He went on to join Mr Chiluba in setting up the Movement for Multiparty Democracy.
Asked if Laos would embrace multiparty democracy, Khamtay insists the people want one party.
In 2008, in the first-ever multiparty elections, voters ended three decades of autocratic rule by Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
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One price the Greens demanded was a multiparty parliamentary committee to devise a fresh climate plan (the opposition coalition boycotted the committee).
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Mr Mwanawasa famously fell out with his predecessor, Frederick Chiluba, who had handpicked him to lead the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy.
One the eve of the crucial multiparty elections, that figure is now closer to half a million -- or six percent of the Yugoslav population.
Citizens have voted in municipal elections in Saudi Arabia, in parliamentary elections in Jordan and Bahrain, and in multiparty presidential elections in Yemen and Egypt.
"It's extraordinarily difficult to negotiate any type of multiparty settlement, particularly when the sums involved reach into the tens of billions of dollars, " he said.
Politicians, adrift in the new multiparty sea, now needed campaign funds.
Malawi banned women from wearing miniskirts and trousers during decades of dictatorship, but repealed the law in 1994 when the nation adopted multiparty democracy, White said.
But with multiparty rule key to Lib Dem ambitions, the Clegg inner circle believed that the British public needed convincing, from the start, that coalition government works.
Propose that a multiparty delegation from NATO and EC countries make an immediate visit to Romania to assess the complaints of the five democratic parties about the electoral process.
Mr Banda's Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) has ruled Zambia for 20 years and this was the fourth time Patriotic Front (PF) leader Mr Sata had run for the presidency.
Yet in the tangled multiparty system of Japan, it is far from certain that liberalization will stay on track, and markets will be roiled in the month it will take to sort this out.
In a region where multiparty elections are increasingly becoming the rule rather than the exception, the challenge remains how to prevent the process from being marred by violence before, during and after the polls.
On behalf of the American people, I congratulate the people of Zambia on the historic September 20 presidential, parliamentary, and local elections, and I commend you for building on your commitment to multiparty democracy.
WHITEHOUSE: Statement by the President on Zambia��s Elections
In years past Turkey's spotty democracy was often cited to prove a negative: the Turkish case (along with Indonesia's and Malaysia's, also with reservations) showed that Islam did not pose an insuperable barrier to multiparty democracy.
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