The coalition's third main party, the catch-all Brazilian Democratic Movement, lacks a credible contender.
Those elections pitted incumbent President Mwai Kibaki against Raila Odinga who leads the Orange Democratic Movement.
Kibaki's camp urged patience for the official results, and accused Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement of being behind the violence.
Odinga founded the dominant political party there, known as the Orange Democratic Movement.
Mr Bayrou's new Democratic Movement (MoDem) looks somewhat isolated with only three seats.
Thus emboldened, the centrist Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement has secured a second congressional inquiry, into the financial system.
Those far-right views do not fit with the values of his MoDem (Democratic Movement) party, Bayrou told reporters in Paris Thursday.
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Attempts continue to lure the other main party in the Cardoso coalition, the venal and faction-ridden Brazilian Democratic Movement, into Lula's government.
The new governing coalition will be led by the Hungarian Democratic Movement and its co-founder, Jozsef Antall, is likely to become the next prime minister.
He hopes to rectify this by bringing in the Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement, a large centrist group, but that may not happen soon.
More dangerous is discontent in the president's own Workers' Party and its biggest ally, the Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement, to which Mr Temer belongs.
Parliamentary elections that month saw a high turnout of 84% and a narrow win for the Progressive National Party, which took eight seats to the People's Democratic Movement's seven.
Even the recently formed United Democratic Movement, an effort by an Afrikaner, Roelf Meyer, and an African, Bantu Holomisa, to gather multi-racial support, is favoured by just 4% of voters.
The men, all supporters of Mr Odinga's opposition Orange Democratic Movement, denied involvement in attacks on members of Mr Kibaki's Party for National Unity and his Kikuyu ethnic group in the Rift Valley.
To add to Mr Franco's smouldering resentment, his quixotic effort to run for the presidency against Mr Cardoso last year was squashed by government supporters in his catch-all Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement.
The Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement, a ramshackle concoction of regional political barons that is the coalition's biggest force, is trying to secure the presidencies of both houses of Congress, which are being contested at the moment.
On May 24th all but one of the 73 lower-house deputies of the catch-all Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB), the PT's main coalition partner, voted for an amendment to a new Forestry Code to grant an amnesty for illegal logging before 2008.
Zimbabwe's opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, started impeachment proceedings against President Robert Mugabe .
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) again collected most seats in urban areas.
Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai this month that he and his party will participate in the elections.
The Senegalese army said rebels from the Casamance Movement for Democratic Forces attacked Credit Mutuel bank in Kafountine on Friday.
She was detained during a raid on the offices of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and charged with obstructing justice.
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Helping democratic voices inside the movement were Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Isayas Afewerki of Eritrea, the rebels' new supporters.
"Zimbabwean security authorities seized 12 individuals, including the mother and a 2-year-old child, affiliated with the Movement for Democratic Change, the opposition party, " James McGee said Thursday.
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When the ferry was relaunched on 10 September, the two leaders of the Casamance Movement of Democratic Forces, the MFDC, were in Ziguinchor harbour to greet it.
Mugabe's ZANU-PF party and the Movement for Democratic Change, led by Tsvangirai, have failed to implement the September 15 power-sharing deal because they cannot agree on who should control key ministries.
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Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, remarked that a coup would not solve Zimbabwe's problems: only fair and open elections, free from violence, would begin to do that.
Negotiators in Zimbabwe said they were close to a power-sharing deal between President Robert Mugabe's ruling party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change led by Morgan Tsvangirai, who would become prime minister.
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