President Dilma Rousseff's 10-party coalition controls some two-thirds of the seats in the new congress.
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The proposal has been signed by 71 MPs from the three-party coalition, the AP news agency reports.
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Opposition parties claim that they will not block this in Congress, where Lula's nine-party coalition is in a minority.
His government's hold on power has been tenuous in recent months amid conflicts between members of the three-party coalition.
On May 28th he announced that replacements had been found and that his precarious three-party coalition would fight on.
That's a jump from 7.5% in the last elections, and potentially will reduce his dependency on Islamic party coalition partners.
The DPJ and its Peoples New Party coalition partner together have 122 seats, with 56 up for grabs in July.
The PPP won by far the most seats in the election, since when it has governed in a six-party coalition.
On the political front, Chuan must navigate carefully so as not to create a fissure in his potentially fractious eight-party coalition.
Party came to power at the head of a 13-party coalition last year, not many Indians wagered on its surviving long.
Georgia Dream is a disparate six-party coalition ranging from urban professionals to xenophobic nationalists whose only source of unity is opposition to Saakashvili.
The PPP won by far the most seats in the election, since when it has governed in a six-party coalition with a strong majority.
But Mr Berlusconi is reluctant to tinker with his cabinet, which reflects a delicate balance of power between rival factions in his four-party coalition.
Turkey's three-party coalition headed by Bulent Ecevit was set to fall, after a mutiny within his own party against the ailing 77-year-old prime minister.
In each major-party coalition, the libertarian element is weaker precisely to the extent that libertarian politicos are expending their energies on behalf of the LP.
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Or he might choose to step down and help the opposition movement by empowering younger activists who have worked hard to advance an unwieldy three-party coalition.
Late last year, Greece's three-party coalition government, now led by conservative Antonis Samaras, ordered a special state accounting panel to investigate whether Germany still owes war reparations.
As the leader of a Hindu-nationalist party that governs through a fractious 23-party coalition, he faces political and electoral constraints from which General Musharraf is much freer.
His four-party coalition, ranging from conservatives to social democrats, was a creature of circumstances the success of Mr Cardoso's 1994 anti-inflation plan and was never likely to be permanent.
No wonder that other ministers in the three-party coalition led by Bulent Ecevit, the leftish veteran whose unwise words set off the crisis in February, are feeling twitchy.
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The winning party has already started informal talks with the country's socialist party to form a new government, with a cross-party coalition likely to be formed by Wednesday.
Though social democrats, who invented the Scandinavian model, are still in power in four Nordic countries (as part of a five-party coalition in Finland), their hold is tenuous.
Paradoxically, an electoral system based on proportional representation, which led to Mr Prodi's unwieldy nine-party coalition, has produced something resembling a two-party legislature familiar in America or Britain.
This suggests that there now exists an opportunity to build a cross-party coalition for change strong enough to defeat the failed prohibitionism hitherto supported by most ordinary Britons.
Despite the rocky start, the three-party coalition government kept calm.
Deve Gowda, a former chief minister of southern Karnataka state, became premier at the head of a 13-party coalition -- considered the first genuinely federal government in the country.
Rather than use his party's parliamentary numbers to push through reform, Mr Yudhoyono has stuck with a timid consensus style, building a bigger, weaker six-party coalition than he needs.
Once in power, he preserved an absurd regard for constitutional propriety, carefully cobbling together a multi-party coalition in a parliament that never dared do more than rubber stamp his decrees.
The canny media magnate was immediately accused of courting extreme right-wing support for his proposed new People of Freedom party coalition in the run-up to the election on 24-25 February.
By abstaining in a parliamentary vote for a new president, his three-party coalition looks set to keep the presidency vacant when the incumbent, Michal Kovac, leaves the job on March 2nd.
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