• Even voters in North-Rhine Westphalia, the most heavily-populated German state, rejected her party in favour of the Social Democrats (SPD), who promised to go easy on cutting debt.

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  • Yet as kingmaker Mr Dacic dropped his alliance with the Democratic Party of Boris Tadic in favour of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) led by Tomislav Nikolic, who defeated Mr Tadic in the presidential election.

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  • But the resistance is politically passive and a cross-party consensus in favour is holding.

    ECONOMIST: Germany and Afghanistan

  • Golkar wanted this applied to the districts, but the opposition feared it would work in the ruling party's favour.

    ECONOMIST: On democracy��s front line

  • They urged MSPs to put party politics aside in favour of the health of the nation.

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  • The party is officially in favour of cutting the EU budget.

    BBC: Cameron facing EU budget dilemma

  • The MSP said that a majority of the supporters of each party were also in favour of wind farm developments even when they were in their own area.

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  • Mr Obama and his fellow Democrats were confident of passing a significant reform of health care in early 2010 after the Senate voted, along party lines, in favour of a bill.

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  • It is a sad indictment of Republican short-sightedness that all discussion of creating the flatter, simpler tax system that the party is supposed to favour has given way to squabbling over a grab-bag of politically-appealing goodies.

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  • Yet another suggests a sharp rise in the flat rate of payroll tax that bosses pay for workers on DM610, thus discouraging hiring them (this from a party otherwise claiming to favour tax cuts to boost jobs).

    ECONOMIST: German jobs

  • She said her party was not in favour of abortion but believed that the option of termination should be available in the case of rape, sexual abuse or incest, or where a pregnant woman's life was in danger.

    BBC: NI Assembly fails in bid to change abortion law

  • It's an interesting issue, it's always been a matter for free votes, as you know, my own particular position has been a minority one inside the Labour Party which is in favour of the so-called middle way option of better regulation at one of the options which was flagged up by the report of Lord Burns.

    BBC: News Online

  • If they change allegiance or get expelled from that party, they will be obliged to give up their seat in favour of another of the party loyalists.

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  • Some in Mr Berlusconi's Forza Italia, the right's biggest party, believe the referendums favour modernity.

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  • Martin Curtis was elected at a full council meeting during which cabinet-style government was rejected in favour of cross-party committees.

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  • She said that, since local liberal democrats had been "campaigning to save public services", voting in favour would leave his party and councillors "looking extremely opportunistic".

    BBC: Nick Clegg

  • And these people wouldn't necessarily be in favour of a Republican Party that's preoccupied with making the world a better and more secure place for those who are already very wealthy.

    BBC: Wall street sign

  • And yet the odds must favour Mr Wallace persuading his party to toe the coalition line.

    ECONOMIST: Scotland

  • Earlier, Greek conservative leader Antonis Samaras said all his party's MPs must vote in favour of the bailout law.

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  • Such gerrymandering can be extremely partisan when the majority party in a legislature draws districts that favour its candidates, as the Republicans did in Texas a decade ago.

    ECONOMIST: Election boundaries

  • The Alliance party's Chris Lyttle also spoke in favour of the motion and opposed the SDLP amendment.

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  • As Mr Elci points out, although six judges ruled in favour of the ban on his party, five ruled against it.

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  • On December 4th, Labor members of parliament changed leaders a fifth time, dumping Mr Beazley in favour of Kevin Rudd, the party's foreign-affairs spokesman.

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  • Those who rated themselves more in favour of redistribution than the Labour party on that scale are rated as "left" for the purposes of this analysis.

    BBC: Why Labour voters desert

  • His application to rejoin Labour caused ruptures in the party, with Tony Blair apparently privately in favour of the move, while ex-leader Neil Kinnock said he was "fundamentally and irretrievably" opposed.

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  • Labor delegates to the conference voted 206-185 in favour of the motion to change the party's policy.

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  • But he failed to convince the party's rank and file, who strongly favour the more congenial Mr Zuma.

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  • He also spoke out in favour abolishing Section 28 and urged the party to become a "champion of gay rights".

    BBC: Profile: John Bercow

  • Mr Fraser, who was seen as the frontrunner, wanted to abolish the Scottish Conservatives - often described by critics as a "toxic brand" - in favour of a new centre-right party.

    BBC: Ruth Davidson: Voters don't trust Tory motives

  • The Reform Party , at a convention in Michigan, overwhelmingly rejected the candidate for chairman put forward by the party's founder, Ross Perot, in favour of one suggested by its new star and former wrestler, Governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota.

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