Assuming they do, will House Dems govern as a moderate party or a radical one?
"We are a moderate party and we have nothing to do with the fundamentalists, " he said.
Since his party lost heavily in 2002, he has redefined it, even changing its name to the New Moderate Party.
Gunilla Carlsson, the Moderate Party's deputy chairman and a former member of the European Parliament, is a possibility for the foreign ministry.
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Indeed, Mr Reinfeldt came to power in 2006 only by moving his Moderate party towards the centre and borrowing freely from social-democratic ideology.
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The Moderate Party, which Mr Bildt has led since 1986, reckoned that, after Sweden's general election in September, their man would be prime minister.
The Moderate Party was trounced in 2002 when it ran on a radical platform that promised to slash taxes and gut the Swedish welfare state.
Although Mr Reinfeldt's Moderate Party captured more votes than his three partners combined, he might not demand such a mathematically exact share of cabinet seats.
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The right-wing vote is now clustering around the conservative Moderate Party.
The Moderate Party had an unprecedented lead in the opinion polls last summer partly because Swedes were angry about high unemployment and the government's harsh budgets.
However, such an outcome could be avoided should a moderate party win a majority in the Greek elections, securing the country's future in the eurozone, he said.
Though the governing coalition's most moderate party the centrist, secular Shinui joined the opposition and media in suggesting the closure of Netzarim, the right-wing majority gave this short shrift.
Carl Bildt, who was the Moderate Party prime minister during the recession of the early 1990s, notes that the government now crows about how the huge expansion of privately provided child care has helped to keep up female participation in the workforce.
It's like talking about, you know, mainstream Nazi party or moderate fascist party.
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After his fall, a once-banned moderate Islamist party, Ennahda, went on to dominate parliamentary elections.
The third main grouping is Yabloko, a moderate liberal party which prides itself on clean hands but has never been close to power.
The moderate Islamist party Ennahda was elected following the overthrow of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali last year, but Salafists want stricter Islamic laws imposed in Tunisia.
The Israeli people don't need to hear about Erekat's declaration of war to know that the supposedly moderate Fatah party is just as committed to Israel's destruction as Hamas.
As Arabs scour the horizon for templates, some look to Turkey, where a moderate Islamist party has been elected three times in a decade and presided over an economic renaissance.
Late Wednesday, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, head of the moderate religious party Ennahda, sacked his Cabinet and called for new elections, leaving himself at the head of a caretaker government.
But Clinton may not understand a second apparent objective: to use U.S. policy under Clinton in a way that would undermine Rabin and his moderate Labor Party while elevating the hard nosed Likud.
If the assembly, which includes his moderate Islamist party, rejects the caretaker government, Jebali said he will ask the country's president "to designate another candidate to form a new government" likely to get the body's approval.
This election will have a profound impact on Spain, as Convergence and Union (CiU), the moderate nationalist party that ran Catalonia for 23 years after 1980, may well return to power, ending a seven-year coalition between Socialists, the far left and extreme separatists.
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Pasok, the old ruling social democratic party, remains cowed, shrunken, some if its advisors already switching to Syriza to try and moderate the rising party and prepare it to be the official opposition.
Mr Mahsoub, of the moderate Islamist Wasat party, is the second minister to resign this week.
Mr Dutra is a moderate in his party, and he will face an opposition majority in the state legislature.
While we are assured it is a "moderate" religious party, the same has long been said of Turkey's governing AKP party.
It is hoping to oust the moderate Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) from the Basque parliament, and is even considering a pact with the Socialists to achieve this.
The moderate Islamist Ennahda party won more than 41% of the vote to secure 90 seats in the 217-member Constituent Assembly, which must draft a new constitution.
Earlier this week, Rached Ghannouchi who heads the moderate Islamist governing party Ennahda, warned that the government would not allow the annual congress to take place, ahead of a final ruling.
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