Clinton to succeed him, cementing the political alliance between them.
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Movement for Change political alliance called it "embarrassing" and "unacceptable."
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The two leaders developed a close economic and political alliance.
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"Delegates from our political alliance will challenge the results," Lasso said.
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Mr. Sánchez faces an uphill struggle to keep together his unwieldy political alliance.
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Chris Christie of New Jersey — Mr. Pence has no political alliance with Mr. Trump.
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Barisan Nasional and Co. probably is the longest-ruling political alliance in the world.
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Their courtship lasted all of eleven days, a romance that was also a political alliance.
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The Visegrad group is the political alliance of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
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This comes just after Netanyahu forged a political alliance with an openly racist, anti-Arab party.
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Demonstrators also took aim at the political alliance between President Michel Aoun and Shia armed group Hezbollah.
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The two countries have a decades-long military and political alliance dating back to the Korean War.
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Similarly, the Trans Pacific Partnership was at its heart a U.S. political alliance masquerading as a trade deal.
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His political alliance retained a majority of the nationwide vote, but also lost control of the capital Ankara.
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And Trump and Ryan would also have a joint achievement that could cement their so-far tenuous political alliance.
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The consolidation of Muslim votes for the SP-Congress alliance will provide an edge to the new political alliance.
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But earlier this month he announced the creation of a 23-party political alliance and appointed himself its chairman.
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When politically polarized people grow close, they form a personal connection that doesn't necessarily translate into a political alliance.
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It flourished until around A.D. 1200, and later joined a political alliance with the cities of Mayapán and Uxmal.
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"Vote trading is just people deciding how they're going to vote, based on forming a strategic political alliance," says Raskin.
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The institutional and ideological boundaries of both Communism and Islamism hardened, dashing prospects for renewed experiments in political alliance-building.
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The surprise victory by Sadr's political alliance Sairoon in a parliamentary election last week has put Washington into an awkward position.
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The European Union, an economic and political alliance without an exact parallel in the world or in history, faces existential challenges.
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This will in turn reinforce Assad's position, while Turkey's anti-Assad stance is neutralized by its political alliance with Moscow and Tehran.
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Unlike Trump-loving evangelicals, with whom conservative Catholics cemented a political alliance in the 1990s, the bishops appear to have buyer's remorse.
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The liberaltarian alternative I have in mind should not be thought of as a political alliance between liberal and libertarian voting blocs.
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It was not clear whether the two leaders' political alliance had agreed on any one candidate as their choice for prime minister.
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Duterte's political alliance won all 12 contested seats in the Senate, handing the president complete control over the three branches of government.
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A senior source in a political alliance that includes Hezbollah said Hariri's move on Wednesday would start a breakthrough in the crisis.
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Joyce's resignation will potentially heal the rift between the Liberal and National parties, a political alliance that has existed for nearly 100 years.
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The evening tore a painful new wound in Mr. Trump's relationship with the Republican National Committee, imperiling his most important remaining political alliance.
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Opponents of Brexit say Britain will lose more than it can possibly gain from quitting such a big single market and political alliance.
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We're covering Benjamin Netanyahu's latest gamble, an unlikely political alliance in Austria, and the ruling in a case about a lost Michelin star.
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That interview, of course, led to Jarrett's introduction to Michelle's then-fiancé, Barack Obama, and a legendary political alliance (and friendship) was born.
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On the campaign trail, Mahathir's political alliance promised to repeal the fake news law but since the election the new premier has equivocated.
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As a political alliance, NATO's survival depends on the ability of its leaders to set aside their many differences in pursuit of common goals.
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Gantz also bristled at Netanyahu's insistence that he negotiate with a fully-formed right-wing political alliance, rather than just with Netanyahu's Likud party.
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In light of recent terror attacks, it is crucial to examine the political alliance the next American president will have to manage with Russia.
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Instead, Iran quietly helped Iraqis forge a political alliance that formed a government reliant on Iranian-backed militias that the United States wants disbanded.
