Example sentences of "party which had been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its unified parliament , the House of Representatives , comprised the 159 members of the North 's former legislature and the 111 from the South , plus 39 members appointed on March 24 , mainly to give representation to opposition political parties which had been prohibited in the North and only recently legalized in the South . |
| 2 | However , CODESA II , which brought together the government , ANC and 17 other organizations , ended in deadlock and delegates failed to adopt any of the reports of the five working parties which had been established at the first CODESA session in December 1991 [ see pp. 38662-63 ; 38705 ] . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the Front populaire ivoirien ( FPI ) , now emerging as the strongest of the 26 parties which had been allowed to register since May , elected its general secretary , Laurent Gbagbo , to stand against Houphouët-Boigny in the presidential elections ; he was the first opposition presidential candidate since independence in 1960 . |
| 4 | Prior to the announcement of the planned merger , Roh had announced changes within the leadership of the DJP on Jan. 5 , in an attempt to heal divisions within the party which had been exacerbated by Roh 's decision to force former President Chun Doo Hwan to testify before the National Assembly in December 1989 [ see p. 37123 ] . |
| 5 | On Nov. 24 three-quarters of the delegates at the 18th congress of the Unified Socialist Party ( Parti socialiste unifié — PSU ) voted to disband the party which had been formed in 1960 . |
| 6 | The Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS ) — the former ruling communist Socialist Unity party which had been renamed in February [ ibid. ] — strengthened by the personal standing of its leading candidate , Prime Minister Hans Modrow , did better than expected , winning 16.4 per cent of the vote and 66 seats . |
| 7 | In democratic elections held on June 10 and 17 , Bulgaria , alone among the countries of Eastern Europe , returned to power the former ruling party , the erstwhile Bulgarian Communist Party which had been renamed the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) on April 3 [ see pp. 37380-81 ] . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , it was the French Communist Party which had been given the task of encouraging communism in Vietnam ; and , it appears , where necessary , correcting its faults . |
| 9 | The government 's economic policy , including severe cutbacks in the welfare state and extensive deregulation [ see below ] , exacerbated existing divisions within the National Party which had been concealed but not resolved in the run-up to the election . |