Sentences with phrase «majority coalition partner»

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The Conservative government's first efforts to pass it in the last parliament were frustrated by its Liberal Democrat coalition partners, but the bill has been revived in a slightly watered - down version since the Conservatives won a majority in May's general elections.

Babis's ANO (Yes) party has won 29 % of the vote so they will need to partner up with one or more of the other eight parties in order to form a majority coalition.

Journalist George Eaton maintains that Osborne did not expect an outright Conservative majority, and expected his Liberal Democrat coalition partners to make him break that promise.

Both factors were crucial in building a majority — the Conservatives suffered virtually no net loss to Labour, with 10 losses offset by eight gains, and gained 26 seats as their former coalition partners collapsed.

[90] The Liberal Democrats» erstwhile coalition partner, Cameron's Conservatives, won an outright majority, negating the need for them to accommodate the smaller party in government.

Having ruled in coalition with nationalist Plaid Cymru for the past four years, Mr Jones will have to decide whether to govern through this slim majority or seek coalition partners once more.

The correct democratic thing — as much as I hate to say it — is to recognise that the conservatives have the democratic right to be in government as the majority partner in a coalition, and the offer cameron has made is in my view fair and reflects the electoral mandate.

However, if the smaller parties continue winning away votes from those two - as seen in state elections this year - even the grand coalition might have to go in search of a third partner to secure a governing majority.

The other two coalition partners, the Pasok socialists and the conservative New Democracy, have a sweeping parliamentary majority and do not need Karatzaferis's 16 votes.

, and with a working majority of 84 MPs and a rebellion of only 39, including dissenters from the Lib - Dem coalition partner, he might have expected to.

I'd like it to be a real Conservative government... we have to recognise we don't have a majority on a lot of things in the house of commons, we need to take our coalition partners along with us.

Between them, the Coalition partners took almost 60 % of the vote, and have an emphatic Commons majority of 78.

Since the 1980s, the popularity of other parties has increased such that coalition governments are now typical and expected, with one of the two major parties being the «Senior» partner, and with one or more «Junior» partners ensuring that the coalition retains a majority in the Dáil.

By winning an outright majority, the party will now be able to rule without support from a coalition partner.

With the 57 Lib Dems as coalition partners, however, they had comfortably enough to command a Commons majority.

His remarks, before the critical by - election for the coalition partners, reflect Conservative concern that the main route to an overall majority at the next election will be blocked if Tories can not capture a string of Liberal Democrat seats.»

In 2014, Klein said that if the Democrats won the majority of seats in the elections, then the IDC would switch sides and partner with the regular Democrats in a power - sharing coalition.

In 2014, Senator Klein said that if the Democrats won the majority of seats in the elections, then the IDC would switch sides and partner with the regular Democrats in a power sharing coalition.

It's the door to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's suite of offices, where he has already convened a handful of meetings with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, plus Skelos» coalition partner Jeff Klein of the Independent Democratic Conference, as they attempt to hammer out the state spending plan before the April 1 start of the new fiscal year.

In England, the party failed to inspire former Lib Dem voters as the Tories bagged the majority of seats held by their former Coalition partners.

Dividing this number by the total number of swing partners in all possible majority coalitions gives a party's power index.

Since then, following behind the scenes consultations with his coalition partners, Mr Gove said the vast majority of children would sit the new exam, but they are likely to do so at different ages.

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Legal Week's latest Big Question survey, which canvassed the opinion of nearly 100 partners at leading UK and US law firms, found that 80 % would prefer another coalition in the absence of a single party winning an outright majority.