West Germany will face the crucial tests that lie ahead, on Berlin and unification, with a coalition government.

Mr. Balaguer is in control, and opposition leaders have no further excuse to suspect his offer of a coalition government preliminary to free elections in the spring.

The Republicans some weeks ago served notice through Senator Thruston B. Morton ( R ) of Kentucky, chairman of the Republican National Committee, that the Kennedy administration would be held responsible if the outcome in Laos was a coalition government susceptible of Communist domination.

-- The three leaders of Laos agreed today to begin negotiations tomorrow on forming a coalition government that would unite the war-ridden kingdom.

An agreement among the Princes on a coalition government would ease their task, diplomats conceded.

By-passing the military junta which has ruled Turkey since the overthrow of Premier Adnan Menderes 17 months ago, the army general staff, led by Gen. Cedvet Sunay, had set a deadline for the parties to join in a national coalition government.

This coalition fell apart at the end of 1916, when the Conservatives withdrew their support from Asquith and gave it to Lloyd George instead, who became Prime Minister at the head of a coalition government largely made up of Conservatives.

In 1940 they joined Churchill's wartime coalition government, with Sinclair serving as Secretary of State for Air, the last British Liberal to hold Cabinet rank office for seventy years.

Conservatives offered Thorpe the Home Office if he would join a coalition government with Heath.

After several days of negotiation, the Liberal Democrats agreed to join the Conservatives as part of a coalition government.

Tuđman died in 1999 and in the early 2000 parliamentary elections, the nationalist Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) government was replaced by a center-left coalition under the Social Democratic Party of Croatia, with Ivica Račan as prime minister.

A centre-left coalition government was elected in early 2000.

In the Netherlands, Denmark and in Belgium, for example, the Monarch formally appoints a representative to preside over the creation of a coalition government following a parliamentary election, while in Norway the King chairs special meetings of the cabinet.

In the state of Bavaria, the CSU governs as the major party in a coalition government with the FDP.

The CSU has led the Bavarian state government since it came into existence in 1946, save from 1950 to 1953 when the Bavaria Party formed a state government in coalition with the German Branches of the SPD and FDP.

coalition and the Toronto Public Space Committee are examples of activist networks committed to shielding local communities from government and corporate domination and inordinate influence.

He was also the first person to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister, under Winston Churchill in the wartime coalition government, before leading the Labour Party to a landslide election victory over Churchill's Conservative Party in 1945.

Although Chamberlain survived this, the reputation of his administration was so badly damaged that it was clear that a coalition government was necessary.

Consequently, Chamberlain tendered his resignation, and Labour and the Conservatives entered a coalition government led by Winston Churchill.

In the World War II coalition government, three interconnected committees ran the war.

Following the end of the war in Europe in May 1945, Attlee and Churchill wanted the coalition government to last until Japan had been defeated.

The results produced a ČSSD coalition government with Christian Democrats ( KDU-ČSL ) and Liberals ( US-DEU ), while Civic Democrats ( ODS ) and Communists ( KSČM ) took place in opposition.

A government formed of a coalition of the ODS, KDU-ČSL, and the Green Party ( SZ ), and led by the leader of the ODS Mirek Topolánek finally succeeded in winning a vote of confidence on 19 January 2007.

Fianna Fáil and the Green Party were joined by the Progressive Democrats in coalition and also enjoyed the support of a number of independent members of parliament.

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

Following further negotiations, Hansson formed a proper coalition government with Pehrsson-Brahmstorp as Minister of Agriculture that enjoyed a robust majority and would last until 1939.

Additionally, only four coalition governments since World War II have enjoyed a majority in the Folketing, so the coalitions ( and the Prime Minister ) must also gain loose support from other minor parties.

The JSP enjoyed a short period of government participation from 1993 to 1994 ( Hosokawa cabinet ) and later formed a coalition government with the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) under Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama ( from the JSP ) from 1994 to January 1996.

The leading figures in the Romanian Communist Party, Pauker and Gheorghiu-Dej, wanted the Groza government to preserve the façade of a coalition government and thus enable the communist party to win the confidence of the masses, since right after the Second World War the communists enjoyed very little political support.

The NFP leader, Jai Ram Reddy, enjoyed a personal rapport with Rabuka ; although they did not enter into a formal coalition, their negotiations led to a substantial overhaul of the Fijian Constitution which paved the way for the historic election of 1999, which brought Fiji's first Indo-Fijian Prime Minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, to power.

