Under UMNO tradition, the party president will have to choose from one of three vice presidents.
Hence on January 3rd it decided to back Dr Mahathir unopposed as party president.
India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has elected veteran politician Rajnath Singh as the new party president.
If Anwar gives the word, the nominations will start to flood in for him for party president next year.
Ex-party president Simon Hughes replaces Steve Webb as energy and climate change spokesman.
On Tuesday night, the incumbent party president Nitin Gadkari said he had decided not to seek a second term.
Mr Clegg will also be supported by party president Tim Farron - who has called for further NHS bill concessions.
The moderates duly strengthened their grip on the party machine, with Jose Dirceu, Lula's closest lieutenant, easily re-elected as party president.
Mr Mbeki will take over from Mr Mandela as party president next week and, bar any mishap, as state president in 1999.
In the absence of an early general election, his only chance of keeping his job is to get himself re-elected as party president.
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His colleague and party president, Gerry Adams, was also given the title when he stepped down as MP for West Belfast in 2011.
Sinn Fein said it had investigated whether those suspended members had followed party president Gerry Adams' call for party members to give witness statements.
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Liberal Democrat party president Tim Farron told local Lib Dem parties to start selecting the day after Nick Clegg withdrew his support for redrawing constituencies.
Over the years, he became a trusted and respected senior Sinn Fein figure, close to both party president Gerry Adams and chief negotiator Martin McGuinness.
If Zuma were convicted, Motlanthe could take over as party president.
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Former party president Dafydd Iwan recalled the 75th anniversary on Thursday of the burning of the RAF bombing school in Penyberth by Welsh nationalists, including Saunders Lewis.
Shiv Sena party president Uddhav Thackeray and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Vinod Tawde said his comments were "a cruel joke on the drought-hit population of the state".
Mr Opik, known for his romances with weather presenter Sian Lloyd and Cheeky Girls singer Gabriela Irimia, had 506 supporters on his "Lembit Opik for Lib Dem Party President!"
It has led to questions from Irish political commentators as to whether Sinn Fein can ever re-build momentum in the Republic with the bearded Belfast man as party president.
Party president Tim Farron said it would be "flipping crackers" to abandon the deficit reduction goals, as it would lead to "market chaos" and rising interest rates and unemployment.
In a crafty attempt to limit these infidelities, Mr Duhalde is touting Mr Kirchner for the post of Peronist party president, to be chosen at a congress in November.
Lib Dem party president Tim Farron said any move "to limit undue influence on the political process by private individuals, businesses and the trade unions can only be a good thing".
Sonia Gandhi, Rahul's mother, is the current party president.
Her task is to work with Robert Hue, national secretary for the past seven years and now named to the new post of party president, in the run-up to France's presidential and parliamentary elections.
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Party president Gerry Adams led the Sinn Fein delegation at their first meeting with the secretary of state, since the parties returned last week from St Patrick's Day celebrations at the White House in Washington.
In the introduction to the Liberal Democrat conference in Birmingham, party president Tim Farron praises what he calls the "bravery" of councillors who lost their seats and have still made the trip to the annual conference.
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Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has asked party president Tim Farron to conduct an immediate review into the party's procedures for dealing with allegations of harassment, including an examination of how allegations made in the past have been handled.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party President Sonia Gandhi visited some of the 37 people who were injured in the attack in a hospital Sunday in the Chhattisgarh state capital and said the government would take firm action against the perpetrators.
Mori's only real rivals were Foreign Minister Kono Yohei (who once was LDP party president when the party was out of power and so is the only LDP president never to be prime minister) and Kato Koichi, who heads the second-largest Diet faction.
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