Sentences with phrase «than opposition parties»

He pledged that if the ruling coalition parties receive fewer votes than opposition parties, the government would step aside and hold new elections later in the year.

In this way, the legislative advantages of ruling parties, which enjoy far more sticks and carrots to enforce discipline than opposition parties, helps to explain the failure of the Kenyan parliament to defend democracy.

Not exact matches

Gallup polling on favorable or unfavorable views of both major parties has found neither party has had more support than opposition since at least the 2012 election, the last time that more people approved of the Democratic Party (51 percent) than disapproved of it (43 percparty has had more support than opposition since at least the 2012 election, the last time that more people approved of the Democratic Party (51 percent) than disapproved of it (43 percParty (51 percent) than disapproved of it (43 percent).

In response to demands from the main right - wing opposition party, Les Republicains, the rollover of emergency rule was extended for six months, to late January 2017, rather than the three months proposed by Hollande's government.

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.

The philosopher king's welcome Harper received in the U.S. was far warmer than his treatment at home, where the PM had, three months earlier, barely averted a coup by the opposition parties.

With the deficit outcome for 2010 - 11 expected to be much lower than projected in the October 2010 Update, the Harper Government has more than enough financial room to «buy» the support one or two of the opposition parties.

When Alberta's Legislative Assembly reconvenes in the next few months, for the first time since 1982 the title of Official Opposition will given to a caucus of MLA's representing a party other than the New Democrats or the Liberals.

The NDP folks are nice and will do a good job in government; they will actually work rather than loll around in the house of corruption avoiding the questions of the opposition parties as I noted when I went to the legislature to present my banned self to my MLA — Mr. Mandel.

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

Beg from you to support and stand by the legally elected ruling party against those militants within the opposition who are breaking down our country and killing the youth... those if they come up to rule will incur bloodshed every where and will stretch their bloodshed to reach every corner of this Arabian Peninsular... take my word for it they are evil and worse than that who you dumped into the sea...

I want to see America move forward at a much more progressive pace than what we are presently doing because of the Opposition Republican Party who says NO to everything.

The Christian group Middle Eastern Concern reports that more than 40,000 people, including opposition party politicians, military personnel, journalists, and teachers, have been arrested since July.

It's a flash game (to be played in browser) that tasks you with redistricting given populations to achieve specific goals, for example depriving a surefire opposition candidate of votes, consolidating opposition in one area leaving one opposition candidate with almost all their voters and all the rest with less than enough to win, or just assuring status quo between the two parties by marginalizing uncertainty coming from undecided voters.

We think the NPP, as the governing party, needs that even more than the main opposition NDC.

«To them, he looks like the UK equivalent of a Rockefeller Republican, embracing the opposition party's big government agenda, advocating more of a change in management than of direction.»

Even when the NLM — Mate — Meho people formed an alliance with the late S.D. Dombo's Northern People's Party (NPP) in the late 1950's, they refused to make Mr. S.D Donbo the leader of the opposition although Mr. Dombo's NPP party had more seats in the Legislature than the NLM / Mate - Meho PParty (NPP) in the late 1950's, they refused to make Mr. S.D Donbo the leader of the opposition although Mr. Dombo's NPP party had more seats in the Legislature than the NLM / Mate - Meho Pparty had more seats in the Legislature than the NLM / Mate - Meho PartyParty.

The context is made all the worse for the coalition by the fact that parties in opposition nationally tend to win more seats in local elections than governing parties.

This means there was all across the UK more voters who chose a particular party than voters who chose any other opposition party.

More than 2,000 leaders, executives and supporters of the main opposition New Patriotic Party have been suspended as of the last count, the governing National Democratic Congress» Director of Elections, Samuel Ofosu - Ampofo has said.

This means there was all across UK more voters who choose a particular party than voters who choose any other opposition party.

It needs to recognise that Ed Miliband's vision of a better future requires a change of mindset throughout the party if we're to spend one term in opposition rather than a decade.»

@JonathanReez - by small party I refer to one not being the main opposition party or having less than 10 % of total parliament members.

All else being equal, the opposition party has a better chance against a new candidate than an incumbent President.

Moreover, the new parliament will have a new political party that is likely to challenge the government in a far more innovative manner than the old opposition groups did.

The worst same - party successor is better than the best opposition successor.

