Each side distributes this time as it sees fit between its constituent parties.
After the elections the bloc fell apart into three parliamentary groups of the constituent parties.
The government lasted only one year, before falling apart due to ideological strains between its constituent parties and with the Socialist Party.
Through Imaledih, the constituent parties of the coalition would merge.
Generally speaking its constituent parties were the more urban based parties.
This was originally intended to be an interim arrangement pending agreement between the constituent parties on a permanent party structure.
The constituent parties in 1957 and their areas of influence were:
Cooperation in the groups required there to be increasingly close contacts between their constituent parties and with the national parties.
As of September 2012, all former constituent parties have left the block, joined other alliances or merged into other parties.
In May 1997, the Christian Coalition dissolved, and its constituent parties went their separate ways.