Sentences with phrase «prospect of a majority government»

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No group managed to secure a majority in the Italian parliament, heralding weeks of political uncertainty and raising the prospect of a government between sworn enemies - the center - right led by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and the center - left under Pier Luigi Bersani.

The prospect of a Harper majority appeared to fade as Quebec lashed back against his perceived insensitivity to the value of government support for culture.

With the polls neck - and - neck and no party likely to hold a majority in parliament, voters face the prospect of a new government lurching to the extreme left, the extreme right, or breaking up the country unless they vote Liberal Democrat to anchor Britain to the centre ground.

I personally am more frightened by the prospect of a continued Repub majority in Congress as they lurch further and further to the extreme right than I am by the excesses of the Dems, who can always be held in check by the combination of a robust Repub minority, independent swing voters and people who are simply fed up with the size and inefficiency of our government on all levels.»

Although the Greens, like UKIP, have no realistic prospect of forming a majority government in May, they have fallen into the trap of accepting the burden of proof expected of the main parties who do hope to.

Partners may not have wanted a Labour government, according to our survey published yesterday, but they feared the prospect of a hung parliament even more, with more than 60 % of respondents believing activity levels would fall during the next 12 months in the event of no party winning an outright majority.