Liberals and conservatives gripe about $1.1T bill
A proposal to let rich donors give more money to political parties - slipped behind closed doors into a huge government spending bill -- is the latest in a string of setbacks for restrictions...
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Labor has won the Adelaide seat of Fisher after the Liberals pulled narrowly ahead in the hard-fought race.
The SA Electoral Commission on Saturday said Nat Cook was elected after preferences were distributed from last weekend's by-election.
The Liberals' Heidi Harris had been expected to win back the seat, which had been held by former Liberal Bob Such, who became an independent in 2000 and died from a brain tumour in October.
After the initial count on Saturday night saw a swing of more than nine per cent to Labor, Premier Jay Weatherill said it showed voter dissatisfaction with broken promises from the federal coalition government.
Later in the week, Ms Harris led Labor by just 17 votes leading to a cliffhanger preference count.
It's resulted in Ms Cook being elected with 50.1 per cent of the vote ahead of her rival's 49.9 per cent.
Mr Weatherill congratulated Ms Cook, saying her life experience and outstanding work will make her a strong and valuable voice for the people of Fisher and South Australia.
"In the end, Labor won Fisher because we ran the best candidate with a positive agenda and I look forward to working with Nat in government," the premier said.
Earlier in the week, senior Liberals admitted Defence Minister David Johnston's claim he wouldn't trust SA-based shipbuilder ASC "to build a canoe" played a large part in the initial swings towards Labor.
Federal SA Labor MP Amanda Rishworth said her colleague's success sent a chilling message to Prime Minister Tony Abbott about abandoning South Australians.
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The Conservatives want to replace Daniel Constantin at the helm of the Conservative Party (PC) by merging with Calin Popescu Tariceanus new party, according to the stiripesurse.ro news website. The merger with PLR could be considered, especially since they were working together. They are not yet a party, have no structures, but they have a fairly powerful parliamentary group, so a possible merger under PCs aegis, with a possible L from Liberals added to it, would raise the strength of a center-right party. If a new party is formed everything will have to be changed, a PC leader explained, being quoted by the aforementioned source.
In September, Calin Popescu Tariceanu stated on public television (referring to the new PC-PLR parliamentary group set up back then) that this is not an agreement between parties, but strictly between parliamentary groups that have decided to unite in order to gain more strength. We have become the third-largest group in Parliament. We plan to promote solutions in what concerns the right-wing spectrum and to fulfill them. The parties (PC and PLR editors note) maintain their independence.
In his turn, Daniel Constantin stated on that occasion, in a communiqu, that he salutes President Calin Popescu Tariceanus decision to join us, in order to jointly build a strong parliamentary group that would promote center-right measures. () Along with our PLR colleagues, we have thought-out a dynamic and flexible parliamentary construct that helps us fulfill the center-right doctrinaire goals, without affecting in any way the other commitments taken by our parties at political and government level.
According to Daniel Constantin, depending on the results of the parliamentary cooperation between PC and PLR, results that will be embodied in the Center-right Measures for Romania program, it would be possible to develop the partnership in other dimensions too.
Daniel Constantin is criticized by several PC MPs and members of party branches for being too close to Premier Victor Ponta, the critics demanding a distancing from PSD as a result. According to stiripesurse.ro, during a meeting of PC branches from northwestern regions, a meeting that took place at the end of last month, it was clearly stated that almost everyone is dissatisfied with the partys current leadership and that a party congress would be welcomed. The news websites sources hinted that this congress should result in the replacement of Daniel Constantin.
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Liberals, Roma, Integration, Central Europe, Southeast Europe.
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