Nor is Mr Gligorov's own ex-communist Social Democratic Alliance a hotbed of Macedonian patriotism.
When votes were finally totted up, the largest opposition party, the liberal Democratic Alliance, had won barely 12%.
The police minister made the revelations in written answers to a parliamentary question from the opposition Democratic Alliance.
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The main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party said it shared the values of non-racialism and constitutionalism with Agang.
There is talk of a joint democracy campaign by Mr Sharif's party and the 17-party Grand Democratic Alliance.
However, the opposition Democratic Alliance has called for the cancellation of power contracts with other Southern African Development Community states.
The opposition Democratic Alliance says board members could be fired on political whims, which would kill the SABC's fragile independence.
Opposition Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said President Mbeki had not managed to calm the nerves of the South African nation.
This week the neo-liberal (and confusingly named) Civic Democratic Alliance, the most junior partner in the ruling coalition, started to disintegrate.
The opposition Democratic Alliance party (DA) called for the officers involved to be suspended and for a thorough investigation to be carried out.
Klitschko, the leader of the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform, admitted that there were concerns about whether they would be ready in time.
The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) will again be the largest single party in the legislature with 13 members.
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With his Telugu Desam party's stunning success in India's recent parliamentary elections, Naidu has become an indispensable component in the 24-party ruling National Democratic Alliance.
As exit polls had indicated, PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Bharatiya Janata Party and its National Democratic Alliance won a comfortable majority in India's parliamentary elections.
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Tony Leon, the former leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance, claims that policing has been devastated by cronyism and that the entire criminal-justice system is dysfunctional.
That sentiment is echoed by Helen Zille - the premier of the Western Cape province and head of South Africa's main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance.
Linda Malyon, of the Moorlands Democratic Alliance, said it was "a major issue for the whole district" and a full council meeting could have been quickly arranged.
But the main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party described the bill as "unconstitutional" and urged President Jacob Zuma to refer it back to parliament for further amendments.
But Congress of the People, a breakaway faction of the ANC, and opposition party Democratic Alliance hoped to pull enough support to bring the ANC below two-thirds.
The departure of the Social Democratic Alliance would force a reconstruction of the government as party holds the defense and foreign affairs portfolios, and a deputy prime minister post.
In late April the so-called Grand Democratic Alliance of parties demanding the lifting of the ban on political rallies, urged Musharraf to announce a time-schedule for a return to democracy.
But critics of the bill, including three opposition parties under the umbrella of the Democratic Alliance claim the law targets law-abiding citizens and will deprive them of their right to self-defence.
It is critical that we disrupt these financial lifelines from the West before Cuba, Nicaragua and Panama cement an anti-democratic alliance in Central America that would pose a grave risk for U.S. security.
Angry residents, as well as members of the governing African National Congress's (ANC) youth wing and the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), marched to the court to demand an end to rape on Tuesday.
Brown Mpinganjira was a founding member of President Bakili Muluzi's ruling party, but formed his own party, the National Democratic Alliance, partly to oppose the president's efforts to win a third term in office.
His predicament would be even more dire if Tsang Yok-sing, the leader of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong, another pro-Beijing group, also decides to quit the cabinet something he has not ruled out.
Opposition party reaction has varied from the Democratic Alliance tabling a motion of no confidence in the deputy president, to the Inkatha Freedom Party regretting that Mr Zuma had no opportunity to clear his name in court.
The Alliance was only formed in May 2011 as a merger of the two main opposition groups, the former governing United Bermuda Party and the Bermuda Democratic Alliance, in an effort to stop splitting the anti-PLP vote.
Eritrea has signed an accord with Sudan that may lead it to evict the National Democratic Alliance, the umbrella opposition group that has so far been allowed to use the Sudanese embassy in Asmara, the Eritrean capital.
The opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), led by Helen Zille, a former Cape Town mayor and now premier of the Western Cape, seemed set to improve sharply on the 15% it won in the last local polls in 2006.
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