Umid (Hope) Party, as the strongest and well-organized oppositional party of Azerbaijan claims to participate in 2008 Presidential Elections.

Its permanent legacy was a new, well-organized Catholic party that made common cause with democrats and socialists to secure broad reforms against Bismarck's inhumane social policies.

This arrangement strongly favors large and well-organized political parties that are able to appeal to voters in many districts and hence win many seats, and discourages smaller or regional parties.

THE well-organized parties and organizations can "bullet vote" - target votes by instructing members to select just a few of the candidates, who often number as many as 30 in some districts.

Those around Mr. Kostunica need Mr. Djindjic and his well-organized party, which was the backbone of the anti-Milosevic coalition, but they do not trust him.

The Sandinistas are a well-organized party with a strong base of support and control of the police, the army and the main trade unions.

Postponing the vote, however, risks opposition from the Shiite majority, particularly the well-organized Shiite religious parties that expect to benefit most from a January election.

Largely responsible for this were the well-organized political parties that emerged as the real centers of power.

Since then it has become the biggest and most well-organized party in Tunisia, so far outdistancing its more secular competitors.

But in each, the president was elected on the back of a large, well-organized political party that controls a congressional majority.