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For example, the M5S/League coalition suggested that it might issue a parallel currency, which lent further credibility to its threat of pursuing fiscal expansion in defiance of EU rules.
Today’s de facto grand coalition between the conservative European People’s Party (EPP) and the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) most likely will not survive beyond the elections.
The decision to permit foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail and civil aviation has been pursued, even at the cost of losing a recalcitrant coalition ally.
Here, at last, was a strong single-party government led by a decisive “man of action,” rather than a fractious coalition led by a reticent octogenarian, who was often unfairly caricatured as uncertain and vacillating.
One key area of focus for this coalition is the disconnect between production and consumption.
So, in the presidential election of this past January, Sirisena stunned the world by creating a winning coalition of Sri Lankans of all faiths and ethnicities who want to rebuild their democracy, not continue down the path of authoritarian rule.
He was happy to make deals with Democrats – to put himself at the head not just of the Republican Party but of the bipartisan Progressive coalition, trying either to yoke the two forces together or to tack back and forth between them to achieve legislative and policy goals.
In the aftermath of the Israeli election in February, which brought to power a government coalition that includes the extreme rightist Avigdor Lieberman, now Israel’s foreign minister, an Israeli friend whose sympathies had always been with the left said to me in a resigned, cryptic way, “It’s sad, but it does not change anything; we have no one to talk to anyway.”
In Germany, the next coalition government looks set to include the Social Democrats, who are pushing for a bail-in of the banks’ private creditors, which would only exacerbate balkanization of the eurozone’s banking system; and populist parties throughout the core are pushing against bailouts for banks and governments alike.
Having promised to shut the base in the campaign, and having also pushed for its removal while in office, Hatoyama’s reversal forced the Socialists to exit the coalition.
Not only did Hatoyama lose a key coalition partner, but the man who put him in the premiership has also been forced out.
With Japanese voters becoming supportive of new parties after decades of LDP rule, Shinsei gained tremendous traction and drove forward the creation of the first non-LDP coalition government since the mid-1950’s.
But, as the LDP retained the most seats in the upper house, it soon forged a coalition with its long-time rivals, the Social Democrats, forcing Ozawa back into opposition.
It took ten years to make a DPJ government possible, and only by forging a coalition with the Social Democrats.
By shattering that coalition, Hatoyama destroyed the governing majority Ozawa had worked so cunningly to construct.
And as the recently instated interior minister in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s new grand coalition government, he has sought to burnish his own populist credentials, including by restoring the word Heimat (homeland) to the ministry’s name.
Seehofer immediately launched a cold war within the governing coalition.
So far, fatalities include roughly 3,500 coalition soldiers (some 70% of which were US troops), about the same number of contractors, and some 100,000 Afghans (including security forces, opposition fighters, and civilians).
In particular, China’s G20 membership and its strong interest in securing greater access to developing markets confronts southern Africa’s association with the G90 coalition, which seeks to block progress in the WTO.
For one thing, there is the new coalition government – a rarity unseen since the end of World War II.
For one thing, the coalition exposes an undercurrent in British political life that has coexisted – almost furtively – with heated rhetoric: convergence among the main parties towards a kind of centrist synthesis on most of the big issues.
In a sense, the Conservative-Liberal coalition represents a culmination of this trend.
Instead, what the coalition seems to be proposing is a sort of correction, a retrenchment from various excesses and dysfunctions to something more restrained and disciplined.
But the coalition has one thing going for it: the Brits still love a crisis – and being told that they are in the middle of one has played very well.
Politics abhors equilibrium as much as nature abhors a vacuum; and undoubtedly, tensions within the coalition, as well as outside it, will surface.
The only option left was a coalition comprised of old oppositions, which, given the absence of a respected institutional framework, will make a return to stability slow, difficult, and perilous.
As Prime Minister in 2007, he handed power to his opponents on a silver platter, by attacking his coalition partner, the Samoobrona party, and calling for an early election.
Though unlikely, his Barisan Nasional coalition could fall apart.
According to this view, Russia sold its loyalty to the US-led anti-terror coalition too cheaply.
Having already enacted the Countering American Adversaries Through Sanctions Act last year, a bipartisan congressional coalition will soon approve even more severe sanctions, most likely hitting Russian sovereign debt and state-owned financial institutions.
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