Sentences with phrase «parties in power»

In practice, revolutionary left - wing parties in power — such as the communists in Russia / Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s and China in the 1950s and 1960s — were gung - ho in the building of dams.

Economic conditions change, priorities change, the international situation changes, political leadership changes, and parties in power change.

Dick Dadey, with Citizens Union, which supports the measure, along with the League of Women Voters, says it's the best opportunity in decades to help fix a broken system that allows nearly unlimited gerrymandering by legislative leaders to benefit parties in power.

Dick Dadey, with Citizens Union, which supports the measure, says it's the best opportunity in decades to help fix a broken system that allows nearly unlimited gerrymandering by legislative leaders to benefit parties in power.

Yes, the system is fine says Conall McDevitt the Social Democratic and Labour Party's MLA - elect, it's the parties in power that are the problem.

An independent reconfiguration of district lines around the state could have a transformative effect on state politics, particularly over the long term, by making elections more competitive and, theoretically, making the parties in power more accountable to voters.

The implication is that voters are fed up with the parties in power right now — ie, not Labour.

But with two parties in power the junior party must be careful that its temperamental conference does not deviate from the party line.

Dadey admits the measure is not perfect, but he says the constitutional changes provide a strong basis for court challenges, if lawmakers still try to take advantage and draw districts that benefit the political parties in power.

But supporters of the amendment say while the amendment may not be perfect, it's the one chance to end a corrupt process that has led to all sorts of bizarrely misshapen districts, drawn to help incumbent lawmakers win re election, and to keep majority parties in power.

News organizations including Politco New York picked up on the story, and found that the political parties in power in the legislature got a larger share of the money.

But I think that it will only continue because it benefits the parties in power.

Pro-fracking interests have focused contributions on the parties in power.

Cuomo, however, said the process commonly referred to as gerrymandering, which involves drawing a jigsaw puzzle of lines in order to keep incumbent parties in power, needs to end.

And, if we've kept first past the post at Westminster, why have parties in power allowed different systems to proliferate in less important elections?

By «guerilla» I refer to small actions targeting to erode the parties in power like the example I have provided, since a small party can not gather votes to directly oppose a solid majority.

Parties in power maximise utility by keeping a tight rein on judiciary governance, not by ceding it to judges.

But while history may also be on the Democrats» side — the party in power often loses Congressional seats after a President's first two years in office, even when that President is not as controversial as the current occupant — they actually face a very difficult Senate map.

If the changes look like they are having more than just a moderating impact, rest assured that the party in power will adjust course.

«What has changed is that while there used to be a modicum of congressional bargaining across major policy developments, the party in power now tries to pass legislation on straight party - line votes,» says Mr. Jillson.

Of course, we could avoid deficit if the party in power (whichever one it will be) raised taxes or slashed spending.

The party in power often loses Congressional seats after a President's first two years in office, even if the President isn't a controversial figure like Donald Trump.

No growth no votes - no votes no interest from any political party in power.

Instead of performing the role of helping to shape policy, as they have in the past, regardless of the political party in power, diplomats are increasingly becoming mere agents of policy implementation.

After this (and with the installation of the Workers» Party in power in Brazil), support from beyond Fortaleza, notably from the National Secretary of the Solidarity Economy in the Ministry of Labour, made possible a network of community banks in Brazil on the Banco Palmas model.

An economy that's chugging along may not be enough for voters to credit the party in power, which means Republicans need to figure out a way to tie the economy to how voters feel about the president before November.

«I think the real depressing result here is the increased perception that both the law enforcement and intelligence agencies and their overseers are nothing more than partisan political playthings for the party in power,» Steve Vladeck, an expert on national security law at the University of Texas Austin, tells me.

Public workers are hired on merit, not political affiliation, and are expected to do their work conscientiously in the public interest, not act as political assistants to the party in power.

-LRB-...) The party in power has lost House seats in 9 of the last 10 congressional elections held at the midpoint of a president's first term.

Contrast this with the U.S., where the legislation most able to unite the party in power (tax reform) is now behind us, and where key mid-term elections lie ahead.

If we do see an episode of helicopter money dropped before the election, any positive effects are likely to be short lived (which may be the intent, to postpone the pain till after the election to keep the current party in power).

In a landslide victory, the Liberal Party took the majority of the seats across the nation and became the party in power.

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

Democracy, to be practiced and implemented with integrity, demands a free flow of information to citizens; it definitely can not be overly censored, curbed, or edited to suit the agenda of the political party in power.

This would greatly limit how much leverage the party in power has to distort results and should solve the problem.

Approaching general elections also requires the party in power to push the finance legislation through the Commons before the election is announced.

The European Socialists» Party, which includes Timmermans, may decide to exclude Democrat - Socialist Party (PSD - main party in power) from the European political family, a political sanction that would practically isolate Dragnea's party into the EU.

In a parliamentary system the party in power is the one with the most votes in parliament and that would always correspond to the party that won the most actual votes in the election, even if they didn't get the most seats.

Instead, voters want to return Democrats to the majority by a nearly 20 % margin because they want a party in power that supports women's rights, protections for working people and safeguards for the environment.

If a citizen's vote translates directly to votes in parliament it doesn't matter which way you carve the seats, the party in power will be the one with the most citizens supporting it.

On the 13th of January 1972, a certain Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheampong led an insurrection movement that removed the Progress Party in power.

«And to the party youth and to all committed foot soldiers of MPP, there is nothing gratifying in party politics than having your party in power.

Sure, the Tories urged them to be even more reckless but the electorate won't remember that; the fault always lies with the party in power.

Democratic leaders are trying to frame the November midterm elections not as a national referendum on the party in power but as local choices between two candidates.

NOTE: Dragnea is the leader of the main party in power and head of one of the Chambers of the Parliament.

Poland: Main party in power is Law and Justice whose ideology includes Polish nationalism, National conservatism and economic nationalism.

The main party in power are Social - Democrats who have a significant nationalist / conservatism part within their ideology (or at least their political actions show this):

In the last years, EU have faced several cases of countries with judicial independence issues and I am wondering if there is a connection between party in power ideology and judicial independence / rule of law issues.

Hungary: Fidesz is the party in power whose ideology includes Hungarian nationalism, National conservatism and economic nationalism.

There's a sense that each of these competitive seats represents a chance not just to send someone to Washington but to either keep or flip the party in power for the whole country.