Synonyms for absolute majority
ab·so·lute ma·jor·i·ty

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1. majority, absolute majoritynoun

   (elections) more than half of the votes

   Synonyms:
   bulk, legal age, majority

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1. Wolfgango Piccoli:

   While an early election could be helpful in terms of removing hardliners from a Tsipras-led Syriza and, possibly, forcing the party to adopt a more centrist stance, the most likely outcome will be another fragmented parliament in which no party controls an absolute majority, this means that the 'new' Syriza – the party likely to win the largest amount of votes and seats – will have to strike another coalition deal to govern.

2. John C. Calhoun:

   The government of the absolute majority is but the government of the strongest interests; and when not effectively checked, is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised... [To read the Constitution is to realize that] no free system was ever farther removed from the principle that the absolute majority, without check or limitation, ought to govern.

3. Franco Pavoncello:

   The only one who has a chance [for an absolute majority] is Berlusconi the immortal and his coalition, if you don’t get that you must start talking to the other groups and see if you can put together some strange bedfellows in a rather strange bed.

4. Panos Skourletis:

   I believe that an absolute majority in parliament for Syriza is achievable.

5. Simona Levi:

   Where there is no absolute majority and a fragile equilibrium of power, politicians are obliged to listen to the concerns of the people.