Franco's cabinet reflected almost every conceivable shade of dissident political opinion, and included socialists, fascist sympathizers, nationalists, Colorados, and Liberal cívicos.

On the other hand, during discussions inside the Liberal Party Jean Rey stated on 13 March 1950: if the Catholics considered important the majority in favour of Leopold III ( 57, 68 % in Belgium as a whole ), the Walloons may also considered important their own opinion ( i. e. In Wallonia only ) against Leopold which had the same percentage.

Whitlam's former solicitor-general Robert Ellicott, now a Liberal member of the House, issued a legal opinion on 16 October stating that the Governor-General had the power to dismiss Whitlam, and should do so forthwith if Whitlam could not state how he would obtain supply.

The Bloc continued to slide in most of the 2003 opinion polls following the 2003 Quebec election which was won by the federalist Quebec Liberal Party led by Jean Charest.

His political articles gradually made the paper the organ of Liberal opinion in Leeds, and the connection of the Baines family with the paper made their influence powerful for many years in this direction.

Although some in the Conservative party agreed with Wilson ( and Jo Grimond, the Liberal leader ) that the Conservatives would have won the 1964 election if Butler had been Prime Minister, The Times observed, " it should not be overlooked that in October 1963 Home took over a Government whose morale was shattered and whose standing in the opinion polls was abysmal.

Various organisations participated in the Convention, such as the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats, the Scottish Green Party, the Communist Party, the Scottish Trades Union Congress, the Scottish Council for Development and Industry, the Small Business Federation and various bodies representing other strands of political opinion as well as civic society in general.

Notwithstanding all of this, Peterson's Liberal Party still retained a comfortable lead over the Progressive Conservatives and NDP in mid-1990 public opinion polls.

Turnbull's handing of the OzCar affair led to a large decline in his and the Liberal Party's approval ratings in opinion polls.

Liberal leader John Turner stated that MPs should be allowed to vote their conscience, but refused to give his own opinion on the issue.

In 1981 the right-wing split from the Labour Party to found the Social Democratic Party, which formed an alliance with the Liberal Party and opinion polls briefly saw the new alliance appear capable of winning a general election.

In May 1994, Hewson was surprised by opinion poll finding on an episode of Lateline titled John Hewson " s Liberal party, later that month he attempted to quell leadership speculation in general by calling a leadership ballot for the 23rd May 1994, but he lost the vote and the leadership to Alexander Downer.

Brault's testimony triggers a rapid shift in the public opinion of the Liberal Party.

Between 2007 and 2011 polling for the NDP remained below 10 per cent in public opinion polls behind the Liberal Party and governing Progressive Conservatives.

When John Hewson called a spill for the Liberal leadership in 1994, Bishop found that her colleagues did not share her opinion of her leadership potential, and Alexander Downer successfully challenged for the party leadership.

In August 2005, Bishop called for Muslim headscarves to be banned from public schools, an opinion also expressed by another prominent Liberal backbencher, Sophie Mirabella.

His general policy was to keep the paper a national organ of opinion above party, but with a tendency to sympathize with the Liberal movements of the day.

MacDonald was " furious ", and the opinion of the Liberal and Conservative parties was that the government was attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Regular opinion columnists include former leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, John Hewson, a frequent critic of former Liberal Prime Minister, John Howard ; John Roskam of the Institute of Public Affairs ; Tony Harris, former Auditor-General of New South Wales and John Quiggin.

The gardens were also used to stage large political rallies for a wide spectrum of opinion, such as the Great Liberal Demonstration of 1924, at which Lloyd George addressed a crowd of 50, 000, the first political meeting at which loudspeakers were used.

While Coady was considered by many to be a rising star within the Liberal caucus, and led in an opinion poll before the election, she lost her seat in the May 2, 2011, election to New Democratic Party candidate Ryan Cleary by 7, 750 votes.

While the pipeline was put through, public opinion of the Liberal government fell 10 points in most opinion polls.

Running against representatives of the re-established pre-war National Peasants ' Party and National Liberal Party, and taking advantage of FSN's tight control of the national radio and television, Iliescu won 85 % of the vote.

Disappointed by high expectations, groups representing various interests ( such as teachers, doctors, and environmentalists ), came out against Peterson on television, radio, in print, and at Liberal campaign events.

Liberal radio show host Cenk Uygur uses the term " commie pinko " satirically in regard to conservative commentators calling the President a socialist

Duceppe later apologized for his remarks, saying that he meant that the Bloc would take every federal Liberal seat, while Lapierre told a Quebec radio station that he would not use the term " Nazi " again.

Air America ( formerly Air America Radio and Air America Media ) was an American radio network specializing in Liberal talk programming.

In the October 1, 2010, episode of the radio show " Left, Right and Center ", Scheer, a self-described Liberal, expressed support for Rand Paul, son of former Libertarian presidential candidate Ron Paul, in his bid for the 2011-2016 Kentucky Senate seat.

He continued radio and television broadcasting, and worked as a media adviser to Liberal politicians, before entering politics.

