Sentences with phrase «key party coalition»

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To avoid the Baker scenario, the Liberal Democrats should deploy more than one junior minister in key departments that are led by the senior party of the coalition.

They condition the probability with which different parties enter the cabinet, affect a cabinet's majority and coalition status, and may also have an influence on the relative advantage of different parties in securing key cabinet posts (formateur advantage).

The Lib Dem leader has a huge stake in the outcome of the referendum, as it was a key demand for his party during the coalition negotiations.

This is the key vote which, a Tory party elections analyst has said, is the greatest single risk to the coalition making it through its full five years.

The smaller parties have spotted a once - in - a-generation chance, if not to join formal coalitions then certainly to cut some sweetheart deals in return for helping a fragile coalition government get key legislation through.

This does not mean replacing policymaking with focus groups or slavishly pursuing the opinions of key voters, but until we listen to what the electorate are saying, the party will never assemble an election - winning coalition.»

Raising the personal income tax allowance will be a key Lib Dem demand in any coalition talks after the 2015 election, the party says.

Key labor unions contributed heavily to the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee as a coalition led by the Working Families Party seeks to help Democrats take full control of the chamber, filings posted on Tuesday show.

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He is seen as a key figure on the left of the party and his candidacy has been helped by the fact that he kept his hands clean of the coalition's most unpopular policies, voting against the bedroom tax and, crucially, higher tuition fees.

The polling, all in Lib Dem - held seats, was done 10 days before last week's key parliamentary vote to increase university tuition fees to up to # 9,000 a year, which saw the party's MPs split three ways and the coalition's Commons majority slashed by three quarters.

Coalition tensions over the issue have bubbled to the surface before and the business secretary showed at this key event at his own party conference that he is prepared to keep on fighting to prove that the Tory target is both unachievable and wrong.

That is different to a formal coalition, such as the one the Tories and Lib Dems «enjoyed» in 2010, and essentially sees the smaller party back the larger party on key issues - in exchange for some key demands of their own.

Broadly speaking, the coalition has been a considerable feat of party management by the two leaders and their key lieutenants.

Big Labor is a key partisan constituent in the Democratic Party coalition, as evidenced by the fact that roughly 90 percent of union PAC contributions to candidates and an even greater percentage of union contributions to non-party ideological organizations go to Democrats and the Left.

Last week, EuPD Research issued a SPEEDLETTER titled «New Feed - in Tariffs: German PV promotion decreases significantly» after the German CSU (Christian Social Union) / Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and FDP (Free Democratic Party) coalition cabinet agreed on key points for the planned mid year revision of the PV FiT included in the Renewable Energy Act (EEG).

The Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario, Canadian Union of Public Employees (Ontario), Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, Childcare Resource and Research Unit and Advocates for Progressive Child Care Policy are calling on the leaders of Ontario's three main political parties to respond to concerns about the state of early childhood education and child care by committing, if elected, to six key elements toward a strategy that will begin to fix early childhood education and child care in Ontario.