When the votes were counted, the party doubled its federal vote from 1. 9 million ( PDS result in 2002 ) to more than 4 million — including an electoral breakthrough in industrial Saarland where, for the first time in a western state, it surpassed the Greens and FDP due, in large part to Lafontaine's popularity and Saarland roots.

While the Trento group around Curcio had its main roots in the Sociology Department of the Catholic University, the Reggio Emilia group ( around Franceschini ) included mostly former members of the F G C I ( the Communist youth movement ) expelled from the parent party for extremist views.

This grouping of " neo-fundamentalists " have their roots within the camp of the former high-profile Labour Party MP Jim Sillars who left Labour to form the short-lived Scottish Labour Party in 1976 ( the party had no connection with the UK Labour Party or the current Scottish Labour group in the Scottish Parliament ).

The SCA's roots can be traced to a backyard graduation party of a UC Berkeley medieval studies graduate, the author Diana Paxson, in Berkeley, California, on May Day in 1966.

In its early years the party was stronger in Northern Italy, and especially in eastern Lombardy and Veneto, due to the strong Catholic roots of that areas, than in the South, where the Liberal establishment that had governed Italy for decades before the rise of Benito Mussolini had still a grip on voters, as also the Monarchists and the Front of the Ordinary Man did.

That circumstance struck at the very roots of the southern conception of party.

The roots of the party can be found in Swedish fascism.

The Green Party of England and Wales has its roots in the PEOPLE party started in 1972 / 3 by a group of four professional friends in Coventry ( Michael Benfield, Freda Sanders, Tony & Lesley Whittaker ).

Its strong Republican roots go back to the formation of the party in the 1800s following the collapse of the Whig Party, which had previously been the preferred party.

Others within the party, however, saw this as a betrayal of the party's left-wing roots.

He fundamentally changed the party, replicated the INL structure within it and created a well-organised grass roots structure, introduced membership to replace " ad hoc " informal groupings in which MPs with little commitment to the party voted differently on issues, often against their own party.

The party had its roots in a movement against the Swedish government's decision in 1963 to remove religious education from the elementary school syllabus.

Although the VLD was the successor of the PVV, many politicians with democratic nationalist or socialist roots joined the new party.

From its roots as a radical alternative to the political establishment, the party grew to its current dominance through several eras:

Possible Peru has its roots in an earlier political party, País Posible, which was founded by the economist Alejandro Toledo in 1994.

The party traces its roots to Norodom Sihanouk, the Cambodian independence leader, former King of Cambodia, Prime Minister and latterly Head of State during the period between 1955 and 1970, when his Sangkum regime controlled Cambodia.

Frederick Fung Kin-kee SBS, JP ( born 17 March 1953 in Hong Kong, with family roots in Dongguan, Guangdong ) is the former chairman of the Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood ( ADPL ), a pro-democracy political party in Hong Kong.

After Dudley Senanayake ’ s death in 1973, Jayewardene became leader of the UNP and started reorganizing the party at the grass roots level.

When the conference happened, The Times greeted it with a leader commending the party for striking " deeper roots than a group formed around a particular personality ".

In the United States, an early use of the phrase " grassroots and boots " was thought to have been coined by Senator Albert Jeremiah Beveridge of Indiana, who said of the Progressive Party in 1912, " This party has come from the grass roots.

Due to his roots and belief in business, he was uncomfortable in the CCF and found himself on the right-wing of the party caucus.

The roots of this equation are just the ordinates of the intersections of the graph of B with a straight line of unit slope through Af in the b-plane ( the plane of the graph of b ).

`` If teeth are moved too rapidly, serious injury can be done to their roots as well as to the surrounding bone holding them in place '', explains Dr. Brodie.

In other countries where cereal grains are not among the principal crops of a region, starchy tubers or roots are processed for starch.

Algae lack the various structures that characterize land plants, such as phyllids ( leaves ) and rhizoids in nonvascular plants, or leaves, roots, and other organs that are found in tracheophytes ( vascular plants ).

