He was arrested on Tuesday following the killing of governing party member Harrison Chanda a day earlier.
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They realised that the onus is upon them, as the governing party, to elevate the debate, he says.
The other option is to see whether the fractured governing party can try to form a new government.
Coetzee, Christopher Hope, Damon Galgut and other South African writers have also been critical of the country's governing party.
However, his opinion on the African National Congress, South Africa's governing party once led by Mandela, was less kind.
And so we have to look to the deputy leadership contest to take the pulse of the governing party.
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Just as the Tories are acting like the opposition, so Labour has adopted the pose of a governing party.
It is hardly surprising that the electorate is turning against the governing party.
Barbados recently suffered credit rating downgrades and correspondents say the governing party has had difficulty stabilising the Caribbean island's economy.
Brian Cowen, Ireland's beleaguered prime minister, survived a confidence vote in his leadership of Fianna Fail, the main governing party.
His lawyers include Philip Davis, a member of parliament for the governing party and former legal partner of the prime minister.
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The governing party's presidential candidate is far behind opposition candidates in the opinion polls and Mrs Arroyo cannot run for president again.
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Polls show that two-thirds of Georgian voters believe Georgia is on the right track, and 55% intend to vote for the governing party.
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What the times require, though, must be a key element of a defining - and differentiating - platform for a would-be governing party.
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The death of a 17-year-old girl in South Africa after she was gang raped has been condemned by female politicians of the governing party.
The Lib Dem leader believes that his party is on a journey from the opportunism of permanent opposition to the responsibility of being a governing party.
In fact not for thirty years has a governing party actually increased its vote share on the last General Election, and we got more votes than Labour.
Anna Chapman, a Russian spy deported this year from the US, has been elected to a top role in the governing party's youth wing, the BBC has learned.
In November 2011, a man seen as a potential serious challenger for Mr Zuma's post, the firebrand ANC youth leader Julius Malema, was suspended from the governing party.
The Liberal Democrats, a coalition between the distant heirs of a once-great governing party and more European-style social democrats, have not yet made the same jump to the radical middle.
Earlier this week, Rached Ghannouchi who heads the moderate Islamist governing party Ennahda, warned that the government would not allow the annual congress to take place, ahead of a final ruling.
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Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the NDC's secretary general, said the governing party did not believe the Supreme Court would rule against them as the elections had been the country's most transparent ever.
In Caracas, Venezuela's foreign minister announced late Tuesday that Vice President Nicolas Maduro would be interim president and run as the governing party candidate in elections to be called within 30 days.
The LDP has survived as Japan's governing party thanks mainly to the financial and political support it enjoys from many of the private-sector companies whose bad debts now plague the banking sector.
Their Westminster leader, Angus Robertson, continues to argue that Mr Davidson's position is "untenable", having insulted the governing party of Scotland, for which 45 per cent of those who took part in elections in May voted.
But on a visit to the town of Fumel and Metaltemple, a truck components factory, where shifts has been halved in recent months, he concedes it is not the best time to run for the governing party.
Indeed Labour claims that, if the two parties were neck-and-neck in their national share of the vote this time, this would be the best result for any governing party, two years into its term, for 50 years.
Political analyst Maria Teresa Zegada told El Pais newspaper that "it is clear that the will of the MAS (Movement Towards Socialism, Bolivia's governing party) is to remain in power and opt for the re-election of Evo Morales".
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Although he said he was always emphatic in answering "no", he recognised that "the case for Britain leaving is now made openly by members of the governing party and far more widely supported amongst the public at large".
It has never disturbed me that we have two party systems in the Anglo-American West, and I've often felt willing to back a reformed party of the left if the governing party of the right had become exhausted or corrupt.
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