Kenny called on elected representatives to intensify efforts to forge a "lasting and durable government".
The President made clear last week that he still believes that a durable government of national unity — comprising responsible leaders of Iraq's Shiite majority, Kurds, and Sunnis who are opposed to ISIS — can be formed in Baghdad, even if it takes many more weeks beyond the three months of squabbling that have already passed since the country's most recent parliamentary vote.
Silvio Bersusconi (who must have enjoyed watching the implosion at PD) played the senior statesman last night, telling reporters that: Given the crisis the country finds itself in, the country needs a strong, a durable government that can make important decisions.
The moderate Socialist party and its allies – the Communists, Greens and Left Bloc – now control 122 seats in Portugal's 230-seat parliament and the party leader, António Costa, has insisted a leftist alliance could form a stable and durable government.
Mr Grillo was at least a fresh face with a healthy distrust of la casta; but his refusal to help elect a president or to support any coalition government, and his attacks on the concept of representative democracy, suggest he is not the answer for those who want the political and economic reforms that Italy needs.If technocracy cannot produce a durable government, and democracy hasn't, what now?
LONDON — Their poll ratings are terrible and their leader is widely mocked, but the Liberal Democrats, the traditional minnows of British politics, have chalked up one striking success: they have stayed part of a durable coalition government.
As part of the Obama administration's campaign to subdue a sprawling insurgency and create a durable Afghan government, the military sent thousands of soldiers last year into rural areas under the influence, if not outright control, of the Taliban.
The plan, which NATO hopes to turn into a formal agreement with the Afghan government in July, would transfer authority to Afghans when they have met three criteria: a competent local police force, a durable civilian government and signs of reconciliation with the Taliban insurgency.
Defenders of FPTP argue that by giving voters two broad parties to choose between, instead of a plethora of more focused ones, it delivers durable single-party governments rather than flimsy coalitions.
The eventual result, analysts argue, would be a government that would be more organic and therefore more durable than a government that relies on outside forces to survive.
