But supporters of the plan have hit back, with over 50 Conservative activists, including constituency chairmen, the chair of Conservative Future - the party's section for under 30s - and the chair of the National Conservative Convention - which leads the party's grassroots work - urging MPs to listen to the "wider views" of voters.
Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the Syriza party, leads in polls ahead of the June 17 election.
Next week David Cameron will seek to fire up the Conservative Party he leads (with, no doubt, the fragrant Samantha by his side).
All this is embarrassing for the Congress party, which leads the coalition government.
Nobody knows if the urbane Mr Jaitley, who leads the party in Parliament's upper house, or the pugnacious Sushma Swaraj, in the lower house, is really in charge.
However far the combination of youth and a progressive agenda leads the party, there is no doubt the DP's entry has added excitement to the race.
Mr Capriles, of the centrist Justice First party, now leads the primary field.
In shaping United States policy toward the newly elected FMLN government in El Salvador, a sharp distinction must be made between President-elect Mauricio Funes and the political party he leads.
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LDP's right wing to split off and form an alliance with Ichiro Ozawa, who was once a political heavyweight in the ruling party but now leads a dwindling band of conservatives in the opposition.
Ehud Barak, the defence minister, who leads the Labour party in Israel's ruling coalition, and was recently in Washington trying to heal relations, now says Mr Netanyahu must change his coalition if there is to be serious progress.
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One possible outcome is another coalition between Messrs Yilmaz and Ecevit, but this time joined by Tansu Ciller, the woman who leads the True Path party.
The defence minister, Ehud Barak, who leads the Labour party, refuses to hear of cutting the military budget, an Israeli sacred cow.
The social-affairs minister, Herbert Haupt, who formally leads the Freedom Party, is one of the authors of the reform.
Yet the polls, until late last year, had been giving Mr Aznar and his party only the slenderest of leads over their Socialist rivals.
Instead Obama is a Democrat, and Miniter would argue one easily led around by the political animals that populate the political party he allegedly leads.
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Soon after winning the presidency for a second term, President Kumaratunga appeared to extend the hand of friendship to her main challenger, Ranil Wickremesinghe, the former prime minister who leads the opposition United National Party.
Meanwhile, Silvio Berlusconi, the tycoon who leads a four-party coalition on the right, including the one-time separatists of the Northern League, the post-fascist National Alliance, his own Forza Italia and a little Christian Democratic offshoot, is grinning.
Sanjay Nirupam, a Shiv Sena member of Parliament and editor of the party newspaper, Saamna (Confrontation), leads the campaign against provocative advertisements.
Ms Gillard, who leads the Labor Party, formed a government with the support of the Greens and independent legislators.
Mr Berlusconi, whose party leads in the opinion polls, still faces further trials for alleged corruption and false accounting.
The prime minister, whose office was badly damaged in the Oslo blast, leads Norway's Labour Party, which runs the youth camp, where about 700 people were in attendance on Friday.
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And you must ask Mr Portillo when he comes on, because one of the things that guarantees Labour leads is the performance of the Conservative Party and Mr William Hague.
Following Tuesday's elections, his party no longer leads the majority French-speaking Canadian province.
The movement leads with ideas not party institutions or personalities.
He is widely believed not to want a second term, but to have been pushed into it by his bossy twin brother, Jaroslaw, who leads the main opposition party, Law and Justice.
Yet the symbolic contradiction has not been enough, so far, to shake Mr Howard's implacable opposition to a republic, even though the conservative Liberal Party, which he leads, is heading increasingly that way.
Morsi leads the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.
He now leads the centrist opposition Hromoda party and has accused President Kuchma and his allies of trying to blacken his name with corruption charges.
Its target is Desi Bouterse, a former military dictator who leads the coalition's largest party.
He leads the conservative People's Party, the junior partner with Mr Klima's Social Democrat Party in a coalition government.
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