Sentences with phrase «formed social democrats»

Evennett was elected as the Conservative MP for Erith and Crayford at the 1983 general election when he defeated James Wellbeloved who had defected from the Labour Party to the newly formed Social Democrats in 1981.

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On Sunday, Germany's Social Democrats party voted overwhelmingly to form a coalition treaty with incumbent conservatives in order to usher in a new government.

For social democrats, it means reflecting on how institutional forms can be entrenched within the fabric of society, rather than swept away immediately in the wake of electoral defeat as may be the fate of Labour's social reforms in the United Kingdom.

The new party was initially named Social and Liberal Democrats (SLD) with the unofficial short form The Democrats being used from September 1988.

The Liberal Democrats were formed on 3 March 1988 by a merger between the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party, which had formed a pact nearly seven years earlier as the SDP — Liberal Alliance.

The Liberal Democrats have used all - member ballots to choose their leaders since the party was formed from the merger of the Liberals and the Social Democratic Party in 1988.

In 1988 they merged with the Liberals to form the Liberal Democrats, although three Social Democrat MPs, including Gang of Four member David Owen, refused to join the new party.

After months of campaigning, leading to an election, followed by weeks of negotiation, the German Social Democrats and Merkel's CDU / CSU have finally agreed to form a grand coalition.

Lafontaine, who fell from grace with the Social Democrats after leaving the party in 2005 and later forming a left alliance, had little to say on the coalition issue.

Members of the Liberal Democrat Federal Policy Committee — together with Social Liberal Form Council members — have written to the Times reasserting the party's democratic and independent manifesto process.

In Europe, this social liberalism is closer to European Social democracy although the original form is advocated by some liberal parties in Europe as well, as with the Beveridge Group faction within the Liberal Democrats (United Kingdom), Liberals (Sweden), Danish Social Liberal Party, the Democratic Movement (France), the Italian Republican Party or the Free Democratic Party of Germany, for exsocial liberalism is closer to European Social democracy although the original form is advocated by some liberal parties in Europe as well, as with the Beveridge Group faction within the Liberal Democrats (United Kingdom), Liberals (Sweden), Danish Social Liberal Party, the Democratic Movement (France), the Italian Republican Party or the Free Democratic Party of Germany, for exSocial democracy although the original form is advocated by some liberal parties in Europe as well, as with the Beveridge Group faction within the Liberal Democrats (United Kingdom), Liberals (Sweden), Danish Social Liberal Party, the Democratic Movement (France), the Italian Republican Party or the Free Democratic Party of Germany, for exSocial Liberal Party, the Democratic Movement (France), the Italian Republican Party or the Free Democratic Party of Germany, for example.

The Social Democrats then formed the SDP — Liberal Alliance with the existing Liberal Party.

Hobhouse held out hope that Liberals and what would now be called the social democrat tendency in the nascent Labour party could form a grand progressive coalition.

Theoretically, the Social Democrats could form a government with the Greens, the Left Party and the FDP.

Many democratic socialists and social democrats believe in a form of participatory, industrial, economic and / or workplace democracy combined with a representative democracy.

In the first few years of the alliance, Liberals and Social Democrats were very confident it would be a success, David Steel even suggesting that Alliance could form the next government.

# Finally your previous comments suggested you do nt quite understand «externalities» in the form that concerns social democrats (the nominal audience of this blog).

This opened the door for the Greens, with 24.2 percent, to form a coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD).

IG Metall called on state premiers, particularly from northern German states, to put the issue high on the agenda during exploratory talks to form a government of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU / CSU block and the Social Democrats (SPD).