With the great social blocs that once underlay politics broken up by deindustrialisation, and the online world allowing people to flip between political identities on a whim, politics will surely continue to fragment and rapidly change.
The consecutive defeat of the conservative party in the 2002 presidential election made conservative political blocs and social blocs unite and eventually ended up with the formation of the National Association of the New Right (NANR) in 2005.
Pier Luigi Bersani, leader of the social democrat bloc, is attempting to woo the 20 senators he needs to form a majority government.
Republicans entered the campaign divided into three strains that are now personified by the three men who led in the last polls before the caucuses: Mr. Romney representing the moneyed, establishment chamber of commerce wing; Mr. Santorum representing the classic social conservative bloc and Mr. Paul the libertarian, noninterventionist, small-government wing.
The Guards have emerged as the most powerful political, social and economic bloc in the nation, eclipsing even the clergy and the conservatives.
Farmers used to be the most powerful social and economic bloc in the province.
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We're all in our fifties!" But Bayrou's idea — to create a pro-Europe, pro-market, social-democratic parliamentary bloc: a party, really, that would draw its membership from progressives on the left and the right — was new, and appealing.
The Social Democrat-led opposition bloc won 156 seats while the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats got 20 seats, entering parliament for the first time.
David Cameron finally delivered on a four-year-old pledge to establish a new centre right grouping in the European parliament when the Tories announced they would lead a 55-strong bloc of social conservatives in Strasbourg and Brussels.
To this end, he actively promoted the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), a regional bloc for social, political, and economic integration created with Castro in 2004, and PetroCaribe, a Venezuelan-led regional energy program created in 2005.
