Within their party, there are several groupings.

在他们的党内有若干个派别。

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When it was announced that Mr Smyth was going, Labour refused to comment on reports of a rift between party groupings at Holyrood and Glasgow.

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Mr Watson has been a Lib Dem MEP since 1994 and has been head of the ALDE group, one of the biggest party groupings in the Parliament, for the past seven and half years.

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In future they will be handed out on the basis of party strength and not that of political groupings.

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