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Alex J. TylerTyler is a member of the Unity Party, having joined in 2009 following its merger with his former Liberian Action Party.
Philip Bushill-MatthewsIn 2007 he was also elected Co-ordinator for Employment and Social Affairs for the Group of the European Peoples' Party and European Democrats.
Bidzina IvanishviliHe founded and led the Georgian Dream coalition, which won the 2012 parliamentary election.
Zolt?n LengyelHe joined Independent Smallholders' National Unity Party (FKNP) and became its deputy chairman in 2008.
Pieter Mulder Prior to South Africa's first multi-racial elections in 1994, Mulder co-founded the Freedom Front with General Constand Viljoen, a former head of the South African Defence Force.
Andrej HlinkaHowever, as the party disregarded Slovak demands, Hlinka left and along with František Skyčák founded the Slovak People's Party in 1913.
Zelimkhan YandarbiyevIn November 1990 he became a deputy chairman to the newly formed All-National Congress of the Chechen People (NCChP), which was led by Dzhokhar Dudayev and which ousted the Soviet-era leadership.
Francesco De MartinoNonetheless, he continued to be elected to the Parliament, and, in 1992, was appointed senator for life at which point he joined the post-communist Democrats of the Left, whom he considered'' the true heirs to socialist values''.
Ahmed Thasmeen AliHe is the current leader of the opposition political party, Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party, and was, until May 2012, Minority Leader in the Peoples Majlis Majlis of the Maldives.
Reinhold WulleThis formed the basis of the German Völkisch Freedom Party (DVFP), an anti-Semitic political party which they established on December 16, 1922, with Wulle as deputy chairman.
Jim Nicholson (politician)In 1999, he joined the European Democrats wing of the European People's Party - European Democrats group, the largest group in the Parliament, a eurosceptic wing which also contained the UK's Conservative MEPs.
Jan Peter Balkenende After early elections in 2003 Balkenende formed his second government with : Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), the liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and the progressive liberal D66.
P?ter HarrachHe had been deputy parliamentary faction leader of the Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP) since 16 May 2006.
Jozias van Aartsen When Hans Wiegel became Party leader, in 1971, van Aartsen was asked to work for Hans Wiegel as employee of the party in the House of Representatives.
Bahriye ??okIn 1985, after a fusion, (with SODEP) her party was renamed as Social Democratic People's Party (SHP).
Nicol? CarandiniBy 1951 those plans failed, but Carandini had contributed in a change of the PLI-leadership (Bruno Villabruna) and a more progressive orientation of the party, which he and his movement re-joined in the end of that year.
Yvon DupuisHe was replaced as leader by Yvon Brochu, who merged the party with the Union Nationale on May 31, 1975.
Suwat LiptapanlopIn March 1992 he ran for the Justice Unity Party, but before the snap election in September of the same year, he defected to the National Development Party.
John Nkomo Nkomo was a member of Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) before the party merged with Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) to create ZANU-PF in 1987.
Patricia de LilleOn 15 August 2010, the ID merged with the Democratic Alliance, South Africa's official opposition, and de Lille has taken on dual party membership.
Irakli OkruashviliIn October 2010, he, remaining in France, joined Sozar Subari, Levan Gachechiladze and Erosi Kitsmarishvili in the new Georgian Party.
Sanoh ThienthongWhen Banharn Silpa-archa became leader of the Thai Nation Party in 1994, he made Sanoh secretary-general.
Mario MauroAfter internal rifts inside the Civic Choice party, Mauro left it in November 2013 and launched the new Populars for Italy.
Roger BlackmoreAfter the 2003 local elections, the Liberal Democrats became the largest party on the council, and Blackmore became leader in May 2003, leading a Liberal Democrat / Conservative coalition.
E. M. L. EndeleyIn May 1960, his KNC merged with the KPP to form the Cameroons Peoples' National Convention (CPNC) to be the main opposition party to Foncha's KNDP.
Aziz Al-Yasiri In 2003, he founded the Democratic Iraqi Current party.
Vano MerabishviliIn 2002, Merabishvili became Secretary General of Mikheil Saakashvili's newly formed opposition National Movement.
