Sentence examples for and the candidate of from inspiring English sources

He will face Luis Alberto Lacalle, a conservative former president and the candidate of the National Party, who won 28.5percentt.

Mariano Rajoy, the handpicked successor of Prime Minister José María Aznar and the candidate of the governing Popular Party, is in the lead.

But some election observers and the candidate of the opposition Renamo Party, Alfonso Dhlakama, said that a two-week delay in completing the count and suspiciously high turnouts in some provinces pointed to fraud.

The population applauded Alejandro Giammattei, a former director of prisons and the candidate of the ruling party, when he ordered a raid on a notorious prison last year that had become a center for organized crime.

Taiwan's presidential race is a tight three-way affair between the candidate of the ruling Nationalist Party, Lien Chan; a dissident nationalist, James Soong; and the candidate of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, Chen Shui-bian.

In October 1965 the MRP joined other right-centre parties to support the presidential candidacy of Jean Lecanuet, who came in a poor third to General Charles de Gaulle and the candidate of the left, François Mitterrand.

The others are Howie Hawkins, on the Green Party line; Warren Redlich, the Libertarian Party candidate; and Jimmy McMillan, the candidate of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party.

Although both Lee Hoi Chang, the presidential candidate of the conservative Grand National Party, and Roh Moo Hyun, the candidate of the governing Millennium Democratic Party, have called for dialogue with North Korea, they differed sharply today on how to respond to the North's nuclear threat.

Clearly sensitive to that argument, Mr. Thompson said in an e-mail message: "Let me be clear that I am running for mayor as the Democratic candidate and not the candidate of any particular race.

In listing the contenders you fail to mention Port-of-Spain in Trinidad and Tobago, the candidate of the 14 member states of the Caribbean Community.

Mélenchon is polling at about 8% and is the candidate of a far-left front that includes the Communist party, once a major force in French politics.