That set the stage for Mr. Najib to take over the party leadership and premiership in 2009.
Ms Royal is keen to take over the party leadership and mould a renewed party in her image.
If, however, she decides to take over the party leadership and appoint a new team, she could conceivably generate a wave of support.
Mr Vargas accused Mr Mejia of hiring "a mob", which he said fired the shots in an attempt to take over the party headquarters.
If Zuma were convicted, Motlanthe could take over as party president.
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And both were front-runners to take over the party's leadership after its then leader, Achille Ochetto, lost the 1994 general election to a right-wing tycoon, Silvio Berlusconi.
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They would be happy to see her not only take over the party but also contest the 2012 presidential election, believing that she lacks the stature to challenge Mr Sarkozy.
In his speech Mr Clegg announced that Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander would take over the party's review of how to replace Trident, the UK's nuclear weapons system.
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Once the novelty of power wears off and the agony of austerity begins, these voters could migrate to a Labour Party rendered more Liberal-friendly by a non-tribal leader such as David Miliband (the former foreign secretary and favourite to take over the party).
With the stockmarket and the banks so weak, they say, economic policy must take priority over the party's leadership battle.
ZANU-PF party take over, leaving the apparatus of misrule untouched, the West would be foolish to rush in with misplaced kindness.
Mr Mbeki will take over from Mr Mandela as party president next week and, bar any mishap, as state president in 1999.
Kan, we know, is a lame duck, pledged to resign his position next month in favor of whoever is elected by the DPJ to take over assume his position as party leader.
This is due to a rule that states if a club in Germany receives major financial backing from one party for over 20 years, that party can then take a controlling stake in the club.
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Meanwhile, Sonia Gandhi, widow of Rajiv, a former prime minister, is set formally to take over the leadership of the Congress party from Sitaram Kesri.
He would keep his chairmanship and perhaps take over as leader of the parliamentary party too a daunting power base even with his rival as head of government (should the Social Democrats win).
The series of scandals - Commonwealth Games, telecoms spectrum, 'Coalgate' - that he has failed to prevent, detect or take prompt action over have massively damaged his party and his government and irretrievably dented his own reputation.
One popular guessing game that lingered as the Democrats were preparing to take over the new Congress this year was what party Lieberman would align himself with.
Most believe that when Mahathir is ready to go, he will favor his current deputy, the man he brought into the party and has groomed to take over.
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It can be useful in business, eg. when plotting a take-over, or politics, eg. figuring out which party wields the most power.
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Carrying the defence brief in opposition, he bonded with his Labour opposite number, Bob Ainsworth, over their shared struggle to persuade their party leaders to take the military's low morale and underfunding more seriously.
And an opposition party that has shown once that it does not want to take over in conditions of acute crisis.
Last November, his party finally appointed a deputy chief minister in West Bengal to take over the day-to-day running of the state.
But some are already thinking about the longer term calculating that the party needs to sink lower still and that another leader must then take over before a real revival can happen.
This all as Bhutto's opposition group, the Pakistan's People's Party, selected her 19-year-old son Bilawal Zardari to take over as chairman.
Rupert was quite clear about his editorial influence: He was a "traditional proprietor" for his UK tabloids, the Sun and the News of the World, exercising editorial control over which political party to back in a general election or what line to take on major policy issues like Europe.
Experts predict that, next fall, the Republicans will likely take over at least four seats currently held by Democrats in the House of Representatives, helping the Party expand its majority in Congress.
The new Nobel laureate is of the same generation as the new leaders set to take over the Politburo Standing Committee next month after the convening of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Complaining of disarray among the Social Democrats and of the government's sharp U-turn over the European Union, the People's Party demanded a snap election, which will take place on September 28th.
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