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These include Islamist groups, led by the United Development Party, as well as two strong parties with secular factions: Amien Rais's National Mandate Party and Abdurrahman Wahid's National Awakening Party.
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These include reducing the 10% voter-support threshold needed for a party to enter parliament, a rule originally devised to keep the Kurds out.
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These days, the flag-waving crowds who flock around the traveling judge include activists from the secular Pakistan People's Party, from the PML-N (the party of Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister ousted by Musharraf's coup) and from Pakistan's religious parties.
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