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| x Australian Labor Party |
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Australia | Peter Garrett |
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party.
Known as the ALP for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the 2007 federal election. Kevin Rudd is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime...
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| x Australian Democrats |
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Australia | Don Chipp | 1977 |
The Australian Democrats is an Australian political party espousing a centrist or social liberal ideology. It was formed in 1977, by a merger of the Australia Party and the New Liberal Movement, after principals of those minor parties secured the...
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| x National Alliance |
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Italy |
National Alliance (Alleanza Nazionale, AN) was a conservative political party in Italy.
Gianfranco Fini was the leader of the party since its foundation in 1995, however he stepped down in 2008 after being elected to the nominally non-partisan post...
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| x Labour Party |
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United Kingdom | Tony Benn |
The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been seen since 1920 as the principal party of the Left in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has...
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| x British National Party |
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United Kingdom | Nick Griffin |
The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right, whites-only political party in the United Kingdom, formed as a splinter group of the British National Front by John Tyndall in 1982. The party's current chairman is Nick Griffin, himself a former...
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| x Liberal Democrats |
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United Kingdom | Paddy Ashdown |
The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems or just Liberals, are a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 1988 by a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party; the two parties had been in alliance for...
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| Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby | |||||
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| x Country Liberal Party |
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Australia | Denis Burke |
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party (CLP) is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the Liberal and National parties. It is a member of the Coalition.
The CLP dominated the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from its...
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| x European Free Alliance |
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The European Free Alliance (EFA) is a European political party. It consists of various European political parties which advocate either full political independence (statehood), or some form of devolution or self-government for their country or...
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| x Liberal Party of Australia |
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Australia | John Howard |
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.
Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political...
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| Martin Hamilton-Smith | |||||
| Robert Menzies | 1944 | ||||
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| x Mebyon Kernow |
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United Kingdom |
Mebyon Kernow (Cornish for Sons of Cornwall, often abbreviated to MK) is a left-of-centre political party in the United Kingdom. The main objective of MK is to establish greater autonomy in Cornwall, through the establishment of a legislative...
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| x Nasjonal Samling |
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Norway |
Nasjonal Samling (Norwegian for "National Gathering", "National Unification" or sometimes informally as "National Socialist Party", hereafter abbreviated as NS) was a fascist party in Norway active in the period 1933–45. Founded by former minister...
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| x National Party of Australia |
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Australia | Earle Page |
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.
Traditionally representing rural voters, it was originally called the Country Party, but adopted the name National Country Party in 1975 and changed to its present name in 1982....
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| x Official Monster Raving Loony Party |
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United Kingdom | Screaming Lord Sutch |
The Official Monster Raving Loony Party is a registered political party established in the United Kingdom in 1983 by musician and politician David Sutch, also known as Screaming Lord Sutch (1940-1999).
Beginning in 1964, Sutch, of Screaming Lord...
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| x Green Party |
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United States of America | Ralph Nader |
The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) is one of the political parties in the United States, and similar in mission to many of the worldwide Green Parties. The Greens, a voluntary association of state parties, have been active as a nationally...
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| Cynthia McKinney | Oct 2007 | ||||
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| x United States Natural Law Party |
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United States of America |
The Natural Law Party was a United States political party affiliated with the international Natural Law Party. Both were associated with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, leader of Transcendental Meditation. Maharishi holds the view that natural law is the...
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| x Libertarian Party |
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United States of America | Chris Maden | 1994 |
The political platform of the Libertarian Party reflects that group's particular brand of libertarianism, favoring minimally regulated, laissez-faire markets, strong civil liberties, minimally regulated migration across borders, and non...
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| Bob Barr | 2006 | ||||
| Mike Gravel | Mar 25, 2008 | ||||
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| x Republican Party |
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United States of America | Strom Thurmond | Sep 16, 1964 |
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP, despite being...
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| x Conservative Party | United Kingdom | Airey Neave |
The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservatives, the Conservative Party, or Tory Party is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom. Founded in its present form during the early 19th century, it has since...
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| x Constitution Party |
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United States of America | Alan Keyes |
The Constitution Party is a United States political party rooted in the paleoconservative movement. It was founded as the U.S. Taxpayers' Party in 1992. The party's official name was changed to the Constitution Party in 1999; however, some state...
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| Chuck Baldwin | 2000 | ||||
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| x Canadian Alliance |
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Canada | Deborah Grey |
The Canadian Alliance (in French Alliance canadienne), formally the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance (or in French Alliance réformiste-conservatrice canadienne), was a Canadian conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003. The...
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| Rahim Jaffer | Mar 27, 2000 | ||||
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| x Plaid Cymru |
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United Kingdom | Adam Price |
Plaid Cymru (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈplaɪd ˈkəmri] English: The Party of Wales; often referred to simply as Plaid) is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union.
Plaid Cymru was...