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More than just a political alliance, Hezbollah, whose name is Arabic for Party of God, and its allies have deep ideological ties to Iran.
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An election billboard bearing portraits of Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) political alliance leaders Moshe Yaalon, Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid, and Gabi Ashkenazi, in Jerusalem.
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Mr Alckmin, though unexciting, has built a broad political alliance that gives him the lion's share of the free television advertising that began this week.
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Washington ties The US and South Korea have a decades-long military and political alliance and Washington is by far Seoul's most important bilateral partner.
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"Vote trading is just people deciding how they're going to vote, based on forming a strategic political alliance," constitutional law professor James Raskin told Vox.
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Mr. Obama's resounding endorsement of his one-time rival was the final consummation of a political alliance over a decade in the making, since Mrs.
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He helped Kim Young-sam win the presidency in 1992, forming a political alliance with him and Mr. Roh, in which their three parties merged.
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Mercer and Marcus have struck something of a tenuous political alliance, even though they themselves are not personally close, according to people familiar with their relationship.
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Last June, however, world leaders flocked to the capital of Kyrgyzstan for a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a key regional security and political alliance.
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For the first time, two candidates who had a treasured and long-lasting political alliance tumbled into a feud and are trying unsuccessfully to end it.
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Anything that can sow increasing chaos within the military and political alliance, or extend Russia's reach close to home, is quite a "solid" for Putin indeed.
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Under that plan, German centre-right EU lawmaker Manfred Weber wanted to take the European Commission presidency, as the European People's Party is the biggest political alliance.
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The vote signaled the end of a political alliance between Djukanovic's Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) and the smaller Social Democratic Party (SDP) dating back to 1998.
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Arthur Vandenberg, Republican of Michigan, who went from being an isolationist during World War II to joining President Truman in a post-war, bipartisan internationalist political alliance.
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Forza Italia voted against the new executive after Salvini did a deal with 5-Star, but did not break up its political alliance at the local level.
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia is performing a delicate balancing act between its European aspirations, partnership with NATO and its centuries-old religious, ethnic and political alliance with Russia.
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Mr. Kenyatta remains popular among members of his own ethnic group, the Kikuyu, and he enjoys support from other ethnic groups that belong to his political alliance.
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The political alliance, Pakatan Harapan, unexpectedly won the last general elections in 2018, after overthrowing a rival coalition that had governed Malaysia for 61 years before that.
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Under President Ronald Reagan, there was a new political alliance — between free-market conservatives (who believed in small government) and social conservatives (who championed traditional family structures).
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The countries have grown closer within the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) grouping, an economic club that has developed into a broader, more political alliance.
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But a battle over immigration policy in Berlin today provided a stark reminder of her political mortality—and a glimpse of the culture wars roiling her political alliance.
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While both leftist parties opposed the bill, the leader of the Left Bloc said on Tuesday she still backed the government and expected their political alliance to endure.
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He remained, at times, overly cautious, best exemplified by his late decision to run for president and his inability to craft a deeper political alliance with Dr. King.
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Joyce leads the rural-based National Party, the junior partner in the center-right government led by Turnbull's Liberal Party, a political alliance that has existed since 1923.
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NATO was initially largely a political alliance but that changed quickly after the Soviets detonated an atomic bomb in 1949, and the Korean War in broke out in 1950.
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The rules were sharpened in 2011 to make financial sanctions for rule-breakers more automatic and harder to circumvent through political alliance-building as had happened in the past.
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Astute Turkey watchers have noted that Erdoğan's grip on power has been bolstered of late by a political alliance with the ultranationalist Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) of Devlet Bahçeli.
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He omits an important passage of my article as it is dedicated to the geopolitical configuration in the region and explains the pragmatic political alliance between Israel and Azerbaijan.
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His latest remarks have only validated the suspicion that Trump sees white supremacists as a crucial part of his political alliance and that he is loath to alienate them.
