So far, most potential candidates have been maneuvering for position and negotiating with potential election partners.
Add in the numbers for formal election partners and, according to one internal DS poll, the gap is even smaller, at 2%.If that is repeated on polling day then the DS will find it easy to find further coalition allies, such as the Socialist Party (which it governs with today) and the Liberal Democratic Party.
Only weeks before the election, my partner and I had been wandering the streets of Tehran looking for a cheap flat to share in a country where the punishment for our relationship, should it be discovered, was a public execution.
And would they be fighting the election as partners, or opponents?
Five days before the election, a law partner of Mr. Hance wrote a public letter denouncing the Bush campaign for using alcohol to lure young people.
He said if Labor won the federal election, Victoria would partner with the commonwealth, share costs and some of the $5bn funding would be invested elsewhere.
The party had been governing in coalition with Labour but during the assembly election campaign its partner managed to present itself as the party that would protect Wales against cuts imposed by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition at Westminster.
Lynch, McKinley's opponent in the 1871 election, and his partner, William R. Day, were the opposing counsel, and the mine owners included Mark Hanna, a Cleveland businessman.
Battered and bruised in the European and local elections, the junior partner in Britain's government suffered another conspicuous humiliation.
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