The junior party in Germany's governing coalition has criticised the referendum plan.
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Labour was the traditional junior party in coalitions before 1997.
As a concession to the coalition's junior party, the Liberal Democrats, and in particular to Vince Cable, the business secretary, an independent commission has been set up to look at the structure of Britain's banks.
The junior coalition party might well consider withdrawing from the coalition were Mr Lewis to win the leadership.
But Stefan Mueller, parliamentary leader of the junior coalition party, Christian Social Union, called on Mrs Merkel to go further, by linking development aid to the treatment of Christians in relevant countries.
Mr. Clegg is a member of the Liberal Democrat party, the junior partner in the Conservative Party-led governing coalition.
He leads the conservative People's Party, the junior partner with Mr Klima's Social Democrat Party in a coalition government.
He has already scored a strategic victory by persuading the Centre Party (a junior coalition member) to revoke its 1980 decision to phase out nuclear power.
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Tom Daschle recently met with Mr. Reich, but the majority leader has been reluctant to overrule his party's junior barons when they get the bit in their mouths.
He is likely to stay on as the province's governor, though he could still cause trouble in Vienna, where his party is a junior partner in Austria's coalition government.
But as a relatively junior member of a minority party in Congress, he may have years ahead of him asking questions in committees, burnishing his voting record, climbing up the pecking order, and hoping for a political swing that will put his party in the majority.
The Democratic Unionist Party's Ian Paisley Junior said an 'act of reconciliation' would be "surrender and gross appeasement to terrorism".
In Germany's election in September, the issue poses the greatest threat to the Free Democratic Party, Merkel's junior coalition partner which has a pro-business platform.
Adelina Marku, who speaks for the Tetovo-based Democratic Party of Albanians, a junior partner in Macedonia's ruling coalition government, says that the Kosovars, who declared nominal independence from Serbia back in 1991 and created a series of notional organs of state, had lulled themselves into a false sense of security.
It is not elated by the recovery of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), the junior partner in her coalition.
The liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), the junior partner in her coalition government, is against a rescue, as are many politicians from her own Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Saturday Hassan, 30, of Sydenham, shot Darren and Junior Deslandes after being evicted from a new year party at the Newton Arms, Croydon.
There is no junior debt in the capital structure, and that highlights another party fighting for business: mezzanine providers.
Much of the pressure for the stimulus package came from the LDP's junior coalition partner, New Komeito, a Buddhist-affiliated party which hitherto has played an insignificant role.
Mr Laws, who used the party's policy director, moves from being a junior defence spokesman to shadowing the chief secretary to the Treasury.
The former Ulster Unionist junior minister Dermot Nesbitt told the programme that if Mr McCrea and the party leader Mike Nesbitt cannot find a way to work together it "would be better to go their separate ways".
Mr Azad was a junior leader in the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami party in 1971 and a member of the Razakar Bahini, an auxiliary force set up to help the Pakistani army by rooting out local resistance.
The collection, named "BJ Kicks A, " veered from the high school dance party looks that she has championed for decades, running toward a junior high school gym class with a lot of cheek.
His problems within the party have been exacerbated by a falling out between two of his junior ministers, Henry McLeish and Brian Wilson, who seem more interested in pursuing their private vendetta than working for their boss.
Being the junior partner in a moderate government had weakened the appeal of Mr Haider's party to its core constituency, disgruntled blue-collar workers and others, such as small farmers and shopkeepers, who feel threatened by modernisation.
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Yet there is no obvious coalition partner for Mr Samaras apart from the right-wing Laos (People's) party under George Karatzaferis, now enjoying its first taste of power as a junior partner in Mr Papademos's government.
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