In the brief twitterstorm (twitter-shower?) after the Mirror's scoop on Mr Miliband's departure emerged, I compared him to another lost leader, Michael Portillo.
Mr Leon thinks that Mr Chavez's party (PSUV) may well try to hurry along the process in order to take advantage of the emotions of Venezuelans still mourning their lost leader, and before problems such as Venezuela's high inflation rate return to the forefront of their minds.
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At a UK level it has been a difficult few months for the Liberal Democrats, having lost a Leader, Charles Kennedy MP, over his struggles with an alcohol problem, and a Home Affairs spokesman, Mark Oaten MP, over a sex scandal.
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"The peace process has lost a courageous leader on both sides of the camp, " he said.
The U.S. has lost an exceptional leader who has served his country for 38 years.
Prime Minister YOUSUF RAZA GILANI (Pakistan): I've lost my own leader, Benazir Bhutto, because of the militants.
The Tamil Maanila Congress, a constituent of the United Front, had walked out after its leader lost the prime ministerial race to Mr Gujral.
More than four months after an election that he officially lost, leftist leader Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador says he won, and yesterday he declared himself the legitimate president of Mexico.
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On January 18th, America lost a gifted corporate leader, generous philanthropist and great patriot, Terrence Elkes.
Meanwhile, Yahoo, the category leader, lost a sizable chunk of its share, falling from 56.15 percent to 51.32 percent.
After the interview, polls published in The Australian newspaper showed that she had lost ground to opposition leader Tony Abbott.
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Plaid Cymru's Richard Parry Hughes, outgoing Gwynedd council leader, also lost his seat.
Australia has had five leaders -- and in one case the same one twice -- since 2007, when long-time Liberal leader John Howard lost the federal election to Labor's Kevin Rudd.
Shortly after that, the national executive lost a no confidence vote and leader Michael Holmes resigned, although he remained an MEP.
Despite a generally good performance, Welsh Tories will have to find a new leader after Nick Bourne lost his regional seat.
Mr Davis, who lost the contest to become Tory leader to David Cameron in 2005, said UKIP's policies on law and order, immigration, taxation, foreign affairs, and Europe "mimic a simplified 1980s Tory manifesto".
But its leader, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, lost his job as home-affairs minister, and his party spurned two seats in the national cabinet.
That came on the back of a painful defeat for deputy leader Helen Mary Jones who lost her seat in Llanelli.
Likud's leader, Yitzhak Shamir, lost to Rabin in the election last June.
The South Down MLA, John McCallister, has lost his position as Ulster Unionist deputy leader after making a speech criticising unionist unity.
Then there is Erdogan's goal of reasserting Turkish regional dominance and reclaiming the lost power of the Ottomans as the leader of the Islamic world.
Even if he commands his own New Democracy party, the PanHellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok) has dramatically lost support and is divided under its leader, Evangelos Venizelos.
And both were front-runners to take over the party's leadership after its then leader, Achille Ochetto, lost the 1994 general election to a right-wing tycoon, Silvio Berlusconi.
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Tom Daschle, the Democrats' leader in the Senate, narrowly lost his South Dakota seat to John Thune.
The outspoken Druze leader, Walid Jumblatt, has lost half his fief to his chief rival, Talal Arslan.
Labour had "lost one of its sharpest thinkers", leader Ed Miliband said.
Peter Robinson, the scandal-hit first minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the Democratic Unionists, lost his East Belfast seat to the nonsectarian Alliance Party.
Texas, as course, lost Vince Young, who was their star and leader in the Rose Bowl game, that classic Rose Bowl game, last year.
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