Sentences with phrase «social democratic party»

It needs to become more like a typical European social democratic party, which recognises that nothing can be achieved without forging alliances with others.

The challenges facing Labour are similar to those facing social democratic parties elsewhere.

Scores of Social Democratic Party members in Edo State have defected to the All Progressives Congress ahead of the governorship election scheduled to hold on September 10.

It is the largest social democratic party in Europe; -LSB-...]

For social democratic parties the challenge is to reinvent their democratic practices and party forms, while remaining electorally competitive — a challenge that is a lot easier to state than to meet.

Except for last minute changes, former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore has concluded plans to formally join Social Democratic Party (SDP) to contest forthcoming governorship election in the state.

The post-WWII basis for social democratic politics has gone and this has left social democratic parties up shit creek in a wire vessel and without a paddle.

If the opposition Social Democratic Party wins in this September's elections, party leader Sigmar...

Ever since World War I, when the the likes of the UK Labour Party, the Australian Labor Party and the German Social Democratic Party split over the slaughter in the trenches, left - of - centre parties have been divided between a principled pacifist wing and what has normally been a majority prepared to back military force when considered necessary.

Those who attended the meeting with the governor's team, included Senator Adegbenga Kaka, Senator Gbenga Obadara, a former Social Democratic Party governorship candidate in the state, Senator Akin Odunsi, Adekunle Adeyemi, Abiodun Adudu - Balogun and Bukola Braimoh.

Sunday March 4 had started positively for Europe with Social Democratic Party (SPD) members in Germany voting to approve the party joining a so - called grand coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc, ending political instability there, just as it started in Italy.

After leaving the union in 1994, he went into politics and became a member of the defunct Social Democratic Party.

But then, thrown into the lively mix, I can reveal, is the plan by a former founder member of the old breakaway Social Democratic Party, Professor Stephen Haseler, to stand an anti coalition Liberal Democrat candidate.

But in an age in which mass social democratic parties across Europe, from Greece through to France and Germany, have collapsed at the ballot box, it is Labour's only realistic option.

[147] Other commentators go further and argue that traditional social democratic parties across Europe, including the British Labour Party, have been so deeply transformed in recent years that it is no longer possible to describe them ideologically as «social democratic», [148] and claim that this ideological shift has put new strains on the Labour Party's traditional relationship with the trade unions.

At 37, Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke changed the political calculations of the then rustic Osun to bulldoze his way into the Government House having boxed his rival in the then Social Democratic Party, Oladosu Oladapo, into a political corner that later sent the then Ibadan - based legal practitioner into political oblivion.

In 1981 though, Edward Lyons, the sitting Bradford West MP joined the newly established Social Democratic Party, but he lost the seat at the 1983 general election.

She said: «The rumours of the Labour Party's demise are much exaggerated,» adding the party's membership now makes it the largest social democratic party in Europe.

If any Labour backbencher has doubts about how serious these challenges are, he or she should take a look at what is going in Europe, where other social democratic parties are in disarray.

In the 1980s, four senior Labour figures broke away to lead the new Social Democratic Party.

Those who attended the meeting with the governor's team, include Senator Adegbenga Kaka, Senator Gbenga Obadara, a former Social Democratic Party governorship candidate in the state, Senator Akin Odunsi, Adekunle Adeyemi, Abiodun Adudu - Balogun and Bukola Braimoh.

In a damning piece for the Guardian's Comment is Free site today, Mona Sahlin, the Swedish Social Democratic party leader, says her country is about to abandon the school reforms the Tories want to install in Britain.

So what to do about it, now that David Miliband has acknowledged that actually voters didn't particularly like formerly social democratic parties who had in essence sold out.

However, the euro's surge was likely fueled by easing concerns with regard to German politics since Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) leader Martin Schulz said at the time that:

That differs from the situation in some other countries, where social democratic parties have embraced austerity and collapsed (Greece, Netherlands) or where the established leadership has been pushed aside (UK and possibly soon US also).

The gathering served as a reunion of the old Social Democratic Party (SDP).

The center - left Social Democratic Party came off particularly badly in the scandal, with senior officials exposed as feasting at the trough.

By turning on auto industry executives, Merkel is trying to both push the sector to innovate and to head off a drive for more social justice in Germany from her main challenger, Martin Schulz of the left - leaning Social Democratic Party (SPD).

An embattled German chancellor, weakened by the Syrian refugee crisis, needed the support of the left - wing Social Democratic Party (SPD) in her ruling coalition to pass CETA.

It represents the culmination of his 15 years of identification with the «religious socialist» movement in Germany, dating back to the time just after World War I when he was called on the carpet by the synodical consistory in Berlin to account for his appearance as a lecturer at a meeting of the Independent Social Democratic Party — a party which, from the synod's standpoint, had added to the injury of being socialist the insult of having been antiwar as well.

In 1988, in the United Kingdom the Liberal Party joined with the Labour splinter Social Democratic Party to form the Liberal Democrats.

«By Labour unashamedly asserting its pro-European credentials it can capture the majority support of the nation that is in tune with all of the values that we as a European social democratic party stand for.»

Labour will either remain a broadly social democratic party, committed to a mixed economy and parliamentary democracy or it will evolve into a left - wing socialist party, committed to large - scale nationalisation and direct action.

They have nothing like the big beasts of the 1980s Social Democratic party, and that failed.

Both the governing Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the HDZ consider the European Parliament election not only as a way to gauge their current support, but also as an opportunity to improve their standing on the national political scene.

The Liberal Democrat was leader of the pro-Europe Social Democratic Party for 11 months until it folded in 1988.

The Osun State Chapter of Social Democratic Party (SDP), has described as rubbish the insinuation that the party's National Chairman, Chief Olu Falae received N100 million from the former National Security Adviser (NSA) to President Goodluck Jonathan, Col. Dasuki.

«Joachim Gauck is right,» said Thomas Oppermann, a senior member of the German opposition Social Democratic Party.

Bloom's intervention came in a speech from the German Social Democratic party's Martin Schulz.

Drawing on her latestbook, she writes that the European context of crisis and austerity created a situation that Labour — together with other European social democratic parties — failed to steer through successfully.

Her rivals in the center - left Social Democratic Party (SPD) overcame their recent pattern of bumbling by nominating a candidate, Martin Schulz, widely considered a plausible head of government.

The ex-lawmaker represented Ibadan South East State Constituency under the platform of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP) during the aborted third republic when Chief Kolapo Ishola and Chief Akin Onigbinde were governor and speaker respectively.

The gang of four — Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Shirley Williams and Bill Rodgers — stepped out in east London's Limehouse to declare their breakaway Social Democratic party.

He disclosed that the initial contacts had yielded positive responses from seven people - focused and social democratic parties which would meet in Abuja.

«In the UK to have any chance of building a mass social democratic party you need a parliamentary party to provide a voice that will be heard.

Elected to the House of Commons in 1979 as a member of the Labour Party for the constituency of Stockport South, in 1981 he was one of the later defectors to the new Social Democratic Party.

Sweden had several minority governments in history, most of the time led by the Swedish Social Democratic Party.