Noe ZhordaniaElected a delegate to the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) in 1903, he sided with the Menshevik faction and gained significant influence among them.
Timothy O'DonovanAfter the demise of the Farmers' Party in the 1920s, he was re-elected in 1933 as a National Centre Party TD, and when the National Party merged with Cumann na nGaedheal to form Fine Gael, he joined the new party.
Marco FolliniOn October 18, 2006, Follini officially left UDC, and announced the foundation of a new centrist movement, called Middle-of-the-Road Italy (Italia di Mezzo).
Massimo IntrovigneHe is vice-president of the Catholic movement Alleanza Cattolica and one of the founding members of the Italian think tank Res Publica initiated in 1999 by Silvio Berlusconi, to which The People of Freedom it is closely connected.
Karl ErjavecWhen the Slovene People's Party left Anton Rop's government prior to the 2004 parliamentary election, Erjavec quit the party and joined the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia, then the largest coalition government.
Igor ShafarevichIn 1994 he joined the'' All-Russian National Right Wing Centre'' chaired by Mikhail Astafyev.
Kamla Persad-BissessarShe became Political Leader of the United National Congress and Opposition in 2010.
Nikolaos PlastirasIn 1949, after the end of the Greek Civil War, Plastiras founded a new party, the National Progressive Centre Union (Εθνική Προοδευτική Ένωση Κέντρου, EPEK), forming a following of disappointed Liberals and left-leaning democrats.
Timofei SapronovSapronov was expelled from the party at the fifteenth Party Congress in December 1927 with the rest of the inner party opposition and was deported to the Crimea.
Kiraitu MurungiMurungi joined the newly formed Forum for the Restoration of Democracy (FORD) following Kenya's return to multi-party politics in 1991.
Fabio MussiCurrently Mussi is a member of Left Ecology Freedom, which the Democratic Left merged into in 2010.
Andrej HlinkaIn 1918, Hlinka became a member of the Slovak National Council and also signed the Martin declaration, which advocated a political union with the Czech nation.
Valdis ZatlersZatlers himself was not a member of any political party, but had signed the manifesto of the People's Party when the party was founded in 1998.
Mamadou SyllaSylla became the Honorary President of the ruling Party of Unity and Progress (PUP) on May 26, 2007, in a ceremony at which Conté was present.
Medard MulangalaIn 1998, Mulangala became a member of the executive of the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD), a group in opposition to Kabila's continuing leadership of the country.
Peter JambrekDespite never being its member, he was supportive of the Slovenian Democratic Party until October 2011 when he voiced his sympathy for the newly established liberal centrist Gregor Virant's Civic List.
Borut PahorDue to the gradual dissolution of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia, by 2007 the Social Democrats became the second largest political force in Slovenia, and Pahor thus became the non-formal leader of the left wing opposition.
Mikhail KasyanovIn 2010 he co-founded coalition `` For Russia without Lawlessness and Corruption'' and was co-chair of People's Freedom Party.
Myron Wolf Child In 2005, Wolf Child founded the Aboriginal Peoples Party of Canada, which since appears to have merged with the First Peoples National Party of Canada.
Adriane CarrShe was the party's leader (although called a spokesperson because the Party did not have leaders at that time) in the 1983 provincial election, held shortly after the party's founding.
Wolfgang HarichIn 1994 he joined the Party of Democratic Socialism.
Elman MammadovIn 2006, Mammadov along with Nizami Bahmanov and Havva Mammadova formally founded the Azerbaijani Community of Nagorno-Karabakh Social Union in exile, representing the Azerbaijani community of Nagorno-Karabakh in negotiation talks.
K?ki IshiiAfter being the member of the Liberal League and the New Party Sakigake, Ishii has participated in the formation of the DPJ in 1996.
Denis NaughtenOn 13 September 2013, he and six other expellees formed the Reform Alliance, described as a'' loose alliance'' rather than a political party.
Meir Pa'ilIn 1973 he was amongst the founders of the Blue-Red Movement, which merged with Maki to form Moked, which Pa'il headed.
