However, Sinn Fein counters by claiming that the threat to destabilise power-sharing is a result of inter-unionist election rivalry.
Both foreign backers and Afghans hope that Ghani and Abdullah can put aside their acrimonious election rivalry and work to improve life in a country that has suffered war and poverty for decades.
He had chosen not to campaign for majority leader earlier this year, he said, because he thought it would hurt his party to have such a fierce yearlong rivalry in an election year.
The power struggle between the financial sector and its check-cashing, card-carrying customers has developed into one of the fault lines along which the political parties are playing out their own rivalries as the election year arrives.
Forget ethnic rivalry and post-election violence: Kenyans wax lyrical when their tribe has its own night, with songs, dances and gestures everyone knows like the backs of their hands.
"Good measurements" do not make a good president, puffed Martine Aubry, a former minister, in a sideswipe at snapshots of Ms Royal sporting a bikini this summer.Once the Socialists pick their candidate in November, the swagger of unity on the right and the bickering on the left should make way for the real rivalry in next spring's election: between the two parties.
But, in the wake of Trump's election, the sibling rivalry became a fundamental matter of business philosophy.
It starred Florence Henderson and Robert Reed as clean-cut newlyweds with children whose most serious problems were usually on the level of sibling rivalry or a student council election.
And the real campaigning will take place not before the election, but afterwards.The rivalry between the Kremlin clans the siloviki, or those linked to the security services, and those with ties to business will be reflected in the Duma.
The internal rivalries that cost Fatah the election last January remain pronounced.
