The leader of the Democratic Party of the Left has invested a lot in constitutional reform, and failure would hurt him.
Samaras, who heads New Democracy, met with the heads of his two coalition partners, Evangelos Venizelos of Pasok and Fotis Kouvelis of the Democratic Party of the Left, earlier Thursday, the broadcaster reported.
He wisely kept his distance from the bicamerale, the parliamentary commission chaired by Massimo D'Alema, the leader of the (ex-communist) Democratic Party of the Left, which took half a year to produce a tepid plan to revise Italy's constitution.
If you ask Massimo D'Alema, leader of the ex-communist Democratic Party of the Left, the cornerstone of Romano Prodi's ruling centre-left coalition, he will tell you that Mr Fini's rapidly changing political garmentry is not just a guise for opportunism.
The four parties - the Slovak Democratic Coalition (SDK), the Party of the Democratic Left (SDL), the Hungarian Coalition (SMK) and the Party of Civic Understanding (SOP) - have already "expressed the will to create, on the basis of the election results, a new Slovak government for the next four-year period", said Mikulas Dzurinda, the leader of SDK, which is the largest of the four parties.
The new mayor of Milan, Giuliano Pisapia, was not the choice of Italy's biggest opposition group, the centre-left Democratic Party, but of the smaller and more radical Left, Ecology and Freedom movement, led by the governor of Puglia, Nichi Vendola.
"The opposition in the gay community to Quinn comes partly from a group of progressive activists who are somewhat on the left of the Democratic Party, and who find her insufficiently progressive on a wide number of issues, " Mr. Sherrill said.
The bill, which began its parliamentary journey this week, has been rejected outright by Italy's biggest trade-union federation, the CGIL. That stance has put the leaders of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) between the rock of their historic ties to organised labour and the hard place of support for the government.
His most likely allies could be the populist Roldosista Party, with 15 seats, and dissident members of the Democratic Left party.
The second spurt is occurring now, as the coalition government - which includes Conservatives, Socialists and the "moderate" Marxists of the Democratic Left party - has failed to put a lid on the crisis.
Against this block, probably, will be ranged the Democratic Left party and the party of former president Abdala Bucaram, deposed in February.
If I were on the left wing of the Democratic Party, I would be pretty angry, too.
It would put the new Democratic leadership in the Senate and House, and in particular Speaker Thomas Foley, to the test: Are they in thrall to the Sandinistas and their friends in the left wing of the Democratic Party, or are they willing to insist on democracy in Nicaragua?
Not too ambitious a claim, perhaps, considering that the voting in 1995 gave the ruling National Democratic Party a garish 94% of the seats, left 70 people dead and prompted candidates in over half the constituencies to contest the results in court.
One voice speaking for this nationalism at the moment is that of Bulent Ecevit, a deputy prime minister and leader of the Democratic Left party.
Since earlier this year, Jackson has been taking steps to organize the message of the left-wing of the Democratic party.
Mr. Carrion, a former Bronx borough president who won the endorsement this year of the Independence Party, left the Democratic Party last year.
The needed constitutional changes will require a two-thirds majority in Congress, and the left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution whose leading light is Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, mayor of the capital and son of the former president dislikes the whole idea.
In many areas the tally was certified by his own centre-left Party of the Democratic Revolution, which scored its best-ever result in the vote for Congress.
But it's not yet clear which of the two left-leaning hopefuls, Moon Jae-in of the Democratic United Party and Ahn Cheol-soo, a professor and former software mogul, will challenge Park Geun-hye, the candidate for the governing Saenuri Party.
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Italy's political system encourages the forming of alliances, and the Democratic Party has teamed with the more left-wing Left Ecology Freedom party.
Although Silvio Berlusconi's People of Liberty party is doing badly in the polls, the left-wing Democratic Party is in the lead and currently predicted to poll around 30% of the vote.
The alternative -- whatever the five presidents sign this week, and whatever the Democratic Party's left wing in Congress claims -- is the abandonment of democracy in Nicaragua, and with it, the future security not only of Nicaragua but of its neighbors, as well.
The biggest and most intractable of them has historic links with the centre-left Democratic Party (PD).
The Democratic Party and its centre-left allies won a narrow victory in the Chamber of Deputies, but the Senate appears split with no party in control.
And the leader of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), Pier Luigi Bersani, said "we encouraged Professor Monti to go ahead with determination".
"The tragedy of Civitanova Marche leaves (me) shocked and speechless, " said Pier Luigi Bersani, leader of the center-left Democratic Party that narrowly won the most votes in February's election.
The center-left party of Bill and Hillary Clinton was overthrown by Barack Obama and the party's "progressives, " the redesigned logo of the vestigial Democratic left.
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