MINORITY GOVERNMENT


Meaning of MINORITY GOVERNMENT in English

noun

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Chandra Shekhar's efforts at keeping his minority government afloat ended in March 1991.

In other words, the position of a minority government can be made untenable if all the other parties combine against it.

In spite of only a short period of minority government the Labour Party in the 1920s had also developed some ambitious long-term policies.

Or he might aim for a minority government dependent on the votes of six Arab members of the Knesset.

The following day Labor formed a minority government under Michael Field.

We need electoral reform so that a minority government with a 100seat advantage can not implement the extremist policies of the Eighties again.

When there is a minority government , however, the combination is far less stable.

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