Sentences with phrase «formed governing coalition»

Cuomo maintains he's not getting involved in the state Senate's internal power struggle - which has led to a newly formed governing coalition of 30 Republicans and 5 break away Democrats.

Republicans are technically in a numerical minority in the Senate, but in 2012 formed a governing coalition with the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference that allowed them to retain some control in the chamber.

But like Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Klein, a Bronx Democrat who is formed a governing coalition with Senate Republicans last year, said the back - to - back corruption cases has created an opportunity to pass the overhaul legislation that's languished in Albany.

The IDC and Senate Republicans late last year formed a governing coalition in the Senate that elevated Klein to co-president and allowed Senate Republicans to keep influence in the chamber.

When candidates running on the Democratic line won a majority of the chamber's seats in 2012, the then - five - member Independent Democratic Conference formed a governing coalition with the GOP; the IDC will almost certainly have six members in January due to Marisol Alcantara's primary victory.

The labor - backed party has Facebook ads posting today, part of a broader effort aimed at pressuring the eight - member bloc as Democrats hold a numeric majority in the state Senate, but do not have the votes to form a governing coalition.

When Sen. Jose Peralta announced on his Facebook page that he was joining the Independent Democratic Conference, a growing group of breakaway Democrats in the Senate who form a governing coalition with the Republicans, he said he wanted to «deliver a progressive agenda.»

The governor also told the Democrats that if they win and keep enough seats in November, they'll likely have to learn to work with a breakaway faction of Democrats, the Independent Democratic Conference, in order to form a governing coalition.

Senator Jeff Klein has been a power broker between the chamber's Democrats and Republicans, at one point teaming up with the GOP, to form a governing coalition.

When Senator Jose Peralta announced on his Facebook page that he was joining a growing group of breakaway Democrats in the Senate called the Independent Democratic Conference, who form a governing coalition with the Republicans, he said he wanted to «deliver a progressive agenda.»

Nevertheless, Brown did not resign as Prime Minister until 11 May, when it became clear that the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats would be able to form a governing coalition.

Cuomo had been urging the IDC to form a governing coalition with the rest of the Democrats after Election Day, anticipating that Democrats would pick up seats.

Merkel, as party leader, will start talks with other parties to form a governing coalition.

Sen. Jeff Klein has been a power broker between the chamber's Democrats and Republicans, at one point teaming up with the GOP to form a governing coalition.

Not exact matches

As mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - century.

[v] The last time the Green party formed part of a governing coalition (1998 - 2005), their electoral program had included a demand for the «legalisation of certain drugs such as cannabis under similar laws and regulations pertaining to alcohol» (p. 127).

Meanwhile at the party headquarters of the far right Laos party, sitting under paintings of classical Greek scenes, vice-president Georgios Georgiou explains why they left the current governing coalition (formed under Lucas Papademos last November when the Papandreou government collapsed): «I suggested we leave the coalition... we said not to touch pensions and wages and to get rid of the two million illegal immigrants... you can not have Germans coming in sitting in ministries ordering ministers what to do.»

Raising the electoral mountain Labour would need to climb to form a Government, exercising minority or coalition rule let alone governing with a majority, is an unexpected gift for the fifth largest force in UK politics: Momentum.

She wouldn't say whether those plans include forming a new governing coalition with Democrats as opposed to the Senate GOP.

As leader of the five - member breakaway faction that allied with Republicans to form the chamber's governing coalition (and keep Democrats from assuming the control that should have accompanied their mathematical majority), Klein has been justifying the partnership since it formed in 2012 as a win for progressives, rather than as a means of self - empowerment.

While not ruling out forming a new coalition with the mainline Dems, Rainville insisted that «the IDC is, and will continue to be, a strong stabilizing sensible force of governing in New York State.»

The leadership fight in the New York state Senate has been resolved, with a break - away Democratic faction joining with Republicans to form a new governing coalition that involves sharing the title of Temporary President of the Senate.

Sen. Jeff Klein, the leader of the five - member faction of Democrats known as the Independent Democratic Conference, took a gamble breaking away from the rest of the Democrats and forming the dominant governing coalition with the now 30 Republican Senators.

Did any of the mainstream parties announce they'd rather form a very big coalition than govern together with the PVV?

Additional: Did any of the mainstream parties announce they'd rather form a very big coalition than govern together with the PVV?

County and town opposition has been so strong that the county joined Rockland's five towns, a number of villages and the Nyack School District to form the Municipal Consortium, a coalition arguing against the plant on behalf of local governing bodies.

Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of the five member faction of Democrats known as the Independent Democratic Conference, took a gamble breaking away from the rest of the Democrats and forming the dominant governing coalition with the now 30 Republican Senators.

While governing parties throughout Europe are losing elections, Citizens» Platform (PO) has been re-elected as the largest party in Poland and will again form a coalition government with the Peasants» Party (PSL).

[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.

This would leave Labour six seats short of an overall majority at Holyrood, giving them the option of trying to govern alone as the SNP have done these last four years, or considering forming a coalition with one of more of the smaller parties.

No IDC NY formed in 2017 to field primary challengers to the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), a group of New York State Senate Democrats who entered a governing coalition with chamber Republicans in 2012.

He insists that if Nicola Sturgeon's party formed a coalition with Labour they would govern in such a way as to ensure «people feel the country doesn't work and the government doesn't work».

Or, he could join the Independent Democratic Conference, which would be wooed to form some sort of governing coalition in the chamber.

Indeed, analysis shows that for at least a third of the past century, the country was governed by parties which had failed to win an election in their own right but had created temporary mergers with another party in order to form a ruling coalition.

Bronx Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of the IDC, which had been aligned with Republicans in the Senate to form a majority coalition over the past two years, said the past four years of the group's existence had resulted in «a strong, stabilizing, sensible force for governing in New York State.»

This is a unified scientific project that aims to study the behavior of human beings as evolved biological organisms who live in groups, form networks and coalitions, are governed by formal institutions and informal norms, produce and exchange scarce resources and are motivated by identities, ideals and beliefs.