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Venizelos was forced to default on Greece's national debt in 1932, and he fell from office after the 1932 elections, being succeeded by a monarchist coalition government led by Panagis Tsaldaris of the People's Party.
The Lloyd-George coalition fell apart in 1922.
He was re-elected chancellor in 1980, but his coalition fell apart in 1982 with the switch by his coalition allies, the Free Democratic Party.
After Rockingham's unexpected death in July 1782, this uneasy coalition fell apart, with Charles James Fox, Rockingham's successor as faction leader, quarrelling with Shelburne and withdrawing his supporters from the government.
His remaining ally Denmark-Norway became isolated and fell to the coalition.
The coalition cabinet of Christian Democratic Appeal, Pim Fortuyn List and People's Party for Freedom and Democracy fell within three months, due to infighting within the LPF.
In the 20th century such " conflict resolution " was replaced by " crisis resolution " whenever a political coalition fell apart and could not be reconciled ; the government then resigns and instead of trying to find a new coalition majority, decides on holding new elections, normally in accordance with the wishes of parliament itself.
The empire fell in 608 BCE with the death of Ashur-uballit II after a period of internal strife followed by an attack by a coalition of Babylonians, Medes, Scythians, Persians and Cimmerians led by Nabopolassar, the Chaldean ruler of Babylon and Cyaxares of Media / Persia.
The coalition fell apart around the bitter factionalism during the 1968 election, but it remains the model that party activists seek to replicate.
The coalition fell apart in many ways.
Eventually negotiations began to form another coalition government, the expected Fine Gael-Labour Coalition fell through after weeks of negotiations because of Spring's desire to be a rotating Taoisach with John Bruton of Fine Gael.
The oddest part of Paul I ’ s foreign policy seems to be his rapprochement with Napoleon after the coalition fell apart.
The National Rainbow Coalition ( National Alliance of Rainbow Coalition-NARC ) was a coalition of Kenyan political parties in power from 2002 and 2005 when it fell apart in a controversy between its wings about a constitutional referendum.
After the coalition fell apart in 1951, the government introduced the Alternative Vote, with the expectation that Conservative voters would list the Liberals as their second choice and vice versa.
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.
The coalition thus fell into ruin and France proper would be free from invasion for many years.
The coalition effort subsequently fell apart, leaving the key questions around the dispute unanswered.
North's government then fell to be replaced by a weak coalition of Whigs led by the Marquess of Rockingham.
In May 1940, when the Chamberlain government fell and a coalition was to be formed there were two candidates for Prime Minister: Halifax and Winston Churchill.
A system where only 3 parties have a realistic possibility of winning an election or forming a coalition is sometimes called a " Third-party system ", however in some cases the system is called a " Stalled Third-Party System " when there are 3 parties in the system, and all 3 parties win a large number of votes, however only 2 have a chance of winning a general election ; this is usually because the electoral system penalises the third party e. g. UK politics, the Liberal Democrats gained 23 % of the vote in 2010 elections but won less than 10 % of the seats due to the First-Past-The-Post electoral system, however despite this they still have enough seats ( and enough public support ) for the other major 2 parties to form coalitions with them or make deals with the third party so to gain their support e. g. Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition formed after the 2010 general election and the Lib-Lab pact during Prime Minister James Callaghan's Minority Labour Government when Labour lost its 3 seat majority in 1977, the pact fell short of a full coalition.

