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His Social Democrats (SPD) got 38.5 per cent of votes, and so did the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) of his rival candidate Edmund Stoiber.
More generally, it remains to be seen how willing the rival candidates in party primaries will be to reunite under the same political banner for the election.
In January, the combined US intelligence agencies concluded that the Russians were behind the leak, two days before the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last summer, of 19,252 email messages detailing how Democratic Party leaders favored Hillary Clinton over her rival, Bernie Sanders.
Hamas receives support from the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist organization with extremist offshoots that is sometimes seen as a rival to the Saudi-grown Salafist movement.
If there is a formal leadership contest, it seems likely that several rival candidates will aim to stand.
The differences between radicals and conservatives in the Party are now sharper than those between the Party and its historic rival, the Kuomintang.
In addition, more respondents (47%) thought that the phrase “strong leader” better described Bush than his rival, then-Massachusetts Senator John Kerry – a genuine Vietnam War hero.
Even the owner of the Bridgewater Canal eventually saw the way the wind was blowing – and invested heavily in the rival railway.
Leaders of the EU have, in recent times, seen themselves as a rival to the US on the global stage.
Rather than attempting to build a monetary bloc in Asia, China appears to be seeking to elevate the renminbi to the status of a true global currency that might one day rival the dollar.
A 2016 study by University of Groningen economist Philip McCann found that the UK’s regional income gaps rival the worst in Europe.
When Iran is at a crossroads, a popular reformist candidate emerges, promising to end Iran’s international isolation, and his conservative rival defends Iran’s insularity as self-reliance and pledges handouts to the people.
Yasuhisa Shiozaki, who occupies the key position of cabinet secretary, is a long-time ally, while the foreign minister, Taro Aso, though a rival within the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), shares Abe’s policy priorities.
China and a New Balance of PowerSHANGHAI – The last rival superpower to the United States, the Soviet Union, collapsed in 1991.
Unlike a “real enemy,” with which a rival can achieve a modus vivendi, an absolute enemy must in time be either destroyed or transformed – for example, through the “nation building” that Trump vociferously rejects.
The new coalition, the Organization for the Liberation of the Levant (HTS), also attracted factions from its main rival, Ahrar al-Sham.
Mergers with other organizations are viewed as a way to lessen the risk of eradication by drone strikes or ground attacks from rival forces.
When the MPs reassembled, the opposition members – now joined by MPs from a rival regional party – marched towards the Speaker’s desk, making even more noise.
One of his most infamous clients was the pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovych, who, upon winning the presidency of Ukraine, imprisoned his main rival, the previous prime minister, on trumped-up charges.
Youth of the Ijo tribe demand that the government redraw local government boundaries, which they claim favor the Itsekiri, a rival group, before the elections.
The Truth about RwandaKILGALI – Ongoing unrest between rival military factions in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has triggered a predictable barrage of innuendo, fabricated leaks, and outright lies regarding Rwanda’s role.
Finally, it would increase the relative vulnerability of America’s main strategic rival, China, which is becoming increasingly dependent on Middle East energy supplies.
Some people now warn of a “Lebanonization” of Syria – partition of the country into rival fiefdoms and quasi-independent regions.
Strauss-Kahn is, of course, likely to be Sarkozy’s Socialist rival in the next French presidential election.
In any case, Hamas faces some risky and consequential decisions of its own – all the more so should its main rival, Abbas’s Palestinian Authority, succeed in its current diplomatic campaign at the United Nations.
In 1999, Unity's main rival was the Fatherland /All Russia bloc (OVR), led by ex-premier Yevgeny Primakov and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who at the time were very popular figures.
But the government-controlled media subsequently launched fierce attacks against them, targeting Primakov especially, since he was considered a serious rival to Putin and a legitimate presidential contender.
First, would even a partial withdrawal of military force create a security vacuum that could be filled by a rival – say, China or Iran?
So far, the service’s focus has been on its own construction, including the turf wars and bureaucratic infighting that have marked the European Commission’s resistance to its new rival.
Recall US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s flippant assertion that half of her rival Donald Trump’s supporters comprised a “basket of deplorables.”
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