"We would like for the political forces, especially the National Salvation Front, to realize how important this defining moment is and to put the interest of the nation above all, " said Gamal Tag, senior leader of the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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There is something reassuringly Liberal about the youth wing of the party handing out free "bird of freedom" yellow condoms carrying the vote-chasing slogan "cross my box".

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The leader of his People of Freedom party's youth wing, Annagrazia Calabria, talks of the need to create "a dynamic market", an Italy where hiring and firing workers would be easier.

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The canny media magnate was immediately accused of courting extreme right-wing support for his proposed new People of Freedom party coalition in the run-up to the election on 24-25 February.

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Morsi leads the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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The Brotherhood's political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, won more than 40% of the seats in Egypt's lower house of Parliament in recent elections.

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The last elections saw the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), win 43% of the seats in the lower house, the People's Assembly, and 59% of the seats in the Shura Council.

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Morsy became the first democratically elected president in Egypt's history in June, the candidate of the Freedom and Justice party, the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing.

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Downing was allowed the freedom of the right wing and fired in a cross to Bent, whose first-time side-footed shot flew into the roof of the net.

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Italy's political system encourages the forming of alliances, and the Democratic Party has teamed with the more left-wing Left Ecology Freedom party.

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The Freedom Front, a right-wing party of Afrikaners, claims that some of the murders are political, the long-expected revenge that many whites have feared.

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Morsy's Freedom and Justice party, the political wing of the long-suppressed Muslim Brotherhood, called for supporters to rally in support of the moves Sunday night in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the revolt against Mubarak.

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But his biggest challenge, strategists suggest, is trying to appease members of his own Freedom and Justice Party and the ultra conservative Salafis wing.

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At second place in the polls was the center-right alliance led by Berlusconi's People of Freedom Party, or PdL, in coalition with the right-wing, anti-immigration Northern League.

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At second place in the polls is the center-right alliance led by Berlusconi's People of Freedom Party, or PdL, in coalition with the right-wing, anti-immigration Northern League.

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Mr Haider had long been facing growing unrest from the Freedom Party's nationalist wing, as supporters blamed him for a string of electoral defeats and urged a return to his old populism.

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To build a majority, they will probably look either to Fatherland and Freedom, the outgoing right-wing nationalist party, which is vehemently opposed to the liberalisation of citizenship laws, or the centrist New Party, led by Raimunds Pauls, a musician.

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