In the 2010 election, a conservative coalition consisting of Mr Orban's Fidesz party and the Christian Democratic People's Party won two-thirds of the seats in parliament, and this powerful majority has made it possible for the governing parties to push through several pieces of controversial legislation.
However, Banda was expelled from the ruling Democratic People's Party in 2010 in a dispute with Mutharika over the president's efforts to position his brother rather than the vice president as his eventual successor.
This is because the most reliable Democratic voters are the people dependent upon government programs and the bureaucrats that administer them.
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Flournoy closely mirrors the previous stated policies of the President, the Democratic Party, and the American people.
People are really interested in the process and in the idea that - so few people carry so much weight in the democratic process, and also, the idea that candidates have to come into people's living rooms and ask for their votes.
To prevent that from happening, it is vital that Tunisia remains committed to the process begun two years ago, she said, with the country's political parties, media and civil society coming together to safeguard the freedoms and democratic progress won by the people.
In his victory address, Mr Kenyatta promised to respect his obligations to the international institutions while simultaneously advising foreigners to "respect the sovereignty and democratic will" of the Kenyan people.
As I said in Parliament earlier today, our alliance is rooted in the bonds between our people, and the democratic values that we share and our commitment to stand with each other through thick and through thin, no matter what.
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His mild-mannered and plain-spoken style, combined with his instinctive cultural conservatism, will make it harder for the Republicans to present the Democratic Party as the tool of bossy people from the east coast or the west.
Parliamentary elections that month saw a high turnout of 84% and a narrow win for the Progressive National Party, which took eight seats to the People's Democratic Movement's seven.
Ibori was not only a state governor when he committed the alleged crimes, he was also a powerful member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) and a financier of the presidential campaign of President Shehu Yar'Adua, now late.
It maintains the quintessentially democratic notion that government works for the people, not vice-versa.
But to most of the American people, Democratic incompetence is no laughing matter.
But I'll tell you, there will be a lot more than the 10, 000 people who showed up for the Democratic caucuses in Nevada in 2004, got a much hotter contest, got national attention and the entire country really looking to see what Nevada was going to do.
But again, I think we're heartened more by the fact that Senator Specter believes that the Democratic Party is the best place to represent the people he represents.
"They are flowing into the mainstream of where American politics and the American people are, " Democratic Whip David Bonior, D-Michigan, who sponsored the amendment, told CNN after the vote.
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And we have brought so many people into the Democratic Party and created enthusiasm among those we seek to serve.
They were from the ruling People's Democratic Party, winning polls in 2007 in Bayelsa, Cross River, Kogi, Adamawa and Sokoto and vote re-runs in 2008.
In March, his supporters blocked attempts by Mr Obasanjo to foist his preferred candidate, Sam Egwu, into the chairmanship of the ruling People's Democratic Party.
This represents a victory for the democratic will of the Ivoirian people, who have suffered for far too long through the instability that followed their election.
Mr. VALDES: I would say that it is a fact that there are enemies of the democratic process and there are people who fear the elections and do not want elections.
But again, since these elections were local affairs, I think there will be plenty of people in the Democratic Party who've been critical of Dean who will still have their same views and won't necessarily be changed by these outcomes.
And there are smart serious people on the Democratic side of the aisle, such as Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md), who might be willing to sit down with their Republican counterparts, roll up their sleeves, and get serious about how to grow the economy.
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Mr Johannesen's coalition government consists of nine members representing the Union Party, the People's Party and the Social Democratic Party.
The polio vaccine was given to at least one million people in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Burundi.
In 1993, the final year of the Democratic administration of Mayor David Dinkins, the police killed 23 people.
By not thinking the Arab people incapable of establishing a free society, the democratic nations of the world will begin to create the real "New Middle East" that so many of us can still dream about.
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The strain of social emancipation, though, did not result in democratic, affordable-for-the-people product, as was the case with mid-century modernism.
The electoral process and the peaceful adjudication of disputes in the Kenyan legal system are testaments to the progress Kenya has made in strengthening its democratic institutions, and the desire of the Kenyan people to move their country forward.
He has worked to bridge divisions within the opposition, which includes the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, his own People's Justice Party and the Democratic Action Party, which mostly appeals to ethnic Chinese voters, and to turn the loose alliance into an effective campaign machine.
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