Some have responded by forming a new party, Glasgow First, reducing Labour to a minority administration.
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Last November Ms Williams brokered a deal with Mr Jones to pass his minority administration's spending plans.
However, his minority administration will need to gain the support of other parties to get the proposals through.
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The Lib Dems won control of the city council in June 2009 after it had been run by a minority administration since 2005.
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There has also been opposition to some of the other cuts proposed by the council's cabinet, a minority administration controlled by the Shires Group.
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Canada has been run by a minority administration for several years.
The council cabinet, a minority administration controlled by the Shires Group, had also proposed reducing 75% of community grants and charging sixth formers for school transport.
MSPs would make a minority administration a hostage to Labour's left wing, which is one reason why Mr McAllion has announced his preference for Labour to go it alone.
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Then, a minority Labour administration struggled to get anything done, especially since it was led by the unpopular Alun Michael.
He is likely to prefer to go it alone with a minority Tory administration rather than to attempt a coalition with the Lib Dems that neither his own side nor Mr Clegg's could easily stomach.
Mr Klima last week abandoned efforts to form a minority Social Democrat administration.
The party will form Scotland's first majority administration, four years after it went into minority government following its victory in the 2007 election.
In his final speech as presiding officer, Mr Fergusson, who has returned to parliament as a Tory MSP, Mr Fergusson said each Scottish election had delivered a first for Holyrood - a coalition government in 1999, a "rainbow parliament" of seven parties in 2003, minority government in 2007 and, now, a likely majority administration.
In an interview with CNN, House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Missouri, also called on the administration to hold a budget summit with members of Congress.
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But he also said that if the administration wants to see legislation realized, it must reach out more aggressively to minority Republicans.
Before the administration's endorsement, Senate action was not expected this year, but Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle said today the legislation could move forward more quickly.
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The Obama administration and civil rights groups acknowledge progress in combating discrimination against African Americans and other minority groups, but argue Congress was justified in extending the provision in 2006.
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