From 1950 to 2009, the party participated in six governments ; two 1960s national governments ( Lyng's Cabinet and Borten's Cabinet ), one 1980s Conservative Party minority government ( Willoch's First Cabinet ), two 1980s three-party governments ( Willoch's Second Cabinet and Syse's Cabinet ), and finally the 2000s ( decade ) Bondevik's Second Cabinet.

Finally on August 15 Stanishev was able to form a three-party grand coalition with the party of outgoing Prime Minister Simeon Sakskoburggotski and with the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, a Turkish minority party.

The three-party coalition made up of the LDP, New Komeito, and the New Conservative Party maintained its majority in the Diet following the June 2000 Lower House elections.

Pérez Balladares ran as the candidate for a three-party coalition dominated by the Democratic Revolutionary Party ( PRD ), the erstwhile political arm of the military dictatorship during the Torrijos and Norieiga years.

* 1976: Enters a three-party government ending 44 years of Social Democratic Party rule ( excepting the wartime emergency grand coalition ).

* 1979: A new attempt at a three-party coalition is made.

In January 1971, a three-party anti-Congress coalition was established by the Congress ( O ), Jan Sangh and the Samyukta Socialist Party then on January 8, the national executive of the Swatantra Party took the unanimous decision to join the coalition.

In the 2004 presidential elections, the party endorsed and were part of a coalition supporting the reelection of Bouteflika, and it has remained committed to the three-party " presidential coalition " ( together with the secular FLN and the RND parties ).

It currently governs with the " Istiqlal " party in a three-party coalition known as the " Koutla ".

Jones's initial attempts to form a three-party coalition with the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties failed when the Liberal Democrat leadership backed-out of coalition talks.

However, these movements, as well as the National Movement for Rights and Freedoms, member of a Social-Democratic coalition (' Rose coalition ') failed to secure any elected representative, including through coalitions with non-ethnic parties, whereas the MRF became the third main Bulgarian party at the June 2005 parliamentary elections and entered a three-party coalition in August with the Bulgarian Socialist Party and the National Movement Simeon II.

In 1920 the RSFSR by agreement with the communists, social revolutionists and social democrats formed a three-party coalition government called the Far Eastern Republic ( F. E. R .).

Dominica was once a three-party system until the Dominica Labour Party and the greatly diminished Dominica Freedom Party formed a coalition government.

Despite winning a majority, Figl opted to continue the three-party grand coalition with the Socialists and Communists.

The three-party coalition composed of UV, PCI and PSI governed until 1966, when the Socialists decided to switch sides and to enter in coalition with DC, as they had done at the national level three years before.

This was however a turning point in regional politics since UV dismissed DS as its coalition partner and formed a regionalist three-party coalition with SA and FA.

In the 2008 regional election UV won 44. 4 % of the vote and 17 regional deputies ( out of 35 ), while the three-party regionalist coalition won 62. 0 % and a large majority, composed of 22 regional deputies.

Eventually Julian leads a three-party coalition consisting of the armies of both Synbios and Medion, to engage in the final conflict against Bulzome, a powerful Vandal long sealed in another dimension, and the true orchestrator of the conflict.

The New Conservative Party became part of a three-party ruling Coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito.

In March 2007, the PAIGC formed a three-party alliance with the PRS and the United Social Democratic Party, and the three parties sought to form a new government.

In March 2007, PAIGC formed a three-party alliance with the Party for Social Renewal ( PRS ) and the United Social Democratic Party ( PUSD ), and the three parties sought to form a new government.

In March 2007, the PRS formed a three-party alliance with the PAIGC and the United Social Democratic Party, and the three parties sought to form a new government.

However, the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, together with a gradual weakening in support for the Liberals, led to a three-party situation by the mid 1920s, with the Labour and Liberal parties having a similar number of seats.

The three-party ( i. e. six plus some purely Flemish and Walloon parties ) political systems got disturbed by the Green parties ( the Dutch-speaking Agalev, now Groen !, and the French-speaking Ecolo ) in the 1980s which took a lot of influence after the Marc Dutroux Scandal and the " dioxin affair ", a food scandal ( chickens containing dioxin levels far above the maximum allowed ) which would not have had any major repercussions, had it not erupted just days before the elections.

This political organization is the outcome of a merger of two parties ; the state previously had a three-party political system.

Provinces west of Quebec have, for most of the 20th and 21st centuries, had a three-party system, though the identity of these parties may have changed over time.

Although Puerto Rico has a three-party system, the two parties that wish to maintain ties with the US government dominate ; the third party, favoring independence, obtains only a small percentage of votes.

On 12 March 2007, the PUSD formed a three-party alliance with the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) and the Party for Social Renewal ( PRS ), and the three parties sought to form a new government.

President Fradique de Menezes appointed das Neves as a Prime Minister after the previous three-party Government of National Unity led by Gabriel Costa collapsed following complaints from the army over recent promotions.

