All but 20 of the 283 deputies of his Motherland Party voted for him.
He was out of government then, though he remained head of the Motherland Party.
Motherland Party is the name of several parties:
However, the Motherland Party did not dissolve itself in a party congress.
He was popular in the country and was the founder of the political group the Motherland Party.
The Motherland Party was founded six months before those elections.
It was expected that the Motherland Party would slip in Sunday's local elections.
Though this is below 40, the difference is that the Motherland Party did much less well than expected.
The coalition with the Motherland Party was a failure in the parliamentary elections in 2004.
When he was prime minister, this meant holding the Motherland Party together by playing off its various factions against each other.