The cross-party alliance, including 35 Conservative MPs, said it believed that the government "does not have a mandate to redefine marriage".
And while the Peronists are a single (albeit fractious) party accustomed to a single chief, the two-party Alliance has a collective leadership.
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There are even rumours of a cross-party alliance on the voting system.
Voters - some 80% of whom cast ballots - had been faced with returning the ruling coalition or choosing Mr Anwar's untested three-party alliance, Pakatan Rakyat.
The final exit polls forecast anything between 230 and 270 seats for the BJP and its 22-party alliance, and 170-191 seats for Congress and its allies.
Her four-party alliance, which has a two-thirds majority in the new parliament, contains two hardline Islamic parties, a fact that has made the Americans sit up and take notice.
Showing his five-party alliance to be less than united, and far more concerned with satisfying its own appetites and tactical political needs than those of Brazil, the episode has done Mr Cardoso few favours in his quest to be re-elected for a second term.
It means that the combined vote of Sinn Fein, the Social Democratic and Labour Party and the Alliance Party is one short of the overall majority needed.
Gordillo was tossed out of PRI in 2006 and formed her own party, the New Alliance Party, or PANAL. She has since been a staunch adversary to Pena Nieto and made the changes in education law a priority.
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But the three-party opposition alliance - which mounted its strongest-ever challenge to the coalition - has called for a recount.
But Congress of the People, a breakaway faction of the ANC, and opposition party Democratic Alliance hoped to pull enough support to bring the ANC below two-thirds.
Not even the two-party opposition Alliance, critical as it is of unemployment, still around 13%, dares to suggest printing money (the currency-board system forbids it) as a cure.
Others have claimed that Mr Chretien was keen to ensure that former preacher Stockwell Day, the leader of the newly-formed opposition party Canadian Alliance, would not have time to develop a national following.
The joint Green Party and Alliance motion was opened by Anna Lo who said the four licences for exploration for hydraulic fracturing, known as "fracking", had been granted despite a "severe deficiency of research".
Anna Lo of the Alliance Party said she was disappointed that an Alliance amendment had not been adopted.
The party formed an alliance with the Ulster Unionist Party in 2008 and put forward joint candidates in the European and general election.
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The DUP's Lee Reynolds said his party would be trying to persuade the Alliance Party to block the move at the full council meeting.
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Gordillo was expelled from Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party in 2006 and helped found the New Alliance party.
The Labour Party won 52 seats, which with the 11 seats of the Alliance party, its left-leaning partner, will give it a workable majority in the 120-member Parliament.
The BNP has maintained an electoral alliance with the Jamaat-e-Islami since 2001 and many in the party feel the alliance gives them their best chance of returning to power.
He called his party's alliance with the incumbent Labour Government an abomination, and twice failed to have the pact ended by party ballot.
The Alliance Party announced its decision at a news conference at 1000 BST on Monday.
Stephen Farry of the Alliance party described the UUP and SDLP's positions and "utterly unsustainable".
So, too, is Stockwell Day, the new leader of the federal opposition, the Canadian Alliance Party.
His differences with important potential allies in the Panamenista Party make an alliance unlikely.
The Alliance Party's assembly member for East Belfast, Naomi Long, said the attacks were "reckless".
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An Alliance Party spokesman said Mr Ford would not be making any comment on the matter.
He became leader of the Alliance Party in 1987 at the age of 32.
Alliance Party councillor Noel Williams said five protesters burst into a council meeting yelling abuse.
The Alliance party's Chris Lyttle also spoke in favour of the motion and opposed the SDLP amendment.
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