Such a move would certainly make a centre-left alliance a much more formidable electoral force.
Not even a change of control in Sheffield would produce the centre-left alliance of which Mr Ashdown dreamed.
So far they have responded rather coolly, saying that their place remains in the Social Democrat-led centre-left alliance.
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The center-left alliance led by Pier Luigi Bersani narrowly won the lower house, but failed to gain control of the upper house.
There is, after all, something of a German precedent: the centre-left alliance under Willy Brandt which displaced a grand coalition in 1969.
The center-left alliance is dominated by the Democratic Party, led by Bersani.
Its insistence on leading any centre-left alliance has prevented one being built.
On Friday, the leader of Italy's centre-left alliance, Pier Luigi Bersani, promised to step down as soon as a new president was elected.
Luciano Dias of the Brazilian Institute of Political Studies sees in this the start of a durable centre-left alliance that could realign the country's politics.
Syriza, an opposition hard-left alliance, stands every chance of gaining support.
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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.
His supporters also hope that the victory on October 24th of the centre-left Alliance in neighbouring Argentina, just across the River Plate, will inspire voters to back change.
The centre-right opposition Civic Platform (PO) is strongly in favour of an early election and the centre-left Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) has also stated that it would like an early poll.
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.
Thus emboldened, Mr Prodi's friends reckoned that, if a wide-ranging centre-left alliance once again emerges before the next general election, due early in 2001, its candidate for prime minister should be chosen in American-style primaries.
United Left Alliance lawmaker Clare Daly told the Irish parliament Wednesday that the bill would not stop the "exportation of abortion" -- referring to the Irish women who travel to Britain for terminations to circumvent the ban.
Mr Prodi, whose own centre-left alliance, known as the Olive Tree, won the 1996 general election in cahoots with the unreformed ex-communists, is said to be bitter that Mr D'Alema snatched his job without winning an election.
Fernando de la Rua, the presidential candidate of the centre-left opposition Alliance has echoed Mr Duhalde in backing convertibility.
The centre-left Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in Europe (PASDE) is the second largest bloc with 183 MEPs, followed by the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) with 84.
This week its current left-right alliance broke up acrimoniously after only 18 months in office.
As voting day approaches, Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right House of Liberties coalition is maintaining a clear lead in opinion polls over Francesco Rutelli's centre-left Olive Tree Alliance.
UN's slowness to assemble a police force has left the Atlantic alliance with its hands full as the sole keeper of order in the former war zone.
Simon ran for mayor of Chiclayo in 1983 as a member of United Left, an alliance of leftist parties in Peru founded in 1980 but did not win the elections.
With 100 percent of the districts counted from Sunday's ballot, unofficial results showed that the conservative coalition led by Chirac and Juppe captured just under 30 percent of the vote, compared to 40.6 percent for a left-wing alliance of Socialists, Communists and ecologists.
There are also questions about whether an alliance of left and right can stick together.
One example is in Greece, where Syriza has transformed itself from a loose alliance of left-wing groups into the formal main anti-austerity party.
While many black Muslims follow a divergent strain of Islam, Vickers found a home in the Wahhabi-connected AMC and served as its executive director from June 2002 until February 2003, after he left the American Muslim Alliance.
And then, at around the half way point of the campaign, came her call for what she dubbed "the United Welsh Alternative" a grand alliance of left-wing, anti-cuts parties and organisations - principal among them, Plaid Cymru and Labour, working together to oppose the UK Government.
Uria and Jeantet, the Spanish and French members of the original alliance, have left rather than see their cultures submerged.
The same objection applies to an alliance with the left-leaning Labour Union.
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