This afternoon Mrs Merkel released her parliamentary party from its constraints.
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As voting ended, the Conservative parliamentary party mounted a display of unity.
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"I have heard very clearly the mood of the parliamentary party," Mrs.
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"I have heard very clearly the mood of the parliamentary party," May said.
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That requires the nod from just 15% of the parliamentary party, 48 MPs.
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As a parliamentary party, LRM was accused of arrogance by some, incompetence by others.
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Merkel said on Tuesday her parliamentary party would have to compromise in the coalition negotiations.
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In other words: The Trump-era Republican Party already is in essence a parliamentary party.
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Europhiles in the parliamentary party in the Commons and perhaps in the Lords may oppose her.
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Already they are drawing up spreadsheets of the parliamentary party, scoping out who will back whom.
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"This is about the maths in our parliamentary party and indeed in parliament itself," Hinds said.
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The Commission has outlined its plan and leaders of the main parliamentary party groups have endorsed it.
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The Social Democrats, who were the largest parliamentary party in the previous coalition government, retained 17 seats.
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"Deutsche Bank caused these problems itself," said Eckhard Rehberg, a budget expert in the CDU parliamentary party.
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I'm very confident in the prime minister and I think she has the confidence of the parliamentary party.
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WITH the Conservatives far ahead in the polls, Theresa May's parliamentary party is likely to swell after the election.
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"I have heard very clearly the mood of the parliamentary party," May told a meeting of Conservative lawmakers (MPs).
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Johnson's party officials had warned that rebels would lose the parliamentary party "whip" if they vote against the government.
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It may also have reignited the civil war within the parliamentary party that was halted by Mr Corbyn's election success.
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Francesco D'Uva, parliamentary party leader of the 5-Star in the lower house, made the pledge after meeting his PD counterpart.
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But in 2002 he was felled as floor leader of the parliamentary party by Mrs Merkel, whose ambition he had underestimated.
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Activists tend to be to the right of the parliamentary party, and most would dearly love to choose hard-Brexit candidates.
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Brexit is wreaking havoc with Mr Corbyn's plan to turn Labour into a mass movement as well as a parliamentary party.
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Mr Corbyn enjoyed little support in the parliamentary party even before he had proved such a threat to its members' jobs.
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That allows her to present herself as a unity candidate to a parliamentary party that was deeply split by the issue.
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Last week the crisis worsened with the resignation from Labour's parliamentary party of Frank Field, a veteran and independent-minded lawmaker.
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Yet Mr Johnson's approach, which seems likely to end in no-deal, leaves a quiet majority of the parliamentary party uneasy.
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However 'No' campaigners, which include more than half of the Fianna Fail parliamentary party, say the government's proposals go too far.
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – The chairman of Slovakia&aposs neo-Nazi parliamentary party says he will be running in next year&aposs presidential election.
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German weekly Bild am Sonntag reported that former SPD leader Martin Schulz wants to replace Nahles as head of the parliamentary party.
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Friedrich Merz, a former leader of the parliamentary party, was one of Mrs Merkel's first victims on her way to the top.
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And it leaves Labour's moderates—who remain a large minority of the membership and dominate the parliamentary party—with a grim dilemma.
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His parliamentary party holds a commanding majority in the National Assembly, his presidential term runs until 2022, and the opposition is divided.
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The Coalition received backing from the Orthodox Church and other religions as well as all but one parliamentary party, which endorsed the referendum.
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The party's tradition as an alliance between a parliamentary party and a trade-union movement is represented in its purest form in Unite.
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The elevated salience of the EU question means it will dominate candidate selections, propelling the parliamentary party in a yet more Eurosceptic direction.
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He has filled his cabinet with people willing to sign up to a no-deal Brexit, a minority position in the parliamentary party.
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"The days of Fine Gael and Fianna Fail dominating Irish politics are over," Fine Gael parliamentary party chairman Martin Heydon told national broadcaster RTE.
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Last week, German weekly Bild am Sonntag reported that former SPD leader Martin Schulz wanted to replace Nahles as head of the parliamentary party.
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And Corbyn is saying that he will not resign despite the fact that more than three-fourths of the parliamentary party wants him gone.