Alessio MorosinIn May 2012 Morosin switched to Venetian Independence (IV) and was elected honorary president of the new party.
Karin GastingerWhen, in April 2005, Haider split from the FPÖ and formed the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ), Gastinger eventually became a member of the newly formed party.
Sharon BowlesShe has been a member of the bureau of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party since 2004.
Jules FavreAfter the establishment of the Third Republic in September 1870, he became one of the leaders of the Opportunist Republicans faction.
Roy WelenskyIn 1941 he formed his own party, the Northern Rhodesian Labour Party, with the aim of amalgamating the colony with Southern Rhodesia under a new constitution.
Pier Luigi RomitaAfter the disbandment of PSI, he entered the newly formed Italian Socialists and then, from 1997, the Democratic Party of the Left.
Daniel HannanHannan became the first Secretary-General of the ECR-affiliated European political party -- the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR) -- when it was founded on 1 October 2009.
Gunnar OuslandHe rejoined the Labour Party when the two parties merged in 1927.
John Michuki In 1991, Michuki aligned himself to the politics of the original Forum for the Restoration of Democracy (FORD) that emerged from the Saba saba protest politics.
Markku UusipaavalniemiOn 11 November 2010 Uusipaavalniemi defected from the Centre Party and joined the ranks of the True Finns Party.
P?l SchmittHe led the party list of Fidesz in the 2009 European elections in Hungary and was elected as a Member of the European Parliament with the Fidesz -- Hungarian Civic Union, to the Bureau of the European People's Party and was vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education.
Yevgenia Bosch Bosch joined the left opposition in 1923.
Messaoud Ould BoulkheirHe participated in the creation of UFD (United democratic forces) in 1992 which regrouped all political leaders (Beydhan, Haratine, and negro-Africans) but Messaoud left the party because the leader was a Beydhan.
Jean-Yves DuthelHe became director of the new political movement Union pour la Democratie, founded by Gibbs, in March 2011.
Hakk? KeskinIn June 2005, he withdrew from the Social Democratic Party in protest of its policies and joined the Left Party for whom he subsequently became an opposition MDB in the September 2005 elections.
Pierre Mend?s FranceHis split over Algeria with Edgar Faure, leader of the conservative wing of the Radical Party, led to Mendès France resigning as party leader in 1957.
Ferruccio ParriDuring World War II, Parri joined the Italian resistance movement to fight the Nazi German occupiers and Mussolini's Italian Social Republic, leading the Action Party (Partito d'Azione) -- founded in 1942 by former militants of Giustizia e Libertà -- and its partisan groups in northern Italy (alongside representatives of other factions, such as Sandro Pertini, Rodolfo Morandi and Lelio Basso).
Thomas FenbyFenby was a founder member of this Radical Group which in 1927 became the Liberal Council, a formal organisation within the party, opposed to the social policies being developed under the leadership of Lloyd George.
Peter Hain He joined the Liberal Party and was elected chairperson and then president of the Young Liberals, but in 1977 switched to Labour.
Victor PontaIn February 2011, he and Crin Antonescu, head of the National Liberal Party (PNL), formed the Social Liberal Union (USL), a political alliance in opposition to the governing Democratic Liberal Party (PD-L).
Valdis BirkavsHe was first elected to the Latvian parliament in 1990 and helped to found the Latvian Way party.
Abdulwahab DarawsheOn 15 February 1988 he left the alliance to found his own single member faction, which was named the Arab Democratic Party on 7 March.
Nichi VendolaA member of the National Secretariat of the Italian Communist Party, he fiercely opposed the dissolution of the party proposed by Achille Occhetto in 1991.
Humberto Lay In November 2005 Lay founded the National Restoration party, a rally of socially conservative evangelicals, which he has chaired ever since.
Eliezer ShostakIn 1975 the Free Centre split and Shostak became chairman of the Independent Centre faction.
Antoine WaechterAs for the European elections of 2009, after negotiations with Europe Écologie did not offer Waechter the head of its list in the Centre region, he joined the Independent Ecological Alliance (Alliance écologiste indépendante - AEI), under the movement La France en Action.
