Several said it was good for Pakistan to have a president and a prime minister from the same party, reflecting the official line of the Pakistan Peoples Party.
The president later appointed a "friend" of his administration to investigate whether there was any conflict of interest involved in his wife's mansion purchase — along with the purchases of properties by the president and finance minister from the same contractors.
The initial group composing the High Council contributed a great deal to the basic pattern of Louis's reign, particularly in military, fiscal, naval, and commercial attitudes, partly because many of those who followed as ministers came from the same tightly knit group of royal servants.
The weirder thing is that, when the President and the Prime Minister are from the same party, things can be even worse, because the Prime Minister, if he makes a success of the job, is immediately assumed to be a rival for the Presidency.
Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan, who took over as caretaker prime minister, is from the same ruling party.
We also said that 2012 was the first time a new Finnish president and the sitting prime minister were from the same party.
"[Abbott] was slapped down for raising democratisation of his home party with the prime minister from that same state.
The new prime minister, Marouf Bakhit, comes from the same Bedouin and military stock as most of the protesters.
Just before Kerry spoke, the French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, emerged from the same hotel to declare that "the last hundred metres of a marathon were the hardest".
It also poked fun at her for sacking former minister Dinesh Trivedi from the same role.
