An agreement between the leaders of four parties which contested indecisive elections on Oct. 15 was reached after almost 18 hours of political bargaining under the threat of an army coup d'etat.

In are references to four parties in the Corinthian church, of which two attached themselves to Paul and Apollos respectively, using their names ( the third and fourth were Peter, identified as Cephas, and Jesus himself ).

Switzerland has been ruled by a coalition of the four strongest parties in parliament from 1959 to 2008, called the " Magic Formula ".

He suggested that it arose from four trends: weak national parties and strong political representation of individual districts, the large U. S. military establishment after World War II, big corporate money financing election campaigns, and globalization tilting the balance away from workers.

In early 1992, the government decided to permit multiple party politics and agreed to the registration of four political parties.

* 1946 – The British Government invites four Indian leaders, Nehru, Baldev Singh, Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to obtain the participation of all parties in the Constituent Assembly.

Their four main parties were:

All political parties except for the New Jewel Movement were banned and no elections were held during the four years of PRG rule.

The New Nation Alliance ( ANN ) won 9 legislative seats, and three minority parties won the remaining four.

In the 5 – 6 June 1993 elections, with a turnout of over 90 %, eight of Latvia's 23 registered political parties passed the four percent threshold to enter parliament.

Mr. Annan concluded his report saying that " It is time, 14 years after the end of hostilities and four years after the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, for all parties concerned to set aside the remaining vestiges of the past.

17 lists of candidates have been submitted from 22 political parties, out of which independently from 12 political parties, from four coalitions and from one group of voters, and the total number of nominated candidates is 595.

There are currently four parties in Opposition ; the Labour Party, the Green Party, New Zealand First and the Mana Party.

This vase suggests he was descended partly from Apollo ( thus partly divine, shades of Achilles ), whom he worshiped as a God, gave private parties in his honor together with Minerva, Roman Goddess of War, from the founder of Rome, and his connection to his uncle Julius Caesar, for whom as a young man he gave a remarkable funeral oratory, and who adopted him on his father's death, when he was only four.

* In Aztec mythology, a pantheon of four hundred rabbit gods known as Centzon Totochtin, led by Ometotchtli or Two Rabbit, represented fertility, parties, and drunkenness.

Supporting Prince Tanu were landing parties from four British and American warships.

Supporting Prince Tanu were landing parties from four British and American warships.

From 1959, the Federal Council, elected by the parliament, is composed of members of the four major parties, the Protestant Free Democrats, the Catholic Christian Democrats, the left-wing Social Democrats and the right-wing People's Party, essentially creating a system without a sizeable parliamentary opposition ( see concordance system ), reflecting the powerful position of an opposition in a direct democracy.

The Swiss government has been a coalition of the four major political parties since 1959, each party having a number of seats that roughly reflects its share of electorate and representation in the federal parliament.

The four parties that hold seats in the Federal Council dominate both chambers of the Assembly ; they currently hold a supermajority of 171 seats ( out of 200 ) on the National Council, plus every seat in the Council of States except for 3.

This shift in voting shares put a strain on the " magic formula ", the power-broking agreement of the four coalition parties.

Testimony must be from at least two witnesses, and preferably free Muslim male witnesses, who are not related parties and who are of sound mind and reliable character ; testimony to establish the crime of adultery, or zina must be from four direct witnesses.

However, senior politicians of all main parties have voiced concerns in regard to the West Lothian Question, which is raised where certain policies for England are set by MPs from all four constituent nations whereas similar policies for Scotland or Wales might be decided in the devolved assemblies by legislators from those countries alone.

Since that time, the Labour and Conservatives parties have been dominant, with the Liberal Democrats also holding a significant number of seats and increasing their share of the vote in parliamentary general elections in the four elections 1992.

His cabinet included four centre-right ministers but it was supported by only a plurality in the National Assembly elected in June 1988.

As a result, the four opposition centre-right parties – Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party ( SDKÚ ), Freedom and Solidarity, the Christian Democratic Movement and Most – Híd – were able to form a new government.

