Last year the president abruptly announced that he was creating the PSUV as the "sole party" of the revolution.
With a primary or other open process, many say, Mr. Soong would have been the sole party candidate, and would have won handily.
(In a country governed by a sole party for nearly seven decades, to love China is, in the government's eyes, to love the Chinese Communist Party).
His regime made Burma into a one-party state in 1964; the sole party permitted to exist was the Burmese Socialist Program Party (BSPP), which had been founded by Ne Win and which was dominated by military officers.
"There were several students who were very impassioned about the conspiracy theory involving the government and there were others who were quite confident that James Earl Ray was the primary, if not the sole, party behind the assassination.
In the last general election in 2010, we saw that the vote share for the major parties combined was 65%; so it's because voters have changed that [those] parties will now struggle to win enough support under [the first past the post] system to be the sole party in power.
Businessman Bill Miller has confirmed he is the sole party in the American bid for Rangers after Club 9 Sports' attempts to involve him in a consortium disbanded and he hopes to take the club out of administration through a company voluntary arrangement and with Ally McCoist as manager.
As the numbers are read, a sole party popper is let off.
Saying sorry should never be a one-way street, even if you're the sole party at fault.
Togo had been ruled since 1969 by the Rally of the Togolese People (Rassemblement du Peuple Togolais RPTT), which was the sole political party until 1991, when other parties were legalized; it remained the ruling party until it was dissolved in 2012.
The CPC is the sole governing party of China, although it coexists alongside 8 other legal parties that make up the United Front.
