The system was meant to favor splinter parties and make it difficult for stable minorities to form.

And the two new splinter parties were not really contenders today.

Since 1990, several splinter parties have been founded that claim the same:

But its great defect is that it can spawn too many splinter parties.

To help preserve it, he joined one of the splinter parties fighting Franco and went to the front to fight.

From the 1880s on, the German national camp was fragmented into several splinter parties and factions.

The remaining two seats went to a splinter left-leaning party.

The remaining 17 percent supported other splinter parties, or were undecided.

Now, there are splinter parties to the right and left.

A handful of splinter parties have been unable to win election to parliament.