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Erling FolkvordBy 1990 there were talks within the Red Electoral Alliance towards replacing Folkvord and Athar Ali as City Council representatives in Oslo to make way for more women in the top positions within the party.
William Z. FosterRivalries within the CPUSA led to the loss of the 1926 New York dressmakers' strike, as neither the Foster or Ruthenberg faction wanted to appear to sell out by accepting a settlement that the Party's members within the strike leadership had recommended.
Durga Shakti NagpalAam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal supported Nagpal on 29 July 2013, saying that the decision of the government indicated'' that politics and politicians are turning dirty'' and that'' whatever took place with Durgaji is extremely wrong.''
Hippolyte CarnotBy this attitude he alienated both the Right and the Republicans of the Extreme Left, and was forced to resign on July 5, 1848.
Wouter BosHowever, in the election campaign for the Dutch general elections of 2006 the PvdA -- for the second time campaigning under his leadership -- did n't manage to maintain this position as biggest party.
Carlos MenemIn 2005, the press reported that he was trying to make an alliance with his former Minister of Economy Domingo Cavallo to fight in the parliamentary elections.
Nitipoom NavaratnaHowever, then Thai Rak Thai Party deputy spokesman Jatuporn Prompan called for the disqualification because he spoke at People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) rallies to oust then Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, and distributed anti- privatization CDs on the Argentinean experience during the rallies, However, he did not assume office due to 2006 Thai coup d'état.
Moon Kook-hyunAlthough the harsh loss of South Korean liberal candidates especially in Seoul at this 2008 election, his campaign against' the Grand Korean Canal' project boosted his popularity in his electoral division and across the nation.
Joan Laporta The poor results of the sports sections, especially in football, together with concerns about his leadership style, resulted in a censure motion which took place on 6 July 2008 and was led by Oriol Giralt.
Hari Bhakta KandelHe currently holds the rank of senior leader in the politburo of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the largest political party in Nepal, according to the results of the 2008 election.
Anastasio Somoza Garc?aReturning to power in his own name in 1951, he maintained an iron grip on his own Liberal Party while making a deal with the Conservatives ; thus, he faced no opposition.
Geir HaardeAfter the 2007 parliamentary election, in which the Independence Party increased its share of the vote, Geir renewed his term as Prime Minister, leading a coalition between his party and the Social Democratic Alliance.
Joan SheldonShe supported proposals for a merger or coalition in the wake of the loss, and subsequently led the Liberal Party back into coalition with the National Party in November 1992, after nine years apart.
Fredrik Reinfeldt Main article : Premiership of Fredrik Reinfeldt After the election results were clear, the Speaker of the Parliament of Sweden, Björn von Sydow, asked Reinfeldt to form Alliance for Sweden into a coalition government.
James ScullinAlready in a weak political position, the economic crisis would prove overwhelming for Scullin, with interpersonal and policy disagreements causing a three-way split of his party that would bring down the government in late 1931.
Leonid BrezhnevHowever, Kosygin's position was weakened when he proposed an economic reform in 1965, which was widely referred to as the'' Kosygin reform'' within the Communist Party.
Isa?as SamakuvaThe UNITA Permanent Committee subsequently met to consider the outcome of the election and Samakuva's leadership, and on September 19, 2008, it said in a statement that it'' reaffirm -LSB- ed -RSB- its confidence'' in Samakuva, blaming the party's poor showing primarily on abuses by the governing Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).
Lev KamenevThey were forced to make self-flagellating speeches at the XVIIth Party Congress in January 1934 when Stalin was parading his erstwhile political opponents, now defeated and outwardly contrite.
Pravind JugnauthWith a public image of a young, moderate candidate who would appeal to young voters, he won the Leadership elections of the Militant Socialist Movement in May 2003.
Jan Peter Balkenende Though his old coalition partners VVD and D66 fared badly in the parliamentary elections of 2006, Balkenende managed to defend the dominant position of his CDA.
Samuel Adams DarcyIn 1944, however, due to his ongoing feud with Party General Secretary Earl Browder, he was expelled from the Party.
Dawn PettengillIn a letter to her constituents, Pettengill said she decided to switch parties due to disagreements with fiscal and labor policy, as well as the state Democratic Party's decision to take her off the incumbent protection list for the 2008 elections.
Gheorghe CraioveanuOn 16 June 2007, as a result of a local alliance between the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and Izquierda Unida, which took away PP's control over the Sports Adviser seat, Craioveanu convened with the PP not to hold a political office, and resigned from the council.
SuhartoBy January 1967, Suharto felt confident that he has removed all significant support for Sukarno within the armed forces, and the MPRS decided to hold another session to impeach Sukarno.
