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Can Rubio rally a broad coalition, or will Trump win the Republican nomination?
Would other EU leaders be able to form an informal coalition with those elements of the French government?
Yet it is dangerous to believe that the world has found in this new-model Coalition of the Willing the solution that it was seeking in today’s increasingly chaotic post-American order.
Since the LDP, recently with a coalition partner, controlled the Diet, the legislative process was simply the interaction between LDP lawmakers and mandarins, centered in the LDP’s headquarters.
Democracy is about competing parties, and, unless they form a “grand coalition,” they cannot all win.
In France, the Socialist Party is almost outnumbered by Europe Ecologie, a green coalition gathered by the charismatic Daniel Cohn-Bendit.
But Assad’s coalition is broader than that, which helps to explain how he has been able to hold on to power while other regimes in the region have not.
Defections from Prime Minister Barak’s government and coalition, including the resignation of his foreign minister, David Levy, who refused to accompany Barak to Washington, will make the negotiations even more dramatic.
Prime Minister Barak’s position suffers from a very brittle coalition, and he has recently lost his parliamentary majority.
Nigeria, a fragile coalition of ethnic groups, may not be sliding into a second civil war (yet), but inter-ethnic relations could worsen if the Boko Haram menace is not quickly tackled.
America should now try to form a different kind of coalition – one aimed at achieving peace.
Germany’s Dangerous ObsessionPARIS – As Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), seek to form an unprecedented “Jamaica coalition” with the liberal Free Democrats (FDP) and the Greens, the rest of Europe anxiously awaits the government program that will result from their negotiations.
Each party in the coalition talks brings a very different perspective to the table.
With the current coalition talks, German leaders have an opportunity to assess new global developments that will have far-reaching implications for Europe and Germany alike.
For example, in August 1931 – the middle of the Great Depression – a financial crisis and a run on the pound forced the resignation of the Labour government, led by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald; it was replaced by a coalition government, and the Labour Party split apart.
While a secularist coalition, mixing apples and oranges, may have declared war against a broad front of Islamic tendencies, the government, with its moral authority among the Muslim majority in Turkey, will be able to isolate the violent fringe and drive it into oblivion.
China, India, and the other BRICS should form a similar coalition to press for the elimination of pharmaceutical tariffs, thereby broadening access to health care throughout the developing world.
Macron had timed his speech to influence the post-election coalition negotiations there, with the hope that Merkel would use her fourth and likely final term to burnish her legacy by enacting bold European reforms.
Macron was also counting on Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to maintain its grand coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD) and their leader, former European Parliament President Martin Schulz.
Merkel, now politically weakened, must try to cobble together an unruly coalition that includes both the Europhile Greens, who welcomed Macron’s speech, and the Euroskeptic Free Democrats (FDP), who were hostile to it.
In the early 1950s, Jean Monnet wrote: "We are not forming a coalition of states.
Despite weeks of efforts by the same traditional elites to block it, Refah went on to form a coalition government.
Refah's coalition partner -- the True Path party of former Prime Minister Tansu Ciller -- was secular.
The immediate crisis passed when Erbakan succumbed to pressure and resigned June 18, a move he hoped would allow his coalition partner to take over.
Indeed, he did, after all, announce last year that contrary to his Likud Party’s previous position, he was now willing to accept a two-state solution – a position that is still anathema to many Likud members, as well to at least three of the smaller parties in his government coalition.
Even if Netanyahu is willing to bow to realism, some of his coalition partners might leave his government.
Domestically, her coalition partner, the liberal Free Democrats (FDP), is disintegrating.
Even if the FDP survives the next election (which is by no means certain), the current coalition is unlikely to retain its parliamentary majority, leaving Merkel increasingly dependent on the Social Democrats (SPD).
The CDU-FDP coalition prefers to sugarcoat the situation by convincing themselves of an Anglo-Saxon conspiracy, abetted by those in the European crisis countries unwilling to perform and reform and whose only purpose is to make the Germans pay.
So far, Merkel’s coalition is like someone driving against traffic, dead certain that everyone else is going the wrong way.
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