By April 1992, as civilian rule returned, 16 major political parties had been recognized 12 major political parties were active in 2004.

Political realities prohibited any of the two major parties from forming a coalition with smaller parties.

The politicians and their parties have themselves become major political issues.

The second unknown concerns what, exactly, separates the major parties in this contest.

Nigeria believes that this should be one of the major challenges for States parties.

The political landscape is dominated by two major parties and many smaller parties, many of which are driven by individual leaders more than ideologies.

All of Canada's major political parties support either sustaining or increasing the current level of immigration.

Parties recognized that poverty also exacerbates the major health risks, such as malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS.

Israel s life in a bubble was also exemplified by the two major religious parties in the elections.

Crucially, both of Catalonia s major parties the governing center right CiU and socialist PSC suffered severe setbacks.

It is critical that the parties deal with major pending political problems before the elections are held.

A first major challenge to the parties is posed by the findings of the Abyei Boundary Commission.

Instead, all the major parties are represented in the government, and are consequently obliged to hammer out compromises.

Two other major tea parties were held in Sacramento, California, which attracted 25,000 50,000, and St. Louis, Missouri, in addition to many local tea parties across the country.

In France, smaller parties can gain parliamentary seats only if they manage to negotiate a pre election agreement with one of the major parties to secure for them some constituencies.

Both major political parties look tired, and at the same time as if they are competing to imitate each other.

NEW DELHI April might be the cruelest month, but, for India s major political parties this year, March was fairly brutal.

This is the main political project in most free societies, and it is in principle acceptable to all major parties.

Women members of political parties have made major efforts to improve their organizations' compliance with their commitments to gender equity.

Another possibility is that the major parties may find they have more in common ideologically with each other than with the smaller parties, or that the fragmentation of the smaller parties is so great that no other coalition is stable.

And, of all the major parties that are contesting the election, only the PMLN is demanding the reinstatement of the judges.

Major parties like the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) have decided to participate, following the lead of the late Benazir Bhutto s People s Party.

Thus have Knessets been comprised from Israel s beginning the messier the merrier. Never before, however, have the major parties stalemated so neatly.

Research networks or consortia can provide opportunities for cross sector information sharing and collaboration without requiring a major investment by individual parties.

The other major parties in the council are the Green League (10 seats), the Left Alliance (9 seats) and The Finns (6 seats).

Furthermore, unexpected major repairs and replacements, which are not included in the agreed investment plan, will have to be shared by all parties.

Leaders of both major US parties have articulated a policy that calls for a viable, contiguous Palestinian state on the lands occupied in 1967.

As a result, the prime minister is barely muddling through and only by agreeing with the major opposition parties to dissolve the lower house.

The demand for financial sources by major parties to the conflict in Somalia to fund the arms purchases has soared, along with the arms prices.

Australia urged all NPT States parties to ensure that such controls were of a standard at least equivalent to the major nuclear export control regimes.

However, the island's Arab inhabitants, as the major landowners, were generally wealthier than the Africans the major political parties were organised largely along ethnic lines, with Arabs dominating the Zanzibar Nationalist Party (ZNP) and Africans the Afro Shirazi Party (ASP).

Prior to the referendum, the two major parties of New Caledonia, FLNKS and RPCR, had both campaigned for approval of the Accord among their respective constituents.

Many who spoke to me directly in my Facebook community believe that Congress is utterly broken and regard faith in either of America s major parties as naïve.

Additional information was obtained from other major stakeholders, which included suppliers, competitors and customers of the merging parties, as well as the relevant industry association in Zimbabwe.

Such a division of authority can complicate the process of governing when the major parties disagree, and, unlike the Bundestag, the Bundesrat cannot be dissolved under any circumstances.

The transfer of three other major urban centres in the West Bank Nablus, Jenin and Hebron has been left by the parties for discussion at a later date.

For the presidential election, however, the practice of holding three televised debates between the two major parties candidates should be an opportunity for a thorough airing of those issues.

(b) The État major Géneral, État major forces and État major military regions (divisions) have been integrated.

Major adjustments are needed. At the same time, the main parties find it hard to address the country s problems, because they are reluctant to call for sacrifice before an election.

What does all of this portend for India? The obvious fear is that the apparent weakening of both major national parties (Congress and the BJP) will lead to political instability.

If the numbers seem too small for the major players, here s the catch Knesset s 120 seats will fill up smaller parties, each comprising anything from two to 11 fervent politicos.

2011 Presidential elections The failure to achieve the 5 threshold by the major opposition parties, whether independently or collectively, has endangered their involvement in the upcoming Presidential Elections in 2011.

The note describes the objectives identified for the IYDD and indicates, the concrete actions taken in terms of coordination and cooperation with, major institutional partners and Parties to the UNCCD.

The country s two major political parties, the governing Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) recently chose their leaders, yet ordinary Japanese responded with a collective shrug.

Gone are the times in the older democracies when one could count on two major parties one social democratic, the other more to the right of center dominating the political scene.