The component parties of the FG decided to run a single, common candidate in the 2012 presidential election.

This left the Alliance without any component parties - all members are now simply members of the Alliance as a whole.

The component parties contested the 2009 provincial elections separately but later that year started negotiations to revive the list.

This was organised on a democratic centralist basis, with component parties required to fight for policies adopted by the body as a whole.

As such, it is a component party of the United Left of the Valencian Country group.

Liow said, "MCA is the second largest component party.

BN won the election on the back of uneven performances by its component parties.

The party is one of the component party of the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition.

The Councillors represent the various political component parties of the coalition government of Sarawak.

They agreed that there was absolutely no point in the Coalition's component parties going to war over Europe.