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Two party sources told Reuters on Tuesday that the parliamentary party had backed SPD leader Andrea Nahles in her call for an extension until October.
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Swathes of the parliamentary party, particularly those who supported, or might have supported, the Iraq war that Mr Corbyn implacably opposed, were held in scorn.
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It is now much worse: 172 of Labour's 230 MPs have declared no confidence in Mr Corbyn, making his position in the parliamentary party untenable.
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson warns Conservative members of Parliament they will expelled from the parliamentary party if they rebel against the government this week.
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The parliamentary party also has a robust diversity of views, thrown into unhelpful relief by arguments about Brexit, from which to draw when considering its future.
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Ever since the Corbyn coup in 2015, members of the parliamentary party have been arguing about whether they should stay and fight or leave en masse.
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This new proposal is called the Rosatellum, named after Ettore Rosato, the parliamentary party leader of the ruling Democratic Party (PD) who helped draft the legislation.
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The Rosatellum is the best compromise possible among political adversaries, according to the PD parliamentary party leader, Ettore Rosato, after whom the reform has been named.
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Until then, nominations to Parliament had been dominated by the Conservative Central Office and the choice of a national leader was left to the parliamentary party.
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – Slovakia&aposs neo-Nazi parliamentary party has suffered a blow after its chairman failed to get re-elected as the head of a regional government.
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The decision will be made by her parliamentary party—particularly by the powerful 1922 Committee—and they're no more likely to choose Mrs May than Bill Cash.
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Should they wait for the party conference in September to try to dethrone the left, or strike quickly and form a separate parliamentary party after the election?
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The humiliating defeat led to an extraordinary purge, in which 21 Conservative lawmakers who voted in favor of the measure were booted out of the parliamentary party.
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"Despite being given warnings on a party level and an urgent warning by the parliamentary party, these contacts were continued," the AfD parliamentary group said in a statement.
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One Conservative candidate, which the media outlet did not name, said they were pretty "f-----d off" with the prime minister for shattering confidence in the parliamentary party.
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It expanded into the second-biggest parliamentary party in 2015 and joined the government, but then saw its support drop due to compromises in the three-party coalition.
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Gyimah was one of 21 Conservative legislators kicked out of the parliamentary party after they voted to block Johnson from taking Britain out of the EU on Oct.
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But the mass-circulation Bild newspaper said 30 members of the SPD's 153-strong parliamentary group questioned that position this week at a meeting of the parliamentary party.
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He has to get onto a shortlist of two MPs that the parliamentary party sends to the party's 124,000 members, and then he has to win the membership's support.
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When, having lost the election, Ed Miliband stepped down as Labour leader in 2015, all candidates to succeed him needed nominations from 15% or more of the parliamentary party.
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In the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate, the party expelled one of its lawmakers, Jens Ahnemueller, from the parliamentary party for having repeated contact with right-wing extremist circles.
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"Since they are totally divergent voting systems, there needs to be a great deal of work in parliament to harmonize them and guarantee governability," parliamentary party leader Renato Brunetta said.
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While Johnson is popular with some activists, the leader of the leave campaign in the 2016 referendum would not get the support of many Brexit opponents in the parliamentary party.
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Within the ruling parliamentary party, calling an early election is always a defining moment of leadership: it is often a calculated risk in the hope of increasing a parliamentary majority.
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They have absolutely no need to: all they need do is declare that the leadership of the Labour Party is entirely in the gift of members of the parliamentary party.
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The Labour Party is not so much an organised political group as a battlefield between two rival ones: Jeremy Corbyn's gang of far-left zealots and the parliamentary party of moderates.
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For those activists behind The World Transformed, it is a chance to revel in their moment and press for change in a parliamentary party populated what some describe as the "suits".
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Steinmeier met SPD leader Martin Schulz for talks on Thursday and will meet parliamentary party leaders next week as he pushes political leaders to forge a deal and avoid new elections.
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But Mr. Cameron became so consumed with the Brexit debate — negotiating with European partners and massaging the pro-Leave minority in his parliamentary party — that he neglected to govern, critics say.
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Conservative whips told their MPs they will be removed from the parliamentary party and automatically deselected as candidates in an upcoming general election, if they rebel against the government this week.
