1.   When a Chancellor resigns between elections, the government political parties Decide who shall be his successor.

2.   Already the government party is in third place in terms of number of local councils they control and seats they hold.

3.   Backed by official government advertising, members of government coalition parties and the government itself have started their campaigns.

4.   Both of them are global free trade, interventionist, open borders, big government parties.

5.   A recent poll showed government parties would be neck-and-neck with the opposition Socialists and Communists were an election held this weekend.

6.   Both parties traditionally united with the government party to back Suharto as the only permitted presidential candidate.

7.   Cabinet posts are divided among government parties on a quota system that is based on how many seats are controlled.

8.   Chairmen of the three government coalition parties are meeting later today with President Vaclav Havel to discuss a government reshuffle.

9.   Despite the intimidation, Sierra Leoneans voted for the government political party and locked out the rebels.

10.   During the campaign, a Liberal candidate in Saskatchewan bluntly told farmers that, if they wanted government aid, they would have to vote for the government party.