Mr. Mugabe's party, which has governed since white government ended in 1980, was shaken when the opposition won 57 of the 120 seats up for election.
That was to foster reform by engineering a change of government and replacing the Liberal Democratic Party LDPP), which has governed Japan almost continuously since 1955.
By tradition, the blue-collar north was a stronghold of the Labour Party, which has governed Britain for 12 years.
It's about abandoning the biblical doctrine of dominion which has governed our relationship with the natural world.
The Christian Social Union, which has governed Bavaria for decades, is the sister party of Ms. Merkel's Christian Democratic Union.
And the party was the Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as the PRI, which has governed since its founding in 1929.
For the Socialist Democratic Left Alliance, which has governed Poland since last year and has seen its support slip recently, enlisting the pope is shrewd politics, experts say.
His party, which has governed Bavaria with an absolute majority since 1962, won a projected 62percentt of the Bavarian vote -- its widest margin ever.
But the intervention from 86-year-old Kathrada may carry considerable weight within the party, which has governed the country since apartheid ended in 1994.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party, which has governed Mexico since 1929, was formed to bring order out of the chaos of the Mexican Revolution.
But the Liberal Democratic Party of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, which has governed almost uninterrupted since 1955, still dominates rural Japan.
