They urged MSPs to put party politics aside in favour of the health of the nation.
But even without the apparent dawn of four party politics, mid-term elections can give strange readings.
We are not going to play Westminster party politics with the Northern Ireland peace process.
Indubitably Mr Ciampi is a formidable operator, however divorced he has been from party politics.
It is part of modern party politics to ensure that politicians are "on message".
Mr Sadr agreed in principle last month to trade armed insurgency for peaceful party politics.
Mr Kwasniewski has been a temperate, even-handed president, rising skilfully above the squabbling of party politics.
Although Mr Museveni allows a reasonably free press, he has long suppressed multi-party politics.
There is also a structural difficulty: national governments still inhabit worlds of partisan party politics.
Mr Koizumi is, of course, wrestling with the old problem of Japan's muddled party politics.
But he was happy enough to endorse party politics when it came to Labour's prospects.
But it is also because of the difficulties of running a campaign in Scotland's four-party politics.
But for the time being, perhaps wisely, they are steering clear of party politics.
What matters to most Ecuadoreans is not party politics but jobs, housing and basic services.
The switch in fiscal priorities has much to do with domestic and, especially, Liberal Party politics.
On top of everything else, Scotland's four-party politics also presents the Tories with some awkward dilemmas.
Mr Khatami's reformers hope that this election will be the start of true party politics.
Party politics can make a difference - not just through voting, but through engaging in the process.
In the coming weeks, UMNO's list of candidates will tell the electorate much about internal party politics.
The fortune that Thiel has since accumulated has given him an influential role in Republican Party politics.
Its activists are hard workers, and they care little for the procedural niceties of conventional party politics.
Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said ministers agreed "the serious issue of alcohol misuse should be above party politics".
Before his move into party politics, he also served for two years as one of four Victims Commissioners.
Similarly, some gay men who work in Republican Party politics declined to speak on tape for this piece.
As a chief constable, he was barred from party politics, and Mr Brunstrom said he had remained "scrupulously neutral".
It's too important an issue to leave to the vagaries of party politics.
Liberal Democratic Party politics was about distributing wealth from the center to the regions through public works and transfers.
Inevitably, the present crisis has encouraged the prime minister's instinct for detaching himself from the fray of party politics.
The current Republican plan has more than a little party politics in it.
Sir Cyril was one of the best politicians this country had, he fought for his constituents regardless of party politics.
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