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In May 2005, the only remaining state-level red-green coalition government lost the vote in the North Rhine-Westphalia state election, leaving only the federal government with participation of the Greens ( apart from local governments ).
The foreign office argued that: first, a long-term coalition between France and Russia had to fall apart ; secondly, Russia and Britain would never get together ; and, finally, Britain would eventually seek an alliance with Germany.
This is followed by yet another unsuccessful attempt to break apart the alliance which involves using telecaptured Vulcan cruisers against Proxima Centauri ( a recent coalition member ).
Jinga's coalition began to fall apart ; the absence of their Dutch allies with their firearms, and the strong position of Correia de Sá, delivered a deadly blow to the morale of the native forces.
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.
When peace was concluded with Denmark, the anti-Swedish coalition had already fallen apart, and Denmark was not in a military position to negotiate a return of her former eastern provinces across the sound.
This turned out to be the first sign that Mulroney's grand coalition was coming apart at the seams ; the PCs had dominated Alberta's federal politics since the 1968 election.
De Gaulle won the 1965 presidential election, opposed on his left by François Mitterrand who had taken the lead of the Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left, a coalition of most left-wing parties ( apart from the French Communist Party, then led by Waldeck Rochet who did call to vote for Mitterrand ).
The closest was perhaps Lyndon Johnson, who deliberately tried to reinvigorate the old coalition, but in fact drove its constituents apart.
The coalition fell apart before the end of its term after the 1957 federal elections and, as of 2010, Wilhelm Hoegner is still the last non-CSU prime minister of Bavaria.
After the Battle of Copenhagen ( 1801 ) the coalition fell apart and Prussia withdrew again its troops.

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The defeat and death of Adolf of Nassau at the hands of Albert of Habsburg also worked to the disadvantage of the English, for all the efforts to revive the anti-French coalition came to nothing when Philip made an alliance with the new king of the Romans.
A second truce had been arbitrated in April, 1298, by Jean D'Arlay, lord of Chalon-sur-Saone, the most staunch of Edward's Burgundian allies, and these last were represented in the discussions at the Curia by Gautier de Montfaucon, Othon's neighbor and a member of the Vaudois coalition.
The Almoravids were crucial in avoiding a precipitated fall of Al-Andalus to the Iberian Christian kingdoms, when they decisively beat a coalition of the Castilian and Aragonese armies at the Battle of Sagrajas.
No consistent investigation has been put forth against the violent protesters, mainly due to the difficulties encountered in identification of the many masked protesters and the fierce opposition at Congress held by most of the left-wing parties, such as the Communist Party and current PM Romano Prodi's Union coalition.
The Goths appear to have established a loose political hegemony over the existing tribes in the region, or at least to have played the leading role in a series of major invasions of the empire launched by a grand coalition of lower Danubian tribes from ca.
Driven off by Roman forces, the coalition host moved overland into Thracia, where finally it was crushed by emperor Claudius II ( r. 268-70 ) at Naissus ( 269 ).
In 451, the Hunnic leader Attila invaded Gaul with a large army which was ultimately routed at the Battle of Châlons by a Roman-led coalition under the general Aetius.
On the other wing the French at last routed the Flemish cavalry and captured Ferrand, Count of Flanders, one of the leaders of the coalition.
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.
However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.
It was also the first full coalition in Britain since 1945, having been formed 70 years virtually to the day after the establishment of Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, although there had been the " Lib-Lab pact ", an agreement stopping short of a full coalition between the Labour and Liberal parties, from March 1977 until July 1978, when a series of by-election defeats had eroded Labour's majority of three seats which had been gained at the October 1974 election.
In the presidential election held April 8, 2005 Ismail Omar Guelleh was re-elected to a second 6-year term at the head of a multi-party coalition that included the FRUD and other major parties.
He led the Scottish Labour Party into the first ever Scottish parliamentary election in 1999, and was elected both as an MSP and as First Minister of Scotland at the head of a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition.
The party also made gains in the two state elections held at the same time, acquiring sufficient seats for a CDU-FDP coalition in the northernmost state, Schleswig-Holstein and gaining enough votes in left leaning Brandenburg to clear the 5 % hurdle to enter that state's parliament.
Prussia, having effectively abandoned the coalition in the fall of 1794, made peace with revolutionary France at Basel in April 1795, and soon thereafter Spain, too, made peace with France.
But the red-green coalition also failed to get a majority, with the SPD losing votes, but polling 34. 2 % and the greens staying at 8. 1 %.
An enormous coalition consisting of Goths ( Greuthungi and Thervingi ), Gepids and Peucini, led again by the Heruli, assembled at the mouth of river Tyras ( Dniester ).
On 2 December 1805, Napoleon defeated a numerically superior Austro-Russian army at Austerlitz, forcing Austria's withdrawal from the coalition ( see Treaty of Pressburg ) and dissolving the Holy Roman Empire.

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