Sentence examples for umbrella party from inspiring English sources

Klaus Welle, secretary-general of the European People's Party, the umbrella party for the EU's Christian Democrats, explains with some dismay: "Blair says he wants something between socialism and capitalism.

As Joseph Daul, leader of the European People's Party, a centre-right umbrella party, Le Pen would first have to win a national election to force France's withdrawal from the euro or the EU.

First, Mr Chirac's attempt to build an umbrella party of the right has collapsed.

SMK: SMK always used to be an umbrella party for ethnic Hungarian voters, winning around 10 percent of the vote.

Inside the FATA, Mehsud was forming Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, an umbrella party of some 40 Taliban groups that claimed as its goal the domination of Pakistan.

Labour needs to develop its links not only with its sister parties in the umbrella party of European socialists but also with those more leftwing parties in the party of the European left.

Each of the main political umbrella parties picked a candidate for commission president, with the understanding that the Spitzenkandidat of the largest grouping would be the parliament's nominee to run the commission".Who put this in the treaty?" a bemused Mrs Merkel is said to have asked confidants when she realised that the European Parliament was making a power grab.

The main umbrella-parties in the parliament want to campaign around leading candidates (Spitzenkandidaten in German) to be president of the commission.

The leading umbrella-parties are fielding candidates known by the German name of Spitzenkandidaten, complete with a series of face-to-face debates, and have agreed that the candidate of the largest group will be parliament's choice to lead the commission.

His brand of politics evolved into a one-party rule with some dissidents and rival parties pulled into his umbrella political party, the People's Socialist Community.

This time, however, the Tamil National Alliance TNAA) — country's largest Tamil umbrella political party — threw its weight behind Sirisena, as did the country's largest Muslim parties whose members had grown alienated by Rajapaksa's support of hardline Buddhist groups like the Bodu Bala Sena, which in recent years fomented deadly riots.