Sentence examples for micro party from inspiring English sources

One Nation's ability to attract preferences has improved significantly since it collapsed into just another micro party.

Photograph: Cleo Fraser/AAP 1.10am BST For now, Abbott has to deal with the current Senate, but from July he and his Coalition government will need support from a number of micro party senators who Greens leader Christine Milne has labeled "a plethora of people who have no idea what their policy is".

Micro party senators hold the balance of power in the upper house and have proven a headache for the Coalition.

"They said they would preference micro parties and would be put the major parties last," he said.

With 21 parties running this year – almost double the number from the 2010 election – there has been ample opportunity for so-called "preference harvesting" between micro parties.

By agreeing to direct preferences towards one party, analysts believe micro parties stand a chance in the upper house, with the potential of holding the balance of power.

The Upper House is much less predictable, with the possibility of micro parties such as the Shooters and Fishers, Family First or Country Alliance winning seats.

Senator Lazarus said a number of the micro parties, including the Jacqui Lambie Network, had developed their constitutions together, working with Senator Xenophon".

Max Phillips, a media adviser to the NSW Greens MLC Jeremy Buckingham, said a WikiLeaks representative had told him WikiLeaks would preference micro parties before the Greens.

The AEC confirmed that Muir had taken the sixth spot in the Victorian Senate race as a result of preference flows from other micro parties.

Now it remains unclear which of the micro parties that did elaborate preferences deals will win critical seats, with fortunes swinging from hour to hour.