Later, after PAIGC withdrew from the three-party alliance to protest Kabi's actions, Vieira dissolved the National People's Assembly and appointed Carlos Correia to replace Kabi as Prime Minister on 5 August 2008.

He then went on to serve as Minister for Foreign Affairs under the new three-party government of Thorbjörn Fälldin.

In Kabi's three-party government, Interior Minister Baciro Dabo was considered to be the only close ally of Vieira who was included.

He served as Minister for the Economy during the three-party centre-right Swedish governments 1976-1978 and 1979-1981.

* Surety bond insurance is a three-party insurance guaranteeing the performance of the principal.

At the same time, British, French and Soviet negotiators scheduled three-party talks on military matters to occur in Moscow in August 1939, aiming to define what the agreement would specify should be the reaction of the three powers to a German attack.

However, Fuji and DKB were able to negotiate a three-party transaction in which Fuji and DKB merged their respective trust banks, and the merged company acquired the corporate and pension divisions of Yasuda Trust.

In the 2003 election, the NDP were re-elected with 35 seats and almost 50 % of the popular vote, an impressive result in a three-party system.

The 3D swingometer is used to illustrate the shift in election results from the previous election in a three-party system.

After Kabi dismissed the directors of customs, taxes and the treasury on July 25, 2008 without notifying the party, PAIGC decided to withdraw from the three-party stability pact that was signed in March 2007.

To deal with a situation in which no clear majorities appear through general elections, parties either form coalition cabinets, supported by a parliamentary majority, or minority cabinets which may consist of one or more parties.

Cabinets based on a coalition with majority in a parliament, ideally, are more stable and long-lived than minority cabinets.

Ireland has had consecutive coalition governments since the 1989 general election, excluding two brief Fianna Fáil minority administrations in 1994 and 2011 that followed the withdrawal of their coalition partners from government.

Before 1989, Fianna Fáil had opposed participation in coalition governments, preferring single-party minority government instead.

Apart from this, when no party has had a majority, minority governments normally have been formed with one or more opposition parties agreeing to vote for the legislation governments need to function, as the Labour government of James Callaghan formed a coalition with the Liberals in 1977 when it lost its narrow majority gained at the October 1974 election.

During the 2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute, two of Canada's opposition parties signed an agreement to form what would become the country's second coalition government since Confederation if the minority Conservative government was defeated on a vote of non-confidence ; unseating Stephen Harper as Prime Minister.

LaGuardia's win was based on a complex coalition of regular Republicans ( mostly middle class Germans in the boroughs outside Manhattan ), a minority of reform-minded Democrats, some Socialists, a large proportion of middle-class Jews, and the great majority of Italians.

Following the downfall of the Tory / Conservative minority government under Lord Derby in December 1852, Lord Aberdeen formed a new government from the coalition of Free Traders, Peelites and Whigs that had voted no confidence in the minority government.

Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata formed the successor coalition government, Japan's first minority government in almost 40 years.

When Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933, Goebbels was initially given no office: the coalition cabinet Hitler headed contained only a minority of Nazis as part of the deal he had negotiated with President Paul von Hindenburg and the conservative parties.

The minority party, the Kenya African Democratic Union ( KADU ), representing a coalition of small tribes that had feared dominance by larger ones, dissolved itself voluntarily in 1964 and former members joined KANU.

The election resulted in a hung parliament with the Tories having the most votes but Labour having slightly more seats, and failed attempts by Heath to form a coalition with the Liberals led to the resignation of his government and the return of Harold Wilson as prime minister of a minority Labour government, which gained a three-seat majority at a second election later in the year.

Should the prime minister's party achieve a minority while an opposition party wins a plurality — i. e., more seats than any other party but less than a majority — the prime minister can attempt to maintain the confidence of the House by forming a coalition with other minority parties.

William's and Anne's experiments with the political composition of the Cabinet illustrated the strengths of one party government and the weaknesses of coalition and minority governments.

Despite the " one party " convention, Prime Ministers may still be called upon to lead either minority or coalition governments.

Since the Spanish transition to democracy, there have not been coalition governments ; when a party has failed to obtain absolute majority, minority governments have been formed.

Since the constitution of 1978 came into effect, there have not been any coalition governments, even if the party with the largest number of seats has failed to obtained absolute majority, though in such cases the party in government has had to rely on the support of minority parties to gain confidence and to approve the State's budgets.

Bracks led Labor in Victoria to minority government at the 1999 election, defeating the incumbent Jeff Kennett Liberal and National coalition government.

Though coalition and minority governments have been an occasional feature of parliamentary politics, the first-past-the-post electoral system used for general elections tends to maintain the dominance of these two parties, though each has in the past century relied upon a third party to deliver a working majority in Parliament.

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.

With the War winding down, King held the Canadian federal election, 1945, and won the election, with a minority, but formed a functioning coalition to continue governing.

AWS formed a minority government under Jerzy Buzek, and the coalition was renamed AWSP ( Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność Prawicy-" Solidarity of the Right " Electoral Action ), while RS AWS became simply RS.