Some polls have Lien Chan trailing both Soong and opposition Democratic Progressive Party candidate Chen Shui-bian.
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His own party, the Democratic Progressive Party, is expunging the explicit pro-independence plank from its platform.
Peter Mutharika is the presidential candidate of the former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in elections due next year.
This is part of the reason the Democratic Progressive Party saw solid gains in the Dec. 5 local elections.
Such scandals helped lose the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which Mr Chen quit in August, this year's presidential elections.
In May 2000, the Nationalists lost power to the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led by Chen Shui-bian, who became president.
The largest opposition grouping, the Democratic Progressive Party, appears ready to nominate veteran political exile Peng Ming-min as its champion.
New CAL president Christine Tsai-yi Tsung, who has no background in aviation, is close to leaders of Chen's Democratic Progressive Party.
Chen, a member of the Democratic Progressive Party, won a fierce, three-way race, thanks to a split in the dominant Nationalist Party.
To seal the strained relations between the two former political buddies, Mr Mutharika quit the UDF and founded his own Democratic Progressive Party.
His backing now runs around 25%, about even with the third main candidate, former Taipei mayor Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party.
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Mutharika was elected under the former president's United Democratic Front Party in 2004, but left it soon after and formed the Democratic Progressive Party.
But they worried that if they did not help him, the disillusioned public would give more support to the opposition, Mr Chen's pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party.
The friendliness of the meeting convinced some observers that Lee had secretly backed Chen's candidacy - they are calling him the father of Chen's Democratic Progressive Party.
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This latest broadside can be judged or, in China's case, misjudged as an effort to frighten away voters from Chen Shui-bian, the candidate of the formally pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party.
Punishing Taiwan economically would play into the hands of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which is far more suspicious of China and the benefits of open trade with it.
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"The Democratic Progressive Party and the future President Chen, we will communicate openly with Beijing, Tokyo and Washington DC, to create the best future for everyone, " says the DPP standard bearer.
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There was a heavy police presence outside court, where hundreds of supporters of the former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) gathered, but, unlike on Monday, there was no violence, he says.
In fact, Chen's speech appeared to fairly successfully straddle a line between the demands of China on one hand and the radical, pro-independence faction of his Democratic Progressive Party on the other.
"(The) Malawi Congress Party ... will not accept the results if Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika and the Democratic Progressive Party are declared winners in these elections, " the opposition party said in a statement signed by Tembo late Thursday, according to Malawi's Daily Times.
In a sign of the popular unease raised by the pact, the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, which has virtually no parliamentary clout, still managed to collect over 120, 000 signatories to a petition asking the government for a referendum on it (though Taiwan's high threshold for referendum participation means that such a thing may not get off the ground).
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"The opposition in the gay community to Quinn comes partly from a group of progressive activists who are somewhat on the left of the Democratic Party, and who find her insufficiently progressive on a wide number of issues, " Mr. Sherrill said.
Yet as kingmaker Mr Dacic dropped his alliance with the Democratic Party of Boris Tadic in favour of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) led by Tomislav Nikolic, who defeated Mr Tadic in the presidential election.
It is composed of progressive-minded independents and defectors from coalition members Sakigake and the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
Parliamentary elections that month saw a high turnout of 84% and a narrow win for the Progressive National Party, which took eight seats to the People's Democratic Movement's seven.
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