Mwai KibakiElected in 2002 on a reform platform, His opponents charged that a major aim of his presidency was the preservation of the privileged position of the elite that emerged during the Kenyatta years, of which he was part.
Horia-Roman PatapieviciFollowing the demand of the National Peasants' Party, the issue of Patapievici's candidacy was reopened in late January 2000, the Parliamentary committee approving his candidacy, despite a dissent of the Greater Romania Party representative, Dumitru Bălăeţ, who accused Patapievici of lack of patriotism based on some of his previous writings in his book'' Politics''.
Yoshir? MoriIn 1999, Mori began to assume control of the Mitsuzuka faction (formerly Abe faction) that had been headed by Hiroshi Mitsuzuka in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
Robert FicoIn 1999, when support for the SDL dropped below the threshold required to get into parliament, Fico left and founded Direction -- Social Democracy (SMER), becoming a popular opposition politician while criticizing the reforms of the right-wing government of Mikuláš Dzurinda.
Hansraj Bhardwajcom/2011 -02 -07 / bangalore/28375512 _ 1_doctorate-governor-forcible-conversion reference In May 2011, Bhardwaj recommended President's rule in Karnataka after the ruling government lost support in parliament due to the level of charges levied against it and was forced to prove majority, having a very narrow win.
Nuri al-SaidHe briefly brought the Liberals and National Democrats into the cabinet, but soon reverted to the more repressive approach he generally favoured, ordering the arrest of numerous communists in January 1947.
Azam Khan (politician)However, during the 15th Loksabha elections, his opposition to the Samajwadi Party candidate, Jayaprada and the surrounding controversies resulted in a crisis in the party, and on 24 May 2009, he was expelled for six years.
Thomas DehlerDehler had hoped to weaken Adenauer's government and establish his party as a'' third force'' but the Federal elections of September 1957 resulted in a triumphant victory for CDU and CSU, who won an absolute majority in parliament and henceforth could govern without the support from any other party.
Gustaf V of SwedenHowever, after the Liberals and Social Democrats secured a parliamentary majority under Staaff's successor, Nils Edén, he allowed Edén to form a new government which de facto stripped the monarchy of all virtual powers and enacted universal and equal suffrage, including for women, by 1919.
Henk KampAfter the Dutch general election of 2012 the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy remaind the largest party in the House of Representatives and Kamp was asked to make preparations for a new cabinet formation, Kamp and former Labour Party leader Wouter Bos became informateurs for the Cabinet Rutte II and Kamp became Minister of Economic Affairs and took office on November 5, 2012.
Ilkka Kanerva Kanerva was among the National Coalition Party members receiving support from construction industry in the election in 2007 in Finland without giving the public information of it in time.
Jelle ZijlstraThe Dutch political landscape was fractured and Zijlstra was asked to form a caretaker cabinet which had the main task to write out an early Dutch general election in 1967.
David Levy (Israeli politician) As the 1992 elections neared, Levy vowed to crush Netanyahu, and used all of his influence in the Central Committee to clip his rival's wings.
John KotelawalaHis government had to deal with economic problems and ethnic conflicts, and he and his party were defeated in the 1956 elections by a group of more radically chauvinistic Sinhalese parties under the leadership of Solomon Bandaranaike.
Mendsaikhany EnkhsaikhanHowever, his tenure was cut short when the parliamentary majority of Democratic Party (DP) and Mongolian Social Democratic Party forced him to resign in April 1998, because of tensions between him and other leaders in the Coalition as well as by the rule of the Coalition, the chairman of the winning party should have become the Prime Minister.
Miron ConstantinescuThrough his editorials of 1947, Constantinescu signaled an attack on Foreign Minister Gheorghe Tătărescu, leader of the National Liberal Party-Tătărescu and associate of the Communists in the Petru Groza government, who had criticized his allies' economic and social policies.
Per Albin Hansson Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, Hansson declared strict neutrality and called for the formation of a broad coalition government involving all major parties under his leadership, which was realized in December except only the pro-Stalinist Communist Party and its short-lived pro-Nazi splinter faction, the Socialist Party, much to the delight of the remainder parties.
George Washington JulianSharing Democratic views on the tariff, on currency questions, and on the fight against the land-grabbing railroads and monopolists, sickened at the abuses of the patronage power, he found it easy to support the Democratic ticket in 1877 and to convince himself that reconciliation between North and South was of a higher priority than using national power to make sure that black southerners kept their right to vote.
Eskil PedersenA staunch opponent to the policies of the Progress Party, in May 2011 he pressed criminal charges against member of parliament Christian Tybring-Gjedde based on the a statement the latter made regarding integration in Groruddalen.
