President Lincoln and his National Union Party gained popular support.
VOA: special.2009.12.10
To give himself a real shot at becoming Indonesia's next president, Rais needs to increase the disappointing 7.4% of the popular vote that his National Mandate Party won in the parliamentary elections last June.
With more relaxed laws than neighbouring South Africa under the Calvinistic NationalParty, homelands were popular destinations for gambling, strip shows and prostitution.
Leopoldo Lopez, national coordinator of the opposition Voluntad Popularparty, called Rivero's detention illegal and part of a campaign to arrest and "morally assassinate" Venezuela's opposition leadership.