The former ruling party and the complainant's persecutor, the Awami League, lost power.

The police are said to be often reluctant to pursue investigations against persons affiliated with the ruling party.

The two largest parties in the country, the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party and the All People's Congress, are both experiencing intra party divisions, which have resulted in the emergence of splinter groups.

One of the company's employees entered a third party challenge to this ruling in an attempt to show that the company was not insolvent.

On the other hand, also at the level of Parliament, one of the Deputy Presidents that belonging to the ruling FRELIMO party is a woman.

The Committee notes the complainant's statement that she belongs to a faction of the Jatiya Party which is in opposition to the ruling party, and that torture of political opponents is frequently practised by State agents.

While the ruling Fretilin party dominated the elections in Baucau district, independent and opposition candidates won a significant number of seats in Lautem and Manatuto districts.

The police are said to be reluctant to pursue investigations against people affiliated with the ruling party and the Government frequently uses the police for political purposes.

While the ruling party won a relative majority, opposition and independent candidates fared well, especially in Cova Lima and Ermera, jointly securing about half of the contested seats.

The police are also said to be reluctant to pursue investigations against people affiliated with the ruling party, and the Government frequently uses the police for political purposes.

The State party maintains that the Constitutional Court ruling does not override the requirement to exhaust domestic remedies, enshrined in article 5, paragraph 2, of the Optional Protocol.

But that is far removed from reality and the nature of its ruling party. The Congress Party, to paraphrase Brown University s Richard Snyder, resembles a neo patrilineal dictatorship, in which p eople get goodies for being close to the ruler.

Ruling of 22 April 1999 in case No. 98B750, ruling of 18 April 1991 in case No. 0811351, and ruling of 10 November 1991 in case No. 082051.

She provided almost identical reasoning to that provided in her ruling of 15 March 1996 ruling.

His ruling party dominates public institutions. Worse still, in a vast and predominantly rural country, the prime minister s underlings control broadcasting and maintain a choke hold on other media.

India s New Ruling Caste

At the election of the House of Representatives held on October 22, the ruling alliance composed of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Komeito obtained more than two thirds of seats.

Over the past five years, the China Association Promoting Democracy has upheld the principle of providing assistance to the ruling party, fulfilling its duties for the country, and serving the people,

Obasanjo and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party were re elected in May 2003 in controversial circumstances. Opposition forces, led by Muhammadu Buhari, the candidate of the All Nigeria People s Party, accused Obasanjo of using the police to intimidate voters and falsify the election results.

The Court's ruling is still awaited.

However, this ruling was not implemented.

4.7 As regards the complainant's claim that he risks being tortured by the police, the State party notes that he was allegedly arrested and tortured by police on instructions from the then ruling party, the Awami League, because of his political activities for the Jatiya Party, and that false accusations from that party resulted in the criminal charges which are still pending against him.

Public officials, too, are getting in on the action. After the chief minister of Karnataka, a member of the opposition Congress party, recently declared that he would eat beef, a politician from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) threatened to behead him if he follows through.

Two right wing parties have left his ruling coalition, he has lost his majority within his own Likud Party, and his finance minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has quit his government. Only by bringing Shimon Peres s Labor Party into his cabinet did Sharon manage to retain his parliamentary majority.

Moreover, important figures in or close to the ruling Justice and Development Party expressed their willingness to hold a dialogue with the protesters. President Abdullah Gül, in particular, played a calming, statesmanlike role.

According to the State party, the judge based his ruling on evidence beyond all reasonable doubt furnished by the deputy Crown prosecutor in respect of the various elements of the offence in question.

The Hippo Generation are the ruling elites.

11.4 According to the State party, particular stress should be placed on the fact that, in so doing, the Administrative Court of Appeal based its ruling on evidence which, it noted expressly, was new.

The former Minister of Internal Affairs, Hinga Norman, who is in the custody of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, declared his candidacy for the leadership of the ruling party, but has since withdrawn.

The Court of Appeal has yet to announce the official results, but an analysis of preliminary results shows that, while only the ruling Fretilin party registered in time to field candidates, the elections turned out to be based on local issues and personalities rather than political party affiliation.

Moreover, while rapprochement with Israel has become more likely, Turkey faces severe tensions with Syria and Iran, and its Islamist ruling party must still prove that it can coexist with the country s secular political tradition.

One theory, endorsed by the head of Germany s ruling Social Democratic Party, Franz Müntefering, is that Germany is already where the others still want to be. Slow German growth, he maintains, is a sign of natural convergence.

This ruling required 20 states to amend their legislation.

Its leadership will change next year at a time when income inequality is on the march and the Party lacks any consensus on how to stop it. Given that less than 9 of China s ruling communist party members are actually workers nowadays, the regime s leaders must be even more uncomfortable with growing inequality.

BANGKOK Thailand s future is up for grabs, proclaimed the eminent Thai scholar Thitinan Pongsudhirak just before the country s Constitutional Court ruled, in effect, that the ruling People Power Party (PPP) and its two smaller coalition partners are illegal, and hence must disband due to election frauds committed by party executives a year ago. Party leaders, including Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat, are barred from politics for five years.

Having learned from the collapse of the Soviet Union that a bureaucratic ruling party must co opt new social elites to deprive potential opposition groups of leaders, the Communist Party has conducted an effective campaign of expanding its social base. The urban intelligentsia and professionals have been pampered with material perks and political recognition, while new private entrepreneurs have been allowed to join the Party.

India must hold its own in China s lengthening shadow. Facing elections next year, the ruling Congress Party is spending the government s time and money on subsidies for consumers, wage hikes for state employees, and debt relief for farmers.

The most likely is that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh s Indian National Congress, currently leading the government, emerges once again as the largest single party and assembles a new ruling coalition. The main alternative would be majority alliance put together by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by the 82 year old Lal Krishna Advani.

Putin s recent public statements point to such a vision a dominant center right ruling party, with a (non communist) social democratic alternative waiting in the wings to maintain stable government should the main party falter. As so often in politics, much will depend on how far Putin matches deeds to words after leaving the presidency.

A representative may appeal against the ruling of the President.

A reporter learned from public records that the restaurant was registered under the name of a politician belonging to the ruling Institutional Revolution Party, or PRI, which dominated all levels of politics for nearly all of the last century.

Beyond the judiciary, a slew of institutions, including the federal police and the finance ministry, have taken part and worked in synch. Leading businessmen and politicians have been jailed, among them the former treasurer of the ruling Workers Party.

Unfortunately, meritocracy has been eroded by a political culture of sycophancy and cynicism. Designing a screening mechanism to minimize adverse selection in choosing bureaucrats and party officials has become one of the biggest challenges that China s ruling elites confront.

One big obstacle that Ahn will face if he decides to run is the need to organize a political party, or else to forge a coalition among South Korea s fractured opposition parties. Neither is an easy task, and the precedent of incompetence established by Japan s Democratic Party since it defeated the long ruling Liberal Democratic Party may make some South Korean voters reluctant to abandon the familiar and battle tested GNP.

Secular stagnation threatens the West, accompanied by rising protectionism sentiment. And, although Chinese leaders know that they must rebalance the economy from investment and exports to consumption, doing so risks causing serious domestic political problems for the ruling Communist party.