But the London Mayor - who defected from Labour to form a party of one when he ran for the capital's top job - cannot help but pop up on the conference fringe.
Anwar's former political secretary Mohamad Ezam Noor, back from exile in Indonesia, has been trying to shape the reformasi movement into a cohesive political force - though whether the authorities will allow him to form a party remains to be seen.
He said it was unlikely that he would be joining the Alliance party but said that he might form a new party.
The local press is awash with rumours that supporters of Mr Mbeki, led by the defence minister, Mosiuoa Lekota, may leave to form a new party to contest next year's election.
But while Mr Miller sat at the summit table on Thursday night, a group of parliamentarians from his Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) met in Warsaw and agreed to break away and form a new party.
Climate Change Minister Stewart Stevenson immediately told the chamber the government would act on the Liberal Democrat suggestion to form a cross party short life working group to bring forward new targets, which would be scrutinised by the parliament.
He broke from the right-wing party Likud in November 2005 to form a new centrist political party, Kadima, which means "forward" in Hebrew.
Ukraine's Vice Prime Minister Hrihoriy Nemyria, a member of Ms Tymoshenko's bloc, denied the party was trying to form a coalition with Mr Yanukovych's party.
He also said he would leave Likud to form a new centrist party.
Mr Qanooni remains in the government, though he was clearly disgruntled when he was only offered the lower-profile education portfolio, and has said he will form a new political party.
Plaid Cymru - whose three MPs form a joint parliamentary party with the SNP six - appears equally reluctant to deal unless the UK government offers a massive transfer of powers from Westminster to Cardiff Bay.
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The winning party has already started informal talks with the country's socialist party to form a new government, with a cross-party coalition likely to be formed by Wednesday.
Mr German was repeatedly pressed on Lib Dem terms for coalition, but he refused to go any further than the party's previous stance: that it was prepared to form a coalition with any other party as long as Lib Dem policies formed the "backbone" of a government programme and it was not a step to independence.
The court heard how the defendant had been at a sixth form party and left with school friends to pick up some food and cigarettes from a garage.
He had been at a sixth form party before leaving with two school friends to pick up some food and cigarettes from a garage.
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His People of Freedom (PDL) party is hoping to form a centre-right coalition government with another party after it came second in inconclusive February elections.
In Greece, center-right New Democracy claimed first place in elections, and party leaders have pledged to form a coalition government with the socialist Pasok party.
His People of Freedom (PDL) party is hoping to form a centre-right coalition government with another party after elections on 24-25 February, but have not named a candidate for prime minister.
We have elections every five years and anybody can form and register a political party and stand for election.
Mr Leterme was nominated to form a government after his party came ahead in the poll, winning 30 seats in the 150-seat lower house of parliament, ending eight years in opposition.
Some of Mr de la Rua's advisers urge him to form a new cross-party coalition, based on Mr Cavallo's small party and the Peronist governors, who are more appreciative of economic orthodoxy than many of Mr de la Rua's nominal supporters.
Despair for many Conservatives seeing themselves forced into third place in a seat they need to win to form a majority government in the future and by a party they now fear will rob them of that chance.
If that happens, Congress may well get to play the role of a spoiler and join hands with the BSP's rival, the Samajwadi Party, to form a coalition government.
It was a mistake, she says, to form a coalition with the Conservative Party.
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The BBC correspondent in Sofia, Nick Thorpe, says it will be hard for either main party to form a credible coalition.
Some suspect that Mr Klaus may be planning to form a new nationalist, Eurosceptic party when he leaves the presidency in 2013.
India's recent elections stunned everyone there, enabling the dominant Congress Party to form a strong government instead of the previous, often unwieldy coalition.
True, it is constitutionally possible for the Lib Dems to bring down the government and form a coalition with the Labour Party without an election.
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