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| x New Democratic Party |
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Canada | Pat Martin |
The New Democratic Party (French: Nouveau Parti démocratique), commonly referred to as the NDP, is a social democratic political party in Canada. In the Canadian House of Commons, it holds a centre-left position in the Canadian political spectrum....
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| x Bloc Québécois |
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Canada | Benoît Sauvageau |
The Bloc Québécois (BQ) is a federal political party in Canada that defines itself as devoted to both the protection of Quebec's interests on a federal level as well as the promotion of its sovereignty. As such, it campaigns only within the province...
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| Louis Plamondon | Dec 20, 1990 | ||||
| Gilles Duceppe | |||||
| Gérard Asselin | |||||
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| x Ulster Unionist Party |
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United Kingdom | Robert Bradford |
The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party (OUP) or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Before the split...
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| x Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy | Iraq |
The Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy (ICM) is a monarchist political party in Iraq led by Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein.
Al-Hussein is related to the Hashemite royal family which ruled Iraq until 1958. He has succeeded in establishing himself as claimant...
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| x Green Party of England and Wales |
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Sian Berry |
The Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW) (Welsh: Plaid Werdd Cymru a Lloegr) is the principal Green political party in England and Wales which includes among its regional divisions the semi-autonomous Wales Green Party. The party is unrepresented...
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| x One Nation Party |
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Australia | Graeme Campbell |
One Nation is a nationalist and protectionist political party in Australia. It gained 22 percent of the vote translating to 11 of 89 seats in Queensland's unicameral legislative assembly at the 1998 state election and made major inroads into the...
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| x Committee of Fifty |
Committee of Fifty could refer to one of the following:
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| x Bevara Sverige Svenskt |
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Bevara Sverige Svenskt ("Keep Sweden Swedish") was a Swedish nationalist political movement based in Stockholm and a slogan used by various nationalist parties in the country. The stated objective of the BSS movement and the aim of the slogan were...
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| x Parti Québécois |
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Canada | René Lévesque |
The Parti Québécois (PQ) is a left-wing political party that advocates national sovereignty for the province of Québec and secession from Canada. It is a social democratic party and has traditionally had support from the labour movement. Unlike many...
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| x Progressive Conservative Party of Canada |
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Canada | Jacques Flynn |
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC) (French: Parti progressiste-conservateur du Canada) (1942–2003) was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and a centrist stance on social issues.
The party began as...
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| x Latvian National Independence Movement | Latvia |
The Latvian National Independence Movement (Latvijas Nacionālās Neatkarības Kustība or LNNK) was a political organization in Latvia from 1988 till mid-1990s.
It formed in 1988, as the radical wing of Latvian nationalist movement. Unlike the...
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| x Bharatiya Janata Party | India | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) (Hindi: भारतीय जनता पार्टी [भाजपा]), translation: Indian People's Party) is a major political party in India, founded in 1980. The party is a strong force in Hindu nationalism and advocates conservative social...
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| x Indian National Congress | India | Mahatma Gandhi |
The Indian National Congress (also known as the Congress Party and abbreviated INC) is a major political party in India. Founded in 1885 by Allan Octavian Hume, Dadabhai Naoroji, Dinshaw Wacha, Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, Surendranath Banerjee,...
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| Shankar Dayal Sharma | |||||
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| x Liberal Party of Canada |
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Canada | Raymond Bonin |
The Liberal Party of Canada (French: Parti libéral du Canada), colloquially known as the Grits, is a major political party in Canada. The party sits between the centre-left and centre of the Canadian political spectrum. The party currently forms the...
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| x Co-operative Commonwealth Federation |
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Canada | Tommy Douglas |
The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) (French: Fédération du commonwealth coopératif, then Parti social démocratique du Canada) was a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative...
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| x National Rainbow Coalition | Kenya | Moody Awori | 2002 |
The National Rainbow Coalition (National Alliance of Rainbow Coalition - NARC) was a coalition of Kenyan political parties in power from 2002 and 2005 when it fell apart in a controversy between its wings about a constitutional referendum.
In...
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| x National Alliance Party of Kenya | Kenya |
The National Alliance Party of Kenya (NAK) is a political party in Kenya. In December 1991, only days after the repeal of Section 2A of the Kenyan constitution, which restored the multiparty system, Mwai Kibaki left Kenya African National Union ...
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| x Social Democratic and Labour Party |
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United Kingdom | John Hume |
The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP; Irish: Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre) is one of the two major nationalist parties in Northern Ireland. During the Troubles, the SDLP was consistently the most popular nationalist party in...
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| Alasdair McDonnell | |||||
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| x British Columbia Liberal Party |
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Canada | Joyce Murray |
The British Columbia Liberal Party (also referred to as the BC Liberals) is the governing political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1916, the party went into decline after 1952, with its rump caucus merging with...
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| John van Dongen | 1995 | ||||
| Michael de Jong | 1994 | ||||
| Dennis MacKay | 2001 | ||||
| Richard Lee | 2001 | ||||
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| x Green Party of British Columbia |
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The Green Party of British Columbia is a political party in British Columbia, Canada.
