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A minority government, minority cabinet, minority administration, or a minority parliament is a government and cabinet formed in a parliamentary system when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in the legislature. [1]
A dominant minority, also called elite dominance, is a minority group that wields political, economic, or cultural dominance in a country, despite representing only a subset of the overall population (a demographic minority). [citation needed] Dominant minorities are also known as alien elites if they are recent immigrants. [citation needed]
In a minority situation, governments must rely on the support of other parties to stay in power, so are less stable than a majority government. In Canada, most of the time political parties stand on their own, live or die, and rarely form official coalition governments to form a majority.
Do you believe we should have more rules for minority governments? How do minority governments operate? Are there any rules surrounding how minority governments operate?
The 43rd Parliament was dissolved on August 15, 2021. On September 20, Trudeau's Liberal Party was re-elected, though still 10 seats short of a majority, and formed a second minority government. It is the first time since Harper's 2008 minority that a minority government was re-elected as such.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders on Wednesday said that forming a minority government with himself as prime minister is a possibility, following last week's election ...
Minority government, formed when a political party does not have a majority of overall seats in parliament Minority leader , in American politics, the floor leader of the second largest caucus in a legislative body
The far right's first victory in a German state election since the Nazi era does not mean it can form a government, as other parties rule out a coalition with it. Following is a look at how that ...