The Liberal Democrats are a federal party, with considerable autonomy allowed to different regions.
His stated goal this year is to get 5 percent of the popular vote, guaranteeing the Green Party federal matching funds in 2004.
So I shall be asking the party's Federal Executive to look into extending one member one vote to more party elections.
The Alliance is a bold effort to reshape Canada's right by merging Reform, a federal neo-conservative party of Albertan origin, with sections of the Progressive Conservatives.
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He resigned from Sinn Fein in 1981 when the Party abandoned its federal Ireland policy.
She says the rejection by Florida's House wasn't about a lack of flexibility by the federal government but about Tea Party ideology.
The SPD has ruled out forming an alliance with the radical Left Party at the federal level, limiting Mr Steinmeier's coalition options.
Obama and the Republicans have been fighting over federal spending since the opposition party regained control of the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterm elections.
The plaintiffs survived a motion to dismiss last December in a Western District of Texas federal court, and each party has now filed motions for summary judgment.
If Ms Williams and her colleagues had hoped that voters would appreciate the nuances of the party's federal structure in a devolved election, then they were largely disappointed.
That is a common, though not unanimous, sentiment in Germany - but that does not mean Germans will vote in droves for the new party in the federal elections in September.
According to Brendan Nelson, the education minister and a rising star in the Liberal Party, the federal government is now concentrating its efforts on training, on which he thinks the states have done poorly.
Fears that the next election might have a similar outcome led Preston Manning, Reform's leader, to launch a crusade aimed at creating a single right-of-centre party at the federal level, to be called the United Alternative.
Duncan Brack, a former member of the party's Federal Policy Committee, suggested Mr Osborne "seemed to have declared war on green energy" by seeking to revise green regulation, cut subsidies for offshore wind and carbon emission targets.
The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear the case that opens the door to the final destruction of the campaign finance laws that place a limit on how much money an individual can contribute directly to a federal candidate or national political party.
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For one, say analysts, it shows that when your party-led federal government is battered by allegations of corruption, indecisiveness, and stasis, unleashing a relatively young and sophisticated scion of the country's most famous dynasty on the campaign no longer guarantees votes in today's restless and aspirational India.
The memo goes on to state that the federal government distinguishes between individual medical cannabis patients and third party providers, indicating that it is a poor use of federal resources (rather than a poor use of judgment) to target the former, while indicating that the latter are fair game for federal prosecution.
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Buchanan is fighting a federal court battle for the right to debate, arguing the Reform Party is one of three recognized parties by the Federal Election Commission, and therefore ought to be included.
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When Labor won federal power in 2007, the party ruled in all six states.
Senior Congress party leader and former federal minister Vidya Charan Shukla was among 32 injured.
So, too, is Stockwell Day, the new leader of the federal opposition, the Canadian Alliance Party.
One message is that the President and the Democrat Party will not cut federal spending.
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Buchanan's success increases the likelihood that he will win the Reform Party nomination and the federal funds that go with it.
For a state governor, the ultimate third-party payer is the federal government.
So far the crisis has been confined to Cologne, and party officials insist that federal SPD leaders knew nothing of the affair before last weekend.
His father was a state party chairman and assistant federal prosecutor.
One can only imagine the amount of coalition wrangling during the next federal election with yet another political party on the scene -- the Pirate Party.
That money is to be used, according to federal election guidelines, for "party-building" purposes, but McCain and others have argued for years that it often is used to benefit individual candidates.
The critical issue here, which certainly transcends Big Pharma, is whether under federal common law, third-party beneficiaries can sue government contractors to enforce the statutory requirements with which those businesses contractually pledged to comply.
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