{"id":114342,"date":"2015-05-07T06:57:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T06:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=114342"},"modified":"2015-05-07T06:57:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T06:57:11","slug":"u-k-gears-up-for-unpredictable-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/05\/u-k-gears-up-for-unpredictable-election\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. gears up for unpredictable election"},"content":{"rendered":"
The U.K. will hold one of its most unpredictable\u00a0elections in decades Thursday, and with no clear winner \u00a0likely, the stage is set for days of political horse-trading to determine the country\u2019s next leader.<\/p>\n
The U.K. has traditionally seen government pass between \u00a0the two main parties\u2014the Conservatives, currently led \u00a0by Prime Minister David Cameron, and the Labour Party, \u00a0led by Ed Miliband.<\/p>\n
But the latest polls suggest that \u00a0neither will win a majority of seats in Parliament\u2014and \u00a0may need more than one other party to cobble one \u00a0together.<\/p>\n
A debate about which party would have the most \u00a0legitimate claim to govern has begun even before polling booths opened.<\/p>\n
The Conservatives are forecast to win the most seats, \u00a0and are likely to claim that gives them a mandate to \u00a0continue to lead the U.K. for the next five years.<\/p>\n
But Mr. Miliband could be in a position to argue that \u00a0he has a bigger mandate, by drawing on the support of \u00a0like-minded parties. Such a scenario would be legal and \u00a0has happened before in the U.K.<\/p>\n
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Source: wsj.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The U.K. will hold one of its most unpredictable\u00a0elections in decades Thursday, and with no clear winner \u00a0likely, the stage is set for days of political horse-trading to determine the country\u2019s next leader. The U.K. has traditionally seen government pass between \u00a0the two main parties\u2014the Conservatives, currently led \u00a0by Prime Minister David Cameron, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":114343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[38,14],"yoast_head":"\n