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Ana Andrade, an analyst at The Economist Intelligence Unit, said a political alliance on the left was likely, with Costa probably having to make some concessions on public spending.
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The ticket is a short-term political alliance but also a longer-term personal and governing partnership, and of crucial importance is the element of personal compatibility and mutual confidence.
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The action was staged by RISE, an upstart left-wing political alliance which is aiming to secure its first seats in the Scottish Parliament when elections come around in May.
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Joffrey found a new future bride — and political alliance — in the seductive Margaery Tyrell, and Sansa was secretly thrilled to escape a life of being tortured by the evil king.
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Senator, it seems like the Trump administration is quietly pushing ahead with a bid to create a new security and political alliance with the Middle East to go against Iran.
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The Trump administration aims to create a security and political alliance with the Sunni Gulf Arab states to counter Shi'ite Iran's influence in the region, especially in Syria and Iraq.
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His historical political alliance with President Trump is well documented, but his actions during the "midnight run" and the embarrassing memo episode should serve as warning signs for all Americans.
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Cheney joined Scalise on the campaign trail this week, which suggests an interesting political alliance between the majority whip, Scalise's right-hand man McHenry and the former vice president's daughter.
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Ruto, whose 2012 political alliance with Kenyatta in the ruling Jubilee coalition was seen as a marriage of convenience to fight the ICC charges, thanked the president for his support.
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Yet at crucial moments a surprising political alliance emerged to keep it alive, one made up of social progressives, black Democrats, members of the religious right, fiscal conservatives and libertarians.
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Their once-bitter rivalry transformed into a partnership when he selected her as secretary of state, and they now have a vital political alliance with consequences for both of them.
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In February, France recalled its ambassador after leaders of Italy's Five Star Movement went to France to seek a political alliance with the sometimes violent Yellow Vest protesters in Paris.
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Cersei's main play, in fact, isn't to highlight her own good qualities but to scare everybody about what Dany's bad qualities are — better the devil (or political alliance) you know.
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Unless that is done forthwith, there is no sense for the U.S. to foot three quarters of a bill for the largest military and political alliance the world has ever known.
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Ilhan Omar (D-MN), whose recent questioning of pro-Israel lobbying groups and the United State's political alliance with Israel has come under fire for feeding into anti-Semitic conspiracies. Sen.
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When I first read it, Badiou's vision of a political alliance between the young and a nonconformist segment of the elderly seemed implausible, but by the end I felt almost optimistic.
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A political alliance that is built solely around "triggering the libs" and vicious (usually fact-free) attacks on political opponents is really only capable of a single play in the playbook.
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But Mr. Orban's own political alliance publicly stood by him, and might even have voted with him on Wednesday but for his increasingly provocative behavior since the start of the year.
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With the wealth of Europe's biggest political alliance behind him, Weber, 46, has a larger budget than his Socialist, liberal and Green rivals, all vying for the job of European Commission president.
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With recurring themes of political alliance and espionage, callouts of celebrity culture, and a motif of tall buildings populated by indistinct figures, Brown's visual lexicon feels remarkably prescient of our current moment.
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In other words, Democratic strategists looking to piece together a 21st century political alliance have to consider the unintended consequences of taking the easy route: constructing a coalition explicitly dominated by elites.
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On Sunday, Corbyn and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the new star of the left flank of the Democratic Party, spoke to each other by phone about building a new trans-Atlantic political alliance.
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Hussein, who now lives in Madrid, was speaking during a visit to Beirut to launch a new political alliance that he hopes will be invited to U.N.-backed peace talks later this month.
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In a country that runs on political patronage, one where many decisions are made behind the scenes, the elder Mr. Tiah's political alliance with Mr. Anwar may have contributed to his legal setbacks.
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Two polls in January showed Mr. Modi's B.J.P. in the lead, although one suggests the political alliance marshaled against him is experiencing a last-minute surge that has it in a statistical tie.
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Khamenei's comments may have been directed at former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the de facto leader of a more moderate political alliance, who last week tweeted "the future is in dialogue, not missiles".
