These were the supporters of a right-wing alliance of religious parties, the Muttehida Majlis-e-Amal, or M.
After a second round of voting on May 24th, a right-wing alliance emerged as the winner of Hungary 's general election, defeating the Socialist-led coalition that has reigned for the past four years.
With 100 percent of the districts counted from Sunday's ballot, unofficial results showed that the conservative coalition led by Chirac and Juppe captured just under 30 percent of the vote, compared to 40.6 percent for a left-wing alliance of Socialists, Communists and ecologists.
Silvio Berlusconi, the tycoon who now leads the right-wing Freedom Alliance, is once again making trouble for himself.
On March 21st, the candidate of the right-wing National Republican Alliance (Arena) party, Tony Saca, won by a wide margin in El Salvador's presidential election.
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While the Peronists hanker for a deal with the conservative wing of the government, Domingo Cavallo and Gustavo Beliz, former Menem ministers who have formed their own grouping, have praised Mr Alvarez's stand against old-fashioned pork-barrel politics and evidently believe they could work with the modernising wing of the Alliance.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud-Beitenu alliance took the largest single share of parliamentary seats in the poll, but its tally of seats was down by a quarter.
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It is almost certain that the prime minister's right-wing Likud-Yisrael Beitenu alliance will enjoy that privilege after Tuesday's vote.
One example is in Greece, where Syriza has transformed itself from a loose alliance of left-wing groups into the formal main anti-austerity party.
It was Mr Abe's own grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, who as prime minister cemented ties between the government, the uyoku dantai and the mob back in 1960, when he enlisted yakuza help against left-wing opponents of Japan's alliance with America.
And then, at around the half way point of the campaign, came her call for what she dubbed "the United Welsh Alternative" a grand alliance of left-wing, anti-cuts parties and organisations - principal among them, Plaid Cymru and Labour, working together to oppose the UK Government.
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.
Victor Ponta became Romania's third prime minister in less than six months when his left-wing-dominated Social Liberal Union (USL) alliance took charge in May 2012.
Correspondents say the new "grand coalition" between Italy's current main right- and left-wing parties is unprecedented, and will probably prove an uneasy alliance.
At second place in the polls is the center-right alliance led by Berlusconi's PdL, in coalition with the right-wing, anti-immigration Northern League.
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