Law and Justice has already faced some harsh criticism in Poland for allying with the Tories in the European parliament.
And he antagonised the music industry by allying Bertelsmann with Napster, a company that enabled music-lovers to download music for free from the Internet.
Mr Korn hopes their promises to continue some TRT policies, such as cheap health care, will win over more voters.Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political scientist, says the PPP may come first but be forced into opposition, as the Democrats build a majority by allying with smaller parties.
Because neither party can muster a majority, they form unstable governments by allying variously with each other, Congress or with the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which won 88 seats in 2002.In this section Show us the money Party girl Cleaning up?
The League, as many will remember, came to power after working to foment a military coup in 2006, which it accomplished in part by allying with leftists to cripple the garment sector.
In the outgoing parliament Mr Berisha's coalition gained a majority by allying with Ilir Meta's Socialist Movement for Integration, a breakaway from Mr Rama's party.
But it is an eminently evolutionary one: it has kept its hold by allying with every sector of society, and by moulding its ideology and policies to the moment.
When George Bush talks of danger emanating from Iraq, Iran listens.But Iran's anti-American ideology prevents it from allying itself wholeheartedly with Mr Bush to unseat Mr Hussein: there is national animus against America's president for putting Iran alongside Iraq in his "axis of evil".
They think voters are likelier to reject AV if told that it will mean more seats for the Lib Dems, and more king-making power after elections for third-party leaders such as Mr Clegg, whose reputation has been hurt by his various policy compromises since allying with the Tories.But Mr Cameron cannot attack his deputy without jeopardising the coalition.
Yitzhak Herzog's Labour Party, now part of the expanded Zionist Union, would probably rather align with right-wingers than stake its legitimacy among Jews by allying itself with an untested Arab bloc.
He quickly concluded after May 6th that allying himself with the cause of modest electoral reform was a price worth paying for power.For the Liberal Democrats, changing the first-past-the-post voting system that discriminates against them has long been the holy grail.
