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The fact that the liberals want to unseat the Ponta Government and come to power as soon as possible is a desideratum that has kept being repeated by the PNL leaders since the presidential election.

The last time, PNL Co-president Alina Gorghiu said in an interview on Adevarul Live on Friday that the liberals would come to power much sooner than PM Victor Ponta expected. For its no-confidence vote to be successful and bring down the Ponta Government, PNL needs the backing of UDMR, PMP, UNPR and National Minorities MPs, or at least of most of them.

If the no-confidence vote is initiated and fail, a new one may only be introduced during the Parliament season in the autumn. For a no-confidence vote to be adopted there must be a minimum of 287 votes in favour.

Currently, the new PNL has a total of 171 MPs. The first the liberals will try to convince to come with them are the 26 MPs of UDMR. UDMR left PSDs side and the ruling coalition, but party President Kelemen Hunor has not made any firm statements in support of the no-confidence vote so far and says the initiators should say what will happen if the motion is adopted, what government and programme they will have.

The Liberals trust that the 13 Popular Movement Party (PMP) MPs will also vote to dismiss the Ponta Government; however they say they will not negotiate with them. Even so, they are still 64 votes short. On the other hand, the Government counts on its majority of 348 votes consisting of PSD, PC, UNPR and Calin Popescu Tariceanus group, unless the 48 UNPR MPs do not give in to the invitation made to them by the liberals more or less explicitly and formally, as well as through secret negotiations to convince Deputy Prime Minister Opreas progressives to quit the current ruling coalition and join the new PNL.

It is very difficult to obtain a majority leading to the adoption of the no-confidence vote without the support of UNPRs MPs, PNL Prime Vice President Ludovic Orban has recently said. The scales may not only be tipped by Gabriel Opreas UNPR MP, but also by various PSD MPs who may be contemplating joining the new parties that are to be founded by Mircea Geoana, Marian Vanghelie and Sebastian Ghita.

If the rumours at the beginning of last week, when the freshly ousted Geoana and Vanghelie were saying they already had from 50 to 100 PSD MPs unhappy with the current situation, became true, its obvious that PSD would have issues regarding its majority in Parliament.

It is still to be seen how things will unfold.

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Labor Party faces a major blow, set to lose power in its last state of South Australia after the Liberals claim victory in Tasmania. Nine News.

South Australian voters would feel cheated if Labor was returned to power despite the Liberals getting a majority of the vote, Tony Abbott said in a blunt message to two key independents.

The prime minister praised Liberal leader Steven Marshall and the state party for garnering almost 53 per cent of the two-party preferred vote in Saturdays election, saying in other states it would have given them a thumping majority.

In a shock result, both major parties failed to win enough seats to form a majority government, with each now locked in negotiations with independents Bob Such and Geoff Brock.

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An employee of the Council of Europe holds a placard which read "I am Charlie" and a pen, during a minute of silence in front of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, January 9, 2015, two days after gunmen stormed weekly satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The two main suspects in the weekly satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo killings were sighted on Friday in the northern French town of Dammartin-en-Goele where at least one person had been taken hostage, a police source said.

Liberals are hypocrites and cowards, some conservatives (and Bill Maher) are saying, for (among other things) claiming to be defenders of the freedom to engage in offensive speech in light of the Islamic extremist attack on Charlie Hebdo while continually seeking to censor speech they consider offensive.

Liberals have exalted Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French newspaper, after the attack at the paper's headquarters that left 12 dead. "Je Suis Charlie," (French for "I am Charlie") was a common refrain and hashtag from many quarters.

Even as liberal news outlets argued for the freedom of speech, they ironically continued to self-censor Charlie Hebdo. Many decided not to show audiences the images that led radical Muslims to kill those who offended them. When some of those outlets claimed the decision was done out of respect for religion, conservatives were quick to point out the double standard.

After Associated Press said it did not want to publish "deliberately provocative images," Washington Examiner's Timothy Carney pointed outthat the AP website showed and sold copies of "Piss Christ," an artwork that was deliberately designed to provoke Christians. (It has since been removed.)

After the executive editor of The New York Times said his paper did not run the cartoons due to its policy of not publishing images that "gratuitously offend," several conservatives pointed out that the policy did not seem to apply to Christians or Jews.

When the New York Daily news published a Charlie Hebdo cartoon, it pixilated out the offensive image of Mohammed, but left the offensive image of a Jewish rabbi in place.

So, it must not be out of a deference to religious sensibilities in general that the media is not publishing the Charlie Hebdo cartoons. The only explanation for this hypocrisy, Mollie Hemingway argued for The Federalist, is that the media is comprised of cowards.

"The story in the self-censorship is that global news organizations won't publish these cartoons out of fear," she wrote. "We should not be told the self-censoring is a matter of principle when it's a matter of abject and degrading fear."

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