He has been a leading politician since the 1980s and has served two Christian Democratic presidents.

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Meanwhile, prosecutors said they would charge Manuel Rosales, a leading opposition politician, with corruption.

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Police in Malawi arrested a leading opposition politician on charges of treason relating to a failed coup.

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She was on her way back from the residence of Adnan al Dulaimi He's a leading Sunni politician.

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Moreover, he is the only leading Turkish politician openly to disavow capital punishment.

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An engineer by training, the 51-year-old got his start in politics by managing the 1974 Upper House campaign of the late Fusae Ichikawa, Japan's leading feminist politician who championed equality of the sexes, shunned political parties and aided the fight against corruption.

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Despite the clashes, the leading ethnic Albanian politician in Macedonia expressed optimism about negotiations to end the crisis and head off a full-scale war in the Balkan country.

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The other leading Republican is Steve Levy, a Long Island politician, who left the Democratic party in March to run as a Republican candidate.

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He is the only Kenyan politician who has changed political parties each time he has been a parliamentary candidate, leading his critics to conclude that he does not believe in strong party politics.

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