Though the latter were never entirely comfortable with the emerging Democratic ruling class, their big business constituency pressed them to be their advocate to it.
In Egypt, for instance, reformist currents have gained prominence within the ruling National Democratic Party, just as they have within ruling families in the Gulf.
The ruling Democratic Convention, which shares power with two other parties, is itself a grouping of several parties.
Peter Mutharika is the presidential candidate of the former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in elections due next year.
The ruling Democratic Party of Japan picked Noda as its new leader Monday.
Panama's ruling Democratic Revolutionary Party is ideologically opposed to a continued American presence.
The ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) is consumed by infighting and defections.
ECONOMIST: And the mainstream parties would do well to heed it
The vote comes with polls expected in coming months and the ruling Democratic Party (DPJ) hit by low public support.
Still, just before the vote, the deputy leader of the ruling Democratic Rally party beseeched Europe not to give up on Cyprus.
This question is being heatedly debated in the Diet and within the larger political parties, including the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ).
The intervention came just one day after Prime Minster Naoto Kan won an internal election for leadership of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan.
The ruling Democratic Party of President Boris Tadic hopes candidate status might boost its chances of winning the general election it may call early next year.
Marek Belka, the prime minister, is in a weak position, as his ruling Democratic Left Alliance has been falling apart over scandals and a weak economy.
Uncertainty remained over the situation in Cyprus, where a plan to tax local bank deposits failed to pass after the ruling Democratic Rally party abstained from voting.
In challenging Naoto Kan, the prime minister, as leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), he threatens to bring down Japan's third government in 12 months.
There was a heavy police presence outside court, where hundreds of supporters of the former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) gathered, but, unlike on Monday, there was no violence, he says.
Mr Fujii, say people who have spoken to him, was fed up with the power wielded over Mr Hatoyama by Ichiro Ozawa, secretary-general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ).
Soon, though, the censure motion may leave Mr Noda no choice but to dissolve parliament, pushing him into an autumn election that polls suggest his ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) will lose.
However, Banda was expelled from the ruling Democratic People's Party in 2010 in a dispute with Mutharika over the president's efforts to position his brother rather than the vice president as his eventual successor.
Mr Noda's ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) had recently proposed slapping another two yen tax on cigarettes and selling down the government's stake in Japan Tobacco, which many people saw as a sensible way for a debt-strapped government to help pay the huge costs of post-tsunami reconstruction.
ECONOMIST: The new prime minister takes a leaf out of the LDP��s book
They gave the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) 40 extra seats and, by doing so, gave the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) its first serious challenger in half a century (see second chart).
The bureaucrats are appealing, in time-honoured fashion, to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's road lobby.
Paradoxically, as the Japanese economy weakened, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has actually grown stronger.
The first of them pitches the ruling Liberal Democratic Party against the Bank of Japan.
Ryutaro Hashimoto's ruling Liberal Democratic Party aims to introduce a package of bills in the next session.
She is a TV personality and a member of parliament for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
His ruling Millennium Democratic Party failed to win a majority of seats in the National Assembly in April.
Mr Takamuki was summoned to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party headquarters and asked to think hard about Chizaki.
Japan's small and medium-size enterprises provide 80% of the jobs and most of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's votes.
It must now also contend with political pressures: the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the banks are long-standing friends.
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