But it is clear that she can contemplate inter-party co-operation only on her terms.

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Mr Jones said inter-party talks failed last week because "the usual channels didn't work".

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Mr. Hilton, 42, had just lost an inter-party election for a part-time, unpaid position on the party's national council at the Winnipeg national convention.

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Councillor June Tandy, Labour group leader, said she could "categorically rule out any formal coalition" between Labour and any other group but said it was "obvious" there would be inter-party talks.

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But it has a small majority and its formation was as messy as Thai politics can be: days of haggling and inter-party defections and a moment of farce when, within minutes of each other, both Mr Chuan and a rival each declared himself to have a parliamentary majority.

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As a result, any action in the Senate to approve such a reform effort is likely to kick off an inter-party war in the House that will make the battles inside the GOP caucus over the fiscal cliff, debt ceiling and tax increases for the 1 percent appear, by comparison, to be a walk in the park on Sunday.

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But surnames aren't reliable either, given the number of inter-marriages that occurred under Ba'ath Party rule.

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"Foro", as it is commonly known, is an inter-American organization founded in 1990 by the then leader of the Brazilian Workers party and now President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva.

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It emerged in the inter-war years as a split from republican liberalism, and while it became a traditional social democratic party after the fall of the Colonels regime in 1974, its forms of organisation, and mass base among civil servants and small business people, lead some to compare it to Argentine "Peronism" - that is left nationalism with a working class base.

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