And for the same reason that the Liberal Democrats wanted the assurances that a fixed-term election gave them in 2011, whoever joins a coalition this time around will likely ask for the same.
6.33am BST After Greiner's resignation, John Fahey took the premiership and was left with steering the ship for the rest of a very long fixed term until the 1995 election.
Wales's Assembly, unlike the Westminster Parliament, is elected for a fixed term, so there is no possibility of new Assembly elections.
If he fails, an election will follow – whatever the early promises of "fixed term" parliaments – and the Liberal Democrats will be massacred at the polls for bringing down a coalition government at time of national emergency.
Friendships across party lines are easy, because the next election is generally years away (Parliament sits now for a fixed term of five years) and most politicians spend plenty of time in their taxpayer-subsidised homes in London.
This year's campaign is one more reminder of why the 39 states that hold judicial elections should scrap them in favor of merit screening and appointment of judges for a long fixed term.
Punishment requires a fixed term.
There is no fixed term now.
More equal constituency sizes Fixed term parliaments, including this one.
The fixed term is normally six or 12 months.
