Dems with Nick Clegg taking 10 Downing Street and Labour being the larger - but - junior partner in coalition, or find a new leader who will not be «squatting» in Number 10 having led the government to disastrous defeat.

That would almost certainly be a minority government — particularly now Miliband has completely ruled out entering a coalition with the SNP or, indeed, doing any kind of deal with the party whatsoever.

As Britain entered 2016, David Cameron was supposed to be finished and Prime Minister Miliband was supposed to be head of a minority Labour government or some kind of left - wing coalition.

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, needing no such prompt to enter into the fray, said the coalition government's 20 % police cuts were putting chief constables «in an impossible position».

The junior coalition party has lost 35 % of its supporters since it entered government with the Conservatives in 2010.

The peer writes: «Like a brand - new car that loses a chunk of its value the moment it is driven off the forecourt, the Lib Dems were bound to lose part of their ragbag coalition of voters as soon as they entered government.

Both candidates agree that the eventual aim was to get the party into a position where it can be in a coalition government again, though both have ruled out entering into a coalition without a guarantee of electoral reform from their governing partner.

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.

«Even if the stars had aligned in such a way as to make a minority Conservative government a real possibility, the choice David Cameron made to enter a coalition would still have been the right one, both for the country and for the Conservative Party.»

When asked again today whether Labour would enter a formal coalition with the Scottish Nationalists to form a government, Ed Miliband repeated that it wouldn't happen.

Even worse, we entered into a coalition government.

Brown remained as Prime Minister while the Liberal Democrats entered separate negotiations with Labour and the Conservatives with a view to forming a coalition government.

Perhaps he is happy to have a coalition, OK he is not but he is in power and labour are in opposition, be interesting if we have another hung government who will be doing deals to enter politics with the winners, if the Tories take it I suspect labour may well offer to enter coalition after all the politics are very much tied together these days.

Labour entered government by forming a coalition with the Scottish Liberal Democrats, with Dewar agreeing to their demand for the abolition of up - front tuition fees for university students as the price for a coalition deal.

[157] Under the constitution governing what happens in the event of a hung parliament, Brown remained temporarily as Prime Minister, [158] while the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives entered into talks aimed at forming a coalition government.

There is anger within the business community because many companies are now able to recruit only small numbers of non-European staff as a result of the coalition government's interim cap on work visas for people entering Britain.

The one positive «brand» quality that has a resonance beyond Coalition supporters is the proposition that «the Lib Dems did the responsible thing by entering government at a time of crisis».

Salmond reiterated SNP policy not to enter a UK coalition government led by the Conservatives in the event of a hung parliament.

The Liberal Party's decision not to enter a coalition with the Conservatives, and Baldwin's unwillingness to govern without a majority, led to Ramsay MacDonald's first minority Labour government which took office in January 1924.

He claimed the party had matured, saying: «We proved something about ourselves last year, when we faced a historic choice — whether or not to enter government in coalition with the Conservatives.

Sarra's speech is being widely shared and welcomed on social media, as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia enter more unchartered waters under a new Federal Government with little outlined by the Coalition on their Indigenous affairs policies over the next term.