Jan Smerek, head of the supervisory board, is a member of parliament in Mr Meciar's left-wing populist party.
The Populist Party platform of 1892 is interesting for similar reasons.
Nader said in certain states such as North Carolina he is starting a Populist Party to take advantage of less stringent ballot qualifications for third parties.
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Their main hope is Mireya Moscoso de Gruber, leader of the populist Arnulfista party.
His most likely allies could be the populist Roldosista Party, with 15 seats, and dissident members of the Democratic Left party.
Wojciech Mojzesowicz is the vice-president of the populist Samoobrona party.
All that suggests a different, more populist Republican Party.
Already, the number of parties in the Bundestag has risen from three to five, with the entry of the Greens in 1983 and, following unification in 1990, of the populist Left Party, heirs to East Germany's communists.
Peters, whose populist New Zealand First party came third, is kingmaker.
More than a month after the dismissal from the government of Andrzej Lepper the leader of the populist Self-Defence party, the three-party governing coalition finally collapsed mid-August.
He was acquitted of the rape charge the following year, and his support on the populist left of the party ensured that he was able to defeat President Mbeki in elections for the ANC leadership in December 2007.
Ms Medina is from the Patriotic Conscience party, a populist group whose support comes mainly from Aymaran Indian voters.
Mr Manning, who founded the party as a populist movement in 1987, is the son of a former premier of Alberta (and an evangelical preacher).
Maybe now Barack Obama, who hopefully will also push out Summers's protege, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, will begin to provide an authentic populist alternative to those Tea Party Republicans who totally absolve Wall Street of responsibility for the economic collapse.
The populist candidate, the Democratic Revolutionary Party of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, claims that irregularities skewed the race.
The populist, right-wing Freedom Party, led by the ardently anti-European Geert Wilders, offered voters a radical alternative: abandon the union altogether.
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Correspondents say the scheme, together with some other populist measures announced by the Congress party-led government, helped the coalition return to power in the 2009 elections.
Since at least 2008, the flag has been used as an unofficial symbol of the tea party, the loosely defined populist movement that supports reduced government spending, lower taxes and reducing the national debt.
Bogotanos blame this backward slide on their mayor, Samuel Moreno, a populist from the left-wing Democratic Pole party.
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He has a populist competitor in the far-left Socialist Party, which promises to scrap the 3% deficit target and reverse market reforms to health care.
The Freedom Party's economic policies are populist and left-leaning.
What is unfortunate within the Democratic Party debate is that an increasing populist domestic policy of pleasing labor unions has become paramount while highly important issues of national security and foreign policy are being pushed to the margins.
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What is unfortunate within the Democratic Party debate is that an increasing populist domestic policy of pleasing labor unions has become paramount while (which becomes more intense as the competition between the two candidates turns more intense and uncertain), highly important issues of national security and foreign policy are being pushed to the margins.
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The victorious party, Law and Justice, is a populist, high-spending outfit that shows little enthusiasm for the euro.
State Representative BETH KERTTULA (Democrat, Alaska): I think of Governor Palin more as a populist, really, than being part of any political party.
Jose de Venecia, the speaker of the House of Representatives and ruling party's candidate, and Joseph Estrada, the populist vice-president, are both closely associated with the Marcos years.
By the time Mr Reagan was campaigning for president in 1980, the Republican Party had taken over many of Mr Wallace's populist themes: distrust of Washington, of bureaucrats, of intellectuals.
His party has also taken the precaution of dumping the one group that has always doomed populist campaigns in the past: the underclass.
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