As one strategist for the Nepali Congress, the largest of the democratic parties, admitted, the Maoists' interests lie in further polarising Nepali politics, whereas the stated aim of the parties is to build a democratic consensus on the middle ground.
Propose that a multiparty delegation from NATO and EC countries make an immediate visit to Romania to assess the complaints of the five democratic parties about the electoral process.
The political responsibility for the next steps will be shared among all the leading democratic parties.
This confronts the rot that has entered the Democratic and the Republican parties, and the astronomical deficit that America is suffering from.
Sociologist Benoit Scheuer told La Libre Belgique that it was fine for the king to warn of the dangers of populism, although he believed the major democratic parties should speak out as well.
In the meantime, the Republican and Democratic parties are unleashing the last of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of so-called "soft money" -- hard cash -- in the final barrage of campaign ads and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Both the Republican and Democratic parties have been accelerating the timetable for the presidential nominating process.
In 1987, the Democratic and Republican parties established the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates to sponsor and produce the general election presidential debates.
Irrespective of the reputations and the rhetoric of the Democratic and Republican parties today, the empirical correspondence between Republican presidencies and turbocharged entitlement expenditures should underscore the unsettling truth that both political parties have, on the whole, been working together in an often unspoken consensus to fuel the explosion of entitlement spending.
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The right-left divide, a product of the 1988 merger of the Liberal and Social Democratic parties, means the Lib Dems have no clear identity on which to draw when making policy.
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After all, do you think the Democratic and Republican parties will vote for a reform that could erode their entrenched power?
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Indeed, they effectively function as arms of the Democratic and Republican parties.
It is about the remaking of the Democratic and Republican parties.
New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary is at the end of February, and both the Democratic and Republican parties have agreed to hold no other primaries before March 1.
In the 1970s, the Democratic and Republican parties supported a wide array of women's rights policies, including an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, publicly funded child care and equal pay for women.
Myron Lieberman, a former union campaigner who has been increasingly disillusioned with his old friends, estimates that they probably employ more full-time (or the equivalent) political operatives than the Republican and Democratic Parties combined.
Why delegates matter in the presidential race Click through this interactive for an explanation of the different types of delegates and how they are chosen in the nomination process for the Democratic and Republican parties.
In local elections in Italy , candidates of parties in the ruling centre-left coalition did badly, while those of small, revamped Christian Democratic parties of the centre did well.
But so, worryingly, are the two big-tent parties, the Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democratic Party, now partners in the grand coalition government.
Following more than 13 hours of respectful and at times somber debate, the House and Senate voted in favor of the 139-page bill crafted by leaders from both major parties in the Democratic-controlled General Assembly.
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Following a total of more than 13 hours of respectful and at times somber debate, the House of Representatives and the Senate voted in favor of the 139-page bill crafted by leaders from both major parties in the Democratic-controlled General Assembly.
This question is being heatedly debated in the Diet and within the larger political parties, including the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ).
This seems to be a bigger problem for the Democratic Party but both parties are involved.
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So yesterday we heard from the chairs of the Democratic and Republican national parties.
Southerners have long distinguished between the state and national Democratic parties and between local, state and national races.
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The PRI and PAN, and smaller Green Party voted in favor, while the leftist parties led by the Party of Democratic Revolution, or PRD, opposed it.
At the time, with a Republican in the White House and Democratic-controlled Congress, the two parties were divided on how to deal with a deficit that had tripled during the Reagan Administration.
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The government seems prepared, belatedly, to start building bridges to parties such as the Democratic Left, which supports a reform, not abolition, of income tax.
The no confidence motion presented by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)-led opposition parties to the lower house of the Diet on June 2 failed by a vote of 152 for to 293 against.
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The various opposition parties, led by Yukio Hatoyama of the Democratic Party, have talked about running on a unified ticket in July's election, but even that is not yet certain.
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