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The contenders Theresa May is the big favorite with the bookmakers and leads the way with 131 backers within the Parliamentary party, but she's unlikely to have it all her own way.
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The PD's parliamentary party is divided between a majority of Renzi backers and a vocal minority of traditionalists like Bersani who say he has moved the party too far to the right.
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By contrast, were Leadsom to be elected by the party members, she would only have the confidence of one quarter of her parliamentary party – having only secured 84 votes to May's 199.
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"It hurts that despite of our hard work, attempts are afoot once again to push the country back," Sharif told a meeting of his ruling PML-N parliamentary party over the weekend.
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We met last week as a parliamentary group and she was cheered for the speech that she gave and I think she continues to have the full confidence of the parliamentary party.
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But we do not expect this to be as dramatic as the GBP2 maximum stake per spin proposed in a January report by the All Parliamentary Party Fixed-Odds Betting Terminal Group.
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By convention, Mattarella has to consult with the presidents of the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, and the Senate as well as with all the main parliamentary party leaders before dissolving parliament.
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Even before Corbyn won, moderate MPs Tristram Hunt and Chuka Umunna started putting together a "resistance cell" within the parliamentary party to push back against Corbyn's influence (they, naturally, denied any nefarious intent).
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The parliamentary party is now in a feedback loop with its grass-roots: unleashing thousands of enthusiastic campaigners at street level, while declaring that "another world is possible" from the party leader's podium.
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Brexit Secretary Davis — who begins negotiations with the EU on Monday morning — is seen by Tories within the parliamentary party as the "unity candidate" to succeed May and lead the country, the Telegraph reported.
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"We cannot tolerate such a brutalization," said Mathias Middelberg, spokesman on interior affairs for the conservative parliamentary party, adding people who called for violence and murder or who sanctioned these crime should be punished.
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But if there is one central lesson from Jeremy Corbyn's troubled leadership of the Labour Party, it is that in the British parliamentary system, the leader must command the support of the parliamentary party.
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"The German government has already rejected participation in the U.S. military mission, Operation Sentinel, to protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz," said Nils Schmid, a foreign affairs spokesman for the SPD parliamentary party.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not hold a vote of confidence, her spokesman said on Wednesday, after her conservatives cast out long-standing ally Volker Kauder as head of the parliamentary party.
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The PM has been doing an incredible job on that with amazing determination and now, with a very clear margin of the parliamentary party behind her, we need to get on and finalise that.
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"That part of the electorate is known to be further to the right, more enamored with Brexit and all those kinds of things than the wider population — and indeed, the Conservative parliamentary party," Hobbs said.
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The party may see a resumption of such attempts—and with it a renewed struggle between the parliamentary party, on the one hand, and pro-Corbyn activists such as the Momentum group on the other.
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The parliamentary party is dominated by courtiers to Tony Blair or Gordon Brown who have spent their lives in politics (such as Ms Cooper) and members of political dynasties (like Stephen Kinnock and Hilary Benn).
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The mass-circulation Bild newspaper reported on Wednesday that 30 members of the SPD's 153-strong parliamentary group this week had questioned Schulz's preference for going into opposition during a meeting of the parliamentary party.
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Merkel suffered an unexpected blow to her authority last month when her conservatives cast out long-standing ally Volker Kauder as head of the parliamentary party, reflecting rising discontent with her 13-year-old leadership.
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Hammond was one of 21 Conservative lawmakers expelled from the parliamentary party in September by Prime Minister Boris Johnson after they voted to prevent him taking Britain out of the EU without a divorce agreement.
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"The myth is that it is purely individual choice, while it always also affects family, the community, health care providers and ultimately society," Gert-Jan Segers, the leader of a Christian parliamentary party, told de Volkskrant.
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National broadcaster RTE said last week that of those in the parliamentary party who had confidentially declared their support — around half — 23 favored Varadkar, the son of an Indian immigrant who is Ireland's first openly gay minister.
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Merkel's parliamentary party, made up of her Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) has governed with the SPD for eight of the 12 years that Merkel has been chancellor, including the last four.
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The CDU then holds its annual congress in December, when Merkel will seek re-election as party chairwoman - a bid senior conservatives have backed despite the parliamentary party ousting her ally, Volker Kauder, as leader last month.
