Sentences with phrase «green social democrats»

There are green social democrats and green anarchists and green revolutionary Marxists.

Not exact matches

It is too early to say whether the election will result in the continuation of the grand coalition between the conservatives and the social democrats, a revival of the conservative - liberal coalition with the Free Democratic Party (FDP), or even a three - way coalition between the conservatives, the FDP, and the Green Party.

The Social Democrats, who are part of the ruling «grand coalition», scored 23.5 percent, while the Alternative for Germany stood at 11 percent, the Left Party at 10.5 percent and the Greens at 6 percent.

Back in 2001, during Chancellor Schroeder's time, a Social Democrat - Green Party coalition government put their heads (and money) together to embark upon procuring the Euro Hawk, a variant of the US - developed Global Hawk, a spy drone, built by the American company Northrop Grumman [1].

The Social Democrats, the Left Party, and the Green Party objected to most of these reforms, both in 2006 and in 2010, defending the interests of outsiders.

The motion was brought forward jointly by the Conservative (CDU / CSU), Social Democrat (SPD), Liberal (FDP) and Green groups.

The Social Liberal Forum say «It is heartening to see policies that we as Liberal Democrats have long campaigned for being delivered: the Pupil Premium, the universality of most welfare payments, the creation of a Green Investment Bank, Regional Growth Funds and the protection of spending for schools, the NHS, international development and science.

We (I was the Liberal Democrats» director of policy between 1999 and 2004) developed a modern restatement of the social liberalism, called «New Liberalism» in its day, espoused by Hobhouse: social liberalism, greened and decentralised to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

The left bloc — comprising of the Left - Green Party, the Pirates (who also had a good election), Bright Future and the Social Democrats — hold 27 seats.

The Greens polled 3.6 %, while the continuing Liberals fared poorly, and the continuing Social Democrats were beaten even by the Monster Raving Loonies.

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Please Note: «OTH» here refers to the total support / seat levels estimated for the smaller parties (including the Greens, Social Democrats, Solidarity - People Before Profit and Renua — as the published version of an earlier post showed, it gets «messy» if there are too many columns in the tables here!

When the former diplomat and Special Boat Service captain took over the helm of the newly - merged Social and Liberal Democrats in July 1988, the party had sunk to 5 per cent in the polls, and shortly after came fourth behind the Greens in European elections.

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.

The Left - Greens have never been elected to office, but are expected to double their vote from 14 % to 28 % while Sigurdardottir's social democrats, who are calling for Iceland to join the EU and the euro, should comfortably win the vote with around 35 %, up six points on two years ago.

The party needs to work with liberals and social democrats across the party divide to restate its position as a voice of the centre - left, and this is best achieved if we clearly communicate how our vision of a fairer, greener Britain differs from both Tory and Labour parties» current stance.

Diametrically opposed to this point of view on the EU, the ECHR, foreign aid and social housing are voters for the seven left and liberal parties: the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party, the SNP, Sinn Féin, the SDLP and the Alliance.

The parties for the 2014 election are the Democrats and Republicans (obviously), as well as the Conservative Party (founded back in the 1960s because the state GOP was seen as too liberal by some), the Independence Party (founded in the 1990s and did best with Ross Perot as its presidential candidate, not to be confused with being an independent voter), the Greens and the Working Families Party (founded in the 1990s to be more social democratic than the Democrats).

So far, most of the candidates across Europe officially backing the charter are Social Democrats, Green Party members, Pirate Party members or Liberal Party members.

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

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.

Despite this drop, it remains the largest political group in the Parliament ahead of the social - democrats (S&D, who appear stable with about 25 % of seats), followed by pro-European liberals, and greens.

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.

So while the job market for Swedish postdocs looks increasingly bright, this small, but in the long run perhaps significant, brain - drain is one of the problems Sweden's nascent government — which seems likely to be a coalition of the Social Democrat, Green, and Left parties — will have to tackle in the coming years.

In 2000, under then - Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Germany's first center - left coalition of Social Democrats (SDP) and the Green Party implemented a nuclear phase - out with the passage of Atomausstieg, a controversial policy change that stymied nuclear generators» unlimited lifetime licenses and strong legal guarantees.

But in 1998, with climate fears on the rise, a close election in Germany left the Social Democrats in need of an alliance with the Green Party.

The Greens, the Left Alliance and the Social Democrats have all stated that a climate change law is one of the most important legislative projects of the next electoral period.

The Green party tasted national political influence in 1998 - 2002, when they played second fiddle to the Social Democrats under Gerhard Schroeder.

In neighboring Rheinland - Pfalz, the Greens knocked the Social Democrats (SPD) from their absolute majority, forcing the SPD to accept the Greens as coalition members in order to preserve their hold on the state government.

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