Gitte SeebergShe left the Conservative People's Party on 7 May 2007, to be a co-founder of the party New Alliance, alongside Naser Khader and Anders Samuelsen.
Y?ichi MasuzoeIn April 2010, Masuzoe left the LDP and formed a splinter group called Shintō Kaikaku (New Renaissance Party).
Amanya MushegaFollowing the constitutional amendment that removed presidential term limits in Uganda in 2005, Amanya Mushega, who opposed the amendment, left the National Resistance Movement (NRM) political party and joined the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC).
Djalma BomIn early 1982 a group of academics, union leaders such as Lula and Djalma, and intellectuals founded the Workers' Party, a left-wing party created during the military dictatorship and, in the upcoming elections in November, Djalma was elected to a seat in Congress in Brasilia.
Jerzy SzackiIn 1991, Szacki co-founded the Solidarność Pracy (Labour Solidarity), a short-lived social-democratic party formed by left-wing Solidarity members, which merged with the Labour Union (Unia Pracy) the following year.
Johannes Tak van PoortvlietHe was elected to the House of Representatives in 1870 and was a strong supporter of Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello, the leader of the progressive liberals.
Osvaldo Gnocchi-VianiIn 1892 Gnocchi-Viani was one of the founders of the Party of Italian Workers, later the Italian Socialist Party (PSI).
Vojtech TukaAfter the founding of Czechoslovakia in late 1918, he joined the autonomist Slovak People's Party.
Valeriu MateiIn 1998 he is re-elected deputy in the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova on the lists of the Party of Democratic Forces, as well as vice-president of the Parliament and president of the Commission of cooperation between the Republic of Moldova and the European Union.
Kasim Muhammad Taqi al-SahlaniIn the general elections of 2005 he was elected to the Council of Representatives of Iraq and became the head of the parliamentary bloc of the Islamic Dawa Party - Iraq Organisation.
Ali KarimliIn spring 2005, under Karimli's initiative, the Freedom (Azadıq) bloc of three parties was created, comprising the APFP - reformists, the Equality Party (Müsavat) and the Democratic party.
Charles de GaulleHe founded his own political party, the Rally of the French People - Rassemblement du Peuple Francais, (RPF) in 1947.
Wilmot James In 2009 James became a Member of Parliament with the Democratic Alliance, South Africa's opposition party.
Sanan KachornprasartIn early December 2008, the Constitutional Court dissolved all governing parties, the Nation Party was mostly refounded as the Thai Nation Development Party (Chartthaipattana Party, CTP), of which Sanan is the mainstay and chief adviser.
Pedro OpekaIn 2012 Opeka was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by united Slovenian European Parliament representatives regardless of political party.
Michael Keating (Irish politician) In 1986 Keating left Fine Gael to join the newly formed Progressive Democrats and became Deputy leader of the party.
Ange ?douard PounguiAmidst the introduction of multiparty politics, Poungui resigned from the PCT on 28 November 1990 and became the leader of a new party, the Union for Social Progress and Democracy (UPSD).
Ernst Graf zu Reventlow In 1924 Reventlow and Albrecht von Graefe broke from the German National People's Party (DNVP) to form the German Völkisch Freedom Party (DVFP) which was both more `` Völkish'' (racist/nationalistic) and socialistic than the conservative DNVP.
Santiago IglesiasIn 1915, he founded the Puerto Rico's Socialist Party, a pro-statehood, pro-labor party (not to be confused with the Puerto Rican Socialist Party founded in the 1970s).
Zach de BeerIn the 1977 general election, he was returned to Parliament as an MP for what had become the Progressive Federal Party which had been formed that year through a merger of the Progressive Party and various other liberal groups of MPs.
Veno TauferHe was one of the co-founders of the Slovenian Democratic Union, one of the first anti-Communist political parties established in 1989.
Yitzhak Moda'iOn 15 March 1990 he and four other MKs (all of them former members of the Liberal Party) broke away from Likud to form the Party for the Advancement of the Zionist Idea, later renamed the New Liberal Party ; however, the new party remained in the government and Moda'i became Finance Minister again in 1990.