The first Green Party in North America, was formed in British Columbia, Canada on February 4, 1983 registering as both a provincial society and a political party...
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| x New Democratic Party of British Columbia |
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Canada | Dave Barrett |
The New Democratic Party of British Columbia (BC NDP) is a political party in British Columbia, Canada that has democratic socialist roots. The policies it advances today resemble those of social democrats.
It is the provincial arm of the New...
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| x Australian Greens |
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Australia | Kerry Nettle |
The Australian Greens, commonly known as The Greens, is a Green Australian political party.
The party has its eastern Australian origins in the Franklin River Dams campaign in Tasmania in the 1980s, and in Western Australia arising from concerns...
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| x Parti libéral du Québec |
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Canada | Jean Lesage |
The Quebec Liberal Party (QLP; in French, Parti libéral du Québec or PLQ), is a Centre-left liberal political party in the Canadian province of Quebec. It has been independent of the Liberal Party of Canada since 1955.
The party has traditionally...
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| George Carlyle Marler | |||||
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| x Bloc pot |
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The Bloc Pot is a provincial political party in Quebec, Canada that is dedicated to ending cannabis prohibition. It has contested three provincial elections but it has failed to win any seats in the National Assembly of Quebec. The party was...
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| x Reform Party of Canada |
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Canada | Margaret Bridgman |
The Reform Party of Canada (French: ''Parti réformiste du Canada'') was a Canadian federal political party that existed from 1987 to 2000. It was originally founded as a Western Canada-based protest party, but attempted to expand eastward in the...
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| x United Kingdom Independence Party |
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United Kingdom | Nigel Farage |
The United Kingdom Independence Party (commonly known as UKIP, pronounced /ˈjuːkɪp/ roughly yoo-kip) is a conservative, eurosceptic political party. Its principal aim is the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.
UKIP currently...
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| Malcolm Pearson, Baron Pearson of Rannoch | |||||
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| x National Peasants' Party | Gheorghe Mironescu |
The National Peasants' Party (Partidul Naţional Ţărănesc or PNŢ) was a Romanian political party, formed in 1926 through the fusion of the Romanian National Party (Partidul Naţional Român) from Transylvania and the Peasants' Party (Partidul Ţărănesc)...
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| x Democratic Unionist Party |
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United Kingdom | David Simpson |
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Founded by Ian Paisley and currently led by Peter Robinson, it is currently the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the...
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| x Ecolo | Belgium |
Ecolo (which officially stands for Écologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales "Confederated ecologists for the organisation of original struggles", but in reality is a shorthand for "ecology" or "ecologist") is a French-speaking...
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| x Scottish Party |
The Scottish Party was formed in 1932 by a group of members of the Unionist Party who favoured the establishment of a Dominion Scottish Parliament within the British Empire and Commonwealth. They differed with the existing National Party of Scotland...
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| x Scottish Workers Republican Party |
The Scottish Workers Republican Party (SWRP) were formed by the Scottish Marxist activist John Maclean MA (1879-1923) in the 1910s. They advocated the political doctrine of communism, whilst also supporting Scottish independence. This dual communist...
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| x Scottish Senior Citizens Unity Party | Scotland |
The Scottish Senior Citizens Unity Party (SSCUP) was formed on 3 February 2003, in time to contest that year's elections to the Scottish Parliament. The leading figure in its formation was John Swinburne, previously a director of Motherwell Football...
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| x Socialist Party USA |
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United States of America | Stewart Alexander |
The Socialist Party of USA (SP USA) is a democratic socialist multi-tendency party established in the 1973. The party is one of the heirs of the Socialist Party of America which dissolved in 1973. The other successors have either dissolved or stayed...
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| x Green Party of Ontario |
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The Green Party of Ontario (GPO) is a political party in Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's second-largest provincial Green Party after the Green Party of British Columbia. The party is led by Frank de Jong (outgoing) with deputy leader Shane Jolley...
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| x Socialist Workers Party |
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The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) claims to be the largest far left party in Britain. It participates in a number of campaigns such as Unite Against Fascism and the Stop the War Coalition. The SWP has an industrial department which co-ordinates its...
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| x Secretariat of the Communist Party of China Central Committee |
The Secretariat of the Communist Party of China Central Committee (Chinese: 中国共产党中央委员会书记处 pinyin: Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng Zhōngyāng Wěiyuánhuì Shūjìchù) is the permanent bureaucracy of the Communist Party of China and forms a parallel structure to...
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| x Green Party of Canada |
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Canada | Elizabeth May |
The Green Party of Canada (French: Parti vert du Canada) is a Canadian federal political party founded in 1983 with 10,000–12,000 registered members as of October 2008. The Greens, as their name indicates, advocate green politics and are the largest...
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| x People's Union | Belgium |
Volksunie (People's Union, VU) was a Belgian political party, formed in 1954 as a successor to the "Christian Flemish People's Union", an electoral alliance of Flemish nationalists.
The party initially proved successful and had members elected to...
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