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The Trump administration is also pushing ahead with a bid to create a new security and political alliance with six Gulf Arab states plus Egypt and Jordan, in part to counter Iran's expanding influence.
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The decision to let Gordillo see out her trial under house arrest came as the political party she founded, the New Political Alliance Party (Panal), said it would back the PRI in the 2018 election.
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It would eventually be installed at Berlin City Palace, but only for a short time—in 1716, it was offered as a gift to Russia's Peter the Great in order to cement a political alliance.
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Rumors of a political alliance, perhaps tacit, with the regime of Bashar al-Assad have now been given more weight as a result of a new military alliance in the face of the Turkish assault.
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Some members of his political alliance say they were waiting for him at Barcelona's 18th-century regional parliament building on Tuesday evening, fully expecting him to call for an independence vote in the chamber that night.
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U.S. President Donald Trump's hostile statements about the European Union and the Atlantic military and political alliance (NATO) are among the many things he disowned — upon reflection, or under pressing advice from his horrified security experts.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi political alliance announced on Sunday contains 177 lawmakers from 16 electoral lists, making it the majority bloc in the newly elected parliament, an updated document published by the state news agency showed.
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The row over the central bank's role has also highlighted divisions in the tripartite political alliance of the ruling African National Congress party (ANC), the country's biggest union, Cosatu, and the South African Communist Party (SACP).
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The political alliance includes a party loyal to former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose populists dominated elections in Thailand for nearly two decades even though he was overthrown in a 2006 coup and fled to exile.
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The plans to stimulate growth in the continent's most industrialized economy appear to represent an ideological shift by the ruling African National Congress, whose political alliance with the unions has tended to make privatization a dirty word.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The political alliance sealed on Friday between Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was more than a decade in the making, the culmination of the two men's repeatedly crossing paths.
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Movement for Change, a political alliance formed by socialist PASOK party and the former Prime Minister George Papandreou's Movement of Democratic Socialists would rank third, getting 8% of the vote, according to the poll conducted June 14-19.
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BAGHDAD, Sept 2 (Reuters) - An Iraqi political alliance announced on Sunday contains 174 lawmakers from 16 electoral lists, making it the majority bloc in the newly elected parliament, an updated document published by the state news agency showed.
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The tensions have also shaken Aoun's ties with Iran-backed Hezbollah, whose links to Berri and Amal run much deeper than its political alliance with the FPM, which was founded by Aoun and is now led by Bassil.
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BAGHDAD, Sept 2 (Reuters) - An Iraqi political alliance announced on Sunday contains 177 lawmakers from 16 electoral lists, making it the majority bloc in the newly elected parliament, an updated document published by the state news agency showed.
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In the post-World War II period, the parties have acted as a constant political alliance, with the CDU not contesting elections on the CSU's Bavarian territory, but recent tensions have placed Germany's longest-running political marriage under strain.
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"Asian-American" as an identifier didn't even exist until 1968, when a pair of Berkeley students, who were inspired by the Black Power movement, formed the Asian American Political Alliance to rally Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino students under a shared banner.
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The tensions have also shaken Aoun's ties with the Iran-backed Shi'ite group Hezbollah, whose links to Berri and Amal run much deeper than its political alliance with the FPM, which was founded by Aoun and is now led by Bassil.
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ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's military incursion in Syria has given President Tayyip Erdogan a bump in opinion polls and exposed potential cracks in an informal political alliance that claimed surprise victories over his ruling party in local elections this year.
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So while Donald Trump's immigration speech may have torn "a painful new wound in Mr. Trump's relationship with the Republican National Committee," it was cheered by what I would submit is truly "his most important remaining political alliance" — the voters.
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We have traditionally seen the first lady as the embodiment of American womanhood, but that view is on its way out; largely thanks to Hillary Clinton, we're now more likely to see the first union as a political alliance between equals.