Allen Lee Peng Fei () ( born 24 April 1940 in Yantai, Shandong ), CBE, JP, is a founding member of Liberal Party of Hong Kong, veteran Hong Kong politician, political programme radio host and TV host.

Percy Parker, a leading Liberal, declared on the radio that " the bells of Moscow will ring when Simpson is elected mayor.

Although the current hosts of two of the programs have past or present political involvement ( Simms is currently the mayor of the St. John's suburb of Mount Pearl, while Rowe was a former leader of the provincial Liberal party ), these shows are generally considered to be non-partisan and are not driven by the hosts ' personalities, unlike the majority of contemporary North American talk radio programs.

On October 17, 2006, 1290-CJBK-AM, a London, Ontario radio station, and the A-Channel reported that Dianne Haskett had returned to London to seek the Conservative Party of Canada nomination in the London North Centre federal riding recently vacated by former Liberal MP Joe Fontana, who was a candidate for mayor of London in civic election 2006.

* Bill Press ( 1958 ): Liberal political commentator and talk radio host ( The Bill Press Show ), chair of the California Democratic Party ( 1993 – 1996 )

She defeated Progressive Conservative candidate Graham Bird by over 2, 000 votes ; the Liberal candidate was Lowell Green, who later became famous in the region for hosting a right-wing radio call-in show.

The Young Liberals of Canada, in response to Conservative TV and radio attack ads, ran the Hi. im. a. liberal. ca internet video campaign, a spoof of the Mac / PC ads, which garnered media attention for its novelty, as well as the Red Revolution campaign, focusing on the “ taking Canada back ” by improving youth involvement in politics and the Liberal Party.

The consultant determined ( correctly ) that Congressman Buddy MacKay would emerge from the bitter face-off, and began running TV and radio ads re-defining MacKay through his liberal voting record, with the tagline, " Hey Buddy, You're a Liberal.

She has only the ability to create a soulless body, and thus she is “ persuaded to undertake the journey to heaven to ask for a soul ,” and “ the Seven Liberal Arts produce a chariot for her ... the Five Senses are the horses ”.

This district includes notable schools such as the magnet Liberal Arts and Science Academy, which, by test scores, has always been within the top thirty high schools in the nation.

It has been the tradition of the Liberal party consistently to maintain the doctrine of individual liberty.

The party is keen to maintain its independent identity however, and argues that the need for a modern Liberal force in British politics has never been greater.

The two dominant political parties in Canada have historically been the Liberal Party of Canada and Conservative Party of Canada ( or its predecessors ), and as of the 2011 election the social-democratic New Democratic Party ( NDP ) has risen to prominence.

The United Kingdom also operates a formal coalition cabinet between the Conservative and the Liberal Democrat parties, but this is unusual because the UK normally has a majority government.

Post-World War II Japan has historically been dominated by the Liberal Democratic Party but there was a brief coalition government formed after the 1993 election following LDP's first loss of its overall House of Representatives majority since 1955.

Both the Nationals and Liberals receive Country Liberal Party delegations, and the party president has full voting rights with the National Party and observer status with the Liberal Party.

It has usually been Colombia's second largest party, with the Colombian Liberal Party being the largest.

The Liberal Party of Canada has done well in the Maritimes in the past because of its interventionist policies.

Pan-European liberalism has a long history dating back to the foundation of Liberal International in April 1947.

The town has active branches of the Conservative Party, Liberal Democrats and United Kingdom Independence Party.

Fianna Fáil joined the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party on 16 April 2009, and has sat in its associated Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections.

Writing to The Times, Hayek said, " May one who has devoted a large part of his life to the study of the history and the principles of liberalism point out that a party that keeps a socialist government in power has lost all title to the name ' Liberal '.

The Labour Party has an overall control of the council with 17 seats, whilst the Conservative Party holds 14 seats and the Liberal Democrat party has 1 seat.

Since the Liberal Democratic Party ( the LDP ) was in power, it has been convention that the President of the party serves as prime minister.

The Free Patriotic Movement, The Kataeb Party, also known as the Phalange Party, the National Bloc, National Liberal Party, Lebanese Forces and the Guardians of the Cedars ( now outlawed ) each have their own base among Christians and it's controversial as to which group has the largest popularity.

In January 2008, Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella launched an attack on Fraser, after a speech he gave at Melbourne University on " the Bush Administration ( reversing ) 60 years of progress in establishing a law-based international system ", claiming errors and " either intellectual sloppiness or deliberate dishonesty ", and that he tacitly supports Islamic fundamentalism, should have no influence on foreign policy, and that his stance on the war on terror has left him open to caricature as a " frothing-at-the-mouth leftie ".

This openness to doctrinal revision has extended in Liberal Protestant traditions even to the reevaluation of the doctrine of Scripture upon which the Reformation was founded, and members of these traditions may even question whether the Bible is infallible in doctrine, inerrant in historical and other factual statements, and whether it has uniquely divine authority.

Federally, in New South Wales, and to an extent Victoria, it has generally been the minor party in a centre-right Coalition with the Liberal Party of Australia in government.

In Opposition it has worked in formal Coalition or separately, but generally in co-operation with the Liberal Party and it predecessors, the United Australia Party.