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| | United States Democratic party - encyclopedia article about United States Democratic party. |
 | | The party also trails in state legislatures as the Republican Party Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party [1]), is one of the two major political parties in the United States (the other being the Democratic Party). |  | | Democrats in the Northern states joined the Republicans in opposing the expansion of slavery, and at the 1860 nominating convention the Party split and nominated two candidates (see U.S. presidential election, 1860). |  | | Andrew Jackson, the first Democrat to be elected President of the United States (1829–1837). |
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| | Socialist-Revolutionary Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The SRCO was esencial to the workings of the Party, being responsible for the assasination of Minister of the Interior, D. Sipyagin, and later N. Bogdanovich, the Governor of Ufa. |  | | However, the Bolsheviks disbanded the Assembly and thereafter the SRs become of less political significance, the Left SR party became the coalition partner of the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Government, although they resigned their positions after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed. |  | | The Russian Revolution of February, 1917 brought the SRs a more prolific political role, with one of their members Alexander Fedorovich Kerensky joining the liberal government, eventually becoming the head of government. |
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| | Social Democratic Party of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Oskar Lafontaine, elected SPD chairman November 1995, and having joined the government as minister for economy and finance, resigned from his party and government positions in March 1999. |  | | In January 2005, some SPD members left the party to found the Labour and Social Justice Party (WASG) in opposition to what they consider to be neoliberal leanings displayed by the SPD. |  | | The European elections of 2004 were a disaster for the SPD, marking its worst result in a nationwide election after World War II with only 21.5% of the vote. |
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| | THE CHAMBER NEWS - PRESS RELEASES |
 | | In addition, the ruling party failed to maintain an absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Congress (the PRI holds 239 seats, the PRD 125 and the PAN 121; the remaining 15 are held by the PVEM and PT). |  | | They were trailblazing not only because they marked the first time in 71 years that a president from a party other than the PRI has been elected, but also because the elections were peaceful and judged by the international community, and most importantly, by Mexicans to be fair. |  | | However, The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) had held the presidency uninterrupted since 1929. |
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| | ipedia.com: Social Democratic Party of Finland Article |
 | | With the exception of a brief period in 1926, SDP was excluded from Cabinet participation beginning with Oskari Tokoi's Senate's unsuccessful claim of Finland's independence in 1917 until Kyösti Kallio's presidency 1937. |  | | This decision is often indicated as one of the main reasons behind the increased and cemented weakness of the Social Democrats, and the high percentage of Communist voters in the first elections after the Continuation War. |  | | SDP was founded in the 1880s, but came to remain a chiefly extra-parliamentary movement until the Universal suffrage of 1906, after which SDP's share of the votes and seats approached 50%. |
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| | RealOaxaca.com |
 | | BEATRIZ PAREDES: Born in Tlaxcala state to a political family (her father was a labor leader in Veracruz), attorney Paredes was governor of her home state from 1987 to 1992. |  | | As mayor, Lopez is extremely popular among the citizenry and within the party, and in a great position to rise from the ashes of the political death duel between Cardenas and Munoz Ledo. |  | | While unsuccessful in that effort, his reputation as a crusading working-man's friend led him to his subsequent position as the titular leader of the PRD, a position he resigned to become the mayor of the D.F. (federal district of Mexico City). |
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| | Women Energizing Mexico's Election Season |
 | | Rosario Robles is looking to head the leftist Democratic Revolutionary Party and Beatriz Paredes is competing for the presidency of the centrist Revolutionary Institutional Party. |  | | Robles, a professor and union leader before serving as the first woman mayor of Mexico City from 1999 to 2000, is well known for her defense of abortion rights. |  | | Main parties have adopted internal rules of affirmative action, but when they pick candidates, they usually slate women to run for deputy positions or in locations where they have no chance of being elected. |
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| | Social Democratic Party -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
 | | The Democratic Party unites in 1988 to nominate Dukakis over Jackson. |  | | With a pantheon of famous leaders that included Mohandas K. Gandhi (known as the Mahatma), Subhas Chandra Bose, and Jawaharlal Nehru, the Congress party emerged during the period of India's independence movement to become the dominant political force in India throughout much of the 20th century. |  | | His political strength lay largely in the fact that during the war he had actively opposed the Nazis while in Norway and Sweden. |
