centre-left

If it can be called such, one of the benign legacies of the Pinochet years has been a succession of stable centre-left governments.

He is as close to a liberal as is possible in a country where Communists are considered part of the centre-left mainstream.

If the centre-left is likely to be little better than Mr Berlusconi at reforming Italy, then technocracy has an irresistible appeal.

Having made a few, Mrs Merkel now seems more comfortable with the switch from a centre-left coalition to a "bourgeois" one.

The centre-left in Britain has run out of ideas, temporarily at least.

A similar cooling of relations marked the beginning of the end of Italy's previous centre-left government.

More often than not, the big parties are unable to form politically coherent "centre-right" or "centre-left" coalitions.

The centre-left is now tipped to win a forthcoming presidential election, mainly because voters feel the need to protect the poor.

One possible route would be to seek the formal or informal support of the Green Party, traditionally part of the centre-left grouping.

The centre-left mayor of Naples, Rosa Russo Jervolino, warned Mr Prodi of the looming crisis a year ago.

On reflection, the investment of so much hope in one politician was inadvertent confirmation of the depth of the centre-left malaise.

Mr Humala's cabinet is mainly of the moderate centre-left, including many independents and a liberal economic team.

But would that provide the basis of a ruling coalition on the centre-left with the clout to cut a deal with the Palestinians?

Admittedly, some of the travails of the European centre-left reflect problems that are peculiar to the old continent.

Labor has struggled to marry what remains of its old base with a new generation of affluent, centre-left voters.

The European centre-left tipped up in Oslo the other day to chart the future of progressive governance.

Unfortunately, the centre-left opposition is no more credible an exponent of reform.

The brief crisis has shocked the centre-left into unity, at least for now.

So far they have responded rather coolly, saying that their place remains in the Social Democrat-led centre-left alliance.

Those who seek social progress cannot be a party of the centre-left or the centre-right.

Here was a politician who could lend precious economic credibility to the centre-left cause across Europe.

As well as the Conservatives, the new centre-left Green Party, involving three former mayors of Bogota, will hold a primary on that day.

In Slovakia the centre-left prime minister, Robert Fico, is likely to be re-elected.

Another survey in Panorama, a magazine, suggested that the centre-left would hold on to all but one region.

For the good of the economy, and of the centre-left, somebody needs to find the brake soon.

The journey culminates with a gathering of centre-left leaders at Vina del Mar, a Chilean beach resort.

Soon after coming to power, Hatoyama's centre-left government announced a review of the agreement, provoking irritation in Washington.

Third, parties of the centre-left should argue for redistributing the spoils of globalisation, not sacrificing them.

His centre-left European allies were willing for a Briton to take the foreign-affairs job.

Argentines should note that Brazil's centre-left government has espoused fiscal prudence and free trade and welcomed foreign investment.

Arguably, the biggest winners were the pan-European parties that unite politicians from Europe's centre-right and centre-left.

But an even bigger challenge has been posed to the political projects of western governments of the centre left and centre right.

If Europe's premier green party made a deal with the centre-right, that might leave the centre-left feeling lonelier than ever.

Similarly, in Panama the ruling centre-left Party of the Democratic Revolution should retain power.

The Dutch centre-left coalition government is prevaricating over whether to extend the mission of its troops beyond 2008.

The centre-left Party of European Socialists (PES) unites ex-communists from eastern Europe with Nordic social democrats.

The early front-runner is Á alvaro Colom, a candidate of the centre-left who lost to Mr Berger in 2003.

But his younger brother, Ed (centre-left in photo), has a broad popularity in the party that may yet bring him victory.

But so did the main centre-left party: the big winners were parties even further to the left.

The incumbent, centre-left administration hoped to give both a future by making Venice Italy's candidate city for the 2020 Olympics.

In the US and Britain, the centre-left learned it could win elections only by accepting the Reagan-Thatcher settlement.

The biggest and most intractable of them has historic links with the centre-left Democratic Party (PD).

And he has a gift for wrapping centre - left (by American standards) policies in language that has wide appeal.

The centre-left opposition, which recently dumped Mr Veltroni, is making little headway.

Australians have cast them in the role of being the new force of the centre-left.

Italy's centre-left government teetered after two small parties withdrew their support.

Speaking for his centre-left trade union, Mr Zuza grumbles that Mr Reinfeldt is too negative about Saab.

The prime minister's remarks came after an acrimonious meeting of European centre-left leaders.

Most centrists and centre-left parties in the opposition have already pledged their support.

Mr Rudd countered in November with "Howard's Brutopia" , an article in the Monthly, a centre-left journal.

Even when the centre-left has ruled Italy it has done so with technocratic help.

Most other Labour thinkers are struggling to adapt their 1990s, jam-for-all model of centre-left politics to the post-crunch era.

But it has also attracted the centre-left.

There is a huge demand for fresh, responsible, centre-left thinking and effective leadership across Europe.

In hard times Swedes' natural centre-left instincts tend to come to the fore.

It is a socially liberal place, proud of its welfare state and ruled for 79 of the past 115 years by the centre-left Liberal party.

The centre-left governments that have ruled since 1990 have signed free-trade agreements with half the world.

The centre-left opposition in Italy has tabled a no-confidence motion against the government of Silvio Berlusconi.

Rudd's centre-left Labor Party won elections 97 days ago on November 24, 2007, ending almost 12 years of conservative rule.

Some members of Chile's pro- US centre-left governing coalition support Caracas's bid.

The two leading candidates are both on the tax-and-spend centre-left.

The legislation, backed by President Cristina Fernandez's centre-left government, passed by 33 votes to 27 with three abstentions.

He has often expressed sympathy for moderate centre-left governments.

The centre-left Social Democrats saw their share of the vote slump to 23%, the lowest since 1932.

A small plume of dust is even visible to the centre left of the image, which was kicked up by the falling debris.

The centre-left government of Kevin Rudd, the prime minister, expects unemployment to reach 7 per cent by mid-2010.

His centre-left coalition government has pledged to make the country carbon neutral by 2030, bringing forward its previous deadline of 2050.

Centre-left politicians fret over what the new stringency might do to areas such as Naples, where huge swathes of the economy are black.

What's striking is that the centre-left has failed dismally to capitalise on the discontent.

The centre-left did badly in most countries.

The centre-left was exultant.

Some noted that a centre-left government had similarly blockaded Albania's ports in the 1990s.

We urged them to back his centre-left opponent in March 2008.

What is absolutely clear, though, is that the ground has shifted under the centre-left.

That is partly why the centre-left NDC won its victory.

The centre-left DPJ's election landslide last year ended half a century of conservative rule in Japan.

After New Labour: Social Theory And Centre-left Politics