Eduard ShevardnadzeAfter allegations of apparent electoral fraud during the 2003 legislative election Shevardnadze was forced to resign following a series of public protests and demonstrations colloquially known as the Rose Revolution.
Warren MundineHe said he had been a supporter of'' Hawke-Keating Labor, where it was about economic development, and progress, and working with unions to get good outcomes for everyone'', but that the ALP by 2012 was'' no longer the party I joined'' and had failed to keep up with the Conservative parties in selecting indigenous candidates.
Faezeh HashemiHashemi was arrested and released after taking part in a number of protests which erupted after a 2009 election which saw President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reelected to office despite opposition claims the vote was rigged.
Ma Ying-jeouHis solid victory, especially in light of opposition from both President Chen and former President and KMT chairman Lee Teng-hui, led many to speculate about his chances as the KMT candidate for the 2004 presidential elections, although nothing came of it.
Shih Ming-tehDuring his tenure, Shih researched what he called the'' One China : European Union Model'' as a means of ending the impasse between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and reiterates his proposal for a constitutional amendment in favor of a parliamentary system, in an attempt to put an end to the political polarization into the two camps (blue or Kuomintang-based and green or Democratic Progressive Party-centered) which was deteriorating into ethnic rivalry between Chinese refugees coming to rule Taiwan in 1949, and those who were there before that time.
Aksel LarsenFierce faction struggle arose and Larsen lost the party congress in October 1958.
Milan GrolOn 18 August 1945, Grol resigned his cabinet post because the communists failed to observe the conditions that had been agreed upon with the government-in-exile when the unified government was established.
Morris HillquitHis biographer declares that'' His leadership fanned the fires of Party disagreement and although -LSB- Hillquit -RSB- was not alone in causing the break in 1913 with an important segment of its left wing, he certainly made a major contribution towards this unfortunate rupture.''
Nick Lalich Lalich was able to retain the seat of Cabramatta for the ALP at the March 2011 Election despite using racist signs accusing Dai Le as a One Nation supporter.
Andreas PapandreouPapandreou confounded his critics by winning the Greek legislative election, 1993, and returned to power ; however, his fragile health kept him from exercising firm political leadership.
Rolf HenneHenne, a strong pro-German, struggled to retain control and in 1938 he was replaced by the more moderate Robert Tobler, his close links to the Nazis and his advocacy of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion making him too extreme for many National Front members.
Andr? MilongoMilongo accused the government of fraud in the January 2002 constitutional referendum, claiming that the'' No'' vote had actually won, and said that if he won the presidential election, he would initiate a'' new political order'' with a peace pact to end political violence and would allow all exiled politicians to return.
C. N. AnnaduraiMoreover Periyar's decision on giving up participating in democratic elections was also opposed by Annadurai, in reaction to which he walked out of a party meeting in 1948.)
Arkadi MaslowIn May 1928, Maslow and Fischer resigned from the Leninbund, because they disagreed with the Leninbund's support of an independent candidate opposed to the KPD, and after the capitulation of Zinoviev and Kamenev who were opposed to Stalin, anticipated the hope (in vain) of being accepted again into the KPD.
Adolph JoffeThen he continued in a - for me, ever unforgettable - friendly, or I would even nearly say suppliant, tone :' I very much hope that we will also be able to raise the revolution in your country...' At the VIIth Extraordinary Congress of the Bolshevik Party between March 6 and March 8, 1918, Joffe was re-elected to the Central Committee, but only as a candidate (non-voting) member.
Vidar KleppeIn early 2001 turmoil however erupted within the Progress Party, and Kleppe was suspended and soon left the party, in spite of strong opposition to the suspension in many local chapters of the party.
George Fernandes Vladimir Putin in 2000 During his tenure as a minister in the Janata Party, he continued to be uncomfortable with certain elements of the broad-based Janata coalition, especially with the leaders of the erstwhile Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Jan Sangh in the Union Cabinet.
Oleksandr MorozIn 1996, Moroz together with several other parties prevented President Leonid Kuchma's attempt to concentrate most of the powers in the president's hands and led the parliament to adopt on 28 June the new Constitution that includes many positions close to the demands of left parties.
Monica MacoveiShe supported Băsescu and the PD in opposing Popescu-Tăriceanu's decision on March 12, 2007 to postpone Romania's European Parliament elections from May until autumn 2007 due to what he characterized as ongoing domestic disputes.
Erik Gjems-Onstad Carl I. Hagen wrote in his book Ærlighet varer lengst in 1984 that he would put his office on the line in order to prevent Gjems-Onstad from making a'' comeback'' to the Progress Party (ALP's successor), despite his alleged requests.
