Sentences with phrase «month of minority government»

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Portugal's minority center - right government collapsed this week after the three leftist parties that won the majority of seats in September month's general election refused to support its continuation of bailout - dictated austerity policies.

Ireland was on the verge of a snap election on Monday after the opposition party propping up the minority government said the deputy prime minister's refusal to quit would force the country to the polls next month.

India's stock market has been jittery the last few weeks, on news that the BJP would lead a minority government at the end of the three - month long national elections.

Should Stephen Harper's Conservatives remain in power until that time, they will become the country's longest - lasting minority government, surpassing by about a month that of Mackenzie King's 1921 - 1925 administration.

The line represents the number of months between the general election that put the minority government into office, and the next, or subsequent, general election.

Minority governments are historically very unstable, with an average lifespan of only 18 months.

AsiaNews now reports that a new commission set up by the country's interim government will «establish a cemetery for the country's Christian and Kirati minorities... Over the next four months, the commission will scout for possible sites in each of the country's 75 districts and have them identified by July 15.»

They don't expect a minority government to have transformed the country in the space of 12 months but most people seem to be happy with what they have seen so far.

Some sort of minority government, propped up formally or informally by the Lib Dems, is a less improbable prospect than it was even a few months ago.

In Canada, for instance, federal minority governments last an average of 18 months.

The Labour Party, led by Harold Wilson, formed a minority government for seven months after the General Election of February 1974.

Meanwhile his decision to repeatedly state that the party with the largest number of seats should form the next government is set to undermine the legitimacy of any minority Labour government should we see one next month.

Last month, 26 per cent of respondents said that there will be such a majority; 23 per cent said there will be a minority Conservative Government and 16 per cent that there will be a second Conservative - Liberal Democrat Coalition.

15 months after its creation by the Quebec government, and after extensive public hearings in all regions of the province on the issue of how far society should go to accommodate requests for religious and cultural adjustments from individuals from minority groups, the Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences finally released its report and recommendations.