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Upping the pressure for an early election, the PD's parliamentary party leader Ettore Rosato said he did not know how the center-left coalition, which is itself split over the reform, could hold together following Thursday's rupture.
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Right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini's drive for early elections in Italy hit a road bump on Monday with parliamentary party leaders failing to decide when the Senate should debate his no-confidence motion in the government.
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BERLIN, June 27 (Reuters) - Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) will block the leasing of drones that can carry weapons by rejecting the plan in the budget committee, the head of the parliamentary party Thomas Oppermann said on Tuesday.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's Social Protection Minister Leo Varadkar has opened up a commanding lead in the race to succeed Enda Kenny as prime minister after securing the publicly declared support of most of his Fine Gael parliamentary party.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May said she had invited parliamentary party leaders to meet her on Wednesday evening to try to break the deadlock over Brexit after her government won a vote of confidence from MPs.
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"The crisis in the Italian banking sector could have similar political consequences to those following the explosion of the spread on Italian sovereign debt in 2011," said Renato Brunetta, parliamentary party leader of Forza Italia (Go Italy!) party.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May is likely safe from a leadership challenge despite losing two senior ministers, several Conservative lawmakers said Monday after she held a crunch meeting to sell her parliamentary party on her Brexit plan.
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A challenge to May is triggered if 15 percent of the parliamentary party, or 48 lawmakers, write letters demanding a confidence vote to the chairman of the party's "1922 Committee", which represents lawmakers who have no government jobs.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May said she had invited parliamentary party leaders to meet her on Wednesday evening to try to break the deadlock over Brexit after her government won a vote of confidence from lawmakers.
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Voters, though, look set to punish Smer - the biggest parliamentary party since 2006 - with many still unhappy with efforts to rein in graft, which was on display last month when thousands rallied on the first anniversary of Kuciak's murder.
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In the CDU, a split is opening between its leaders in government, who are showing some readiness to compromise, and senior figures in the parliamentary party, which is increasingly frustrated with the SPD and with the CDU governing leadership.
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ROME (Reuters) - Right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini's drive for early elections in Italy hit a road bump on Monday with parliamentary party leaders failing to decide when the Senate should debate his no-confidence motion in the government.
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"At that meeting we'll discuss ways forward and I will then report to the Fine Gael parliamentary party probably Wednesday or Thursday next week as to whether there's any basis for any further discussions," Varadkar told reporters in Brussels.
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The prime minister "can probably count on the 21 MPs whom he kicked out of the parliamentary party in the last two months to back the deal on the basis they are brought back into the party," Pickering said.
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LONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May said she had invited parliamentary party leaders to meet her on Wednesday evening to try to break the deadlock over Brexit after her government won a vote of confidence from lawmakers.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered an unexpected blow to her authority on Tuesday when her conservatives cast out long-standing ally Volker Kauder as head of the parliamentary party, reflecting rising discontent with her 13-year-old leadership.
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Boris Johnson could be forced to resign by October, according to Guto Bebb, one of the Conservative rebels who was kicked out of the parliamentary party this week when he voted to make a no-deal Brexit in October illegal.
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If Mr. Johnson makes the top two from the vote of the parliamentary party, he is considered likely to win, and thus lead the Conservatives into the next election against the Labour Party and its far-left leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
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"Both party leaders are now being briefed, extensive drafting has to be done, and then both Fianna Fail and Fine Gael will hold separate parliamentary party meetings to outline the details of the confidence and supply arrangement," the statement added.
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Parties have already started informal talks about forming a new government, with much depending on the center-right Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), the largest parliamentary party with 26 out of 90 seats but which has so far been in opposition.
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"Conventionally, it was well established that a constitutional monarch does no more than endorsing and formally appointing the nominated leader of a victorious parliamentary party or coalition to head a new government," a group of political analysts wrote at the time.
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"The longer we govern with 5-Star, the more it enters the public conscience and it would be hard to understand why the League would run with the center-right," said Riccardo Molinari, the League's parliamentary party leader in the lower house.