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| | Bloomberg.com: Latin America |
 | | Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party controlled the presidency, the Congress and courts for seven decades, allowing the president to push through his agenda with little opposition. |  | | The lawmakers spoke after Mexico's Supreme Court yesterday ruled a two-thirds vote in Congress overrides the president's veto of the federal budget. |  | | ``We are not going to allow that they put in any doubt the decisions made by Congress,'' said Democratic Revolutionary Party deputy Pablo Gomez Alvarez at a news conference with Emilio Chuayffet of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. |
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| | XPDNC - Political Party Links |
 | | Open to all provincial residents who support the social democratic principles and policies of the Party. |  | | The largest progressive political party in the state |  | | A federal political party fighting for Canada's independence and promoting monetary, democratic and electoral reform |
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| | Corruption probe could ruin Mexico City mayor's presidential bid / Popular politician says opponents waging vendetta |
 | | Even Lopez's aides and party members have conceded that he will most likely lose the vote on immunity despite his frantic lobbying. |  | | A trial would effectively knock him out of the race for president because the Mexican Constitution bars anyone facing criminal charges from running for the nation's highest office. |  | | He has repeatedly said that no one is above the law and that prosecutors should pursue a case against Lopez if they can prove he broke the law. |
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| | Institutional Revolutionary party |
 | | In the 1997 National Congress elections the party lost its majority in the lower house, although it remained the largest party. |  | | (Democratic Revolutionary Party's election wins end 68-year-old grip by the Institutional Revolutionary Party - PRI as Catholic hierarchy, who backed a third party, remain silent)(Editorial) (National Catholic Reporter) |  | | Established in 1929 as the National Revolutionary party by former President Plutarco |
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| | Two PANista Women Expelled From Party |
 | | The two had questioned the legality of Galindo's seeking the governorship while still holding the position of Mayor and Municipal President. |  | | PAN headquarters did not announce the decision until November 10. |  | | Former Mayor Ramón Galindo, who received the city council's approval Oct. |
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| | Mexico's leftist mayor readies campaign ahead of presidential race - PRAVDA.Ru |
 | | Lopez Obrador's Party of the Democratic Revolution fell to 26 percent from 23 percent in April. |  | | Asked which political party they favored, 25 percent said the Institutional Revolutionary Party, up from 23 percent in April. |  | | Mexico's City mayor and frontrunner presidential hopeful, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, made public this week his program to lead the leftist Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) to power for the first time in history ahead of 2006 elections. |
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| | Mexico's Opposition Party Tries for a Comeback |
 | | The party has effectively used its control of the legislature to thwart virtually all of the president's intended reform legislation. |  | | But he says the voters' high hopes of radical change and a fresh political dawn under President Fox have crumbled. |  | | Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, which after 71 years of unbroken rule lost the presidency to Vicente Fox in 2000, is now making an effort to come back in the run up to the next presidential election, which is less than two years away. |
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| | Zogby International |
 | | Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, of the Democratic Revolutionary Party is third at 9.3%. |  | | The survey of 1062 likely voters throughout Mexico who are decided on how they will vote, shows that Fox, representing the National Action Party, leads Mexican President Labastida of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, 46.3% - 41.6%. |  | | Candidates Porfirio Muñoz Ledo of the Mexican Revolution Authentic Party, Manuel Camacho of the Democratic Center Party and Gilberto Rincón Gallardo of the Social Democratic Party share the remaining 2.6%. |
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| | Online NewsHour: Institutional Revolutionary Party |
 | | The PRI also lost its majority in the lower house of Congress as opponents accused the party of corruption. |  | | In 1997, its founder, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas was elected mayor of Mexico City, placing opposition authority in the country's second most-powerful post. |  | | Though some consider the party's reign an autocracy, the PRI is the world's longest-governing political party. |
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| | IRI : Around The Globe |
