"This does not resemble the man I know, " said former Socialist Party boss Francois Hollande.
The party boss has fierce convictions, and knows where he wants Germany to go.
As a politician, those close to him say he is warm and tactile, like an old party boss.
During the meeting, the governor and party boss of Xinjiang said exaggerated reports about ethnic discord were misrepresenting the region's improving situation.
After Mr Foss declared himself to be homosexual, he easily won election earlier this year as party boss in Oslo, the capital.
Did the government and the party boss put the young reformers up to it then, with at least implicit promises of reward?
Koch's third term was beset by corruption scandals, one of which ended in the suicide of a top party boss in 1986.
But even if Mr Marcinkiewicz continues as prime minister thereafter, few doubt that the party boss will be pulling his strings from the shadows.
The once-influential Lopez lost his job as Brooklyn Democratic party boss and was stripped of his Assembly leadership role last year after the allegations emerged.
Mr Lee, however, is confident that he can unite the party, and on September 30th he officially replaced President Kim Young Sam as party boss.
In Gansu, a party boss has been sacked for forcing villagers to buy mobile phones to "raise their intelligence", South China Morning Post reports.
Leadership is shared between the party boss, president and prime minister.
In Azerbaijan, former Soviet Party boss Heydar Aliyev took power in a 1993 coup, cemented by an "election" in which he won almost 99% of the vote.
Paradoxically, it was the qualities that are now considered her handicaps to being accepted as party boss her sex and her Ossi background that at first propelled her upwards.
Sina features a video of Chongqing party boss Sun Zhengcai telling foreign reporters that his city is still investigating a recent sex photo extortion scam targeting officials.
Parliament, where the ANC has a big majority, seems to be keeping the executive in check more vigorously since Mr Zuma ousted Mr Mbeki as the party boss.
Before long he caught the eye of the provincial party boss and was sent for theoretical training at the Central Party School in Beijing, where he learned proper respect for party elders.
The outspoken and doveish Mr Mitzna, a former army general and the mayor of Haifa for the past eight years, trounced his party boss, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, in Labour's leadership race earlier this month.
The son of a poor building worker, he had a meteoric rise through communist ranks to become the party boss of the industrial city of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) in the Urals, an important regional post.
Take that, party boss number five!
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And since Lazio is close to the state Conservative Party boss, he's likely to get on that party's ballot line as well, which Giuliani wouldn't have been able to do--and that can be good for 275, 000 votes in a statewide race.
The sad truth for Mr Waigel is that he can remain party boss only because Mr Stoiber reckons that now would be a bad moment to bounce him just ten months before both a general election and (especially) a Bavarian state election, which is due a fortnight earlier.
The Essex organization run by County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo is the northern half of what is known as New Jersey's Democratic Party-boss system.
So have Taku Yamasaki, boss of the party's policy research council, and Yoshiro Mori, chairman of its executive council.
AD's side, its 76-year-old candidate, Luis Alfaro Ucero, boss of the party, might find it difficult to swallow his pride and step aside.
Even if improbably in all this he is really only manoeuvring to stay boss of his party, ready to stand (legitimately) for the presidency in 2003, it is deeply irresponsible.
So the Freedomites hope that many conservatives, fed up with the grand coalition but no fans of Mr Haider, will vote for the Freedom Party without fearing that its boss will pop up in government, let alone as its head.
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