Sentences with phrase «governing social democrats»
There the long - governing Social Democrats have ruled with more or less formal support from other parties — in the mid-20th century from Agrarians, after 1968 from Communists, and more recently from Greens and ex-Communists — and have thus been able to retain executive power and (in practice) legislative initiative.
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The new party has yet to be named, but even so, a recent Gallup poll reported Stronach had 8 % of voter support, compared to 28 % for the governing Social Democrats (SPO), 21 % for its conservative coalition partner the People's Party (OVP), and 20 % for the opposition Freedom Party (FPO).
Not exact matches
The Social Democrats, who had governed alongside Merkel in the previous mandate, saw its worst election result since the World War II in September.
Germany's fellow euro zone members are unlikely to welcome the spending blueprint either, as they had hoped the Social Democrats, part of Germany's governing coalition, would steer the EU's economic powerhouse away from austerity.
Ashdown, who describes himself as a «social democrat» and of the «centre left» says this coalition has proved that parties that do not like each other can still govern together well in the national interest.
The majority of university presidents and the majority of the Länder (German states), governed by Social Democrats and the Green Party, rejected tuition fees as antisocial.
Although the 6.4 % increase falls short of her party's campaign promises, Bulmahn says the new governing coalition of Social Democrats and the eco-friendly Green Party plans to continue the increases over the next 5 years.
The governing coalition of Social - and Christian - Democrats however had again inserted such a prohibtion into a new law coming into force next fall.
Democrats in the House and Senate are pushing the Federal Election Commission to develop new rules governing political advertising on social media after Facebook revealed that Russian trolls routinely purchased ads on its platform during the 2016 election cycle.