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They were close long before their political alliance, getting to know each other on the tennis courts of the Houston Country Club some six decades ago and bringing their families together for Sunday barbecues, touch football games and cocktails on Christmas.
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It also seems like a thank you to her for staying aloof from the ongoing primary between Biden and Bernie Sanders, which represented a breakdown of a longstanding political alliance between Sanders and Warren — originally forged during the bankruptcy fight.
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Major Democratic donors in New York have discreetly formed a new political alliance to raise roughly $22018 million that would be injected into as many as two dozen key House battlegrounds in an effort to wrest control of Congress from Republicans.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi political alliance backed by Iran said on Wednesday that Washington's killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis gave Tehran the right to respond, the Iraqi state news agency said.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - The co-leader of a Kurdish-Arab political alliance in Syria has condemned a decision by the country's Kurdish-controlled northern regions to seek autonomy, demonstrating that opposition to the move exists even among the Kurds' closest allies.
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Bean's mother died when she was young, and Zøg married a cold, humorless swamp creature with a vaguely European accent named Queen Ivank—er, I mean, Queen Oona (Tress MacNeille) to cement a political alliance with a hostile foreign nation.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is quietly pushing ahead with a bid to create a new security and political alliance with six Gulf Arab states, Egypt and Jordan, in part to counter Iran's expansion in the region, according to U.S. and Arab officials.
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His solution to skyrocketing inequality then is this: a political alliance between the overworked elite and the underemployed middle class to bring us back to, essentially, the Keynesian compromise of midcentury, when merit mattered but education and work were not extreme sports.
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The Ramadan cease-fire was sought by the chief minister of the Indian-administered part of Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti, who has found herself increasingly isolated since her political alliance with India's dominant party, the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, has failed to lower violence.
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BAGHDAD, Jan 8 (Reuters) - An Iraqi political alliance backed by Iran said on Wednesday that Washington's killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis gave Tehran the right to respond, the Iraqi state news agency said.
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Despite the framework of the conference allowing only the cease-fire signatories to attend, the Myanmar government invited a political alliance of non-signatory armed ethnic groups from the north of the country, often referred to as the Northern Alliance, to attend the conference.
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It is unclear just what they discussed over those 24 hours, but by all accounts they seem to have strengthened their bond, and Nunes soon entered Trump's inner circle — cementing a political alliance that would become one of the most consequential of the Trump era.
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In alternance with the moderate-left Social Democrats, and sometimes in national-unity coalitions with them, they have helped steer Europe's largest economy and ensure Germany's place as the anchor, together with France, of a political alliance at the heart of a peaceful, prosperous continent.
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The audacious move -- coupled with a recent effort for her and Vice President Mike Pence to share a political aide -- again drew attention to her lofty political ambitions, with whispers of her close political alliance with Pence and a potential 2020 ticket growing louder.
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John the Baptist could have made a powerful political alliance with King Herod; instead, he was relentless in his criticism of Herod's immoral marriage choices, to the point of it costing him his life — funny how "Herod isn't running for pastor" never occurred to him.
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Reuters reported in July that the administration was quietly pushing ahead with a bid to create a new security and political alliance with six Gulf Arab states, Egypt and Jordan, in part to counter Iran's expansion in the region, citing U.S. and Arab officials.
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The best-case scenario would be that new elections result in a coalition formed of Likud — without Mr. Netanyahu — and the Blue and White political alliance, which together acquired barely more than 50 percent of the vote in the past two rounds of elections.
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Still, as the inestimable Haaretz columnist Anshel Pfeffer points out, the Gantz-Lapid coalition (known as the Blue and White political alliance) really isn't a party but a temporary alignment of diverse interest and personalities designed for a single purpose: getting rid of Netanyahu.
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Warren has gone to considerable lengths in recent months to demonstrate unwavering support for Medicare for All, in one of the clearest signs of the political alliance forged between Warren and Sanders, even as they jockey for second place behind former Vice President Joe Biden.
