FIS's armed wing descended into violence, and terrorism, in a bid to get its party unbanned.
Naturally, New Orleans is known for its party vibe being home to Mardi Gras.
Hizb ut-Tahrir faces a similar balancing act between its party faithful and the real world.
The Obama Administration, and its party controlled media allies, totally ignored the Household Survey as too unreliable in those months.
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The leadership also wants at least a third of the delegates to its party congress in November to be under 30.
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But not everything is bad news for the government and its party.
The Hindu enclave was a canny choice by her faction of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI by its Indonesian initials) to hold its party congress.
The Blackguards and Doomsayers got off to a bad start by landing on a newsflash square which resulted in the authorities outlawing its party political broadcast.
Even before the election was called TIM had decided to bring forward its party congress giving it a perfect public springboard for the launch of its campaign.
So the government's decision on hunting could make the difference between further handsome support for its party funds or opposition from a determined and deep-pocketed lobby.
They have only half the votes at its party conference, compared with 90% at their peak, and in 1996, for the first time, they provided less than half the party's national income.
Another clue to the Labour Party's motivation is provided by looking at how it plans to choose its party lists, and, critically, how it determines the order of candidates on each list.
The convention also approved its party platform - a policy agenda that calls for tax cuts to revive the economy, repealing and replacing a healthcare law passed by Mr Obama, and an end to abortion.
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Nader is running this year as an independent, but he has been endorsed by the national Reform Party, with its state party affiliates deciding if he gets their ballot line.
Burmese opposition party, the National League for Democracy, is holding its first party congress since it was formed more than 20 years ago.
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But the departure of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, with its 17 seats, was a bitter blow, especially after Mr Barak had supported the party in its battle with another coalition ally, Meretz, over money for its religious schools.
Ya'an has also tried to turn its local party congresses into proper supervisory bodies.
In Virginia politics, the Bliley machine is known for its pro-business views, not for its Tea Party adherents.
This year Cape Town had to prepare for its biggest party since the first democratic elections of 1994.
With the moderate Jamiat-i-Islami as its central party, the government has acceptable Islamic credentials -- a core requisite.
Evidently he thinks he can bring down the Gillard government and its Green party allies with unceasing political pressure.
Sinn Fein later moved Ms McCardle from the position and said this was part of its normal party policy to rotate staff.
Thus, the selling out of the GOP resulted in silencing free speech on the issue of abortion rights within its own party.
He also formally resigned from both the Brotherhood and its political party.
The government tried to enter talks on a regional free-trade agreement last year, but was pushed back by farmers, opposition politicians and even its own party.
Clearly, China can be huge in so many ways but it cannot be great as long as its ruling party must govern by stifling information and criticism.
One priority for the new government ought to be to root out the cronyism (and its linked party financing) that gave property developers too much political influence.
It was the hostility of Conservative governments over the years that spurred the movement to set aside its historic reluctance to engage in politics and found its own party.
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