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.
Austria - The centre-right People's Party governs in coalition with the right-wing populist Freedom Party.
In the voting, the president's makeshift party is likely to be wiped out by Apra, the populist opposition party, and by independents.
The only other party strong enough to support a centre-right coalition the populist Progress Party is deemed beyond the pale and, in any event, is not interested.
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.
From the Republican base the Tea Party populist faction, small government conservatives, and libertarians all passionately oppose Obamacare.
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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).
Then there is the party's populist contingent, whose inspiration comes more from FDR and Harry Truman than from the likes of Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi.
In Poland, the populist anti-European Selfdefence party, which some had tipped to top the polls, in fact came in fourth although another Eurosceptic party, the League of Polish Families, came second (see article).
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.
Members of Spain 's Socialist Party elected Josep Borrell, a populist Catalan, as their prime-ministerial candidate apparently against the wishes of the party machine and of the former leader, Felipe Gonzalez.
The populist candidate, the Democratic Revolutionary Party of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, claims that irregularities skewed the race.
Before last September's general election, the populist, free-marketeering Progress Party of Carl I.
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.
Or is it going to be an extension of the 2010 Tea Party Patriot-inflected populist struggle to constrain the powers of the ruling elite and re-assert the representative nature of government.
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