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In the early nineteen-nineties, Clean Hands effectively destroyed the Christian Democrat and Socialist Parties, and in 1994 there was a huge electoral shift, this time to the newly formed party of the magnate Silvio Berlusconi.
NEWYORKER: Booted
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The chairman of Germany's Social Democrat party Sigmar Gabriel called his socialist counterpart in Paris a "victim of slander" by the ruling coalition and by Merkel personally in a recent interview with German daily Die Welt.
CNN: After 'Merkozy,' what next for Europe?
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Mr Dehaene, a Christian Democrat, seems likely, along with his Socialist coalition friends, to find some egg on his face.
ECONOMIST: Belgium sinks in deeper
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Henri and Mitterrand were, in an odd way, two of a kind: Mitterrand the socialist-monarchist and Henri the royal democrat.
ECONOMIST: Henri d��Orl��ans
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Socialist Ricardo Lagos, who won January's election, succeeds Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei and becomes the third democratically-elected president since General Pinochet stepped down in 1990.
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