Sentences with phrase «left wing coalition»

Faced with an existential threat (i.e. a threat to their very existence of people in the society) from the right and overt symbolic and interpersonal expressions from members of right wing political parties that Muslims are not welcome, in a world with only a finite number of available political parties (even in countries that don't have a two party system), Muslims are going to tend to choose to join the left wing coalition rather than the right wing coalition.

So, their theoretic policy aspirations which could be imposed on left wing coalition members are a much more concerning threat to the left than Muslims for whom control of the government is not a viable possibility in these places.

They do so even thought there are other, less existentially important issues upon which a left wing coalition may not be in line with their personal views or preferences.

As Muslims have come to become more than an insignificant share of the left wing coalition in many parts of Western Europe and North America, despite the left wing not many any real policy concessions to attract them, members of left wing parties have come to have more interpersonal contact with Muslims which has led to reduced fear and increased mutual understanding, and political leaders in left wing parties have felt it politic and appropriate to refrain from emphasizing policies and issues that actively antagonize a not insignificant share of their coalition even when (if push came to shove) they might be uneasy with some of the political and social views of this part of their coalition.

In contrast, The left wing coalition in all of these places is not wrapped up in a specifically Christian identity, is more welcoming to immigrants, and cares about stopping official misconduct towards minority populations including Muslims.

You are absolutely — the left was wrong to think reform would benefit the left by resulting, inevitably, in left wing coalition governments.

Notably, these left wing coalitions didn't really have to change anything to have those more attractive policies for Muslims.

In contrast, left wing coalitions in Western Europe and North America are concerned about theocratic Christian tendencies because Christians could viably gain control of the government if they were politically successful, at least in many large regions of countries in Western Europe and North America.

Not exact matches

Populist parties already made it into government in the early 2000s and coalition - forming has become more complicated due to the rise of populist parties on both the right and the left wing of the political spectrum,» Brzeski told CNBC.

The latest wave of exit polls show New Democracy expanding its tiny lead of the left - wing SYRIZA coalition.

Over time, the coalition of left - wing skeptics of the prevailing trade policy regime has developed an increasingly sophisticated critique:

Political parties failed to form a coalition government after May 6 elections, triggering another contest between the pro-bailout New Democracy conservatives and left - wing Syriza party that has promised to cancel the terms of the country's rescue loan agreements.

«And what Tony seems to forget is that the whole development of the Labour party was always a coalition of the trade union mainstream, which isn't necessarily left wing....

The main choice was between the incumbent Hugo Chávez, backed by a coalition of progressive and left - aligned parties and social movements, and Henrique Capriles Radonski, a state governor with strong ties to the country's elite, who had formed a right wing coalition known as the MUD.

According to the latest election polls, Northern Italy's first - past - the post constituencies — except for the traditionally left wing Tuscany and Emilia - Romagna — are firmly on centre - right, and even in Southern Italy's constituencies there is a trend in favour of Berlusconi's coalition.

Nor could an alliance have been put together once Labour decided to support Brexit - the Lib Dems are seeking to win votes from both Labour and the Tories, while many left - wing Labourites have not forgiven Farron's party for the coalition.

But the coalition deal delivered a right wing coalition — with a party on which labour's weak self interest depended on being left wing.

Regarded as one of the most left - wing of Lib Dem Cabinet ministers, the Business Secretary is often touted as a possible partner for Ed Miliband if the party went into coalition with Labour.

I believed at the time it was signed that the coalition deal wiped out support for electoral reform because it meant its core left wing rump, which felt it would ensure more left wing government in future, suddenly felt that wasn't true any more.

Oakeshott, a stalwart of the party's social democratic left wing and a vocal critic of the Tory - Lib Dem coalition's economic policies, had long been a political opponent of Nick Clegg.

The Bennite agenda was to put the Labour party under permanent control by the coalition of left - wing sectarian factions under his banner which had managed to seize control of decaying Labour party local institutions.

