The Prime Minister is usually the leader of the largest party in the ruling coalition.

This culminated in poor electoral results for the ruling coalition in November 1999.

For the last three years, the ruling LDP Komei Party coalition has dominated the powerful Lower House with a two thirds majority.

She has publicly expressed her disdain for both large national parties she would much rather lead a coalition than join one.

In India, the Communist Party, a small (but important) member of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh s ruling coalition, has blocked the agreement.

So far, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh s government has not relented, despite the loss of support from a key coalition ally.

It did win a majority of the Muslim seats in Delhi, but could not form a government anywhere, though it was part of the ruling coalition in Bengal.

Despite its many successes since 1990, and the high popularity of the current president (Socialist Michelle Bachelet, Chile s first female chief executive), time is taking a toll.

In one famous case, the European Court of Human Rights agreed with the banning of Turkey s Welfare Party while it was the senior member of a governing coalition.

Two right wing parties have left his ruling coalition, he has lost his majority within his own Likud Party, and his finance minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has quit his government.

Iraq s prime minister, Nuri el Maliki, representing the ruling Shi a Kurdish coalition, expressed the hope that the dictator s end would help to heal the sectarian divides.

Frei s lackluster numbers reflect his own weaknesses (he is notoriously uncharismatic and was the least popular of the four Concertación presidents), as well as the inevitable stress that two decades of uninterrupted rule has placed on the ruling coalition.

Yet Nepal's ruling coalition remains convinced that it has the numbers to achieve its preferred outcome. The result is a profound cleavage that carries serious risks.

The US efforts, led by Special Envoy George Mitchell, have shown clearly that the current ruling coalition in Israel is incapable of doing the minimum required for peace.

Given that water is a state issue in India, and that Banerjee s political party, the All India Trinamool Congress, is a key coalition partner of the ruling central government, the deal could not go through without her approval.

A German government coalition that includes the SDP or the Greens (now a central player in German politics) could thus accelerate the reform and integration that the eurozone needs.

So will we see a new Merkel, a chancellor who, freed from the restraints of SPD in the governing coalition, will be more decisive, reformist, and willing to take political risks?

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Faced with the grassroots popularity of this movement, by 1982 the government of then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed decided to co opt Anwar Ibrahim into his United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the dominant party within the country s ruling coalition.

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CAMBRIDGE The largest election in history, involving more than 700 million voters, has resulted in the victory of India s ruling alliance, led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of the Indian National Congress.

In Malaysia s recent elections, opposition parties managed their strongest showing since the country gained its independence from Britain in 1957, cutting the ruling coalition s parliamentary majority to below two thirds.

A grand coalition is not the worst option.

Not surprisingly, Chileans have kept the ruling Christian Democrat Socialist coalition (the Concertación ) in power for four consecutive terms since 1990, when democracy was restored after 17 years of General Augusto Pinochet s repressive military rule.

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Maliki says he formed a union with the INA, but he and the Shiite alliance have yet to come to an agreement on a nominee for prime minister.

In India, policy changes require political consensus within the ruling coalition, labor laws are strongly defended by unions and political parties, and controversial decisions can be challenged on the streets, in the courts, and ultimately at the polls.

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The contradictory stance of Chancellor Angela Merkel s government was exacerbated by the transition from the grand coalition during her first term to the current conservative liberal coalition.

The young candidate s unexpected popular support is rooted within the ruling coalition his adoptive father is a prominent Socialist senator (his biological father, a leader of the revolutionary left in the 1970 s, was killed by Pinochet s political police).

This would force at least a change in the coalition s makeup (possibly the replacement of the right wing Yisrael Beitenu, headed by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, with the more moderate Kadima, headed by Tzipi Livni, Lieberman s predecessor as foreign minister).

The victorious coalition follows Ayatollah Ali Sistani, who can be described as a moderate Islamist, but many of its members are extreme.

For voters, however, a perception of fragility remains.

And the fragility of Israel s ruling coalition, combined with strong congressional support for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, makes it difficult to influence the country s policies, despite Israel s significant impact on US strategy in the Arab world.

Noting that the leaders of American Samoa, including the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, are freely and fairly elected by the people, and that the general elections held in the Territory in 2000 resulted in the re election of the incumbent Governor and Lieutenant Governor,

The Prime Minister is appointed by the President, who is the Head of State.

For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.

The Governor acts as Chairman.

(Lieutenant Governor William Dummer, after whom the war is named, took the position of Acting Governor in 1723.

Negotiations to form such a coalition in Berlin in 2001 were not successful.

And we have seen that aggression occur, even in the context of the so called coalition.

His brother Adán Chávez is the governor.

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