This free-market, pro-western party, which did better than expected in the December parliamentary elections, now looks split.
Mr Shevardnadze's pro-western party did rather well, getting 42% of the vote and, thanks to the country's electoral system, an absolute majority of seats.
The Alliance represents an effort to broaden the political base of the western Reform party by wooing eastern Progressive Conservatives.
Mr Cem announced to a press conference that he is forming a new pro-western political party with Mr Ozkan and Mr Dervis.
In a meeting with the BBC, Sheikh Ali Salman, the leader of the al-Wefaq party, said western countries, including Britain and the US, needed to do more to prevent Bahrain falling prey to extremism by both sides.
"To the people, you know we came to the backyard of one of my opponents ... and the people of Michigan looked into the hearts of the candidates, and all I have to say is, I love you back, " Santorum said in remarks at his campaign night party on the western side of Michigan.
"We have not taken a decision yet, " Naser Ziberi, head of the PDP parliamentary group, told reporters after six hours of talks between party officials in the western city of Tetovo.
He leads a party that emerged only in March from a hurried merger between the western-based, socially conservative Alliance (previously the Reform Party) and the eastern rump of the more centrist Progressive Conservatives.
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The opposing left-leaning Social Democratic Party, which has worked in coalition with the CDU as the ruling party in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania region, strengthened in the election.
Vinci said it was significant that Karadzic's arrest had come just a few weeks after the appointment of a pro-western coalition government spearheaded by the Democratic Party of Serbian President Boris Tadic and new Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic following a narrow victory over nationalists in parliamentary elections in May.
The only two countries in western Europe to have increased the number of party members in the past 30 years are Greece and Spain.
But Dr Mahathir, for all his zeal in fighting corruption, is also one of the staunchest critics of those who argue that a western-style opposition can keep a ruling party honest.
Formed on a working-class base, Labor claims to be the first party of its kind in the Western world to have won power: in Queensland in 1899 (briefly), then as a national government five years later.
The hallmark of the mid-western Democrats is a virtue usually scorned in their party's primaries: pragmatism.
The plaintiffs survived a motion to dismiss last December in a Western District of Texas federal court, and each party has now filed motions for summary judgment.
Hoshyar Zebari, a senior member of Massoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party, which controls the north-western part of the self-rule area, believes that the Kurds have at last made some smart moves.
When Mr Erdogan's Justice and Development party swept to power last November, Western governments were delighted to see the end of a government that had been plagued by indecision and incompetence.
This marks the first year Nevada has held its caucuses so early, pushed in part by Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who hoped early voting in his home state could help his party capitalize on their growing appeal amongst Western voters.
The other, Ebrahim Rasool, was in charge of one of the best-performing provinces, the Western Cape, but had long been scrapping with the party's local bosses.
Poland's Law and Justice Party is socially to the right of most western conservatives (though, with the Czech Republic's Civic Democrats, it is an ally of Britain's Tories in the European Parliament).
Falah al-Mohammedawi said Carroll was released near an office of the Iraqi Islamic Party, the main Sunni political organization, in western Baghdad.
When western pressure forced Mr Mobutu to institute a semblance of multi-party democracy in 1991, he excelled himself.
The daughter of a Protestant pastor who migrated east, she leads a party whose core is Catholic and whose roots are in western Germany.
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That sentiment is echoed by Helen Zille - the premier of the Western Cape province and head of South Africa's main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance.
The future was also a preoccupation among the women we talked to in a western suburb of Houston called Cinco Ranch, where we went to a birthday party at a French bakery.
Both in the shape of Evangelos Venizelos (the party enforcer) and Elena Panaritis (the non-elected, Western-educated MP advising Papandreou) and Mr Papandreou himself they have people with a lot to lose reputationally, and of some considerable competence.
It is also true that Turkey's generals, who keep a close eye on its politics, are stalwart in their desire to make sure that Turkey becomes part of the western world (even if their current attempt to get the country's Islamist party banned hardly fits into most westerners' ideas of democracy).
In the Western Cape, the ANC's provincial secretary was stabbed in the neck at a party get-together.
Turkey's western partners are now praying for a quick resolution, and would enthusiastically back a new party led by Mr Cem and Mr Ozkan.
This far in, it's obvious what to expect: pickin'-party songs, bar-band basics enlivened by loose, easygoing solos that traverse Western swing and Stardust-era Willie Nelson.
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