Others might then have floundered as they tried to juggle being a one-person party with the normal trials of a parliamentary newcomer, but she has made a consistent impact.

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Antonio di Pietro, one of the principal judges in the clean hands trials, now has his own political party.

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While the ruling Awami League has made the trials one of its key goals, the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party or BNP has been less forthcoming.

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Mr Berlusconi, whose party leads in the opinion polls, still faces further trials for alleged corruption and false accounting.

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The trials of coalition government having evidently seen off the protest vote, the party now urgently needs a core vote.

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His long-dominant Christian Democratic Party collapsed in the so-called "Clean Hands" corruption trials of the early 1990s.

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