Sentences with phrase «simple majority government»

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Though the referendum law sets the bar for passage impossibly high, the government has promised to respect the wishes of a simple majority.

By: Ryan McMaken In a court battle that has apparently been working itself out for 17 years, the Quebec High Court this week affirmed that a law establishing a simple majority as key in triggering secession talks with the Canadian government — known... [Read More]

If the European Council, after consulting the European Parliament and the Commission, adopts by a simple majority a decision in favour of examining the proposed amendments, the President of the European Council shall convene a Convention composed of representatives of the national Parliaments, of the Heads of State or Government of the Member States, of the European Parliament and of the Commission.

May would require either the support of two thirds of MPs for an election, or she could call a vote of no confidence in her own government, which would only require a simple majority.

The mechanics aren't relevant to this answer but it basically allows the majority party to fund or defund part of the government with only a simple majority.

Democracy has never meant the tyranny of the simple majority,... Democracy entails an elected government, subject to certain checks and balances such as the common law and the courts, and an executive ultimately responsible to parliament, whose members are entitled to vote according to conscience and common sense.»

No Government can command a simple majority, yet there is not 55 % in favour of dissolution.

If parliament passes a no - confidence vote in the government with a simple majority and then fails to express confidence in a government within 14 days.

In theory, the government could also repeal the act with a simple majority, but option (ii), i.e. a bipartisan call for an early election, is by far politically the best option for the government.

If another majority government is elected in 2020, it will be easy to chalk the 2010 hung parliament up to simple aberration.

He then moved on to the issue of votes of confidence, which the Bill would still make subject to a simple majority, but rather than causing an immediate general election, there would be a fortnight for a new government to be formed which could command the confidence of the Commons, before a new election had to take place:

It is worth saying to colleagues on the Government Benches who support the Government's proposals and respect the coalition agreement that my hon. Friend's amendment is not compatible with what we set out in the coalition agreement, which was a simple majority referendum, without an outcome - specific threshold.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, over a four - day period, repeatedly ducked and dodged after The Post asked the simple question of whether he's representing legal clients who have business before state government.

The simple fact is, the monarch can't refuse permission to form a government from a party leader if they have the required number of seats to make up a majority.

Since 1997, by contrast, we have seen successive governments use a simple parliamentary majority to radically overhaul the structure of the judicial system; strip the office of Lord Chancellor of most of its historic authority; introduce fixed - term parliaments and devolve substantial legislative powers to selected parts of the United Kingdom.

Parliament is also dissolved if a government loses a vote of no confidence by a simple majority and a new government is not formed within 14 days.

As the electoral fortunes of two national parties, the Congress and BJP, kept swinging between a clear simple majority to the saffron outfit and the possibility of a Congress - JD (S) government, the

«Those were majority government situations as well and were less controversial bills in much simpler times.

However, the vast majority of residents still have not been re-housed in suitable or appropriate accommodation and the Government is failing its own (relatively simple) target.

The proposals do not constitute statutory underpinning in the sense envisaged by Leveson, and nor would they remove the legal capacity of a determined Government relying upon a simple majority to enact legislation so as to facilitate intervention in relation to the proposed press regulator.