One reason is the natural wear and tear of being the main party in office.
It is the main party in the United Iraqi Alliance bloc that dominates the country's security forces.
Mr O'Farrell is the last of the main party candidates to be picked.
Ravi Bopara last played for Kings XI Punjab on 7 April and is also scheduled to fly with the main party.
Massimo D'Alema, the prime minister, who hails from the main party of reformed communists, has carried parliament and the country with him.
And it commits the main party leaders - who all signed it - to taking action against any candidates or campaigners who provoke racial prejudice.
All the main party manifestos backed the idea that those who make our laws should be elected rather than appointed to, or inheriting, the job.
Meanwhile, the European elections and, more importantly, the local elections on the same day will be a major electoral test for both the main party leaders.
As for the Liberal Democrats (despite their silly claim to be the main party of opposition), they praise the government for adopting their own tax-and-spend agenda.
Soon after he was elected party leader, Mr Trimble showed he was prepared to upset some of the unionist rank and file by meeting with the main party leaders in the Irish Republic.
The exact margin of victory could prove important, however, and could potentially leave Mr. Najib vulnerable to a leadership challenge from within the United Malays National Organization, the main party in the National Front.
He jousted with Mr Moussa in the television debate and he is backed by some secular leftists as well as by the main party of Salafists, who won more than 20% of the seats in parliament.
Faced with a crumbling Labour government and Mr Cameron's seduction of the swing vote, the Lib Dems should have sought to become the main party of the left once Sir Menzies Campbell relinquished the leadership in 2007.
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Voting against the declaration were the regional members of parliament from the Spanish prime minister's conservative Popular Party and most of the regional members from the Socialist party, which is the main opposition party at the national level.
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And the aide had quoted me something about according to an agreement that all the candidates had made with the main party, the Democratic Party, that they weren't going to accept any debates that fell outside the prearranged ones or the prescheduled ones.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, the main opposition party, said it will support the bill in Parliament.
The ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) won the country's first multi-party general election for 16 years, getting 80% of votes cast to 10% for the main opposition party, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).
There has again been speculation about the revival of a "third front" - a loose alliance of regional parties - to take on the ruling Congress party and the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the general elections.
Attempts continue to lure the other main party in the Cardoso coalition, the venal and faction-ridden Brazilian Democratic Movement, into Lula's government.
It means that both the PPP and, especially, the other main party, the Pakistan Muslim League (N), led by Nawaz Sharif, have a bank of religious-minded voters whom they must be careful not to offend.
If he does, it will probably be under the banner of the main ruling party, the National Democratic Rally.
The DMK is the main opposition party in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, which has a large population of Tamils.
Mr Sharif chose to form an alliance last year with the Mohajir Qaumi Movement, the main political party in the city.
The Hindu nationalist BJP, which currently holds power in the state and is the main opposition party at the national level, got just 40 seats, the same as the Janata Dal (Secular), a local party in Karnataka.
Ms. RODGERS: Well, Ian Paisley, who's the leader of the main Unionist party, the DUP, which obviously favors unity with Britain--his response, while not exactly welcoming, has not been as vitriolic as it has been in the past.
But in the teashops of Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city, the talk two decades on is not of sanctions but of the need for dialogue, of frustration with the main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, and even with its detained leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and of the widening gap between those who oppose the junta from abroad and those who live under its thumb.
The most dramatic by-election victories of the past have been won not by the main opposition party but by the Liberal Democrats.
The centre-right Social Democrats, the main opposition party, and the smaller right-wing Popular Party, have announced that they will get together, as the Democratic Alternative, to fight the election.
The Social Democrats, the main opposition party, will study the agreement and decide whether to support it in the next 24 hours, a party official said.
The Irish government has been under pressure from the main opposition party Fine Gael over the effectiveness of the investigation into the car bombing of Omagh, County Tyrone on 15 August 1998.
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