"He respects his hard-line constituency but is willing to explore centrist possibilities.
But for Mr. Rouhani, a handshake may have proved too provocative for hard-line constituencies back home.
Such ideas are in line with the desires of the party's business constituency.
The locals call it "enracinement" (putting down roots); the party establishes elected representatives in towns and villages with an eye on the larger, more powerful departments and regions, and presumably further down the line, parliamentary constituencies.
More contentious commitments which reflect Mr Modi and his party's concession to the hard-line Hindu constituency - building a temple on a disputed site in Ayodhya and ending a personal law given to different religions and supporting a common civil code for all Indians - appear in a few lines on page 41.
Another Republican Mr. Bloomberg met with, Senator Jack M. Martins of Nassau County, said he would take the coming weeks to listen to people in his district and would ultimately "vote in line with my constituency".
You'll beef up your bottom line, enlarge your constituency and bring down barriers.
While the latter put themselves on the line in key constituencies, Davies hid himself away on a regional list, almost certainly ensuring that Labour kept hold of the Vale of Glamorgan in the process.
Sarkozy jumped the long queue of voters at his polling station in the west of Paris to cast his vote, sparking criticism after the other candidates had waited patiently in line in their constituencies.
American officials speak of Netanyahu as myopic, entitled, untrustworthy, routinely disrespectful toward the President, and focussed solely on short-term political tactics to keep his right-wing constituency in line.
The remarkable power of tech that allows parties to tailor a message to an individual voter is probably corrosive and certainly organisationally expensive; it further blurs the line between national and constituency campaign finance, which Lord Ashcroft's marginal seats strategy did for years.
