It is not clear that Congress can put together a majority coalition.

With the 2006 results a majority coalition requires at least three parties.

Until some answers are found, the Democrats will have trouble rebuilding their old majority coalition.

Scholars say there may be no new majority coalition until a major event, like an economic downturn.

If you have persuasive proposals to address big problems, the majority coalition will build itself.

Since none of the parties was able to build a majority coalition, they decided to give the voters another chance to produce a workable result.

The Catholic conservatives formed the largest bloc, but they were least likely to form a majority coalition.

Together, that gives them 48 seats, enough to make a possible swing vote in the battle to put together a majority coalition.

However, the number of seats won was not a majority, and efforts to form a majority coalition with other opposition parties failed.

Mr. Vajpayee has been given until the end of the month to fashion a majority coalition.