Mrs Gandhi has named a four-member team to run party affairs during her absence.
Though Mr. Wu remained active in party affairs, he retired as the village's party chief in 2003 and relinquished his key positions to a son, Wu Xie'en.
The leader of the main opposition Hindu nationalist BJP plays an important role in party affairs, though he or she is not necessarily the prime ministerial candidate.
Alliance Party Youth Affairs spokesperson Michael Long has welcomed ChildLine's decision to open an office in Belfast.
In its wide-ranging report, the cross-party home affairs committee said MPs had visited Portugal as part of attempts to understand different systems of decriminalisation which were being used around the world to manage the harm of drugs, rather than just hand out penalties for their use.
Earlier this month, the cross-party Commons Home Affairs Committee urged the government to establish a royal commission to consider alternative policies - including possible decriminalisation.
And Mr George, who has served on the Commons agriculture select commitee and been a fisheries spokesman, will now speak for the party on rural affairs and food issues.
On top of all this are the relations between elected Tory politicians and what they invariably refer to as "the voluntary party" - principally the Board which runs the party's affairs in Wales.
The party's foreign affairs spokesman Menzies Campbell took the second largest amount of money before he dropped out of the race.
Mr Blackford, who was suspended from the position after revelations about the party's financial affairs, lost by 632 votes to 143.
Jenny Jones, the Green Party's home affairs spokesman on the London Assembly, said she was worried officers may have hidden police uniform numbers to avoid identification.
Mr Hughes gained even more media attention after becoming the party's home affairs spokesman in 1999, having come second to Charles Kennedy in the Liberal Democrat leadership election on a platform of greater autonomy from Labour.
These days, it is also perfectly acceptable to wear garden-party dresses to more formal affairs.
Mr Jojima, 65, is a former Democratic Party (DPJ) parliamentary affairs' chief who worked with Mr Noda on the sales tax hike.
On December 4th, Labor members of parliament changed leaders a fifth time, dumping Mr Beazley in favour of Kevin Rudd, the party's foreign-affairs spokesman.
Yet Vietnam undermines these efforts by allowing a tiny party elite to meddle in affairs of state, constantly overriding the advice of government technocrats and economic specialists.
One factor was increased scrutiny of the party's home-affairs policies.
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He has now been expelled from the Socialist Party for lying about his financial affairs.
Sir Ming spent years as his party's spokesman on foreign affairs, and this remains his strength.
Monday's all-party meeting, convened by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath, was aimed at breaking the impasse.
His masterly inaction in domestic affairs allowed the Liberal party to capture the agenda on social reform.
It arose when Ann Widdecombe, the Tory party's spokeswoman on home affairs, called for a mandatory fine for anyone caught in possession of cannabis.
The departure of the Social Democratic Alliance would force a reconstruction of the government as party holds the defense and foreign affairs portfolios, and a deputy prime minister post.
Moreover, while Netanyahu shunts aside his own party's most popular politicians like Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe Ya'alon in favor of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, he demoralizes his party faithful and his voters.
These are supposedly democratically elected but party regulations still give unelected party chiefs the final say over village affairs.
But its leader, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, lost his job as home-affairs minister, and his party spurned two seats in the national cabinet.
The People's Daily reported on the minister's meeting with Zhou Yongkang, a Politburo member of the Communist Party who looks after security and legal affairs, while China Daily reports on Mongolia's wish to boost bilateral co-operation in areas such as mining.
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Should a majority of the latter give Ariel Sharon a mandate, it will be a powerful signal of strength and resolve provided he does not immediately adulterate that message by seeking a national unity government that would assign key portfolios (such as defense and foreign affairs) to failed Labor party figures like Barak and Shimon Peres.
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