U.K. designers including Burberry's Christopher Bailey, Matthew Williamson, Giles Deacon and Richard Nicoll created dresses for the opening party, dressing the likes of Li Na (Deacon) and Ana Ivanovic (Williamson).

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Tanjung and Marzuki, he says, are just window dressing for a party that remains what it always was: a patronage machine.

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In 1995, when Mr Zeroual, a retired general, was the army's choice, there was no question that he might lose to any of the three party leaders who provided window-dressing.

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That they can agree on things like distributing championship rings during a (rather hush-hush) party at the home field and dressing players in team uniforms to sell video games, may mean there are some cracks in impasse.

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The only party that can easily fulfil all these criteria is Mr Mubarak's National Democratic Party, which might then choose, for the sake of window-dressing, to endorse a few rival candidates from the handful of weak secular parties.

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There were also a number of fringe debates, which covered issues including racial equality, access to the countryside and carers - not forgetting the party's Bond night on Friday, which saw MSPs and activists getting into the movie mood by dressing up as film characters.

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