In October 1982, the SPD-FDP coalition fell apart when the FDP joined forces with the CDU / CSU to elect CDU Chairman Helmut Kohl as Chancellor in a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.

Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of the SPD-FDP coalition wanted to be re-elected.

He kept this position and became Minister for Postal Service and Long-Distance Communication under the joint SPD-FDP administration.

In the service of the Russian Empire, Clausewitz helped negotiate the Convention of Tauroggen ( 1812 ), which prepared the way for the coalition of Prussia, Russia, and the United Kingdom that ultimately defeated Napoleon and his allies.

In the 1990s, a series of International Monetary Fund arrangements, coupled with massive external debt relief resulting from Egypt's participation in the Gulf War coalition, helped Egypt improve its macroeconomic performance.

The existence of the grand coalition on federal level helped smaller parties ' electoral prospects in state elections.

As the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Kiesinger's grand coalition cabinet, Brandt helped to gain further international approval for Western Germany, and he laid the foundation stones for his future Neue Ostpolitik.

Politically, he identified with the left until the late 1980s ; in 1989, he ran as an independent candidate within the centre-right New Democracy party in order for the country to come out of the political crisis that had been created due to the numerous scandals of the government of Andreas Papandreou and helped to establish a large coalition between conservatives, socialists and leftists.

Azaña then helped organize the Frente Popular (" Popular Front "), a coalition of all the major left-wing parties for the elections of 16 February 1936.

The province also helped the government by purchasing a considerable amount of bonds floated to finance the National Commission for Independence, then organized by Manuel L. Quezon after a coalition of the Nacionalista and Democrata parties was formed.

This coalition helped him win reelection in 1988, with a considerably smaller mandate.

Gompers helped found the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in 1881 as a coalition of like-minded unions.

Lincoln also helped form the Moderate Dems Working Group, a coalition of moderate Senate Democrats whose stated goal is to work with Senate leadership and the administration toward finding bipartisan solutions to controversial political issues.

From his position on the Finance Committee, he helped build the coalition that passed welfare reform and health insurance reform bills in 1996.

The party helped form the previous government's coalition together with the Likud, Shinui and the National Union, which was based on the following principles:

As part of the conservative coalition of Republicans and Democrats in the Senate, Vandenberg helped defeat Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court.

Since 1991, as time has eased the bitter split ( helped by the fact that both Arzalluz and Garaikoetxea have gone into political retirement ), both parties agreed to form an electoral coalition in a number of local elections as a means to maximize the nationalist votes, which eventually led to reunite both candidatures in a joint list again for the regional governments of Navarra and the Basque Autonomous Community in 1998.

During the 1990s, a series of International Monetary Fund arrangements, coupled with massive external debt relief resulting from Egypt's participation in the Gulf War coalition, helped Egypt improve its macroeconomic performance.

However, due to big scandals, corruption and some illegal actions of this coalition, CHP withdrew its support from the coalition and helped bring down the government with a " no confidence " vote.

Having helped engineer the party's election to parliament, the SPS formed an informal coalition with the SRS, and collaborated on ousting moderate politicians from public office.

An economic downturn, frustrations with the emerging leftist youth counter-culture and the emergence of a coalition government between the center-right Christian Democratic Party ( CDU ), the Christian Social Union ( the CDU's present-day sister party ), and the center-left Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) helped pave the way for those NPD gains.

As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition.

In 1988, he became President of the revived Lebanese Front – a coalition of nationalist and mainly Christian parties and politicians that his father had helped to found.

The New Deal, the Great Society, and Watergate helped solidify Democratic control of Congress, but the 1980s and early 1990s were a period of fragmentation of their coalition, when the popularity of Democratic incumbents as constituent servants masked growing disenchantment with Congress ' governing capacities.

Following the 1997 general election Molloy helped in the negotiations for forming the coalition government between the PDs and Fianna Fáil.

In the 2006 Supreme Court case, Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, Earthjustice attorneys helped a coalition of state governments and conservation groups force the EPA to fight global warming by limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

A single, more powerful party can shape the policies of the coalition disproportionately.

Following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, he helped create and mobilize New York New Visions, a coalition of organizations to help shape the planning and design response to the destruction.

When the Parliamentary coalition of the Party of Regions, the Communists and the defected Socialists began to take shape, Lutsenko stated flatly that he refused to continue serving as the minister in a future government formed by these parties.

Brandt's Ostpolitik led to a meltdown of the narrow majority Brandt's coalition enjoyed in the Bundestag.

In 1972, Chancellor Willy Brandt's coalition had lost its majority in the Bundestag, so that the opposition CDU / CSU tried to do a constructive vote of no confidence, thus electing Rainer Barzel as new chancellor.

