According to Jim Ryan, co-chief executive of Bwin.party, the two announcements are related and have been in the works for nearly 18 months.
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The chief of the ruling Congress party Sonia Gandhi has backed Mr Singh and has criticised the opposition for holding the parliament "to ransom".
Mr Hollande is expected to hold talks with Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid and will call on Sonia Gandhi, chief of the governing Congress party, as well as Sushma Swaraj, leader of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party.
George W. Bush perhaps set the precedent of appointing his chief rival within the Republican party, Colin Powell, to secretary of state as a way to secure the shrewd general's skills and to politically neutralize him.
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It helps explain his surprisingly strong partnership with Ehud Barak, the leader of the Labour Party (and a former army chief of staff and prime minister), trusted as the only man able to handle the big security issues.
Fearful for the future of its candidates, the Muslim Brotherhood nominated Saturday an alternative, Mohammed Morsi, chief of the Freedom and Justice Party.
When an impasse was reached, Mr Brown, who at the time was deputy chief whip of the parliamentary Labour Party, tried to narrow the areas of disagreement.
The chair of the local party is expected to inform the Chief Whip of the decision later.
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Among those present were Conservative Party chief executive Andrew Feldman, party donors Lord Sainsbury and Michael Farmer and Murdoch Maclennan, chief executive of the firm which publishes the Daily Telegraph.
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No one is more worried than Mulayam Singh Yadav, chief of the 20-strong Samajwadi Party, which serves the sort of customers Congress goes after (Muslims and lower castes) in a state (Uttar Pradesh) where Congress is desperate to expand.
The question Nick Clegg has yet to answer is - why didn't he ask his chief of staff to ask around senior party officials if they'd heard any allegations against Lord Rennard or, indeed, order an inquiry into the "concerns"?
India hinted that it would suspend the state government during the election to reduce the risk of rigging, then backed away for fear of offending the chief minister, Farooq Abdullah, whose National Conference party is part of the coalition that governs in Delhi.
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The Democratic party leader was expected to officially name his White House chief of staff as Rahm Emanuel, a Chicago colleague who helped lead the party to majority control of Congress in 2006.
Outside his political base of Alberta, many fear that his new party has inherited the social conservatism of its chief forebear, the Canadian Alliance.
Under fire for his party's handling of allegations against ex-chief executive Lord Rennard, he said voters could trust the party's record in office.
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However, within hours of his announcement, Mamata Banerjee, the chief of Mr Trivedi's Trinamul Congress party, rejected the fare increase.
Reaching the capital of Bhopal, I found the state's Chief Minister, Digvijay Singh, felt the secularism of his Congress party needed to be redefined to take account of India's deeply religious ethos.
Mr Buthelezi, head of the Zulu-nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party, became its chief minister, and some would say its dictator, within the limits of power allowed to him by the South African government.
The chief of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has denied allegations of involvement in a massive corruption scandal.
On Tuesday, former chief of staff Jose Dirceu, the Workers' Party's former president, Jose Genoino, and treasurer Delubio Soares were found guilty of corruption.
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Junichiro Koizumi's government strikes some radical notes, but the chief opponents of his reforms belong to his own party: the political patrons of the post office he wants to privatise or the rural constituencies he wants to stop subsidising.
Since the start of the by-election campaign, the party has faced further difficulties with former Liberal Democrat chief executive Lord Rennard facing allegations of sexually inappropriate behaviour by female Lib Dem activists.
One was respected investment and state-enterprises chief Laksamana Sukardi, a member of Megawati's party.
No, in the fall of 1999 the Fed chief wheeled up to the party with Bud kegs and togas.
Many of its members, including the party chief, Sitaram Kesri, fear they will do badly in the general election now to be held, in February or March.
It was Irving Gerstein, a Conservative Party leader, who asked Mr. Hilton if he would consider leaving his job as chief financial officer of Enablence Technologies, an optical-communications manufacturer, to join Canada's Conservative Party as executive director.
Police chiefs, enraged by the killing of nine colleagues, overcame their fear of local political bosses and arrested a party chief, Emmanuel Karisa Maitha.
JD(U) are bound to start bickering as soon as Mr Yadav is gone, first of all over which party will name the chief minister.
The Trinamool Congress has decided to leave the government over plans unveiled last week, said Mamata Banerjee, the party's head and the chief minister of India's West Bengal state.
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Ms Morrissey, the chief executive of Newton Investment Management, to look at the party's culture and processes, its attitude towards women and the employment relationship between staff, elected officials and volunteers.
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