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5 unusual facts about political party


Eurosolar

Eurosolar is the non-profit European Association for Renewable Energy that conducts its work independently of political parties, institutions, commercial enterprises and interest groups.

Gush Shalom

Gush Shalom is an extra-parliamentary organization, independent of any party or other political grouping although it has members who are associated with various political parties

Jewish political movements

Jewish political movements refer to the organized efforts of Jews to build their own political parties or otherwise represent their interest in politics outside of the Jewish community.

John Coit Spooner

At the time, party nominees were selected by the party officials, sometimes by party bosses.

Multiple choice

The multiple choice format is most frequently used in educational testing, in market research, and in elections, when a person chooses between multiple candidates, parties, or policies.


Angolan Communist Party

Angolan Communist Party (in Portuguese: Partido Comunista Angolano) was an underground political party in Portuguese Angola (during the Estado Novo regime), founded in October 1955, under influence from the Portuguese Communist Party.

Badruddin Amiruldin

Badruddin was not a very well known politician in the early 1990s, and was a backbencher in Parliament as Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Yan in Kedah until his defeat in the 1999 general election to Nasharudin bin Mat Isa from PAS, losing by 182 votes.

Belgian federal election, 2014

In 2010, ten parties won seats in the Belgian Senate: Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams (CD&V), Centre Démocrate Humaniste (CDH), Socialistische Partij Anders (sp.a), Parti Socialiste (PS), Open Vld, Mouvement Réformateur (MR), Groen, Ecolo, New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) and Vlaams Belang.

BluegrassReport.org

The blog, which further covers ongoing intra-party operations, political issues and scandals, was started in June 2005 by Democratic consultant Mark Nickolas, former campaign manager for both Speaker of the Kentucky House Jody Richards and U.S. House Rep. Ben Chandler's 2003 gubernatorial campaign.

Catalan Workers' Left

Catalan Workers' Left (in Catalan: Esquerra Català dels Treballadors) was a political party in Northern Catalonia, France.

Champika Ranawaka

Originally a member of the Sihala Urumaya, a Sinhala nationalist political party, he joined the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) political party along with members of the Sihala Urumaya as only supportive and advisory personal, when it was formed in 2004 to wield candidates who were all Buddhist monks, for Parliament in the 2004 general election.

Chan Santokhi

The Progressive Reform Party, which was once a Hindustani party, has grown, since the appointment of Santokhi as chairman, into a multi-ethnical party which, according to current statistics, is the second biggest political party in Suriname.

Chicago Democrat

Printing paid better than newspaper publishing, but the paper was valuable to the new community both to boost the town and bring more people to it and to forward the affairs of its avowed political party.

Christian Party of Kosovo

The Christian Party of Kosovo is a religious political party in Kosovo which fights for more the rights of Christians in North Kosovo and East Peć City.

Congress for Democracy and Justice

The Congress for Democracy and Justice (CDJ) is a political party in Gabon, led by Jules-Aristide Bourdes-Ogouliguende.

Constitution of Tanzania

This defined a Governor General, representative of the Queen of Tanganyika, Elizabeth II, to be the formal head of state, while the executive was led by the First Minister or the Prime Minister, chosen from the majority party.

Damian Hockney

On 30 January 2005 he announced that he was defecting to Veritas, the new party founded by ex-UKIP MEP Robert Kilroy-Silk.

Daylight Saving for South East Queensland Referendum Act 2010

In early 2010, the Daylight Saving for South East Queensland (DS4SEQ) political party approached Wellington to introduce a private member's bill.

Ilya Yashin

Ilya Yashin (born 29 June 1983 in Moscow) is a Russian activist and liberal politician, one of key leaders of political party «RPR-PARNAS», co-founder and one of leaders of political movement Solidarnost.

Israeli legislative election, 2009

On 12 January 2009, Balad and the United Arab ListTa'al alliance were disqualified by the Central Elections Committee on the grounds that they failed to recognise Israel as a Jewish state and called for armed conflict against it.

Jan Backus

A moderate-to-liberal Democrat, Backus ran for the U.S. Senate in 1994 and beat Douglas M. Costle, Environmental Protection Agency administrator under President Jimmy Carter, for her party's nomination and came within 9 points of ousting incumbent U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords (R-VT).

