It raises the prospect of some tense wrangling among Tory MPs as they try to find agreement over just how far the party should go in its quest for a new settlement for Britain, our correspondent said.

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PRI's national leader, Roberto Madrazo, in his quest to be the party's candidate in 2006.

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The Associated Press reported Wednesday that Buchanan would begin his quest for the Reform Party nomination after making an announcement Oct. 25 in Virginia and perhaps later in New Hampshire.

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"We are not picking and choosing who may get bonuses, " Lamberts, a member of the Belgian Green party, told CNN's Richard Quest.

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On one quest, I entered a party and all the party-goers kept looking at me while they were walking around the room -- or even into each other.

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His quest for a second term has split his centre-left Democratic Revolutionary Party.

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