He has been named by The Telegraph as one of the 100 most-influential people on the centre-right in the United Kingdom for the last four years: peaking as the tenth-most influential in 2009.

She is the eldest of four children of the veteran Greek politician Constantine Mitsotakis, former Prime Minister of Greece and former leader of country's main centre-right political party New Democracy, and Marika Mitsotakis ( née Giannoukou ).

Instead, a broad centre-right coalition was formed with the TB controlling four ministries under PM Andris Šķēle.

She was sworn in on March 11, 2006, extending the Concertación coalition governance for another four years.

Following several weeks of aerial bombardment, a U. S .- led United Nations ( UN ) coalition began a ground assault on 23 February 1991 that completely removed Iraqi forces from Kuwait in four days.

St-Laurent was encouraged by others to reach out to the CCF and at least four of six independent / small party MPs to form a coalition majority government, which would have held 134 of the 265 seats in Parliament — 50. 1 % of the total.

Although the coalition remained in power for almost another seven years ( until the 1972 Federal election ), it did so under four different Prime Ministers.

In February 1982, Schmidt won a Motion of Confidence, however on 17 September 1982, the coalition broke apart, with the four FDP ministers leaving his cabinet.

Towards the end of 1976 his coalition government with the religious parties suffered a crisis: A motion of no confidence had been brought by Agudat Israel over a breach of the Sabbath on an Israeli Air Force base when four F-15 jets were delivered from the US and the National Religious Party had abstained.

A coalition is six times more likely to obtain an animal territory than a lone male, although studies have shown that coalitions keep their territories just as long as lone males — between four and four and a half years.

The coalition is headquartered in London and operates in 26 countries on four continents, concentrated in Africa and southern Asia.

Billy McCormack, a Southern Baptist pastor in Shreveport, Louisiana, served as one of the four directors of the coalition as well as its vice president.

After weeks of negotiations involving all four parties in the Assembly, Plaid Cymru and Labour agreed to form a coalition government.

According to Sidney Tarrow, four elements are necessary to maintain a coalition:

The current College of Burgomaster and Aldermen ( the municipal executive ) is supported by the four coalition parties: CDA, VVD, ChristianUnion and Labour-each of which provides one alderman.

The College van burgemeester en wethouders consists of mayor Amy Koopmanschap and the four aldermen Lex Scholten ( PvdA ), Ruud Grondel ( GroenLinks ), Jeannette Pietersen ( D66 ), Maïta van der Mark ( SP ), one of each coalition party.

In four other states — Punjab, Jharkhand, Nagaland and Bihar — it shares power with other political parties of NDA coalition.

The harmonious relationship the Taoiseach developed with Tánaiste Dick Spring successfully avoided a collapse of the coalition for more than four years, despite tensions between other ministers, and enabled the Government to survive.

In total the Progressive Democrats participated in coalition governments four times, on each occasion with Fianna Fáil ( 1989 – 1992 ; 1997 – 2002 ; 2002 – 2007 ; 2007 – 2009 ), and also with the Green Party from 2007 – 2009.

Per Albin Hansson ( 28 October 1885 in Kulladal – 6 October 1946 in Stockholm ), was a Swedish politician, chairman of the Social Democrats from 1925 and two-time Prime Minister in four governments between 1932 and 1946, governing all that period save for a short-lived crisis in the summer of 1936, which he ended by forming a coalition government with his main adversary, Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp.

Layton urged Ignatieff's Liberal Party to topple the Conservatives before the shelf life of the coalition expired ; constitutional experts said that four months after the last election, if the government fell, the Governor General would likely grant the Prime Minister's request to dissolve parliament instead of inviting the coalition.

Regardless of the threatened or likely vetoes, it seems that the coalition at no time was assured any more than four affirmative votes in the Council — the US, Britain, Spain, and Bulgaria — well short of the requirement for nine affirmative votes.

The center-right was severely defeated during the 2000 elections due largely to public dissatisfaction with the harsh economic reforms of the previous four years as well as the political instability and infighting of the multiparty coalition.