The phrase 'incumbent administration' is a perfectly correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is a formal phrase typically used to refer to an existing government, or the government currently in power. For example: The incumbent administration has faced many challenges since taking office.
9. Scandal: The incumbent administration is untainted by major scandal.
Foreign/military failure: The incumbent administration suffers no major failure in foreign or military affairs.
Foreign or military failure: The incumbent administration suffers no major failure in foreign or military affairs.
Foreign or military success: The incumbent administration achieves a major success in foreign or military affairs.
Foreign/military success: The incumbent administration achieves a major success in foreign or military affairs.
7. Policy change: The incumbent administration effects major changes in national policy.
Indeed, according to the nonpartisan Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), many of these rules adopted between an election and the inauguration of a new president involve "relatively routine matters not implicating new policy initiatives by incumbent administrations".
In many countries, though, the elections served as a rebuke to the incumbent government administrations.
He soon began closing the gap, attacking the incumbent Democratic administration as a deep-rooted, deficit-ridden monopoly that left the state crying out for change.
But when the then incumbent Liberal administration passed an emergency law to crack down on demonstrators, simmering discontent exploded into full-blown dissent.
So they huddled behind closed doors on Thursday for a session with a veteran political strategist, one with his own string of victories and a proven record against an incumbent Bush administration.
