What, I asked, made him different from members of the ruling party.

I'm not here to play for the president or the ruling party.

I don't know how they think the ruling party will just give up power if asked.

Sometimes I wonder whether we should give the ruling party another chance.

The lost seat was not important to the ruling party.

The ruling party may be in a worse state now.

He is expected to take over the ruling party leadership early in 2012.

This new ruling party quickly ran into many problems with running such a large country.

But he has run into strong opposition within his own, ruling party.

In these circumstances, what ruling party would stand a chance?

Indeed, to a large extent, the military is the ruling party.

Those promises may not be enough for the old ruling party.

The ruling party lost the election after 70 years in office and all the policies changed.

That could would probably force the ruling party into a coalition government.

She has been endorsed by the ruling party of the union.

Earlier, it was headed by a member of the ruling party.

In both these cases the 26s were declared as the "ruling party".

The President will try today to break the 26-year monopoly of the ruling party.

There has already been talk of a coalition government if the ruling party comes up short.

In the end it seemed that the economy played to the ruling party's advantage.

Because it's a ruling party and cannot reform its own policies.

This was the same or similar process which could be observed also for many members of ruling party.

That left the hard debate to politicians within the ruling party.

"The ruling parties are the government in the places they control," said a senior staff member.

They are also among the biggest contributors to the ruling party.