Sentences with phrase «social democratic party in»

In an echo of the split that led to the creation of the Social Democratic Party in the 1980s, up to a dozen Blairite MPs have discussed leaving the party.

This led to the formation of the Social Democratic Party in 1981.

Corbyn is a social democrat and the only northern europe model social democratic party in the UK is actually the SNP.

Cable joined the Social Democratic Party in 1982 having previously been a Labour councillor in Glasgow.

Clegg resigned after the party's worst performance in a general election since it was formed from the merger of the Liberal party and the Social Democratic party in 1988.

In fact, the best precedent for what might happen to UKIP in 2015 might be the experience of the Social Democratic Party in the early 1980s.

The Liberal Democrats have used all - member ballots to choose their leaders since the party was formed from the merger of the Liberals and the Social Democratic Party in 1988.

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

Until the Social Democratic party in 1981, the Labour party could paint the old Liberal party as Tories in disguise.

Even after resigning as an MP in 1979, before joining the Social Democratic Party in the mid-1980s, the driving passions of Paul's political career continued to define his life.

Not exact matches

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

Martin Schulz of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) has stated repeatedly that the party wants to stay in opposition rather than joining another coalition, despite gaining 20.5 percent of the vote in September's elecParty (SPD) has stated repeatedly that the party wants to stay in opposition rather than joining another coalition, despite gaining 20.5 percent of the vote in September's elecparty wants to stay in opposition rather than joining another coalition, despite gaining 20.5 percent of the vote in September's election.

Talks to draw up a new executive in Germany between the pro-business FDP (Free Democratic Party), Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU (Christian Democratic Union), its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Greens came to an end at the weekend, after the FDP decided to walk out for what it saw as a lack of compromise from other parParty), Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU (Christian Democratic Union), its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Greens came to an end at the weekend, after the FDP decided to walk out for what it saw as a lack of compromise from other parparty the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Greens came to an end at the weekend, after the FDP decided to walk out for what it saw as a lack of compromise from other parties.

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.

Speaking in Berlin after meeting with members of the center - left Social Democratic Party, Jeroen Dijsselbloem of the Netherlands, the leader of the eurozone finance ministers, criticized Mr. Schäuble for raising the suggestion of a Greek exit.

On Sunday the Social Democratic Party (SPD) membership voted in favour of a coalition.

It is too early to say whether the election will result in the continuation of the grand coalition between the conservatives and the social democrats, a revival of the conservative - liberal coalition with the Free Democratic Party (FDP), or even a three - way coalition between the conservatives, the FDP, and the Green Party.

The second generation leader of Alberta's social democratic party is smart, witty and well - positioned to boost her party's standings in the opposition benches.

In addition to this general statement, the Party also provides a detailed summary of its policies in key areas, including health care, the economy, democratic reform, education, the environment, and social justice and issueIn addition to this general statement, the Party also provides a detailed summary of its policies in key areas, including health care, the economy, democratic reform, education, the environment, and social justice and issuein key areas, including health care, the economy, democratic reform, education, the environment, and social justice and issues.

Final comments and conclusion By the 2008 banking crisis there no longer was a partisan political difference between Republicans and Democrats in the United States, or between social democratic and neoliberal parties in Europe.

He played an important part in the «ethnic renascence» of the 1970s and early decried the error of the Democratic party, his party, in alienating those who cherished traditional moral and social values.

Still, my friend's general point is a good one: The First World pattern has been a Social Democratic party versus a Christian Democratic party, an anti-religious party versus a religious party, and if politics in the United States is starting to match that pattern, why is this surprising or undesirable?

But according to Senator Gavin Marshall, chairman of the «Left federal parliamentary Labor Party caucus,» writing in The Age, Gillard's decision to allow a «conscience vote» on «gay marriage» is «not democratic,» because it «exposes individual parliamentarians to powerful conservative lobby groups» and the retrograde opinions of those «stubbornly opposed to all social reforms.»

In response to the realism of the Nixon - Ford years, a new, morally urgent human - rights activism was born in the mid-1970s within those elements of the Democratic Party aligned with Senator Henry M. Jackson, including pro-democracy social democrats and the trade - union movemenIn response to the realism of the Nixon - Ford years, a new, morally urgent human - rights activism was born in the mid-1970s within those elements of the Democratic Party aligned with Senator Henry M. Jackson, including pro-democracy social democrats and the trade - union movemenin the mid-1970s within those elements of the Democratic Party aligned with Senator Henry M. Jackson, including pro-democracy social democrats and the trade - union movement.

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 Party — a party which, from the synod's standpoint, had added to the injury of being socialist the insult of having been antiwar as party which, from the synod's standpoint, had added to the injury of being socialist the insult of having been antiwar as well.

