Sentences with phrase «parties share power»

From this perspective, the Swiss system in which all the main parties share power at the federal level since 50 + years feels very undemocratic.

But with the two parties sharing power in Albany and each holding a veto over the redistricting process, it is probably inevitable that one of the two seats the state loses will be a Democratic - held one.

NY is unique in that we have both parties sharing power and I think it ought to stay that way.

Italy has had the last 3 governments (Monti, Letta, and now Renzi) with center - left and center - right party sharing power.

Not exact matches

Western Australia's Nationals say they are getting down to the «business end» of choosing whether to form a government with Labor or the Liberals as both parties submit their power sharing proposals.

Although resetting and transforming the relationship with First Nations is a «foundational piece» of the power sharing agreement between the NDP and Green Party, the government has not kept this commitment at the centre of its responses to Kinder Morgan.

Their rise is cutting deeply into support for Greece's two mainstream parties — the conservative New Democracy party and the center - left Socialists, known as Pasok — that share power in a fractious coalition government.

Since the war socialists have been harassed rather than persecuted, but only in the last few years has a large socialist group, the left - wing Italian Socialist party attained a share of political power, and that certainly not the lion's share.

I am so delighted that you shared your healthy and delicious Breakfast Power Bowl with us at the Plant - based Potluck Party.

The Democratic Unionist party (DUP) has asked the British government to push back the existing power - sharing agreement deadline at the Northern Ireland Assembly by six weeks.

Having emerged as the dominant parties in the assembly election, the DUP and Sinn Fein have until March 26th to agree on a power sharing arrangement or the British government will suspend devolution in the province.

President Uhuru Kenyatta similarly ruled out sharing power when addressing elected members of county assemblies from his Jubilee Party on Saturday.

The move clears a major obstacle in the way of the restoration of power - sharing government between Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) at Stormont, which, under the terms of the St Andrews agreement, could take place in March.

Brexit would not just mean that Europe loses one its most important members, but it would surely embolden eurosceptic parties in other countries to demand the repatriation of previously shared powers.

«Certainly, the Free Officers Movement brought the army to power and ruled a one - party state with its own share of political prisoners.

The Ulster Unionist Party threatened to pull out of power - sharing altogether if Sinn Fein was not expelled from the administration.

In Northern Ireland, the election compounds the political turmoil, which followed the failure of the DUP - led power - sharing government, electoral losses for the DUP, and the subsequent inability of the unionist and nationalist parties to come to a new agreement.

Although the power - sharing requirements for devolved government under the Good Friday Agreement were probably essential to involve the mainstream parties representing both communities, they handed a veto on progress to those parties.

Power is shared across parties: industry and finance, labour and capital.

Following failed attempts to implement a power - sharing agreement, on 22 January Yemen's President, Prime Minister and Cabinet all resigned, stating that «we don't want to be party to what is going on and what is going to happen».

When looking around the world it seems that some countries only have 2 parties that get any power e.g. the USA and then you have other countries that consistently have power shared among multiple...

Putting aside any demands for May to stand down, the party with the largest number of seats must reach out to other parties to strike a deal to share power.

Indeed, the tweet to which Walker responded was, itself, misogynistic — but we would ask the Women's Equality Party to take into account the vast power inequality in this exchange and the fact that Walker felt it appropriate to share her «sex bot» comment with 33,000 followers.

Power - sharing leaders also host house parties, but will have delegated the key decisions to a trusted volunteer.

During the premiership of David Cameron, George Osborne was widely viewed as a potential future Leader of the Conservative Party; one Conservative MP suggested that the closeness of his relationship with Cameron meant that the two effectively shared power during the duration of the Cameron Government.

Democrats won 15 seats in 2000, forcing a power - sharing agreement between the parties where a Republican served as Senate president while Democrats controlled key committees.

And he urged the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to accept this progress and, if tomorrow's conference results in a pledge of confidence in the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), to proceed to a power - sharing government with Sinn Fein.

The Alliance party is opposed to the Northern Ireland power sharing executive on the grounds that it believes the people of Northern Ireland should be able to elect their own executive and decide their own system of government without systems imposed on them by Westminster.

Labelled «Dr No» for his sulphurous opposition to successive Northern Ireland peace initiatives, the man who founded his own church, newspaper and political party (because all the rest were wrong) finally said yes to power - sharing and became first minister in 2007.

He and Bertie Ahern today travelled to Stormont for a meeting with the Northern Irish parties in an attempt to speed up progress towards power sharing.

Mr. Rivera has been one of the most outspoken critics of the IDC since it began a power - sharing agreement with the Republican Party that kept Democrats in the minority.

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.

In order to exercise this power, the parliamentary party distributes (shares out equally) this voting power to its MPs.

But Brooklyn State Senator Simcha Felder, who runs on both party lines, has caucused with the Republicans since 2012 — while another eight members belonging to the Independent Democratic Conference have a nearly five - year - old power - sharing arrangement with the GOP.

As a Green Party activist, I share the deep concern at this apparent abuse of police powers.

In this case, although all five parties are in the power - sharing government, the DUP and Sinn Féin are acting as if they are «the government» and the UUP, SDLP and Alliance are «the opposition».

Northern Ireland party leaders had been warned the assembly would still be dissolved unless a power - sharing executive was appointed by midnight last night.

«I think we would be in the wilderness for as much as 15 years because all the changes that the Conservative majority government would bring in would actually not be about fairness or equity or even sharing power, it would be about excluding the Labour party,» he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

The Conservatives face the unusual and undesirable prospect of being a governing party which has to increase its vote share to be returned to power with an overall majority.

Unless minority coalition governments were explicitly encouraged from the outset; established majority parties will discourage and disparage minority governments since the major parties would prefer to rule less often but completely, than rule more often but share power.

Mr Brown has flown to Northern Ireland to hold talks with both parties amid fears that the escalating row could bring down the hard fought - for power - sharing executive.

With the Senate controlled by his GOP party - mates through a power - sharing agreement with breakaway Democrats, there has been virtually no appetite for election reform.

The Queens Democratic Party, long alienated from Mr. Avella, is also remaining behind Mr. Liu despite the new power - sharing deal.

Note: A party with a numerical majority in a chamber may be forced to share power with other parties due to informal coalitions or may cede power outright because of divisions within its caucus.

The fellow Brooklynites, in addition to sharing similar political beliefs, rose to power with the aid of the Working Families Party, the labor and liberal activist - backed organization that swung the city's political zeitgeist leftward.

The NDC's presidential hopeful, Mr Atta Mills, has himself had to deny allegations that his party had sent an emissary to Kenya to learn «a strategy for power - sharing» if it loses the election.

A third party, committed to pluralism, but which can never share power, will always fail to change the culture of British politics.

64 % agreed that the Lib Dems used to be a principled party even if they were powerless, but they've deliberately compromised those principles for a share of power;

One the one hand, entering into Coalition with the Conservatives provided opportunity for the Party to put the language of compromise and power - sharing into practice.

However, the first signs from the key players were not good, with the Democratic Unionist party (DUP) insisting it was not prepared to form a power - sharing government with Sinn Fein.