Before he left for Camp David, Mr. Barak lost his parliamentary majority when right-wing and religious parties defected from his broad-based coalition government.
The religious parties and a small Russian immigrant party defected before Mr. Barak traveled to the Camp David summit meeting in July, leaving him with an unstable minority government.
Farage has struggled to re-establish his group after the Danish People's party defected to the European Conservatives and Reformists group established by the Tories.
But that number rose to nearly 70 by the time that Mr. Fujimori took office on July 28, as members of the Peru Possible party defected.
And, paradoxically, its democracy has created some problems with Washington: Members of Mr. Erdogan's own party defected in 2003, for example, voting not to allow the Americans to attack Iraq from Turkish territory.
Although his paternal grandfather had been an active, old-fashioned Highland Liberal, Kennedy started his own political life in the Labour party, defecting to the SDP on its formation in 1981 partly because Labour seemed "less about releasing individual potential and more about levelling down".
PARIS — While thousands of Polish labor union members marched through Warsaw on Thursday, a member of the governing party defected, pushing the center-right government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk to the brink of losing its parliamentary majority amid intensifying popular discontent.
By approaching it externally, I mean asking yourself, "If the other party defects, what should I do?" or "If the other party does not defect, what should I do?" If you ask yourself such questions, the answer at which you will arrive is that you should defect.
"For now, that is just one of the many Berlusconi announcements which Italians have got used to," Italo Bocchino, a former Berlusconi ally whose party defected from the movement in a bitter split said according to AP. "Soon, we'll see if it is something concrete, or merely a propaganda revelation".
Once one party defects, protectionism will, if rationally designed and competently implemented, almost certainly be sufficiently successful in practice (and therefore popular) that the other party will have no choice but to follow.