He enjoyed a brief period of honeymoon with the Alliance and there was again talk of a coalition.

Like Netanyahu, Barak failed to preserve the cooperation once enjoyed by his coalition ; the leftist Meretz party left in the end of June that year, the National Religious Party ( NRP ), Shas, and Yisrael BaAliyah only two weeks later.

His party never enjoyed wide popular support, but it was part of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia ( DOS ) coalition, and as such has participated in the government from 2000 until late 2003.

Since late 2009 the opposition enjoyed large majorities in the polls, and according to polls carried out in January 2011 the opposition led the governing coalition under Lars Løkke Rasmussen by 5 – 7 points and the Social Democrats led Venstre by 7 – 10 points which would make the Social Democrats the largest party by far in the Folketing.

Ariel Sharon's formation of the centrist Kadima party in 2006 drew support from former Labor and Likud members, and Kadima ruled in coalition with several other parties.

During the First World War Prime Minister Robert Borden attempted to form a coalition with the opposition Liberals to broaden support for controversial conscription legislation.

The Bloc Québécois agreed to support the proposed coalition on confidence matters for 18 months.

The Anti-Corn Law League brought together a coalition of liberal and radical groups in support of free trade under the leadership of Richard Cobden and John Bright, who opposed militarism and public expenditure.

The issue is being postponed for the time being, or until a large coalition of political parties support holding a referendum.

El Salvador has been a committed member of the coalition of nations fighting against terrorism and has sent 10 rotations of troops to Iraq to support Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Still, Genscher was one of the FDP's driving forces when, in 1982, the party switched sides from its coalition with the SPD to support the CDU / CSU in their Constructive Vote of No Confidence to have Helmut Schmidt replaced with Helmut Kohl as Chancellor.

joined the smaller Popular Orthodox Rally in a grand coalition, pledging their parliamentary support for a government of national unity headed by former European Central Bank vice-president Lucas Papademos.

This gave the MPRP the opportunity to withdraw from the coalition, and, with support of several small parties and defectors from the Democratic party, elect Miyeegombyn Enkhbold as the new prime minister.

The CDA had the support of its smaller coalition partner, the CU ( ChristenUnie ), but the third party in government, PvdA ( Labour ), opposed.

The Liberals have also gained support as the differences between the coalition partners on a federal level have become invisible.

The United States was supported by several nations during Operation Enduring Freedom ( OEF ) in Afghanistan in 2001 – 2003 and in subsequent coalition operations directly or indirectly in support of OEF.

Opponents of thresholds argue that they unfairly redirect support from minor parties, giving parties which cross the threshold disproportionate numbers of seats and creating the possibility that a party or coalition will assume control of the legislature without gaining a majority of votes.

While it achieved minimal support in western Germany, it regularly won 15 % to 25 % of the vote in eastern Germany, entering coalition governments ( with the Social Democratic Party ) in the federal states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin.

Barring exceptional circumstances, the prime minister is always the leader of the political party or coalition with majority support in the House of Representatives.

With the support of the Athenians, the Argives succeeded in forging a coalition of democratic states within the Peloponnese, including the powerful states of Mantinea and Elis.

As in other non-PR systems, the party or coalition which wins a majority of seats will often not have the support of an absolute majority of voters across the nation.

In 2009, RAWA and other women's rights groups strongly condemned a " Shia Family Code " which is claimed to legalise spousal rape within Northern Afghan Shia Muslim communities, as well as endorsing child marriage, purdah ( seclusion ) for married women, which was passed by President Hamid Karzai to garner support for his coalition government from hardline elements within the aforesaid communities, as well as the neighbouring Shia-dominated Islamic Republic of Iran.

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.

In the end, the over-manned and under-equipped Iraqi army proved unable to compete on the battlefield with the highly mobile coalition land forces and their overpowering air support.

The formal coalition ended in November 2002 when the Blancos withdrew their ministers from the cabinet, although the Blancos continued to support the Colorados on most issues.

The formal coalition ended in November 2002, when the Blancos withdrew their ministers from the cabinet, although the Blancos continued to support the Colorados on most issues.

At the general election in September 1940, there was a large swing to Labor and the UAP-Country Party coalition lost its majority, continuing in office only because of the support of two independent MPs, Arthur Coles and Alexander Wilson.