These ties will help solidify Turkish secular democracy and its pluralistic multi-party system.

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Parliament, which is dominated by Mr Museveni's National Resistance Movement, is expected to vote soon on whether formally to adopt a multi-party system.

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Firstly on social care - local authorities fear that multi-party talks on reforming the system of social funding have stalled.

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So the political system in Chad is not one of sort of multi-party democracy where you go out and try to win the vote of the people and serve the people.

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