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unusual facts about party leader



Göran Hägglund

In the autumn of 2011 he was challenged by party colleague Mats Odell on the post of party leader.


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Abba Kovner

He was a cousin of the Israeli Communist Party leader Meir Vilner.

Alan Unwin

He attended a rally for the Reform Party in May 1997, in which party leader Preston Manning called for federal prisoners to be stripped of their voting rights (Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 16 May 1997).

Alberta First Party

The first permanent party leader was John Reil, who was elected its first leader at a convention in Edmonton on January 22, 2000.

Alberta Greens

In December 2008, longtime party leader George Read chose to withdraw his claim to leadership, leaving Joe Anglin the interim leader.

Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi

The party leader is Hitendra Thakur, a former Independent member of the Maharashtra legislative assembly, Baliram Sukur Jadhav of the BVA, backed by Hitendra Thakur, was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha in 2009 and declared unconditional support to the UPA government.

Betty Granger

She also claimed she had been pressured to withdraw by the office of party leader Stockwell Day, Manitoba campaign chair Clayton Manness and others (Canadian Press, 20 November 2000).

Bud Wildman

The NDP actively targeted this seat as winnable, and party leader Alexa McDonough visited the riding very late in the campaign.

Canadian leaders debates

Two parties, the Conservatives and the NDP, opposed the inclusion of the Green Party, citing a deal struck between the Green Party and Liberals where the Liberals would not run in Green Party leader Elizabeth May's riding, Central Nova, and the Green party in Liberal leader Stéphane Dion's riding, Saint-Laurent—Cartierville.

Chief Minister of Singapore

The Chief Minister was the party leader of the largest party in the Legislative Assembly.

Dogsomyn Bodoo

Soon thereafter, however, the political rivalry between Bodoo and Soliin Danzan intensified when Danzan lost his seat as party leader to a relative of Bodoo's.

Dutch general election, 1977

The first joint party leader was a member of the KVP, Dries van Agt.

George Albert Kerr

Kerr was the only cabinet minister to support Darcy McKeough's bid to succeed Robarts as party leader at the 1971 Progressive Conservative Party leader leadership convention.

Hesse state election, 2009

The candidates for the office of minister-president in 2009 were the incumbent Roland Koch of the CDU; the new Hesse SPD party leader, Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel; Tarek Al-Wazir for the Greens; Jörg-Uwe Hahn for the FDP; and Willi van Ooyen for the Linke.

History of post-Communist Albania

In November protests begun in Tirana, led by opposition Socialist Party leader Edi Rama, against the allegedly rigged vote counting in the 2009 elections.

Ian Dennis / Fox Bronte

In January 2010, he drank different coloured juices to change the colour of his urine - to create a portrait of British National Party leader Nick Griffin.

Ilkka Kanerva

The Hymy magazine published on April 1, 2008 printed several of the messages, and on the same morning party leader Jyrki Katainen stated that Kanerva can not continue in his position.

Jakob Lechleiter

He did however come into conflict with the party leader Jules Humbert-Droz.

Jasper McLevy

This caused friction between McLevy and other local Socialists who stayed with the party, including journalist Devere Allen, a close associate of party leader Norman Thomas, and state representative Jack Bergen.

John Turmel

In the election, Turmel ran as an independent against Green Party leader Trevor Hancock in Toronto—Beaches, Marc Gauvin ran in Ottawa Centre, supporter Serge Girard in Ottawa—Vanier, and John and Ray’s mother, Therese Turmel ran in Ottawa West, and Ray Turmel ran as an "independent Green" in Nepean—Carleton.

Laurie Aarons

The period during and after World War II saw the CPA at the peak of its strength and influence, with about 10,000 members, under the veteran party leader Lance Sharkey, who had been installed by the Comintern in 1930.

Liberal DS

In 2001 its leader Morando was a candidate at the III party congress and scored 4.1% of the votes; since then the group supported the leadership of the new party leader Piero Fassino.

Lillian Dyck

On January 29, 2014, Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau announced all Liberal Senators, including Dyck, were removed from the Liberal caucus, and would continue sitting as Independents.

Luke Feldman

He is the son of former Queensland One Nation party leader Bill Feldman.

Max Aardema

Max Aardema (born 1963) is a Dutch police officer and runner up Party for Freedom (PVV) party leader in the province of Friesland in the 2011 provincial elections.

Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1946–1948

Country candidate and former party leader Charles Latham won the resulting by-election on 14 December 1946.

