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rightist

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One who believes in the politics or policies of the political right.

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That is vindication for Mr Uribe and his controversial policy of "democratic security".The voters paid tribute to a remarkable transformation in a country long racked by the violence of leftist guerrillas, rightist paramilitaries and drug-traffickers.

In the final days, the race became a battle between the rightist government and the opposition of Social Democrats and Greens, with a bad outcome for Mr Schüssel, who won a big election victory 18 months ago.Mrs Ferrero-Waldner was his hand-picked candidate, and her defeat has caused the recent grumbling in his party over his autocratic leadership style to get louder.

Although Arena controls fewer seats than the FMLN (32 seats compared with 35), it has natural allies in two other minor parties, the Partido de Conciliación Nacional (PCN) and the Partido Demócrata Cristiano (PDC), which have a similar rightist ideology.

Her attackers work for Carlos Castaño, the strongest of Colombia's rightist paramilitary warlords.

These have seen a few refugees, and periodic incursions by leftist guerrillas from the FARC or ELN or rightist paramilitaries from the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC), seeking either plunder or rest and recreation.

Mr Colóm, in his third bid for the presidency, lost to the current president, Oscar Berger of centre-right Gran Alianza Nacional (Gana), in the 2003 election.Coming in behind Mr Colóm in the polls is Otto Pérez Molina, a former general and member of the rightist Partido Patriota (PP).

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Now, he says, Chinese leaders are too afraid of losing control.This fear is reflected in the party's refusal to address the complaints of victims of the anti-rightist movement.

The rightist-religious block of parties, Mr Netanyahu's natural allies, emerged substantially stronger than the parties of the left which may back Ms Livni, the foreign minister, for the prime minister's office.

The rightist-religious block numbered 65 to the left's 55.But Mr Netanyahu is going to have to sweat.

During the anti-rightist campaign of 1957, "Jiang," Mr Gilley judges, "was not a party hardliner; he was simply learning to survive in Mao's China".

The main local contest, for mayor of Sofia, will be decided in a run-off on November 2nd between the incumbent, Stefan Sofiyanski, a centre-rightist, and Stoyan Alexandrov, a Socialist.If there is any comfort here for Simeon, it is that Bulgaria's voters are so hard to please.

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