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To be fair, the Labor party has made it harder to remove a future prime minister on its side with changes to its rules, requiring the party leader be elected by a combined vote of the parliamentary party and grass-roots members.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Acting Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar told his parliamentary party on Wednesday that there was currently no basis to negotiate a government program with other parties, but that he would hold talks with the only two viable coalition partners next week.
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During the parliamentary debate the opposition severely criticized the deal between the HDZ and liberals, saying it was deceiving voters since the HNS party had won parliamentary seats as part of a pre-election deal with the Social Democrats, the second-strongest parliamentary party.
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But party chairman Brandon Lewis and other lawmakers including prominent Eurosceptic Jacob Rees-Mogg told reporters they did not expect a confidence motion to be brought against May after she met the parliamentary party in a bid to get their support for her plan.
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While the measure is still in the planning stages, the parliamentary party representing Mr. al-Sadr announced about a week ago that it would put the issue on Parliament's legislative agenda for March, and the party's lawmakers have begun discussing the idea with other parliamentary blocs.
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His aim may be to survive until Labour's annual conference in late September so that he can introduce a vital change in the rules for selecting his successor, reducing the proportion of MPs and MEPs needed to nominate a candidate from 15% of the parliamentary party to 5%.
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After one of the other possible runners, education minister Richard Bruton, said he was backing Varadkar, an Irish Times tracking poll showed he led Coveney by a margin of more than two-to-one among the 44 percent of parliamentary party members and councillors who have declared their preference.
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He is not popular in the parliamentary party, and younger members think his generation's day is done (he was at school with Mr Cameron); but though MPs winnow the candidates, Conservative leadership elections are, in the end, decided by the members, not the MPs, and among them Mr Johnson seems popular.
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"It was very clear and do not underestimate the strength of Fianna Fail position's at every level, grassroots, voters and members of the parliamentary party in relation to Sinn Fein," Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin told national broadcaster RTE in an interview after the party met to discuss the option.
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So for the past two weeks, Labour has been stuck between a parliamentary party that hated Corbyn and was nearly unanimous in wanting him to go and a party grassroots that viewed him as the target of a nefarious plot from the kind of people who got Britain involved in the Iraq War.
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May, who has appealed to lawmakers to vote for her wide experience in government as a safe pair of hands, had the support of more than half of the parliamentary party, leading Andrea Leadsom, a junior energy minister, and justice minister Michael Gove ahead of the second stage of voting on Thursday.
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"We're genuinely going in with an open mind, but if it comes out of that process without the idea of a confirmatory ballot, I think we would have a bit of difficulty with our parliamentary party," Watson said in an interview with BBC radio, adding that talks on customs arrangements could be easier.
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But supporters of the proposal, including the Orthodox Church and all but one parliamentary party, say they want to go further and change the constitutional definition of marriage from a union of "spouses", to one exclusively of a man and a woman to stop gay couples winning the right to marry in the future.
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Many Conservative eurosceptics had made clear they would only consider supporting May's deal if she gave a firm commitment to resign, hoping a new leader would be more sympathetic to their views when negotiating the terms of Britain's future relationship with the EU. "I have heard very clearly the mood of the parliamentary party," May told a meeting of Conservative lawmakers (MPs).
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Many Conservative eurosceptics had made clear they would only consider supporting May's deal if she gave a firm commitment to resign, hoping a new leader would be more sympathetic to their views when negotiating the terms of Britain's future relationship with the EU. "I have heard very clearly the mood of the parliamentary party," May told a meeting of Conservative lawmakers (MPs).
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DESIRE FOR NEW APPROACH Many Conservative eurosceptics had made clear they would only consider supporting May's deal if she gave a firm commitment to resign, hoping a new leader would be more sympathetic to their views when negotiating the terms of Britain's future relationship with the EU. "I have heard very clearly the mood of the parliamentary party," May told a meeting of Conservative lawmakers (MPs).
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And for a more extreme example of what can happen to a democracy that fosters an antagonistic relationship with the fourth estate, look at President Recep Erdoğan's Turkey, where over 150 journalists languish in prison along with 13 members of its second-largest parliamentary party; where judges, academics, and civil servants are blacklisted; where restrictions on internet and social media access are imposed; and where media outlets slightly critical of the government are shut down.
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