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To others, the push for independence is an irresponsible, attempted power grab by a minority of smartphone-wielding anti-system radicals in one of Spain's wealthiest regions that threatens to undermine the rule of law and the cohesiveness of the wider political alliance of the European Union.
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In addressing collusion with Russia, Congress must decide whether this president should retain office if the facts establish that he entered into some form of political alliance with Russia and then came to office in debt to a foreign power while determined to obstruct a public accounting.
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This newly-forged political alliance between some black and white evangelical Christians around anti-gay-marriage sentiment would lead some black voters to vote for George W. Bush's 2004 campaign, and to subsequently speak out against President Barack Obama for supporting same-sex marriage as well.
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First, the layman making the request was presidential hopeful Joseph Biden, heir of a political alliance forged 50 years ago between bishops and Democrats, albeit an alliance battered by the Democrats' decades-long drift to the left and weakened in the wake of the clergy sexual abuse scandal.
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For many white evangelicals, however, many of whom see the political fate of Israel as inextricably linked to Jesus's second coming, Messianic Jews represent a powerful instrument: a chance to forge a pro-Israel political alliance and frame the political future of Israel as an issue rooted in white evangelical identity.
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I started my career as a journalist in an era when it seemed that the Democratic Party was going to crack up because of the Iraq War, and it seemed like the Republican Party was ascendant and confined by a sort of evangelical-Catholic political alliance that had a liberal streak about theocracy.
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Allies of Mr. Trump and the association describe their political alliance as a marriage forged out of urgent necessity: an unlikely pairing of a former gun-control proponent who lives in a Manhattan skyscraper with an advocacy group typically seen as speaking for gun manufacturers and the hunters and sportsmen of Middle America.
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Moscow has conducted massive military drills on the borders of states in the NATO military alliance and has been accused of cyber-attacks against members of the EU political alliance, like Estonia, funding propaganda campaigns abroad, financially supporting anti-EU political parties in Europe, while conducting dangerously close aerial maneuvers to U.S. aircraft and warships.
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The strength of that religious-political alliance has helped maintain one of the greatest divides in contemporary American society—with many Christians having become chronically vulnerable to a belief that liberal politics are literally against God, and many liberals to a belief that whatever God these politicized Christians have in mind is literally against humanity.
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Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who's electoral list came third in the poll, and the winner, cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, entered into a political alliance on Saturday night, less than two weeks after Sadr announced a similar alliance with second-placed Iran ally Hadi al-Amiri's bloc, thus bringing the top three blocs together.
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"Prime Minister, you must know that the wholeness of the people is more important than the wholeness of the coalition," said Sallai Meridor, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States and a former chairman of the Jewish Agency, referring to Mr. Netanyahu's efforts to preserve his political alliance with the ultra-Orthodox parties.
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The term was coined, in the sixties, by the historian Yuji Ichioka, who was something of a radical: he founded the Asian American Political Alliance, which declared itself an ally of "all non-white liberation movements," and which demonstrated in support of Huey Newton, the Black Panther, when he was accused of killing a white police officer.
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Back then Yuji Ichioka, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, and Emma Gee scoured a published roster of fellow students who had protested against the conflict in Vietnam and contacted every individual with an Asian-sounding last name, inviting them to become charter members of a new organization: the Asian American Political Alliance.
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Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Idaho extended voting rights to women in the late 2237th century, less out of an enlightened sense of equality than for partisan purposes: leaders in the Utah Territory initially granted women the vote in 21919 in the hopes of combating anti-Mormon measures, while in Colorado a political alliance extended suffrage rights in 24 to strengthen the short-lived Populist movement.
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The government itself is an awkward alliance formed purely for political survival between a Muslim-led party pushing for autonomy and Mr. Modi's party, the Hindu-right Bharatiya Janata Party, known as the B.J.P. (Neither party won enough votes to control the State Assembly on its own.) In mid-April, two state ministers from the B.J.P. who joined protests in support of the suspects in the rape case were forced to resign to keep this shaky political alliance alive.
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