The 2014 Local Elections saw a Labour Party — which was part of a coalition government with Fine Gael — fare poorly, with its national share of the vote dropping to just over seven percent and with its position as the leading left wing party being usurped by a major contender for this position, namely Sinn Fein.

The 1985 Local Elections saw a Labour Party — which was part of a coalition government with Fine Gael — fare poorly, with its national share of the vote dropping to just over seven percent and with its position as the leading left wing party being usurped by a major contender for this position, namely the Workers Party.

His Left - wing rhetoric will alarm many Conservatives and business leaders, who point out that the Coalition is asking the private sector to take the lead in hauling the economy out of recession as the public sector is cut back.

Consequently, it's now the third time that Germany is governed by a «large coalition» of both the right - wing and left - wing main parties, which was originally considered a worse - case fall - back position for everyone involved.

As Britain entered 2016, David Cameron was supposed to be finished and Prime Minister Miliband was supposed to be head of a minority Labour government or some kind of left - wing coalition.

It wasn't clear to most people until quite recently in these places, whether Muslim communities tended to favor left wing or right wing political coalitions at all, because the number of Muslims who could participate politically as citizens was quite small until quite recently.

Muslim support was not something that left wing political coalitions in Western Europe or North American actively sought out (at least until very, very recently).

The Communist Party of Greece considers itself the polar opposite of the ruling coalition, and has a very long history of not co-operating with any other party (even left wing parties).

Left - wing voters are going to punish the junior coalition partner in Lib Dem - Labour marginals, probably by more than the 12 % predicted by the Ashcroft polling.

I'm inclined to keep the dead LibDem bird because - although Coalition partners - we're still political opponents and 65 % of Clegg's members see themselves as left - wing.

Influential right - wing opinion formers (a) expect that a potential leader of a nominally left wing party will take economic positions «to the right» of a right - wing coalition simply because they offer him an opportunity to do so (b) bemoan him for not doing so.

They pointed to the debate as evidence of what left - wing coalition negotiations would look like.

The reasons that Labour will have a chance in 2015 are Ed Miliband's sensible leadership, left - wing Lib Dem voters moving to Labour, the voting system, a split right - wing vote and the coalition's many mistakes on the economy.

The Socialist Party's Trade Union and Socialist Coalition (catchy) got a vote about half, nationally, what left - wing Labour MP John McDonnell got in his one constituency.

Rank and file activists, who are more left wing than Mr Clegg, reject many of the more right wing policies adopted by their leader since he entered into coalition with the Tories.

In 1995 Romano Prodi, a former minister of Industry on behalf of the left - wing faction of Christian Democracy (DC), entered politics and founded The Olive Tree (L'Ulivo), a centre - left coalition including the PDS, the Italian People's Party (PPI), the Federation of the Greens (FdV), Italian Renewal (RI), the Italian Socialists (SI) and Democratic Union (UD).

Bundled into this debate have been arguments about the content of the history curriculum in particular, which has been labelled by the Coalition as biased towards left wing values.

From a traditional perspective this left - right wing coalition sounds surprising, weird, and perhaps even worrying.

«Rhee is trying to hold together a coalition of Democrats who are somewhat skeptical of teachers unions and right - wing ideologues who want to destroy unions entirely,» says Richard Kahlenberg of the left - leaning Century Foundation.

In the UK A (neurin) Bevan was the left wing Socialist Minister of Health who took credit for introducing the National Health Service, although it was originally conceived by Sir William Beveridge in his 1942 Report to Churchill's coalition government.

As for the claim that current left - wing violence is somehow the equal of current white right - wing violence, I defy Strocchi to read the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence's Insurrection timeline and tell me there is no connection between violence and the right at this point that far outweighs the other side.

A coalition of left - wing NGOs is circulating a petition at the UN climate talks in Bonn demanding the UN kick the United States delegation out of the conference!