11.   In addition to that newspaper the idea of an electoral alliance against the government was being canvassed by the News Chronicle and the Manchester Guardian.

12.   Electoral alliances were not favoured in the Party, and the radicalism of local Labour Parties was of a different character from Liberal radicalism.

13.   Despite their electoral alliance, the UDF and RPR remain divided on many points of policy, not least in the two key areas of Europe and the economy.

14.   But accusations of betrayal caused electoral alliances to fray, leading the country into a little-remarked tribal war that foreshadowed what would come in Rwanda.

15.   Communist Refoundation formed an electoral alliance with the rest of the Ulivo to defeat the Polo, though it ran under its own platform.

16.   Leaders of secular parties are expected to try to patch together an electoral alliance in the hope of heading off another victory by the Islamic party.

17.   One issue that worries European governments is his electoral alliance with Umberto Bossi, leader of the once-separatist Northern League.

18.   The League, which has taken control of city councils across the North in the past few years, has refused to sign any electoral alliances.

19.   The party formed an electoral alliance with the rest of the Ulivo to defeat the Polo, though it ran under its own platform.

20.   The weaker Liberal Democratic party, now toying with a Labor electoral alliance, also backs a separate Scottish assembly to deal with Scottish issues.