Infighting, factionalism and election worries didn't help, either, but the speaker had no solution.
In other industrialized democracies this divide is more muddled by regional interests or other factionalism.
The run-up to the elections has been characterized by factionalism and political infighting, observers say.
Factionalism does not help, with branches of the forces loyal to different political leaders and ministries.
Further north, in Jenin, the Palestinian movement is rent by the same violent factionalism.
Among political parties, as well, factionalism is out of vogue and coalition building is in.
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One current exec member, Tracey Crouch, has announced she is standing down because of the "factionalism".
The LDP lost power in the early 1990s when voters became sick of factionalism and money politics.
Falling foul of vicious political factionalism, Dante was sent into exile from his beloved Florence in his mid-30s.
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Even on Europe, a topic that has caused infighting in the past, there is little sign of factionalism.
"There is great factionalism in the armed forces, " says Cornelis Lay, a political scientist at Yogyakarta's Gadjah Mada University.
Yet factionalism and sectarian stalemate within the Iraqi cabinet and parliament proved to be intractable throughout 2007 and beyond.
The broader opposition, which suffers a legacy of harsh state repression and internal factionalism, has struggled to contain sectarian impulses.
Accusations of collaboration with the regime are flung around, and splits and factionalism are undermining the council's ability to govern.
He countered that criticism by saying that the job of promoting trade and investment "should transcend the factionalism of party politics".
Within the one and only party--the Republican--sectionalism and factionalism were developing, and each section put up its own candidate for the Presidency.
She is also scathing on the LDP's leadership, lack of transparency, and factionalism. (She belongs to no faction.) Yet she retains the respect of party bigwigs.
Aung San Suu Kyi, 67, was among those elected to parliament last year and, in her speech on Saturday, the NLD chairwoman acknowledged there had been infighting and factionalism within the party.
But beyond that, under the calm leadership of Misbah-ul-Haq, this is the most unified-looking Pakistan side in a long time, with no evidence of the factionalism and personality conflicts that have long bedeviled them.
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To ensure that national interest prevails over factionalism.
He was also asked about comments by his leadership rival Andy Burnham on Sunday - that there had been too much "egotistical factionalism" at the top of Labour and he wanted to offer a "complete break".
Mr Miliband said Labour had to "move on from some of the psychodramas of the past, some of the factionalism that there was" but anyone who thought that "personalities" had lost Labour the election was "profoundly wrong".
The two men can confidently face the party polls, which have been brought forward from their usual date in June to May, in the hope that this will curb some of the power struggles and factionalism feared by party veterans.
You could argue that the furious power battles are a sign of healthy internal democracy, or you could look at the political murders, and the greedy factionalism as proof that yet another African liberation movement has pressed the self-destruct button.
The vice president's trip comes several days after Qatar's foreign minister said his country had sent a low-ranking representative to last week's Arab League summit in Baghdad in order to send a message over "factionalism in Iraq, " the state-run Qatar News Agency reported.
The commission argued that viewing sectarianism as "Protestant-Catholic religious prejudice, political factionalism, or even 'tribalism' " placed it outside the context of well-established international human rights law, specifically the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which came into force back in 1969.
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