Sentences with phrase «form a government first»

The constitution has come front and centre and particularly the question about who has the right to attempt to form a government first, who would be the most «legitimate» government and on what basis this is all worked out.

So, Clegg's just said that, in effect, the Tories must attempt to form a government first.

BJP is the single largest party so they will be allowed to form the government first by getting support of other MLA's but if they are not successful and if INC and JDS other two parties support each other who will be allowed to form the government?

Not exact matches

In a story yesterday, the news agency reported that US oil imports form Africa were greater than those from the Middles East in 2006, for the first time in 21 years, according to government data.

Byers: «Well, first off, I disagree that there is very little chance the New Democrats will form a government.

How important are these two commitments and how successful has the Harper Government been in living up to other fiscal commitments made since first forming governmenGovernment been in living up to other fiscal commitments made since first forming governmentgovernment in 2006?

When people first hear about Bitcoin, they are often told that it is a form of anonymous cash that can not be tracked by any government or company.

Following the election, the Labour Party and New Zealand First formed a coalition government with support from the Green Party.

One of the first laws the NDP passed after it formed government scrapped the flat tax that the PC government introduced in the early 2000s.

Wildrose Party leader Brian Jean announced that if his party forms government on May 5, he would introduce an Accountability Act as the new government's first bill in the Legislative Assembly.

We formed the very first government back in 1905 and have remained an integral part of Alberta's political landscape ever since.

Yesterday the BC NDP tabled their first full budget since forming a minority government last year.

It truly is the world's first form of money that is truly controlled by the people, not by kings, governments, or central bankers.

The problem of authority was bound in any event to arise in a period when the Jerusalem Church had ceased to be an effective force and the apostles had passed away; the development of a stable form of church government had become a matter of urgency, and in settled churches where the first enthusiasm had often become lukewarm (Revel.

Governments in most Third World countries, supported by development policies in First and Second World countries, have been concerned about supplying sophisticated forms of energy for industrialization and urban life.

This means that for the first time our government comes perilously close to departing from its original form and nature.

Given BP's difficulty to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, why would the US government entrust it to contain trangene flow from the world's first synthetic life form?

Will it be David Cameron or Ed Miliband who get first go at forming a government?

The State of Maryland Constitution's first Declaration of Right still reads: [The People] have, at all times, the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their Form of Government in such manner as they may deem expedient.

It would be much clearer to voters if they could see that in our parliamentary system, first we elect a parliament, and then it is up to the new parliament to decide who shall form the government.

Any proposals to annul the results of the first round of the election or form an «interim» government fly in the face of our country's constitutional provisions.

With neither Labour nor the Conservatives likely to be capable of forming a majority government and given the SNP's fragmented unionist opponents north of the border, Britain's first - past - the - post electoral system could allow Nicola Sturgeon's party to exact a high price for support of a government in the Commons.

The government banned the party at the end of 1961, but the remaining supporters came together to form a movement that was the first of its kind in Rhodesia.

The first requires administrators of pages with a large number of followers to upload government ID through an encrypted form, though the data will be subsequently deleted once verification of identity has occurred.

He told them that diasporans need to stop whining and shared his own experiences as a returnee who left a well - paying job as vice-president at Coca - Cola Africa to join the first New Patriotic Party (NPP) government formed in 2009.

This gives appeal to the option of forming a minority government bolstered by a supply and confidence agreement until the first best opportunity arises to call a snap election.

If, as looks likely, the Conservatives end up with the largest number of seats, they get to go first in trying to form a government by going into coalition with other parties.

BAGHDAD (AP)- Iraq's Muqtada al - Sadr, the maverick Shiite cleric whose political coalition beat out Iran's favored candidates to come in first in national elections, says he wants to form a government that puts Iraqis first.

The Lib Dems insisted that Clegg's remarks were being over-interpreted, and he was merely rejecting the constitutional assumption that the prime minister in the event of a hung parliament would always have the first opportunity to try to form a minority government.

Iraq's Muqtada al - Sadr, the maverick Shiite cleric whose political coalition beat out Iran's favored candidates to come in first in national elections, says he wants to form a government that puts Iraqis first

Unless pretty much all the other parties gang up to form an anti-Tory government then this scenario would appear at first glance to be again fundamentally one of Hobson's choice for the Liberal Democrats.

Kwame Nkrumah is the first Prime Minister of Ghana and President of Ghana and formed the Convention People's Party (CPP) with the motto «self - government now».

At the time, the choice to entrust the incumbent prime minister rather than the leader of the largest party with the first attempt to form a government had cross-party approval.

Our founding fathers were brilliant men, and forged a Constitution and form of government that has been stable for perhaps the first 200 years.

While I am the first to admit that the Labour Party's prospects of forming a government in the near future are not propitious, I know that the party will eventually emerge from its internecine struggle and present itself ready for government — as it has done after every period of civil war in its history.

Their guiding ideological principle is to reduce the size and / or power of Federal government (and they obviously existed since well before United States was formed in the first place, if you look at the reason Federalist Papers were written).

The first elections for the Scottish parliament were held in 1999 and resulted in the Liberal Democrats forming a coalition government with Labour from its establishment until 2007.

Shadow Defence Secretary Clive Lewis said that under the first past the post voting system, Labour will struggle to form a government without the backing of other left - leaning parties.

Polls are judged first and foremost on whether they correctly indicate which party will form the next government and, as the chart below shows, were the Conservatives not to win an overall majority on June 8, we would be looking at a polling miss of unprecedented magnitude.

While it may later revive electoral reform should it fail to win a majority in 2020, Labour may decide not to adopt pre-emptive commitments on this issue before first testing the water to see if it can form a single - party government.

The second issue is how clear it will be that the party first attempting to form a government is likely to be able to command a majority.

In other countries, the party with most seats is given the first opportunity to form a government and there is a formal process for this.

First, to deal briefly with the introduction of extraneous matters not forming part of the Commissioner's report and attempts to amend, vary, modify and rewrite the Commissioner's report in some parts, to show that it does no credit to the legal advisors to the Government as it converts them into conduits of a corrupt political elite in Government contrary to their constitutional mandate specifically provided for under Article 88 of the Constitution.

In asking what is the best form of government, Aristotle says, any polity must first ask: what is the kind of life you are trying to achieve for people living in it?

As the incumbent, Gordon Brown is entitled to be the first leader to attempt to form a government, until he loses the confidence of the House of Commons or he resigns.

Earlier, Mr Clegg told media and supporters outside the Liberal Democrats» Westminster HQ that the party with the most seats and the most votes has the «first right» to try to form a government, as he had repeated throughout the campaign.

(f) The final option would be if both Labour and the Conservatives were too far from an overall majority to form a government without the Liberal Democrats, and that the Lib Dems (coming either first or second in the popular vote, though still third in number of seats) decide not to allow either to form a functioning government.

His approach will be «exactly the same» as this year — that the party with the most votes and seats in a hung parliament should have the first crack at forming a government.

Thus, with the acquiescence of Asquith's Liberals, Ramsay MacDonald became the first ever Labour Prime Minister in January 1924, forming the first Labour government, despite Labour only having 191 MPs (less than a third of the House of Commons).

Plaid Cymru, the official opposition, having put forward Leanne Wood for election as first minister would have sought to form a minority government with its 12 AMs.