Michelle Mungall

In the 39th Parliament, with the New Democrats as the Official Opposition, party leader Carole James assigned Mungall the role of deputy critic to Dawn Black on Advanced Education, where Moira Stilwell was the minister.

Movement of Socialist Democrats

In 2001, the then-party leader Mohamed al Mouadda was charged with having formed a pact with the banned Islamist group Ennahda.

Natalia Korolevska

Korolevska represented her party early December 2011 at the Congress of the European People's Party (party leader Tymoshenko was in custody at the time).

National Employer Service

In a speech on the subject, the then Conservative party leader David Cameron incorrectly identified the National Employer Service as a Quango in its own right.

Parkindo

It had considerable influence despite the small number of Christians in Indonesia due to the large numbers of Christians in the civil service, the Army and educational establishments and because of the high profile of party leader Johannes Leimena who served in several Indonesian cabinets and as deputy prime minister.

Parliamentary immunity

In the run-up to the 2006 election in Canada, Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper denounced the ruling Liberal Party on the floor of the House of Commons, contending that the government ran "a massive corruption ring using organized crime to defraud taxpayers."

Parliamentary leader

Herb Gray served as parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party of Canada during the lead-up to the 1990 Liberal leadership convention despite the fact that outgoing party leader John Turner still sat in the House of Commons; as the convention was won by Jean Chrétien, who was not a sitting Member of Parliament, Gray continued in the role until Chrétien could run in a by-election.

Peter Shurman

He served as PC Caucus Finance Critic until September 8, 2013 when he was removed from the position after a "heated exchange" with party leader Tim Hudak in which Shurman refused to repay a housing allowance he had received to pay for a Toronto apartment despite the fact he represents a Toronto-area constituency.

Ron Kanter

Kanter served as special assistant to Ontario Liberal Party leader Stuart Smith from 1976 to 1980.

Ronald Stewart

In 1988, Stewart and fellow Progressive Conservative member Jack Scowen openly disagreed with their party leader, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, when the government was supporting efforts to translate Saskatchewan provincial legislation into French in response to a Supreme Court of Canada ruling.

Salwa Judum

On 25 May 2013, its founder Mahendra Karma, who had become a senior Indian National Congress party leader was killed in a Naxalite attack along with other party members in Darbha Valley of Chhattisgarh, 400 km south of Raipur and 50 km from Jagdalpur.

Sardinian People's Party

In the 2008 general election party leader Silvestro Ladu was candidate for The People of Freedom (PdL) for the Italian Senate, but was not elected.

Scottish Liberal Democrats leadership election, 2011

Nominations for party leader closed on 17 May 2011, and with William Rennie the only declared candidate, he was elected to the position unnopposed.

Swedish general election, 2014

Current party leader Annie Lööf is Sweden's Minister for Enterprise.

Sylvie Roy

In the 2008 election, Roy won re-election with 44% of the vote, even though her party's support sharply declined and party leader Mario Dumont announced his resignation.

Syrian Democratic People's Party

Party leader Faeq al-Mir was arrested in December 2006 after being taped by Syrian intelligence agents calling Lebanese politician Elias Atallah to offer condolences for the death of Pierre Gemayel, Lebanon's Minister of Industry.

Ted W. Kulp

He attended the party's national student (YPC) convention in 1963 and attained notoriety for opposing a confidence motion in party leader John Diefenbaker and for calling for the abolition of the Monarchy in Canada.

The Queensland Party

On 1 July 2011, Bob Irwin announced he was considering challenging Labor incumbent Kate Jones and Liberal National Party leader Campbell Newman for the seat of Ashgrove in Brisbane, following discussions with Aidan McLindon over the impact of coal seam gas mining.

Tom Brake

Following the 2001 General Election, then party leader Charles Kennedy appointed him a spokesman on Transport, Local Government and the Regions.

United Kingdom local elections, 1992

Neil Kinnock was still party leader at this stage, although he had already declared his intention to resign from the position as soon as a new leader was elected; his successor was John Smith, who won the leadership contest against Bryan Gould on 18 July 1992.

Valentin Ceaușescu

On 3 July 1970, Ceaușescu married Iordana (Dana) Borilă, the daughter of communist party leader Petre Borilă.

Western Australian state election, 1933

Arnold Piesse, who as an independent had defeated former Country Party leader Alec Thomson in his Katanning seat at the 1930 election, joined the Country Party, as did Richard Sampson, the long-serving member for Swan who had been elected a Nationalist.