The «social market» program put forward by Konrad Adenauer, the leader of the Christian Democratic Party in the Federal Republic's first parliamentary elections in 1949, was a key element in this social and political transformation.

He asks us to believe that the U.S. bishops issued a statement called «Political Responsibility» during a U.S. election year that merely rediscovers nineteenth - century German social thought, which by chance offers a political platform that, by sheer coincidence, parallels the U.S. Democratic platform program by program, yet these very bishops are completely immune from influence by the current political constellation in their headquarters» host city of Washington, D.C. Further, this very professor tells us that the problem with Republicans» the party of Ford, Bush, and Dole» is that they are excessively committed to the «unfettered free market» and lack «faith in the government's ability to provide» social benefits, a position he claims is completely contrary to the Catholic faith.

Stricherz, one gathers, would be comfortable in a Democratic party that returned to its working - class roots and its economic focus but that made a place for social conservatives.

To start with, one must wonder why these two issues» both of which ought to place politically liberal evangelicals in significant conflict with the Democratic party's social platform» are presented as «controversial» matters about which faithful Christians may disagree, while issues like foreign policy, environmentalism, and economics are presented as simple matters of justice.

Their loyalty to the Democratic party was rooted in the party's commitment to social justice.

The leader of Mexico's Social Democratic Party has said he supports 42 year old Cuauhtemoc Blanco bid to play in the Copa MX final, announcing that they will delay their campaign so the legend can play in the game.

For in 1938 Trotsky also claimed that the only thing stopping the global revolution was «the crisis of proletarian leadership»: namely the weak - kneed vacillators that led both social democratic and communist parties then and now.

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

Those social democratic parties fortunate enough to have been in opposition when the crisis struck are struggling to find their feet and advance a credible alternative to austerity.

The onset of a long period in opposition for social democratic standard - bearers such as Labour in Britain and the SPD in Germany, coupled with continuing slow growth, high unemployment and falling unionisation, led the parties of the Socialist International into a comprehensive accommodation with neo-liberalism — albeit one wrapped in soothing social market rhetoric and homeopathic concessions at the margins.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ghana believes in the principles that democratic societies provide individuals with the best conditions for political liberty, personal freedom, equality of opportunity and economic development under the rule of law; and therefore being committed to advancing the social and political values on which democratic societies are founded, including the basic personal freedoms and human rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prosperity.

It is perhaps no coincidence that a number of members of the «Magna Charta Association» would be founder members of the Democratic Federation in 1881, which would evolve into Britain's first avowedly socialist political party, the Social Democratic Federation.

The Social Democratic losses in 1998 were associated with a surge in support for the Left Party, allowing Göran Persson to remain as prime minister after the election.

This, in turn, helped the Social Democrats take over as the majority party in 1969, putting an end to 20 years of Christian Democratic dominance.

As was the case in 2005, the new coalition is comprised of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU, together with the CSU, its Bavarian pendant) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Throughout its long history, Sweden's Social Democratic Party has skillfully reached out to new electoral constituencies, while preserving the support of their core voters — reconciling the demands of anticlerical and religious workers in the 1910s and 1920s, workers and farmers in the 1930s, blue - collar and white - collar employees in the 1950s, and so on.

Social Democratic Party (SPD) The Social Democratic Party is in favour of a points - based system, similar to that of Canada.

I've argued on my own blog (http://hands-of-the-many.blogspot.com/2010/05/next-labour-will-change-be-moderate-or.html) that New Labour represented an understandable compromise with the upper class so that the overwhelming hostility to the party in the press would be lessened, and the party could communicate its message to a wider audience - and then, build the coalition which brought the party to office, and enabled the much - needed social democratic reforms to take place.

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.

At a partisan level, also during the Thatcher era, the cause of constitutional reform was taken up by the SDP - Liberal Alliance made up of the Social Democratic Party, which had split off from the Labour Party in 1981, and the more established Liberal Party.

The most important event in Swedish party politics in the past twenty years is the decline in the electoral fortunes of the Social Democratic Pparty politics in the past twenty years is the decline in the electoral fortunes of the Social Democratic PartyParty.

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.

What if the N100 million Chief Falae collected was less for the Social Democratic Party (SDP), of which he is national chairman, but more for Afenifere, in which he is regional champion?

There are indications that the camp of the Social Democratic Party is in disarray as the news of the resolution of the crisis in the All Progressives Congress broke on Monday.

Shirley started her political life on the left as a teenager, in the Labour Party, and the egalitarian, social democratic ideas she espoused — and put into practice as Education Secretary in the late 1970s - remain essentially intact.