Take the case of Shahbaz Sharif, exiled brother to a former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, also in exile, whom General Musharraf overthrew.
Also, saddened by exile, they favour the certainties that orthodoxies provide rather than trying to understand how a western democracy works.
Moreover, Muslim and Croat parties, almost all of whose supporters are in exile, probably also took at least a fifth of the vote.
Another former Haitian leader - the first democratically elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide - has said he is also ready to return home from exile.
Former premier Benazir Bhutto, living in self-imposed exile in Britain, is also wanted on several counts.
Also Monday, the opposition's exile political leadership, the Syrian National Coalition, said a delegation was heading to Doha, where the Gulf state of Qatar will host a two-day Arab League summit starting Tuesday.
During World War II, Sikorski was commander-in-chief of the Polish Armed Forces and was also prime minister of the Polish government in exile.
But there are also homecomings as terrible in their way as exile: parents who finally reclaim children from orphanages, but live out their relationships in stigma and silence, for ever hoarding food and quailing before policemen.
Her opponent, Jose Serra, also suffered persecution during Brazil's military rule and was forced into exile during the 1960s.
Chavez has also used his power to intimidate the opposition, forcing some opposition leaders into exile and physically undermining the everyday work of locally elected opposition officials or by taking away functions they were supposed to perform.
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His irritation may be understandable (Britain is also furious with the Kremlin for refusing to co-operate over the murder of a Russian exile with British citizenship, Alexander Litvinenko, in London in 2006).
Former President Didier Ratsiraka, 76, who went into exile for several years after losing a disputed election to Mr Ravalomanana in 2002, is also on the list of candidates.
He also captures such fascinating behind-the-scenes sidebars as the internecine battles of Algerian parties in exile for control of French shantytowns and the strategizing of French officials to combat the insurgency.
Also present was former defense minister Juan Ponce Enrile, who helped drive Imelda and president Ferdinand Marcos into exile in the 1986 People Power uprising and who is now helping her get back some of the family assets.
He also wrote a memoir, "Light My Fire, " and a novel, "The Poet In Exile, " in which he imagines receiving messages from a Morrison-like artist who had supposedly died.
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