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.
Faced with a crumbling Labour government and Mr Cameron's seduction of the swing vote, the Lib Dems should have sought to become the main party of the left once Sir Menzies Campbell relinquished the leadership in 2007.
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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.
But, as increasingly happens in Minnesota, this is a three-way race, with the seat also being contested by James Gibson of the newly formed Independence Party, the Venturan rump of the Reform Party which the governor left in February.
On the theory that a united party of the right will then be matched by a united party of the left, France may therefore now be on the road to a two-party system familiar to voters in countries such as the United States, Britain, Australia, Spain or Germany.
It has never disturbed me that we have two party systems in the Anglo-American West, and I've often felt willing to back a reformed party of the left if the governing party of the right had become exhausted or corrupt.
The Labour Party won 52 seats, which with the 11 seats of the Alliance party, its left-leaning partner, will give it a workable majority in the 120-member Parliament.
And he claimed there had been a suggestion throughout the Lib Dem campaign that the party was to the left of Labour - something Mr Kennedy has always denied.
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 loss of votes to the Greens may encourage Democrats to extend the boundary of their party a little further to the left, which might put more Green issues into the centre of the political stage.
Mr. Carrion, a former Bronx borough president who won the endorsement this year of the Independence Party, left the Democratic Party last year.
He was acquitted of the rape charge the following year, and his support on the populist left of the party ensured that he was able to defeat President Mbeki in elections for the ANC leadership in December 2007.
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.
Mr Clegg is a free-market liberal who would fit happily into the liberal traditions of Dutch politics: whereas the left of his party still looks to the state to deliver improvements, Mr Clegg is among those who suspect that a top-down state is a wasteful provider of services, let alone social change.
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.
SPD, whose support has slid to some 26%, has two big problems: doubts about Mr Beck as its leader and the full emergence of the Left Party as a rival.
With a swing against it of over 16%, the biggest for any Australian government in 60 years, the party has been left with barely a quarter of the seats in the state's lower house.
The Greens also voted against the government's bill as the left-of-centre party accused ministers of betraying the despairing and vulnerable, who were seeking Australia's protection, but could be doomed to spend years in dusty camps in the South Pacific.
Despite the calumny spread about the Tea Party by left-leaning media the rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated.
This is not the only parallel with the rise of Syriza, the hard-left party in Greece that opposes that country's bail-out programme.
In the weeks after last month's general election, the leader of the Czechs' main left-wing party, which won the poll, and the leader of the main right-wing one, which came second, both failed to gather up enough allies to form a government.
In recent years the Tory Reform Group, which is on the left of the party, has seemed out of tune with the Tory mainstream.
The parliament's new members will mostly sit in vaguely like-minded groupings, like the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), the Party of European Socialists (centre-left) and the European Liberal Democrats (socially, and sometimes economically, liberal).
In short, Mr Bradley may pull the Democrats towards a fight over who has the greater appeal to the left-leaning parts of the party.
His most likely allies could be the populist Roldosista Party, with 15 seats, and dissident members of the Democratic Left party.
Already, the number of parties in the Bundestag has risen from three to five, with the entry of the Greens in 1983 and, following unification in 1990, of the populist Left Party, heirs to East Germany's communists.
Or Labour's new guise as a party of the centre rather than the left?
Since earlier this year, Jackson has been taking steps to organize the message of the left-wing of the Democratic party.
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