41.  He voted for candidates from the recently unified Solidarity bloc and the Freedom Union, an independent party with historical ties to the Solidarity trade union.

42.  His office said the three people involved, including a prison corrections officer, all had different stories and there was no independent party to corroborate.

43.  Human rights workers and other independent parties believed the case was politically motivated and the trial unfair.

44.  In a parliamentary by-election boycotted by the opposition, the governing party won three seats and an independent party one, the Election Commission said Friday.

45.  In the June municipal elections, the opposition leftists, the conservative majority and independent parties each won roughly a third of the municipal council seats.

46.  In three, the council candidates were unchallenged, and the winners were two independent parties and a small party that represents minority Tamils.

47.  Instead, he has picked a small independent party to back.

48.  Kosgoro, the business wing of Golkar, indicated Monday it was studying the possibility of turning into an independent political party.

49.  Let political parties grow naturally without external intervention so that eventually we can have more independent political parties.

50.  Mandela said he was encouraged about the prospects for peace in Congo after Kabila recently lifted a ban on independent political parties.