But Golkar's chief advantage is that no other big party is clean enough, or zealous enough in the cause of reform, to show up Golkar's murkiness.
The landslide of 1997 saw Keighley, one of nine West Yorkshire Conservative seats, fall into Labour's hands to give the party a clean sweep of all 23 constituencies in the county, and deliver Ann Cryer to Westminster on a 10% swing and a majority above 7, 000.
Second, he would say no to new investments in clean energy, after his party already voted against the clean energy tax credits and loans that are creating thousands of new jobs and hundreds of new businesses.
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The scandal greatly embarrasses the Social Democrats, the more so because they have presented themselves as the clean party, in contrast to the Christian Democratic Union, which has been mired for two years in a vast party-finance scandal of its own.
Mr Ikeda took over the leadership in 1960 and soon formed the Komeito (Clean Government Party).
The third main grouping is Yabloko, a moderate liberal party which prides itself on clean hands but has never been close to power.
While the Kochs have long attracted the ire of liberal activists for underwriting the Tea Party and trying to kill clean air legislation, this was the first time one of their summits was greeted by a protest rally.
Its 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo and full-size drive is way snappy -- the machine boots from cold to desktop in 26 seconds (granted, it's a clean install without any third party software installed).
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His long-dominant Christian Democratic Party collapsed in the so-called "Clean Hands" corruption trials of the early 1990s.
Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Ed Davey accused Mr Cameron of being "terrified of betraying the Eurosceptic wing of his party", adding he "must come clean on where he now stands".
In one season an opposition party, or younger African politician, vows to clean up government and root out the graft that helps to keep the continent poor.
Even its relatively doctrinaire Prosperous Justice Party, which tripled its share of the vote, emphasised clean government, not Islam.
Antonio di Pietro, one of the principal judges in the clean hands trials, now has his own political party.
Last week, Clean Skies co-sponsored a kick-off party at the Democratic National Convention, and the group is making its presence known at the Republican event in the Twin Cities.
Nevertheless, Mr Kufuor has the goodwill and support of throngs of loyal party supporters, as well as many Ghanaians who simply want a clean break from the Rawlings era.
Arthur Jarman said it was "highly desirable" that the union should have good relations with a party which he said seemed to be "genuinely beginning with a clean slate".
Its board is counting dimpled chads even when the rest of the ballot contains clean holes, and is even taking into consideration which party the voter supported in other races.
"The best way to proceed if you want to take big money out of politics and clean up the lobbying scandal is to act on a cross-party basis, " they added.
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The other main party, Sam Rainsy's, is popular, in Phnom Penh especially, for its clean image.
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His rationale: venture-backed clean tech companies need to be efficient with their capital, and that means turning to a third party to build their wares.
Lula and his party not only stood for social reform but claimed, from their experience in local administration, a monopoly on clean government in Brazil.
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