Larry Makovich of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, an industry consultancy, is a free-marketeer by training and an advocate of deregulation.

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As a former research chemist as well as a free-marketeer, her views carried even more weight than the usual Prime Ministerial utterances.

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Its candidate for prime minister, Jan Rokita, is a clever, short-tempered free-marketeer.

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Hence the new image he is trying to fashion of a more compassionate sort of free-marketeer appealing to a wider range of Czechs.

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No: the late Craxi was head of the Socialist Party, and as a self-proclaimed free-marketeer Mr Berlusconi is supposedly in favour of privatisation.

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Mr Garcia, who has put on weight since his first term as a leftist president in the 1980s, is now a US ally and free-marketeer.

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And another, Josef Tosovsky, now an ardent free-marketeer, will get back his old job as head of the central bank, having been running the country's stop-gap government as caretaker.

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Frits Bolkestein, a Dutch free-marketeer of Eurosceptical outlook (by Dutch standards), would be a tough commissioner for competition, one of the few posts that really matter, if he gets it.

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De Beers controls the world diamond cartel and, as soon as the diamond fields around Mbuji-Mayi were captured, its men hurried to Goma only to be told by Mr Mawampanga that, as a free-marketeer, he disapproves of monopolies.

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And the free marketeer in him clearly relishes the prospect of really taking on the big, rich and well-entrenched firms that dominate the oil industry.

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