Sentences with phrase «in a parliamentary system»

The special elections to fill vacant seats in congress are fundamentally different from early general elections in a parliamentary system, in which every seat in the affected house is contested.

I include cases of de facto elections, such as the leader of the largest party becoming prime minister after elections, as widely expected but not required in parliamentary systems.

We need checks and balances in our parliamentary system.

However, not everyone agrees that such is the sole or proper function of the lower chamber in a parliamentary system.

It is questionable as to whether fixed terms exist, at least in parliamentary systems.

We have what is necessary in our Parliamentary system for the problems you identify to be solved - what we don't have is a political class willing to govern by them.

It would be pointless to have term limits in a parliamentary system like Germany.

Unlike in the USA however, winning an election in a Parliamentary system doesn't necessarily guarantee control.

To deal with situations in parliamentary systems where no clear majority to support a government exists, two or more parties may establish a formal coalition government, commanding a clear majority of the parliamentary members, or a party might enter into less formal alliances or agreements with other parties, or individual members, to allow the minority government to stay in office.

This means coalitions have to be formed within the major parties prior to elections, as opposed to after the fact in parliamentary system.

@Nick122 In a parliamentary system like the Norwegian one can essentially give a negative vote to a party by voting for a party that promises not to cooperate with the given party.

This dynamic creates a particular problem for political parties and candidates in parliamentary systems, since their campaigns are almost always relatively short, frequently measured in days or weeks rather than months and years.

To my mind, it betrays arrogance, reeks of hypocrisy and has no place in a parliamentary system.

AWS can be engineered by party hierarchies, which serves only to shoot more holes in the thin layer of trust and confidence remaining in the parliamentary system.

«Some MPs have a dual role in a parliamentary system - they're not just MPs for a particular constituency but also have national offices in which they ought to be concerned about the national interest,» he explained.

It can always be argued that, as undemocratic as it is, FPTP is «democratic enough» as it always delivers a majority of seats one way or another, which is the whole point in a parliamentary system.

While this may sound shady by U.S. norms, it's not unlike what happens in parliamentary systems around the world.

Republicans in general won a majority of the House seats, which in a parliamentary system would have given their choice control anyway.

A minority government, or minority cabinet or minority parliament, is a cabinet formed in a parliamentary system when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in the parliament.

Anti-deficiency acts are rare in parliamentary systems precisely because the government (executive) are the same people as the majority of the legislative branch.

The Tories were hubristic and ambitious, like Hillary Clinton who chased a blow out win, which made even less sense in a presidential system than it did in a parliamentary system where governments are stronger with larger majorities.

In a parliamentary system like Canada's, if a government is in power long enough to pack the Senate and the Supreme Court and gets a majority government, it can pretty much do what it wants.

In a parliamentary system, this meant that...

In a parliamentary system, this meant that their leader, now former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, had been at the helm, relatively uncontested by the more left - leaning parties.

In parliamentary systems, that compromise is often made by politicians after elections, when they form coalitions to choose a prime minister.

But in parliamentary systems, where party discipline is high and debate is relatively open, such methods are not particularly effective: voting is often strategic and reveals little in terms of ideology.

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.

Bear in mind also that in parliamentary systems, there are more ways to remove the head of government (chancellor / prime minister) than just losing an election, including loss of support from their own party / coalition, or loss of confidence from the legislature.

In a parliamentary system, party affiliations are not locked.

In a parliamentary system the party in power is the one with the most votes in parliament and that would always correspond to the party that won the most actual votes in the election, even if they didn't get the most seats.

In a parliamentary system, the government is, by definition, the party (or coalition) of parties which controls the lower house (in the UK, the House of Commons).

In the parliamentary system, the executive is not really separated from the Legislature.

In a parliamentary system the Prime Minister is appointed because he or she can form a government that can command a working majority or plurality in the parliament.

For true political junkies, the Premier of Nova Scotia just called elections this week for June 13 (note how much more unpredictable and quick elections and campaigns are in parliamentary systems).

The Majority and Minority leaders are powerful, but do not in any sense make up any portion of the government as they might in a Parliamentary system.