Kizza Besigye Prior the 2001 presidential elections, Besigye had become an opponent of Museveni's National Resistance Movement'' no-party'' system of government, saying that he believed the leadership was'' incorrigibly off course'', and that'' someone had to step in and get things back on course''.
Nicolas BayHowever, due to his increasing contacts with the FN and Marine Le Pen in particular, the party council decided to remove him from the party in September 2008.
Anders Fogh RasmussenBy the morning of 14 November 2007, after results came through from the Faroe Islands and Greenland, his centre-right coalition of the Liberals, the Conservative People's Party and the Danish People's Party secured 90 seats, the minimum number required for a majority.
Clemente Mastella Despite having earlier said that he would support Prodi's government without participating in it, on 21 January 2008, Mastella said that his party was ending its support, thereby depriving the government of its narrow majority in the Senate.
Eduardo GaleanoFollowing the victory of Tabaré Vázquez and the Broad Front alliance in the 2004 Uruguayan elections marking the first left-wing government in Uruguayan history Galeano wrote a piece for The Progressive titled'' Where the People Voted Against Fear'' in which Galeano showed support for the new government and concluded that the Uruguayan populace used'' common sense'' and were'' tired of being cheated'' by the traditional Colorado and Blanco parties.
Pierre HarmelWhen the 1954 elections brought to power a coalition of Socialists and Liberals, the new Education Minister, Leo Collard, immediately set out to reverse the measures taken by his predecessor, sparking mass protests by the Catholic bloc.
Francesco Giunta He became national secretary of the National Fascist Party in succession to Michele Bianchi in 1923 and oversaw the move towards an increasingly diminished role for the party rank and file as Mussolini consolidated his government.
Idriss NgariHowever, he was moved to the position of Minister of Transport and the Merchant Marine on 25 January 1999, Identified as the leader of'' aggressive loyalists'' within the PDG regime, Ngari and his supporters resisted the inclusion of more members of the opposition in the government ; President Bongo typically endeavored to co-opt opposition parties by offering ministerial portfolios to their leaders.
Silvio Berlusconi In December 1994, following the leaking to the press of news of a fresh investigation by Milan magistrates, Umberto Bossi, leader of the Lega Nord, left the coalition claiming that the electoral pact had not been respected, forcing Berlusconi to resign from office and shifting the majority's weight to the centre-left.
Desmond TutuOn 10 May 2013, Tutu said he would no longer be able to vote for the African National Congress, citing inequality, violence, and corruption.''
Clarence SeniorAlthough the governing NEC of the party was narrowly split between the followers of Hillquit and Thomas, Clarence Senior was narrowly able to retain his position in 1932 due to the concerted effort of the Thomas group.
Jean-Marie DedeckerOn 30 November 2006 it was announced that Dedecker joined the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) on behalf of the N-VA party board, because it proved difficult in Belgium to meet the electoral threshold of 5 % with a new party.
Annette LuIn the months leading to the ROC presidential election, 2004 there was intense speculation as to whether she would be again chosen Chen's running mate, as party leaders had pressured him to choose someone else, presumably less controversial and outspoken to appeal to voters.
Vladimir PutinAfter the parliamentary elections on 4 December 2011, tens of thousands Russians engaged in protests against alleged electoral fraud, the largest protests in Putin's time ; protesters criticized Putin and United Russia and demanded annulment of the election results.
Garry ConilleHe is succeeded by Laurent Lamothe after going through both parliamentary legislative branch voting results with formal appointment in May 2012 ; he also held before his nomination and still keeps the ministry control for Foreign Affairs and Cults (Worships).
Lee Hsien Loong In the 1980s, Lee was regarded as the core member of the next batch of new leaders in the People's Action Party (PAP) leadership transition that was taking place in the mid-1980s, as Lee Kuan Yew had declared that he would step down as Prime Minister in 1984.
SuhartoIn 1967, generals Hartono Rekso Dharsono, Kemal Idris, and Sarwo Edhie Wibowo (dubbed'' New Order Radicals'') opposed Suharto's decision to allow participation of existing political parties in elections in favour of a non-ideological two-party system similar to those found in many Western countries.
Giorgio NapolitanoOn 21 February 2007, Prime Minister Romano Prodi submitted his resignation after losing a foreign policy vote in the Parliament ; Napolitano held talks with the political groups in parliament, and on 24 February rejected the resignation, prompting Prodi to ask for a new vote of confidence.
