His Welfare Party finished first in the 1995 election, taking slightly more than 21 percent of the votes.

But the Welfare Party seems likely to have a difficult time finding coalition partners.

The Welfare Party could influence the makeup of any coalition government.

For the Welfare Party, a call to prayer on a military base is an issue of human rights.

Of course, not everyone in the Welfare Party is like that.

The case against the Welfare Party, which advocates a greater role for religion in public life, appears to be near a decision.

"Now the mandate should be given to me, to the Welfare Party, within half an hour."

The Welfare Party doubled its share of the vote from local elections five years earlier.

The Welfare Party finished first in last month's national election.

He changed his side in 1994 by joining to the Welfare Party.