Sentences with phrase «trigger early elections»

«This is a compromise sentence that is typical of the Constitutional Court,» he said, adding that he doubted the ruling could bring down the government and trigger early elections.

The window of opportunity for passing the proposals may be closing, because three referenda on major budget reforms, scheduled for early June, are likely to break up the current coalition government and trigger early elections in the fall.

As research that I have done with Max Goplerud shows, restrictions on prime ministerial discretion to trigger early elections are the norm in the OECD and the EU.

Yet, the ease with which Prime Minister Theresa May was able to trigger the early election in light of her 21 point opinion poll lead over Labour over the Easter weekend appeared to cast doubt on its ability to deliver these aims.

Yet, the ease with which Prime Minister Theresa May was able to trigger the early election in light of her 21 point...

Added to Corbyn's tough language, this suggests the government could be defeated, triggering an early election, which Corbyn said he would welcome.

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But the State Party pulled the trigger a little early and now the IDC is in the uncompromising position of working with the Senate Republicans for the next several months to help deliver the budget only to publicly undermine them a few weeks later when special elections are called to fill two vacancies.

The by - election was triggered after long - serving Labour MP Michael Meacher died earlier this year.

However, more likely is that Theresa May will trigger Article 50 as she means to, that there'll be no early general election and that the Copeland by - election will go ahead as expected.

There had been speculation that Woodcock would stand down from parliament, like Jamie Reed, who quit as Labour MP for the nearby seat of Copeland earlier this year, triggering a by - election that the Tories won.

Mr Reckless won with a total of 16,867 votes, a 42 per cent share of the votes cast in Thursday's by - election, which was triggered by his resignation as a Tory MP earlier this year.

The European elections, which take place in early summer, are also likely to trigger another outbreak of disunity on the Tory benches.

By early evening that estimate had risen to 100 — well above 20 % of the parliamentary party, which is the threshold needed to trigger a leadership election.

Labour are so convinced that the referendum could trigger a meltdown of the coalition that officials have been put on alert to ensure the party is ready in the event of an emergency general election as early as this year.

The concerns were based on fears of Labour being wiped out from parts of the country if May decided to trigger an early general election.

Until six months ago, a government that had been downgraded in this way would be holding off an election until the last possible day in the hope of burying the bad news, or else would have gone early, before releasing the bad budget news that triggered the downgrade.