Liberal Democrats' Rally for National Reconstruction – Vivoten

The Liberal Democrats' Rally for National Reconstruction-Vivotene (Rassemblement des Démocrates Libéraux pour la Reconstruction nationale) is a political party of Benin led by Sévérin Adjovi.

Mikhail Kasyanov

Currently, he is a co-chair of political party «RPR-PARNAS», the leader of movement People's Democratic Union and an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin.

Moshe Sharoni

Prior to the 1996 elections he and Nava Arad helped establish the Pensioner's Party, which later became Gil.

National Transformation Movement

The National Transformation Movement (NTM) refers to two different political parties in Trinidad and Tobago, one led by businessman Mohammed Faisal Rahman which contested the 1995 General Elections and is currently moribund, another, led by retired Industrial Court judge Lloyd Elcock .

Nationalist Party of the Rif of Melilla

Nationalist Party of the Rif of Melilla (in Spanish: Partido Nacionalista del Rif de Melilla) is a political party in Melilla, Spain.

NO2ID

NO2ID's support is broad based including political parties on the political left (such as Respect and the Greens), in the centre (such as the Liberal Democrats) and on the right (such as the United Kingdom Independence Party and Conservative Future, though the Conservative Party has pledged to scrap the ID scheme).

Parti Rakyat Sarawak

The Parti Rakyat Sarawak or, PRS (English: Sarawak Peoples' Party) is a political party in Malaysia.

Partito dell'Amore

Partito dell'Amore (Love Party) is a political party in Italy co-founded on July 12, 1991 by pornstars Moana Pozzi and Ilona Staller (Cicciolina), the latter one being famous for actually being elected member of the Italian parliament in 1987.

Paul Lafargue

The task given to Lafargue consisted mainly of gathering a Marxist leadership in Madrid, while exercising an ideological influence through unsigned articles in the newspaper La Emancipación (where he defended the need to create a political party of the working class, one of the main topics opposed by the anarchists).

Peoples Republican Party

The Peoples Republican Party or Republican Party of India (Kawade) is a political party in India, a splinter group of the old Ambedkarite Republican Party of India.

Peter Hulme-Cross

On January 31, 2005 it was announced that he was defecting to the breakaway Veritas, along with fellow UKIP Assembly member Damian Hockney, although Hulme-Cross did not leave UKIP.

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

A Just Russia
(including former Rodina or Motherland-National Patriotic Union
Russian Party of Life
People's Party of the Russian Federation
and Russian Ecological Party "The Greens")

Political faction

Occasionally, the term "faction" is still used more or less as a synonym for political party, but "with opprobrious sense, conveying the imputation of selfish or mischievous ends or turbulent or unscrupulous methods", according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

PSUC viu

PSUC viu (Catalan for 'Living PSUC') is a political party in Catalonia, Spain.

Russia for Russians

For example, the Rodina party and its leader Dmitry Rogozin made illegal immigration and a “Moscow for Muscovites!” platform a centerpiece of their election campaign.

Sixth Belgian state reform

The agreement was made among the Christian-democratic CD&V and cdH, socialist sp.a and PS, liberal Open Vld and MR and ecologist Groen! and Ecolo, each respectively a Flemish and French-speaking party.

South African general election, 1910

The colonial parties involved were the South African Party of Cape Colony (itself largely based on the Afrikaner Bond), Het Volk from the Transvaal and Orangia Unie from the Orange River Colony (which was restored to its pre-1902 name of Orange Free State as a province of the Union).

Sultan Mahmud Bridge

Toll collection for the bridge was abolished in 1999 by the then PAS state government following an election promise.

Swaziland Democratic Party

The Swaziland Democratic Party ( abbrev. SWADEPA ) is a political party in Swaziland led by its president Jan Sithole.

Telangana Janata Party

Telangana Janata Party (Telangana Peoples Party), a political party in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh working for statehood for the Telangana region.

Telangana Sadhana Samithi

Telangana Sadhana Samithi, a political party in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, working for statehood for the Telangana region.

Tui Cakau

The present Tui Cakau, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, leads a political party, the Conservative Alliance and was a Minister in the government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase from 2000 to 2005, when he was convicted of involvement in the coup d'état that deposed the elected government in 2000.

