Sentences with phrase «left social democrats»

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 idea faces strong opposition from the other parties in the talks, Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and the centre - left Social Democrats (SPD).

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the center - left Social Democrats have agreed in coalition talks to put a moratorium on fracking for shale gas, leading members of the two parties said on Friday.

BERLIN (Reuters)- German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the center - left Social Democrats have agreed in coalition talks to put a moratorium on fracking for shale gas, leading members of the two parties said on Friday.

The centre - left Social Democrats led a string of coalition governments for most of the second half of the 20th century, introducing the Nordic welfare model.

Their main rival and current coalition partner, the centre - left Social Democrats led by Martin Schulz, got around 21 percent of the vote — their worst result in post-war Germany.

All seven parliamentary parties are putting forward candidates, including the three biggest ones — centre - left Positive Slovenia, which leads the ruling coalition at the time of writing but has no MEPs; the right - leaning Slovenian Democratic Party, currently has three MEPs, and the centre - left Social Democrats — two MEPs.

Even in the current coalition agreement between Merkel's conservatives and the center - left Social Democrats (SPD), the issue of «technical retrofitting» is treated with extreme care.

The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer seats.

Not exact matches

But in Germany the labor movement remains strong, and on workplace issues the mainstream political parties, the Christian Democrats as well as the Social Democrats, are well to the left of their American and British counterparts.

The two main contenders of the election are two centrists from the dominant center - right and center - left parties: conservative incumbent Angela Merkel and social democrat Martin Schulz.

Responding to popular pressure, Merkel's conservatives and their left - leaning Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners agreed on Thursday to tighten asylum rules, reaching a compromise on how to stem the influx of migrants.

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.

Against this backdrop, many social democrats — still desperate to haunt the «house of power» (Weber, 1991, 194)-- have begun to position themselves as the left wing of austerity.

With the usual few years of delay, the Italian left seemed on the path to modernize its political discourse along the lines already taken by New Labour in Britain or the Social Democrat's Agenda 2010 in Germany.

In an interview with Le Monde on the day of Hollande's Europe speech — at a gathering of some of the EU's centre - left leaders in Paris — Gabriel insisted that: «It is absolutely not naïve [to call for a renegotiation]... the pact is only half the route that Europe must go...... the [German] Social Democrats would add to the fiscal pact a growth and solidarity pact.»

The letter dovetails with what the IDC has long asserted in the Senate: Even with a workable Democratic majority of 32 members, the passage of a left - leaning agenda is not a guarantee given the conservative social views of some lawmakers, including Felder and Sen. Ruben Diaz, a Bronx Democrat.

Not only the party's radical left (the Bennites and their successors), but also many classic social - democrats fought New Labour and its fathers in the name of socialism, welfare and unionism.

This strategy protected the Social Democrats from the losses to the Left Party and the increase in non-voting among outsiders that occurred in 1998, but it had other costs.

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.

There might be one group around relatively communitarian «reciprocity social democrats» who are less rooted in market scepticism as their way into it than your left communitarians.

This strand of thought is not alien to the party, and for much of the history of the Liberal Party, and then the Liberal Democrats, it has been able to coexist happily with centre - left social liberalism.

At the 2010 election Liberal Democrat MPs, members and voters were all more social liberal than economic liberal (using both terms in their traditional British not American sense) i.e. left rather than right of centre.

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

Progressives are what Europeans would call social democrats, while liberals are center - left.

Its politics are also more left - wing than England's, with a centre left government of the European social democrat style - but again, the idea that Scots are uniformly, or even mostly, sympathetic towards benefits claimants and the such like is unsupported by evidence.

Illinois Democrat has been criticized for positions on social issues, faces primary challenge from left

But now, there appears to be a new emerging thinking on the left that is now beginning to challenge inequalities of power in relation to the citizen and welfare state, which were once believed to be inevitable by social democrats.

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Given the Labour Party's geography of support, but also given the increased level of opposition the party faces on the left of the political spectrum from Sinn Fein, Solidarity - People Before Profit, the Social Democrats and other left - wing groupings / independent candidates, it was argued that Labour would struggle to convert votes into seats if their national support levels fall below the 10 % level, as indeed proved to be the case with the February 26th election.

The Liberal Democrats must lead this democratic fight and they can only do it by sticking to their historic roots as a centre - left, social liberal, active party.

She is disagreeing with FDR on Social Security, LBJ on Medicare and with the vast majority of progressive Democrats in the House and the Senate, who today are fighting to end the disgrace of the United States being the only major country on Earth that doesn't provide paid family and medical leave.

Few believe the Democrats will gain a majority in the Senate this year, leaving Spitzer with two years to amass a record of success on his governmental - reform agenda of lowering taxes and balancing the state budget before attempting to take on a controversial social issue.

Mr Blair took the unusual step of briefing the media about his concern that the Liberal Democrats would get nowhere if they moved to the left of Labour, demanded higher taxes and attacked his social exclusion initiatives.

Mr Blair has taken the unusual step of briefing newspapers over his concern that the Liberal Democrats will get nowhere if they move to the left of Labour, adopt a policy of demanding higher taxes and become more critical of his party's efforts to tackle measures such as social exclusion.

Lafontaine, who fell from grace with the Social Democrats after leaving the party in 2005 and later forming a left alliance, had little to say on the coalition issue.

Warner, who is also a former adviser to Jack Straw, said that he had no plans to join another party and that he would remain a left of centre «social democrat».

Chilean politics is dominated by two main coalitions: the center - left Concert of Parties for Democracy (Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia), composed of the Christian Democrat Party, the Socialist Party, the Party for Democracy, and the Social Democrat Radical Party; and the center - right [2] Alliance for Chile (Alianza por Chile), composed of the Independent Democratic Union and National Renewal.

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.

In June 2010, the Ananeotiki («Renewing Wing») of radical social democrats in Synapsismós split away from the party, at the same time leaving Syriza.

She's a self - described «multi-party candidate» and «social liberal,» which leaves her unconcerned about being the only Republican running against several Democrats in a mostly blue city.

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 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.

Democrats who dominate the Assembly, who spent their day demanding on social media that Cuomo send them budget bills, left the Capitol for the evening slightly before 5 p.m. with plans to return in the morning.

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.

On most issues, I agree with social democrats and I disagree with the hard left who now control the Labour party.

Social Democrats were the frustrated types that left the Labour party as it had become increasingly obvious that the alternative economic model could not work, while the Labour party ploughed on ever into naivety and self - denial.

Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi, a Queens Democrat who chairs the chamber's social services committee, said if no MOU is reached before lawmakers leave the Capitol this week, it would fizzle into a graveyard of broken political promises.

Then there is the left - liberal or social democrat party, which claims the allegiance of Hughes, former leaders Menzies Campbell and Charles Kennedy, rising star Tim Farron and probably poor Vince Cable.

Frank Field and Michael Portillo both said tat it would be better for Scotland to go independent, Michael gove was described last year in a spectator article as the greatest leader Labours never had, portillos first political hero was Harold Wilson, and black Tory lord John Taylor said of Portillo that he was just pretending to be Thatcherite to further his career in the 80's So to take the view that there are some non Blairite, non Corbyinsta, EU skeptics who appeal to the Socially conservative, yet Social democrat view of politics, what was needed was a 42 year old, Admirer of Frank field and Michael Portillo, who was against Iraq, voted leave, and didn't back David miliband for leader in 2010