Discussions were held in the course of 2009 with other parties to the left of the PS, concerning the possibility of joint slates for the regional elections in 2010.

Bitter feuding between the leaders of those two parties prevented them from presenting a joint slate, which would almost certainly have attracted enough votes to win legislative seats.

The two parties ran a joint slate in the 1940 election under the New Democracy banner with Herridge as the lead candidate.

The opposition especially disputed the results for the governorships of Durango and Veracruz, where the PRD and PAN ran joint slates.

In the 2003 federal election, the party had a joint slate with the Free Democratic Party.

This year Dr. Leeks and the four Hasidic members ran on a joint slate, courting Jewish voters and opponents of Mr. Norman.

Sciri and Dawa are the dominant parties of the United Iraqi Alliance, a coalition of mainly Shiite parties running as a joint slate in the January election.

The MAS-IPSP ran a joint electoral slate with the Without Fear Movement (MSM) in the 2009 national elections.

Mr. Draskovic now wants joint slates on the local level.

The other political parties ran under the joint slate of the National Front, controlled by the SED, for elections to the Volkskammer, the East German parliament.