Union for the Republic – National Movement

The Union for the Republic National Movement (Union pour la République - Mouvement national, UNIR NM) is a political party of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that was formed in 2001 by Frédéric Boyenga-Bofala.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1190

The government in particular was asked to ensure that the Angolan National Police refrain from activities inconsistent with the Lusaka Protocol and to respect UNITA as a political party.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1202

UNITA was urged to transform itself into a political party and legal authority and human rights had to be respected.

United Somali Parliamentarians

The United Somali Parliamentarians (USP) are a political party in Somalia founded on 25 October 2007 to support embattled Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi.

United States Socialist-Labor Party

The United States Socialist-Labor Party was a socialist political party in the election of 1928 which broke away from the main Socialist Party of America.


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99 MP Party

Local businessman Jack Yan proposed that Robertson's campaign be turned into a political party in 2001, a decision that she agreed to the following year after finding that most parties in Parliament generally did not support a reduction.

Anandraj Ambedkar

He the national leader of a local political party called Republican Sena, He is the son of Yashwant Bhimrao Ambedkar and grandson of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar.

Anya Corke

Her photograph was misappropriated by supporters of Barisan Nasional, the ruling political party of Malaysia, to depict the victim in a controversy alleging sexual misconduct by the son of Lim Guan Eng, who is one of the leaders of DAP, a Malaysian opposition party.

Barisan

Barisan Sosialis, a former political party that was split away from the People's Action Party in Singapore

Bondepartiet

Farmers' Party, a Danish political party, founded in 1934 and dissolved in 1945

Casual vacancies in the Australian Parliament

On 27 February, the NSW Liberal Premier Tom Lewis appointed Cleaver Bunton, a former long-serving Mayor of Albury, who was not affiliated with any political party.

Commonwealth Party

Party for the Commonwealth of Canada, a defunct political party in Canada, often referred to as the "Commonwealth Party"

CWG

Christian Electoral Community (Christliche Wählergemeinschaft), an Austrian political party

DISY

The Democratic Rally (Greek: Δημοκρατικός Συναγερμός — ΔΗ.ΣΥ.), a political party in Cyprus

Dwars

DWARS, the youth wing of the GreenLeft, a Dutch green political party

Fauzia Kasuri

She had voiced several complains against her party regarding her rank on priority list of reserved seats for women, in which her rank was below Dr. Shireen Mazari, Munaza Hassan and Ayla Malik, when PTI only won 10 seats from Punjab only the top two went to the parliament on reserved seats causing Kasuri to lash out on PTI leadership she soon announced that she will leave PTI but will not join PML-N another political party.

FDTL

the Democratic Forum for Labour and Liberties (Forum démocratique pour le travail et les libertés), a Tunisian political party

Forces nouvelles

Coordination of New Forces or Coordination des forces nouvelles (CFN): A political party in Togo.

Gilles Bourdouleix

He left the newly fomed UDI political party, soon afterwards, due to the ongoing controversy his words caused, but states that he did not say those exact words and that his remarks were misinterpreted.

Iraqi Council

Iraqi National Dialogue Council, a Sunni Arab political party initially established as an umbrella organization of approximately 10 smaller Sunni parties to take part in the 2005 Iraqi Constitution drafting process

Itak

Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK), a Sri Lankan political party which represents the Sri Lankan Tamil ethnic minority

James Wani Igga

Following the 2005 signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement establishing the autonomy of Southern Sudan, Igga was in charge transitioning the SPLM from an insurgent strategic leadership to a political party.

Japanese general election, 2012

On 23 November, Mayor of Nagoya Takashi Kawamura, former state minister Shizuka Kamei and former farm minister Masahiko Yamada joined forces together to launch Tax Cuts Japan – Oppose TPP – Zero Nuclear Party as another "third pole" national political party.

Kaoru Yosano

On April 4, 2010, Yosano, Takeo Hiranuma, Hiroyuki Sonoda, Takao Fujii and Yoshio Nakagawa announced their plans to leave the LDP to establish a new political party, the Sunrise Party of Japan.

KMK

Kongunadu Munnetra Kazhagam, a political party in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu

Leandro N. Alem Partido

The Partido is named in honour of Leandro Nicéforo Alem (1844-1896) an Argentine politician, founder of the Radical Civic Union political party and mentor to Hipólito Yrigoyen who became President of Argentina.

