They urged MSPs to put party politics aside in favour of the health of the nation.
No one is openly calling for multi-party politics, at least not in the press.
But even without the apparent dawn of four party politics, mid-term elections can give strange readings.
Now as the country looks set to return to multi-party politics, the political temperature is rising.
"Party politics" would be taken out of the management of NHS trusts and health authorities.
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".
This is radicalism plus responsibility, greenery plus growth, party politics and anti-party attitudes all at once.
Mr Sadr agreed in principle last month to trade armed insurgency for peaceful party politics.
His political savvy, in the banal setting of adversarial party politics, often seems lacking.
Mr Kwasniewski has been a temperate, even-handed president, rising skilfully above the squabbling of party politics.
The party politics of all this are also not as simple as some suggest.
The regulator is tasked with making decisions independent of the government or British party politics.
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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.
The alternative to treat the serious business of human rights as partisan party politics would be much worse.
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.
Unfortunately, the incoming administration permitted the vicissitudes of party politics and special interests to derail this nomination.
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.
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