The Social-liberal coalition of SPD and FDP had lost its majority after several Bundestag MPs ( like former FDP ministers Erich Mende and Heinz Starke or SPD partisan Herbert Hupka ) had left their party and become members of the CDU / CSU opposition to protest against Chancellor Willy Brandt's Neue Ostpolitik, especially against the de facto recognition of the Oder-Neisse line by the 1970 Treaty of Warsaw.

Advocates of proportional representation suggest that a coalition government leads to more consensus-based politics, in that a government comprising differing parties ( often based on different ideologies ) would need to concur in regard to governmental policy.

The coalition agreement worked out by the three coalition parties in 2007 stated that there would be no change in the policy of tolerance.

During the 2006 Riksdag elections the new Alliance for Sweden ( which subsequently won the election, to form a coalition government ) stated a policy aim to sell its stake in TeliaSonera.

The coalition was committed to free trade ( as opposed to the high tariffs the Conservatives sought ), free collective bargaining for trades unions ( which Conservatives opposed ), an active social policy that was forging the welfare state, and constitutional reform to reduce the power of the House of Lords.

In the United States, The Action Group to End Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery is a coalition of NGOs, foundations and corporations working to develop a policy agenda for abolishing slavery and human trafficking.

The grand coalition headed by Alfred Gusenbauer collapsed in the early summer of 2008 over disagreements about the country's EU policy.

On 17 September 1982, a conflict of economic policy occurred between the governing SPD / FDP coalition partners.

Since coalition cabinets of two or more parties are the rule, this process has influence on government policy for years to come.

As the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) withdrew from the governing coalition in 1966 due to disagreements over fiscal and economic policy, Erhard was forced to resign.

Ahaz and Menahem of Israel ( Ephraim ) followed a pro-Assyrian policy and were therefore aligned against the coalition of Pekah and the Arameans that sought to withstand Assyria, thus explaining why Menahem felt insecure and sought to buy the support of Assyria.

The coalition usually supported liberal proposals in domestic affairs, but was less united in terms of foreign policy and racial issues.

This coalition tends to favor a Chinese nationalist identity over a separate Taiwanese one and favors a softer policy and greater economic linkage with mainland China, as opposed to the Pan-Green Coalition.

The oddest part of Paul I ’ s foreign policy seems to be his rapprochement with Napoleon after the coalition fell apart.

The Country Party, despite its opposition to Hughes ' farm policy, was the Nationalists ' only realistic coalition partner.

There is a Coalition Committee, and an operational working group, to handle appeals over coalition disputes and to plan future policy.

Although largely continuing Harcourt's policy agenda, Clark's government appeared rudderless with the campaign behind it and the Premier's scrappy style began to further alienate parts of the NDP coalition outside of the core group of labour activists who had masterminded Clark's campaign.

They define the Lobby as " the loose coalition of individuals and organisations who actively work to steer US foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction ".

He was exposed to attack from both the extreme left and the extreme right, and when in April 1829 a coalition of these groups defeated him in the chamber, Charles X, who had never believed in the policy he represented, replaced him by the prince de Polignac.

In an interview in November 2009, Conservative George Osborne, subsequently Chancellor of the Exchequer in the coalition, sought to distance his party from the excesses of PFI by blaming Labour for its misuse, despite it still bearing all the hallmarks of the policy devised by his own party.

The King — George VI — appointed Winston Churchill — who had been a consistent opponent of Chamberlain ′ s policy of appeasement — as his successor, and Churchill formed a new coalition government that included members of the Conservative Party, the Labour Party and the Liberal Party as well as several ministers from a non-political background.

In the defence policy crisis in 1914, which overturned the parliamentary Liberal government, the party sided with king Gustav V of Sweden, but stopped short of accepting a rightist government by royal appointment, instead opting for an independent-conservative " war cabinet " under Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, eventually overturned in favor of a Liberal-Social democratic majority coalition government and breakthrough of parliamentary rule, albeit reluctantly embraced by the right.

The Smith administration fought against African Marxists during the Bush War as part of its campaign to maintain its policy of a gradual transition of power, and negotiated an Internal Settlement with black moderates in 1979 – this agreement led to majority rule, the renaming of the country to Zimbabwe Rhodesia and a coalition government led by the country's first black prime minister, the United African National Council leader Abel Muzorewa, who included Smith in the cabinet as a minister without portfolio.

In 2004, following several years of pressure from a coalition of U. S. conservatives and liberal human rights activists, the U. S. government reversed a policy of denying immigration to Hmong who had fled Laos for refugee camps in Thailand in the 1990s.