Meanwhile, another handle, Ajodeji Aje chided the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) as he stated: «Aisha Buhari is doing more than PDP as an opposition.

He deserves more credit than he got for supporting Yes2AV, after fierce opposition from many in his party.

The main opposition party was reacting to the inability of the President to return to Nigeria from the UK, where he had been on holiday for more than 10 days.

Voters want to see evidence that this third party is committed to taking the difficult decisions of government, rather than simply maintaining the idealistic purity of opposition».

Less than two months after sheepishly handing over power to the Akufo - Addo led New Patriotic Party, the opposition National Democratic Congress is facing its worse internal insurrections with the potential of disintegrating the party unless; immediate measures are taken to assuage pent - up feeling among various feuding factParty, the opposition National Democratic Congress is facing its worse internal insurrections with the potential of disintegrating the party unless; immediate measures are taken to assuage pent - up feeling among various feuding factparty unless; immediate measures are taken to assuage pent - up feeling among various feuding factions.

First, given the current political balance, the Turkish legislature is likely to become more of a rubberstamp than it already is under a single - party government, and this will be detrimental for opposition groups, which are already weak and unable to affect policy.

Leech's win was hailed as «historic» signifying the first gain for any party in Manchester other than Labour for the first time in six years and provided the city with its first opposition for two years.

[178][179][180] The article quoted Juan Williams as saying that the Tea Party's opposition to health reform was based on self - interest rather than racism.

This has continued since the election as the Liberals have sacrificed many of the manifesto pledges that they used to pose themselves to the left of the Labour Party, such as the scrapping of Trident, proportional representation, an amnesty for illegal immigrants and opposition to nuclear power — the latter on which it will now abstain in any parliamentary votes rather than oppose it as its manifesto had stated.

This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between elections has been four); the vote to dissolve parliament before calling a general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.

The right wing's propaganda, including within Labour, ignores Labour's strengthened situation, but the ruling class is not complacent and so is determinedly building up other parties than Labour as the opposition.

Their gains were no more than other parties made in Opposition prior to losing the next General Election.

Despite more than 90 MPs signing the parliamentary motion against the proposals tabled by Audrey Wise MP, outbursts of anger at meetings of the PLP addressed by Harriet Harman, protests and vocal opposition from women Labour Party members and lone parent organisations — even Glenys Kinnock MEP added her name to a petition and letter against the proposals — the new batch of Labour women MPs were largely noticeable by their absence.

But the Lib Dem opposition seems to run deeper than that - and, as Stuart has argued for a while, this continues to be puzzling, insofar as the policy clearly exemplifies the values implicit in a deep strand of the Liberal Party's political thought throughout the twentieth century.

The vice-presidential nominee of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is actually the flag bearer of his party rather than Nana Akufo - Addo, the governing National Democratic Congress» Campaign Spokesperson, Joyce Bawa Mogtari, has Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is actually the flag bearer of his party rather than Nana Akufo - Addo, the governing National Democratic Congress» Campaign Spokesperson, Joyce Bawa Mogtari, has party rather than Nana Akufo - Addo, the governing National Democratic Congress» Campaign Spokesperson, Joyce Bawa Mogtari, has said.

Speaking at the end of a meeting that lasted more than six hours, Musa Adar (Sokoto - APC) rejected the distribution and accused Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house, of favouring opposition parties.

You can not work with politicians from gerrymandered districts that fear a more unreasonable TEA party primary much more than they fear Democratic opposition.

Relief that it hasn't lost more council seats when this is the first time for more than 30 years an opposition didn't gain is the low expectation of a stalled party.

He said: «The Conservative party in opposition has gone further than any opposition I can remember in my political lifetime of saying not just this is what we will do in the first year, in terms of taking out # 6bn of wasteful spending to stop the jobs tax.

The Tories have become the first party of Government to win a by - election from the Opposition for more than three decades.

But critics pointed out that Mr Corbyn had still delivered the worst set of results by any Opposition party in more than 30 years.

«Who here is the small «c» conservative saying to people «stay stuck in your sink estates» - have nothing better than what Labour gave you after the war... that's the fact of politics today - a party on this side of the house that wants to give people life chances and a Labour opposition that says «say stuck in poverty».»

The Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru are fighting to be more socialist than Labour and the route is clear for a pragmatic centre - right Conservative Party to establish themselves as a strong opposition.

But is the party really worse off than previous opposition parties at this point in the election cycle?