Palestinian factions are making it increasingly difficult for Palestine Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to avoid filing war crime charges against Israel in the International Criminal Court.
The far left, including adherents of Communist Party factions, was making its voice heard.
Mr. Erdimi's faction is made up largely of disgruntled kinsmen of Mr. Déby's Zaghawa ethnic group.
A second faction is made up of aides who are viewed as comparatively liberal and are aligned with a Putin protégé, Dmitri A. Medvedev, now the first deputy prime minister and chairman of Gazprom, the energy giant.
While the party's left wing has gotten outsize attention for its aggressive moves to push Democrats in their direction, the splinter faction is made up of the party's moderates — many of them freshmen taking their first congressional votes.
And at least two factions of that inner circle seems to openly loathe one another ― the Reince Priebus faction is made up of government careerists who are distrusted by the Steve Bannon faction, who want to humiliate career bureaucrats, dismantle the "administrative state," and spend the rest of their free time oppressing immigrants and Muslims.
Known as Factions, they seem to have been named by someone a little too excited about their thesaurus -- the Amity faction is made of earth-loving farmers; smart people are members of Erudite; Dauntless is a high-spirited warrior class; and the Abnegation faction are selfless public servants.
The royal faction was made up primarily of people indebted to the king, who planned to build their careers on service to him; few were privy to his plans for reforms, which were kept hidden from the conservative opposition and Russia.
Syrian President Bashar Assad has gained momentum against disparate rebel factions, many of which are made up of Islamist extremists with ties to Al Qaeda.
Both repeated voting and RCV uphold majority rule by requiring 50% plus one to win and, when no one achieves that goal, it's "last candidate out". The one difference is that with repeated voting, you can change your mind based on what you're observing -- or, as is frequently the case, what deals are made among competing factions and candidates.
