The ruling National Congress Party (NCP) appears poised to challenge the result of the referendum.

But the ruling Congress Party is not about to relinquish one of its greatest leaders.

Khmer National Congress Party

Given that China s ruling Communists are holding their Party Congress at the same time as the current IMF meetings, a deal seems unlikely now, too.

There are currently nine political parties, with the Democratic Progressive Party acting as the ruling party and the Malawi Congress Party and the United Democratic Front acting as the main opposition parties in the National Assembly.

And, unlike in Egypt, where the ruling party was detested and out of touch with the masses, Yemen s General People s Congress has some following in society.

The two largest parties in the country, the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party and the All People's Congress, are both experiencing intra party divisions, which have resulted in the emergence of splinter groups.

Reality was whatever the ruling party said it was.

Thailand s ruling Democrat Party immediately called Chavalit s remarks traitorous.

The Bell Tolls for India s Congress Party

Facing elections next year, the ruling Congress Party is spending the government s time and money on subsidies for consumers, wage hikes for state employees, and debt relief for farmers.

The most likely is that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh s Indian National Congress, currently leading the government, emerges once again as the largest single party and assembles a new ruling coalition.

Sonia Gandhi, the leader of the ruling Congress Party, who pushed hard to promote Patil s candidacy primarily on gender grounds, calls this election a special moment for women across the country.

The details resigning 'as head of ruling party' are perplexing. yshehab mubarak resigns as head of egypt ruling national democratic party. as relevant as giving up his club membership

Predictably, the African National Congress emerged the majority party.

With a Muslim President, a Sikh Prime Minister, a Hindu Foreign Minister, and a foreign born Christian President of its ruling Congress party, India is as remarkable a success story as the twenty year boom that China s Communist Party has delivered.

Under the electoral system in place in 2002, the ruling party quickly disintegrated into nine oligarchic party factions.

The Islamic Republic Party was Iran's ruling political party and for some years its only political party until its dissolution in 1987.

Symbols range from the open palm of the ruling Indian National Congress to the lotus of the Bharatiya Janata Party and variants of the hammer and sickle for India s profusion of Communist parties.

The contract was given to company with direct ties to the ruling party.

The former ruling party and the complainant's persecutor, the Awami League, lost power.

All political parties except the then ruling United National Independence Party (UNIP) were proscribed.

The Prime Minister is usually the leader of the largest party in the ruling coalition.

His party, the ruling Anguilla National Alliance (ANA) won three of the seven seats contested.

The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress is a political party in Sri Lanka.

Public officials, too, are getting in on the action. After the chief minister of Karnataka, a member of the opposition Congress party, recently declared that he would eat beef, a politician from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) threatened to behead him if he follows through.

Moreover, an investigation into the offshore accounts of Sudanese businesses affiliated with the National Congress Party, the ruling majority party in Khartoum, should be launched, paving the way for sanctions against the regime s commercial entities, which form the main conduit for financing its Janjaweed proxies in Darfur.

Moreover, an investigation into the offshore accounts of Sudanese businesses affiliated with the National Congress Party, the ruling majority party in Khartoum, should be launched, paving the way for sanctions against the regime s commercial entities, which form the main conduit for financing its Janjaweed proxies in Darfur.

Within Vietnam s ruling Communist Party, there are deep divisions over the country s relations with the US.

Obasanjo and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party were re elected in May 2003 in controversial circumstances.

The election of Ahmadinejad marks the onset of new struggles within the ruling Islamic Republican Party.

He bought a place and they gave him a position in the FLN Algeria's ruling party .

India must hold its own in China s lengthening shadow. Facing elections next year, the ruling Congress Party is spending the government s time and money on subsidies for consumers, wage hikes for state employees, and debt relief for farmers.

Given that water is a state issue in India, and that Banerjee s political party, the All India Trinamool Congress, is a key coalition partner of the ruling central government, the deal could not go through without her approval.

In response, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party established a Working Team on the Protection of Maritime Interests.

In 1907, the annual session of the Congress Party was held at Surat, Gujarat.

The former President, Mr. H. Kamuzu Banda, and his Malawi Congress Party were defeated.

The next time Sata would meet the Malawian leader was in South Africa at the centenary celebrations of the ruling African National Congress.

Having performed poorly in a spate of recent state elections, the ruling Congress Party is betting that the new budget will swing voters its way if the national election, currently scheduled for April 2009, is moved forward to this autumn.

Notably absent on the day of the mass demonstration in Madrid was the ruling party, the People's Party (Partido Popular), which previously opposed the march.

But President Hosni Mubarak and the ruling National Democratic Party have been stonewalling since the mid 1980's.

Necessary policy reforms advocated by a ruling party are often held hostage to the prejudices of its allies.

The police are said to be often reluctant to pursue investigations against persons affiliated with the ruling party.

The marriage shall be annulled by a ruling of that court on the application of either contracting party.

Felipe Calderón of the center right ruling party, the National Action Party (PAN), is currently leading in the vote count, which must be confirmed by September.