In 1966, Thackeray formed the Shiv Sena party to advocate more strongly the place of Maharashtrians in Mumbai's political and professional landscape.

In March 1994, the PGE created a constitutional commission charged with drafting a constitution flexible enough to meet the current needs of a population suffering from 30 years of civil war as well as those of the future, when stability and prosperity change the political landscape.

According to literary critic Terry Eagleton, Le Fanu, together with his predecessor Maturin and his successor Stoker, form a sub-genre of Irish Gothic, whose stories, featuring castles set in a barren landscape, with a cast of remote aristocrats dominating an atavistic peasantry, represent in allegorical form the political plight of colonial Ireland subjected to the Protestant Ascendancy

In Scandinavia, the Kalmar Union dominated the political landscape, while England fought with Scotland in the Wars of Scottish Independence and with France in the Hundred Years Wars.

While there are a number of political parties in the state, the political landscape has been dominated for decades by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, historically opposed and competing entities, which both occupy the traditional centre ground.

Italy's dramatic self-renewal transformed the political landscape between 1992 and 1997.

Scandal investigations touched thousands of politicians, administrators, and businessmen ; the shift from a proportional to an Additional Member System ( with the requirement to obtain a minimum of 4 % of the national vote to obtain representation ) also altered the political landscape.

This emerging bipolarity represents a major break from the fragmented, multi-party political landscape of the postwar era, although it appears to have reached a plateau, since efforts via referendums to further curtail the influence of small parties were defeated in 1999, 2000, and 2009.

A series of center-left coalitions dominated Italy's political landscape between 1996 and 2001.

In January 1995, Kemp's stated reason for not entering the 1996 Republican Party presidential primaries was that his personal beliefs were out of balance with the contemporary Republican political landscape: Kemp opposed term limits, he always preferred tax cuts to anything resembling a balanced budget amendment and, unlike most Republicans, favored federal incentives to combat urban poverty.

But ultimately each of the Berber dynasties proved to be a political failure because none managed to create an integrated society out of a social landscape dominated by tribes that prized their autonomy and individual identity.

Be that as it may, by the late 19th century, socialism and trade unions were established members of the political landscape.

With his main European rivals subdued, Suleiman had assured the Ottoman Empire a powerful role in the political landscape of Europe.

* The political landscape of the present parliament depicted in a graph

Boundaries were redrawn, and the political landscape was changed forever.

A basic premise of the setting is that as the world endured the string of state-changing events and conflicts, the political landscape fragmented and reformed.

In 1120, the English political landscape changed dramatically.

Hooper has cited changes in the cultural and political landscape as central influences on the film.

Local hosts, such as Los Angeles's John and Ken, have also proven effective in influencing the political landscape.

There are several reasons why, in some systems, two major parties have dominated the political landscape.

Three parties currently dominate the national political landscape in Britain: the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, and the Liberal Democrats.

This group dominates much of the cultural and political landscape of Vietnam.

However, as his life progressed he sheltered much of his revolutionary spirit and distanced himself from the intense political landscape until 1922, when he was appointed Senator for the Irish Free State.

By the early 1960s, most of East and Central Africa, where the majority of the Ismāʿīlī population on the continent resided including Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Malagasy, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire, had attained their political independence.

Burundi and Rwanda dispute sections of border on the Akanyaru / Kanyaru and the Kagera / Nyabarongo rivers, which have changed course since the 1960s, when the boundary was delimited ; cross-border conflicts among Tutsi, Hutu, other ethnic groups, associated political rebels, armed gangs, and various government forces persist in the Great Lakes region.

The Luba political system spread throughout Central Africa, southern Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and the western Congo.

Burundi and Rwanda dispute sections of border on the Akanyaru / Kanyaru and the Kagera / Nyabarongo rivers, which have changed course since the 1960s, when the boundary was delimited ; cross-border conflicts among Tutsi, Hutu, other ethnic groups, associated political rebels, armed gangs, and various government forces persist in the Great Lakes region.

The Kingdom of Burundi was characterized by a hierarchical political authority and tributary economic exchange.

The Front for Democracy in Burundi (, FRODEBU ) is a Hutu progressive political party in Burundi.

* Burundi Workers ' Party ( Kirundi: Umugambwe wa ' Bakozi Uburundi ), a clandestine Marxist political party in Burundi

Ndadaye returned to Burundi in September of that year, by which time he was developing a political following of his own.

Although opposition parties were banned in Burundi itself under the rule of military dictator Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, in 1986, Ndadaye and his supporters founded a new underground political movement, the moderate Front for Democracy in Burundi ( FRODEBU ).

* National Liberation Front ( Burundi ), an ethnically Hutu rebel group that sometimes functions as a political party in Burundi

* National Council for the Defense of Democracy, a former ethnic Hutu rebel group that now functions as a political party in Burundi

The Union for National Progress (, UPRONA ) is a nationalist political party in Burundi, receiving most of its support from members of the Tutsi ethnic group.

During Burundi's civil war CNDD-FDD was the most significant rebel group active and became a major political party in Burundi.

The Abahuza party is a monarchist political party in Burundi.

Prince Godefroid was able to communicate the central ideology of the Abahuza party in his statement that " the monarchy lasted 500 years in Burundi in a political environment of stability and cohabitation because the King was the symbol of national unity.

On June 18, 1963, about a year after Burundi gained independence and amidst efforts to bring about political cooperation between Hutus and the dominant minority Tutsis, Ngendandumwe became Burundi's first Hutu prime minister.

These were a tight network of high places, as well as centres of political and religious power in pre-colonial Burundi.

Parmehutu ( French: Parti du Mouvement de l ' Emancipation Hutu ; English: " Party of the Hutu Emancipation Movement "), also known as MDR-Parmehutu ( Mouvement démocratique republicain Parmehutu ; French: " Parmehutu Democratic Republican Movement ") is a now-defunct political party of Rwanda and Burundi.

See the list of political parties in Burundi for information about the parties.

Burundi Workers ' Party or UBU (; ) was a clandestine Marxist political party in Burundi.