James Shankar SinghWith the rise of Ahmed Ali, who was prepared condone the new pro-Fijian policies of the Alliance Party, James Shankar Singh found himself being alienated from the party's leadership, and after he failed to get the party ticket for the 1982 election, resigned from the Alliance on the grounds of'' irreconcilable differences'' with Ratu Kamisese Mara.
Edgar SavisaarSavisaar is often associated with using Machiavellian politics and deals to achieve his goals, such as taping other politicians, which caused the so-called tape scandal in 1995 ; and while being the mayor of the Estonian capital Tallinn, real-estate deals that were good for the members of the Centre Party, but were bad for the town.
Frank HsiehAlthough both sides agreed on the One-China policy in governing the Cross-Strait relations, Hsieh prefer to have a new consensus of the so-called constitutions with different interpretations (憲法各表) instead of the 1992 consensus.
Karl-August Fagerholm When new parliament elections were held in July 1948, the Communists suffered a sharp drop in support, falling from fifty-one to thirty-eight seats.
Mario MontiMonti accepted the offer, and held talks with the leaders of the main Italian political parties, declaring that he wanted to form a government that would remain in office until the next scheduled general elections in 2013.
Effi Eitam On 10 June 2004 Eitam and Yitzhak Levy quit the government to protest the disengagement plan.
Erich HoneckerAs Cold War tensions eased in the late 1980s under the liberalising reforms of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Honecker refused all but cosmetic changes to the East German political system and was consequently forced to resign by his party in October 1989 and ousted from power as the regime sought to retain its power, thus ending Honecker's eighteen years (effectively) at the helm of the soon-to-cease state.
Rogelio FrigerioGiven little say by the new Peronist government, which, instead saw its policy shift from populism to erratic crisis management measures, Frigerio initially supported the 1976 coup against Perón's successor (his hapless widow, Isabel Perón) ; what ensued, however, was unlike the last military regime in that this dictatorship adopted policies largely anathema to Frigerio's.
Miroslav KalousekOn August 24, 2006 Kalousek unexpectedly accepted an offer from Jiří Paroubek to start negotiations on a minority government of KDU-ČSL and the Social Democratic Party which would be tolerated by the communists.
J?rg HaiderThe decisive point of his career came in 1986 when he defeated Austrian Vice Chancellor Norbert Steger in the vote for party leadership at the party convention in September in Innsbruck ; many delegates feared that Steger's liberal political views and his coalition with the Social Democrats threatened the party's existence.
Francis OnaPerhaps as a result of Ona's continued influence in Bougainville, only 3 % of the eligible voters participated in the elections of the New Zealand-brokered Autonomous Government in May 2005, a number that in no way can be considered a mandate for the Autonomous government.
Tadeusz MazowieckiThis and similar acts of questioning the actions of the Communist authorities made Mazowiecki one of the unwanted members of parliament and consequently in 1972 the party did not allow him to run for his fifth term.
Georg GradnauerLeft-wing resentment within the SPD began to build in early 1920, however, and Gradnauer was forced to resign in April 1920, with opposition to his use of the military against the radical left being joined by discontent over his unwillingness to replace conservative elements of the bureaucracy with Social Democrats.
Nicolae FlevaEspecially for the purpose, he set up a new anti-government coalition with the Conservatives, and lend a hand to the eventual fall of Sturdza's cabinet in November 1896.
Ophir Pines-PazHowever, he resigned from the cabinet in November 2006 in protest against the nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu being added to the coalition ; and was the only Labor Party minister to vote against the party coming into the government, stating in an interview : :'' The moment the government decided to allow the inclusion of Lieberman and his party, whose leaders are infected with racist and anti-democratic statements, I am left with no other choice.''
Naseerullah BabarContesting again in the 2002 general elections he was defeated in the electoral sweep of the religo-political alliance the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, mainly due to Musharaff's goals of bringing Islamists in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan to power.
Ibrahim Imam In 1954, however, Imam resigned his position from NPC and left the party, citing the lack of a revolutionary platform for political reform of the local government in the north and also NPC's movement towards a reactionary and imperialistic political union.
Henrique Mitchell de Paiva CouceiroHis legislative career was cut short when, on May 2, 1907, the government leader João Franco, resolved to distance himself from the progressives and through the support of the King, he suspended the Parliament and governed as a dictator.
Harold B. LeeIn 1969, after McKay's health failed, and some others within the church leadership thought the doctrinal basis for the exclusion of people of African ancestry from the priesthood was shaky, the remaining First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (minus Harold B. Lee, who was traveling) voted to rescind the racial exclusion policy ; however, that vote was reversed when Lee returned and called for a re-vote, arguing that the policy could not be changed without a revelation.