It was a well delivered speech, showing a man confident as leader of a party in government.
The Speaker is not only the leader of a party, he is the representative of the People's House, and has a responsibility to all members, not just to fellow Republicans.
"As the leader of a party which was censored and demonised and whose members were killed, I see dialogue between all sides as key to building a successful peace process, " he said.
Elsewhere on Tuesday, in the village of Babagam in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a roadside bomb hit a vehicle carrying a local leader of a secular party the Pakistan People's Party, police officer Mohammed Wahid Khan said.
Its champion is Jan Slota, the bombastic leader of a nationalist party that is part of Mr Fico's coalition.
But Mr Wahid is the leader of a minority party presiding over a loose coalition, whose colleagues can run their ministries as their own fiefs and yet blame him for the slow pace of reform.
In a separate incident, the leader of a minority political party was killed Wednesday as he drove through the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, a party official told CNN.
Others in this powerful clan include Hamid al-Ahmar, a leader of the Islamist party Islah and a prominent businessman who has long been an opponent of the president.
Also in The Times, former Labour foreign secretary and SDP leader David Owen, calls it the speech of a "party leader, not a prime minister - it contains not one single idea and is all about British exceptionalism".
The imbroglio also raises the question of who runs the country: the prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, or Mr Kamei, the gadfly leader of a small coalition party, whose six parliamentarians give the DPJ its majority in the upper house of the Diet.
This isn't a personal point against Ken Clarke, I am a friend of Ken's, I think he's a great guy, but when we're talking about the leadership of the party I think it's important that you have a leader who speaks for the majority of the party on a major issue such as Europe and the Euro.
But the leader of a third Flemish party accused both parties of seeking "Utopia".
Then again deciding not to hedge her bets could put a party leader out of a job.
Or can he become a leader of a civilian political party and defeat Chavez via constitutional means?
And from the outset the leader of a smaller opposition party, Antonio Di Pietro, showed a better grasp of how to attack Mr Berlusconi.
Mr Sayadee is a leader of a prominent Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami.
Nawaz Sharif, another former prime minister and leader of a rival opposition party, demanded Musharraf resign immediately and announced that his party would boycott the upcoming election, leading to speculation that the polls could be delayed or called off altogether.
Mr Mulongoti said the MMD's constitution governs the election of a party leader and warned against acting out of panic.
Between the power of a national leader under a constitution which separates power, and the power of a national leader under a system which unifies power through party government, there is no contest.
Well because Richard Seymour, a British writer and the leader of the socialist workers party, wrote a very nasty book about him called Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens.
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For months Mr. Hatoyama Yukio, currently a leader of the New Party Sakigake, and Minister Kan have talked about forming a new party, but it is still just that, so much talk.
For anyone following events in Puerto Rico, this was the year, of course, that Puerto Rico formally voted to reject its status quo identity as a commonwealth of the US while simultaneously voting in as governor a leader of the PPD, the party most closely identified with defending the status quo.
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Bruno Tabacci is the leader of Centro Democratico, a party that together with the Democractic Party forms the center-left coalition.
One contender for the foreign minister's job is Gianfranco Fini, the leader of a once-fascist party and now deputy prime minister.
By impeaching Mr Roh, the opposition has thus transformed him from an embattled figurehead for frustrated leftists into the leader of a potentially dominant political party.
As the leader of a Hindu-nationalist party that governs through a fractious 23-party coalition, he faces political and electoral constraints from which General Musharraf is much freer.
The South African president, eager to show some progress in his faltering shuttle diplomacy, flew to Harare on July 5th and met Mr Mugabe and Arthur Mutambara, the leader of a small MDC splinter party.
If we had that and we had a leader of the party who was leading the party against the Labour Party on all issues except Europe, it was as Ken said yesterday, prepared to appear on the platform with the prime minister, we would have chaos.
Marines went from the mosque to the Azamiyah Palace and then to the home of a Baath party leader in north-central Baghdad in pursuit of the Iraqi leaders, he said.
"New Zealand has the oldest, dirtiest and least efficient car fleet in the whole of the developed world, " said Jeannette Fitzsimons, co-leader of the Green Party, which is a member of the coalition government.
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