Makkal Kural

On seeing the popularity of this newspaper M. G. Ramachandran (who had launched his own political party All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) to cross swords with DMK) patronised Makkal Kural and that led to the popularity of this newspaper in every village in Tamil Nadu.

Marcelino Miyares Sotolongo

Marcelino Miyares Sotolongo is a Cuban-American marketing executive and the current President of the Christian Democratic Party of Cuba, the largest political party in Cuba other than the Communist Party of Cuba.

Mkhuseli Jack

In 2009, Mkhuseli Jack was named as one of a group of powerful Eastern Cape businesspeople that emerged as bankrollers of the breakaway political party, the Congress of the People (COPE), which formally split from the ANC on the 1.

Muslim Nationalist Party

The Muslim Nationalist Party was a political party in pre-independence India by M. C. Chagla.

My Friend the Fanatic

However, The Jakarta Post criticized Dhume for pointing out the ideological affinity between the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah and the powerful Islamist political party PKS (Prosperous Justice Party).

National Bloc

National Socialist Bloc (Sweden) (Swedish: Nationalsocialistiska Blocket), a Swedish national socialist political party formed at the end of 1933

National Forces of Liberation

Generally, PALIPEHUTU's support comes more from the central region of Muramvya and Lake Tanganyika, whereas the main Hutu political party CNDD derives its support from the southern Bururi region.

Nuwaidrat

Sheikh Ali Salman, the leader of the largest political party in Bahrain was present.

Option Québec

Option nationale, a political party founded by Jean-Martin Aussant in 2011

Our Party

Uri Party, a defunct liberal political party in South Korea

PBPA

People Before Profit Alliance, an Irish political party formed in October 2005

Popular Liberation Army

Most of the demobilized guerrillas formed Esperanza, Paz y Libertad (Hope, Peace and Liberty), a political party, which claimed to defend the interests of workers and labor unions, especially around the Urabá area in the departments of Antioquia and Córdoba.

Praja Party

The Praja Party, initially called the Council Praja Party or the Bengal Praja Party (Bengal Tenant Party) and later renamed the Nikhil Banga Praja Samiti (All Bengal Tenant Association) then the Krishak Praja Party (Peasant Tenant Party), was a political party of Bengal in the latter days of British India.

Punk the Vote!

Roach and Starbuck, two hardcore punks from Montreal, try to form their own political party, but run out of time due to Canada's electoral process.

Richard Auguste Morse

RAM and other rasin bands were strongly identified with Aristide and his political party, Lavalas.

SDAP

Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany, a German political party that later merged into the Social Democratic Party of Germany

Simone Peter

Simone Peter (born 3 December 1965 in Quierschied) is a German Green Party politician. Since October 2013, she has been co-chairman of the German political party Alliance '90/The Greens, together with Cem Özdemir.

Singapore Indian Association

In time, this contributed to the formation of the Malaysian Indian Congress, the main political party in Malaysia representing the Indian community, and a current member of Malaysia’s ruling Barisan Nasional coalition government.

Sol Raye

His younger brother, Robert Corbin, is the current leader of the People's National Congress Reform (PNCR), the main Guyanese opposition political party.

Sony Lab'ou Tansi

In the late 1980s he allied with opposition leader Bernard Kolélas to found the Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development (MCDDI), a political party acting against the communist regime of President Denis Sassou Nguesso and his Congolese Labour Party.

Tun Fuad Stephens

Later that same year, Tun Fuad Stephens together with Harris Salleh formed the new political party BERJAYA.

TUV

Traditional Unionist Voice, Northern Irish political party in favour of union with Great Britain

Ulrich Kienzle

In the 2000s (decade), Kienzle hosted a ZDF program on the German political party's campaigns in the run up to the German federal election, 2002, and is contributing to a ZDF magazine on the economy (WISO) since 2003.

Wolfgang Huber

Since choosing the position of Bishop of Berlin-Brandenburg above a seat in the German Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1993 Huber has not associated himself with any political party publicly.

YNK

Yeketî Niştîmanî Kurdistan, (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) a Kurdish political party

Yugoslav Republican Alliance

The Yugoslav Republican Alliance (Jugoslovanski Republicansko Zdruzenje) was a political party founded in 1917 founded in exile in Chicago, United States, by the fusion of the Slovene Republican Alliance with Croats and other South Slav people.