Palmer had been the leading donor to the conservative Liberal National Party which governs Queensland and is part of the federal opposition.
Other parties such as the Liberal national party of Cuba and the Social Democratic Party of Cuba have denounced the rise of repression against their members.
"I have always maintained that Mr Ashby's application was about manipulating the justice system to inflict damage on my reputation and political career, and to advance the interests of the Liberal National Party, " he said.
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Many of the government tangles on enterprise come from the states, where Labor has been entrenched and pitted against the ruling Liberal Party at the national level.
Bristol's Liberal Democrat leader has blamed national policies after the party lost overall control of the city in the local elections.
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Second, while the challenger attacks Allen for being too liberal and too closely attached to the national Democratic party's agenda, Allen has made a name for himself championing campaign finance reform and will be able to use all the advantages of incumbency in his re-election bid.
Seven political parties plus independents are vying for votes - Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, UK Independence Party, British National Party, The Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts and the British Democrat Party.
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Mr Abe, who was briefly prime minister between 2006 and 2007, was returned to the post earlier this month, when his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won a landslide victory in national elections.
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Head of the World Wide Fund for Nature Scotland, Simon Pepper, said the Liberal Democrats scored reasonably well with Labour a close second and the Scottish National Party third.
Oddly, while the Labour Party is run by a product of the public school system and Oxbridge, none of the leaders of any of the other main political parties Iain Duncan Smith of the Tories, Charles Kennedy of the Liberal Democrats, Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein and John Swinney of the Scottish National Party have been to either.
The center-left ruling Labor Party has traditionally backed abolition, while members of the center-right opposition Liberal-National coalition have tended, like Mr. Howard, to be monarchists.
The BBC's Shahzeb Jillani in Islamabad says that security fears faced by the MQM and other relatively liberal parties including President Zardari's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Awami National Party (ANP) are overshadowing the run-up to the vote.
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