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A group of voters or politicians who share common goals. | A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance.
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has said he fears international sport will turn into the "Games of Political Bloc A" and the "Games of Political Bloc B".
Talking about the absence of any mention of the India bloc during the rally, a senior CPI(M) leader said, “It's too early to say anything about the future of India bloc, that is why we organised the rally under the banner of our youth organisation.
Talking about the election campaigning of the INDIA bloc, he said for the past few days, he has received plenty of invitations from various parties and candidates of the opposition bloc from all over the country.
As Mr Sseggona and this group turned to resuscitate the "DP Bloc" idea, they said as a bloc they would support Bobi Wine in next year's elections.
Nonetheless, Paduano vowed to remain committed in his role as fiscalizer, stressing that his leadership in the opposition bloc will be democratic and respectful of the position and beliefs of the 21 other members of the bloc, the Makabayan group included.
Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet, marking his party’s winning 32 of Quebec’s 78 federal seats, said the Bloc would be the voice in Ottawa of the Quebec National Assembly and that he would meet with Legault.
But since these elections began 40 years ago, when the bloc was only 15 countries, turnout to vote for the Parliament — the bloc’s only directly elected branch — has decreased every five years.
Economists warn that leaving the bloc without an agreement on terms would disrupt trade by imposing tariffs and customs checks between Britain and the bloc.
Gantz heads a 54-strong bloc of MKs who have endorsed him as prime minister, but the 10 Arab MKs in the bloc would not be part of a coalition led by him.
The bloc is offering to instead tweak the accompanying political declaration on future EU-UK ties and says controls on goods would largely not be needed on the sensitive Irish border should the UK decide to stay in the bloc’s customs union.
The right-wing bloc maintains its strength and even becomes stronger, but the balance of power within the bloc changes in favor of the Religious-Zionist settlement movement and the true-right.
He clarified that the Elders Council never promised the Okigwe bloc automatic senate ticket for Okigwe zone, pointing out that the elders only promised to consider the bloc in any major party office available in 2019.
A trade bloc is a group of allied countries agreeing to minimize or eliminate tariffs against trade with each other, and possibly to impose protective tariffs on imports from outside the bloc.
Nasr, Vali, The Shia Revival, Norton (2006), p.137 Khomeini strongly opposed close relations with either Eastern or Western Bloc nations, believing the Islamic world should be its own bloc, or rather converge into a single unified power.
With few exceptions, the Bloc's seats were won by the NDP, though the Bloc did not suffer as severe a beating as the one it handed the PCs 18 years earlier.
A broad bloc of civil society, business, and political leaders worked out a transition blueprint last December.
According to Momodu, he also lost in the PDP presidential primary and he has moved on, adding that the party has been fair to its southern bloc and he is fully supporting his party's flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar, and the running mate, Ifeanyi Okowa.
According to the bloc, the EU has pledged €102.5 million in humanitarian funding for Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria.
A day earlier that was mentioned in a bloc's meeting with Western Balkan leaders in Brussels.
A deadline given by a bloc of other West African nations to the Nigerien military junta to reinstate the ousted president ran out with no sign of a military intervention by neighbors.