parliamentary minority

The round table limited Solidarity to a parliamentary minority.

His political situation at home is tenuous, with his cabinet reduced to a parliamentary minority.

The parliamentary minority and the deputy group "Reforms for the Future" stayed in opposition to the bill.

As such, he holds the title of Leader of the Parliamentary Minority.

Since World War II, 6 of 14 governing parties have had parliamentary minorities.

The announcement that the eight would support the opposition United National Party's no-confidence motion has reduced the government to a parliamentary minority.

All the same, his party is now virtually shut out of national political power, with only the tiny parliamentary minority it retained in the 1993 conservative landslide.

With the nationalist Popular Front now in a parliamentary minority, new measures aiming to moderate the ethnic tensions in the country could be adopted.

This provided a mode of defense (used at exceptional moments) of the parliamentary minority against the cabinet formed by the majority, were they to act inappropriately.

On October 21, 2012, he was elected as one of the vice-speakers of the Parliament of Georgia, representing the parliamentary minority.

The final referendum featured a choice between the Alessandri's preferred document - prepared by a commission - and a more conservative document prepared by the parliamentary minority.

Consequently, Bakradze became the leader of the parliamentary minority, being succeeded by David Usupashvili, a Georgian Dream member, as the chairman of the parliament.

Officials of Mr. Bruton's Fine Gael (Tribe of Gaels) party said they were resigned to going back into the parliamentary minority.

The death of the deputies' fund was a severe blow for the parliamentary minority in the Congress, the first Soviet legislature in more than seven decades to be chosen in competitive elections.

In exceptional circumstances the monarch asks someone to 'form a government' with a parliamentary minority which in the event of no party having a majority requires the formation of a coalition government.

But there is also a parliamentary minority that wants to take another look at Ukraine's commitment to renounce nuclear weapons, as a way both of keeping the West's attention and of protecting itself against Russia.

A number of legislators who have been allied with Mr. Yeltsin in a parliamentary minority faction said today that they were pained by the report, and predicted it would be a serious blow to Mr. Yeltsin's political effectiveness.

On 1 December 2006, the parliamentary minority, primarily the pro-Syrian parties of Amal, Hezbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement of Michael Aoun launched a campaign of street demonstrations with the goal of getting veto power in the government.

He won the election, narrowly, and when he meets President Clinton at the White House on St. Patrick's Day, accompanied by Celia Larkin, his partner of 10 years, his better-spoken opponents will be back here, restless and relatively powerless in the Parliamentary minority.

They monopolise access to public positions, they hold competition in check, they allow their expenses to be more than comfortably met from tax revenue and whenever things Set tough they form an excessively large coalition, not against any parliamentary minority but instead against the majority of non-organised voters.

Some ministers wanted St. Laurent to stay on and offer to form a minority government, following the logic that the popular vote had supported them and even though their Parliamentary minority was smaller than the Conservatives, the Liberals' more recent governmental experience would make them a more effective minority.

For the Bharatiya Janata Party it was a stronger showing than any political analyst or poll had predicted, and for the opposition taken together it was an achievement that has happened only once before in India's four decades of independence - reducing the Congress Party to a parliamentary minority.

Prominent VVD-members Gerrit Zalm and Atzo Nicolaï proposed a parliamentary minority cabinet; while Party for the Animals leader Marianne Thieme indicated that she preferred a minority PvdA-SP-GL cabinet which may be supported by several environmentalist, liberal and social parties.