Carrot, celery and parsley are true biennials that are usually grown as annual crops for their edible roots, petioles and leaves, respectively.

It includes perennial herbaceous plants which are glabrous and have short rhizomes with fibrous roots or are rhizomatous with root tubers.

* The quadratic surds ( irrational roots of a quadratic polynomial with integer coefficients,, and ) are algebraic numbers.

If the quadratic polynomial is monic then the roots are quadratic integers.

** The numbers and are algebraic since they are roots of polynomials and, respectively.

All numbers which can be obtained from the integers using a finite number of integer additions, subtractions, multiplications, divisions, and taking nth roots ( where n is a positive integer ) are algebraic.

Examples of algebraic integers are,, and ( Note, therefore, that the algebraic integers constitute a proper superset of the integers, as the latter are the roots of monic polynomials for all

Ailanthus are capable of forming thick blankets of roots and heavy shade to the extent that native species are prevented from being able to reclaim an area that has been logged or deforested, as well as areas that have been heavily developed.

Neither the crown ( fruit, mescal button ) of the Peyote cactus nor the roots of the plant Mimosa hostilis nor Psilocybe mushrooms themselves are included in Schedule 1, but only their respective principles, mescaline, DMT and psilocin.

Although modern analytical chemistry is dominated by sophisticated instrumentation, the roots of analytical chemistry and some of the principles used in modern instruments are from traditional techniques many of which are still used today.

The word aegis is identified with protection by a strong force with its roots in Greek mythology and adopted by the Romans ; there are parallels in Norse mythology and in Egyptian mythology as well, where the Greek word aegis is applied by extension.

Today, Aleut weavers continue to produce woven grass pieces of a remarkable cloth-like texture, works of modern art with roots in ancient tradition. Birch bark, puffin feathers, and baleen are also commonly used by the Aleuts in basketry.

Still extant echoes of these celebrations are found in the mid-autumn Thanksgiving holiday of the United States and Canada, and the Jewish Sukkot holiday with its roots as a full-moon harvest festival of " tabernacles " ( huts wherein the harvest was processed and which later gained religious significance ).

Being a monarchical state, with its roots invested in Colonial England, black letter law is that which is a term used to describe basic principles of law that are accepted by the majority of judges in most provinces and territories.

So rather than coordinating electoral strategies, as in the case of the parties within the Pan-Blue coalition, the presence of the TSU keeps the DPP from moving too far away from its Taiwan independence roots.

In 1997 parliamentary elections two parties with roots in the Solidarity movement — Solidarity Electoral Action ( AWS ) and the Freedom Union ( UW ) — won 261 of the 460 seats in the Sejm and formed a coalition government.

ACT had by this time started billing itself as a natural coalition partner for National -- a sharp departure from Prebble and Douglas ' roots in Labour.

The roots of the name are in the coalition of 1853 in which moderate Reformers and Conservatives from Canada West joined with bleus from Canada East under the dual prime-ministership of Sir Allan MacNab and A .- N. Morin.

In 1997 parliamentary elections two parties with roots in the Solidarity movement – Solidarity Electoral Action ( AWS ) and the Freedom Union ( UW ) – won 261 of the 460 seats in the Sejm and formed a coalition government.

Led by activists from local colleges and members of the " Brown Berets ", a group with roots in the high school student movement that staged walkouts in 1968, the coalition peaked with an August 29, 1970 march in East Los Angeles that drew 30, 000 demonstrators.

Primary elections have never been held on a national level before in Italy, and only once at a regional level, in Apulia: in that occasion, Nichi Vendola, a communist and gay Catholic, became the candidate for the centre-left coalition in a region reputed to be conservative and with deep religious roots.

In 1997, the state-owned shares were sold to Bank Austria ( BA ), resulting in a crisis in the ruling coalition between SPÖ and ÖVP, since Creditanstalt had to be considered part of the conservative sphere of influence, whereas BA with its roots as Vienna's Central Savings Bank ( Zentralsparkasse ) was considered standing politically left.