It nominated its own candidate, Josef Tosovsky, a former prime minister of the Czech Republic, who told the board that as a "representative of an emerging market transition economy," he would bring a different perspective to the job.
It nominated an uncle of Mr. Busch's as a member of its proposed slate of directors.
It nominated an Internet talk-show host in a district in Seoul, but took a drubbing in the final days of the campaign when it was revealed that years ago the man had made sexist jokes.
Prior to Serzh Sargsyan's election as president of Armenia and for a short time thereafter, the ARF was a member of the governing coalition, even though it nominated its own candidate in the presidential elections.
Instead, it nominated one of its members, Edgar A. Brown, one of Mr. Thurmond's old antagonists from Barnwell.
The Congress, although it was financed by business houses like the Birlas and Bajaj during the independence movement, did not bring a businessman into the Parliament until 1984 when it nominated K.K. Birla as its candidate from Rajasthan.