 | | Recent elections: Elections for governor, state congress, municipal governments and mayors were held on July 4 in the states of Chihuahua, Durango and Zacatecas, and on August 4 in the states of Aguascalientes, Baja California, and Oaxaca. |  | | Following Mexico's most competitive election campaign in its post-revolution history, the July voting was overwhelmingly peaceful. |  | | Mexico took a democratic leap forward on July 2, 2000, with the election of a new president. |
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| | URDP - Ukrainian Revolutionary Democratic Party, Records |
 | | The URDP - Ukrainian Revolutionary Democratic Party collection is the physical property of the Immigration History Reseach Center, University of Minnesota. |  | | CITE AS The URDP - Ukrainian Revolutionary Democratic Party Records, Ukrainian American Collection, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota |  | | In 1990 the URDP changed its name to Ukrainian Democratic Republican Party. |
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| | Democratic Revolutionary Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | At the last legislative elections, 2 May 2004, the party won itself 37.8 % of the popular vote and 41 out of 78 seats. |  | | Torrijos won the same day at the presidential elections 47.4 % of the vote and was elected. |  | | This page was last modified 00:23, 15 September 2005. |
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| | Social Democratic Parties of the World |
 | | Social Democratic Party of Switzerland / Socialist Party of Switzerland (Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz / Parti Socialiste Suisse / Partito Socialista Svizzero, SP/PS), associated to PES |  | | National Party of Pensioners and Retired Persons (Krajowa Partia Emerytów i Rencistów), Poland |  | | Alliance for Democracy in Mali/African Party of Solidarity and Justice |
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| | El Universal Online - Versión para imprimir |
 | | The mayor denies the charge, and Macedo suffered a setback on Friday, when a judge sent charges of abuse of authority back to the attorney general, who said he would refile the case. |  | | "But his attempts to jail the mayor is obvious to all here that they're disrupting the democratic process," said Ponce, who voted in 2000 for Fox, the first opposition leader in 71 years. |  | | A conviction would torpedo his presidential campaign, and delays in the case could prevent him from registering as the Democratic Revolutionary Party's (PRD) presidential candidate before a January deadline. |
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| | Salon News Choice or corruption? |
 | | Thousands of voting booths were installed throughout the country, open to all registered voters, regardless of party affiliation; election observers were put into place to assure that there were no irregularities; and four candidates waged a two-month-long official campaign. |  | | But in the end, the voters chose not to change. |  | | Sunday's elections marked the first time in the party's 70-year rule that it voted on a presidential candidate, as opposed to having the candidate hand- |
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| | National Review: Outfoxed: What happened to Mexico's ruling party |
 | | The party also used the famed "carousel" to ensure that the bribes worked: Fifty PRI voters would assemble on election day in a loyalist's home. |  | | The PRI would drive the first voter to the polls. |  | | The leftist Demo cratic Revolutionary party (PRD), represented feebly in the recent campaign by Mexico City mayor Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, stands for the Olive Tree. |
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| | National Catholic Reporter: Cautious hope follows PRD victory in Mexico - Democratic Revolutionary Party's election ... |
 | | The third one, the Democratic Revolutionary Party -- PRD -- has the support of the poor, and for the first time in its political life it is in ascendancy. |  | | One, the Institutional Revolutionary Party -- PRI -- has the backing of the United States. |  | | PAN'S origins were that of a Catholic party in the days when the church was permitted some role in the national life after the Mexican revolution. |
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| | Articles - Socialist International |
 | | Haiti - Party of the National Congress of Democratic Movements, Revolutionary Progressive Nationalist Party of Haiti |  | | Bolivia - Revolutionary Left Movement - New Majority |  | | Slovakia - Party of the Democratic Left, Social Democratic Party of Slovakia |
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| | americas.org - Left Expected To Win |
 | | The leftist Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) is expected to make significant gains in July 6 voting for congressional seats and seven governorships as well as the first-ever election of Mexico City mayor. |  | | Five PRD members have been killed in the southern state of Guerrero and a PRD candidate was abducted in the nearby state of Oaxaca. |  | | As long as the PRI has been the ruling party, the right-wing National Action Party has been the main opposition, with its strength in urban areas and northern states. |
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| | Mexico's leftist party scores victory - (United Press International) |
 | | According to the Guerrero State Electoral Institute's count on Monday of 99 percent of the vote, Torreblanca was declared the winner with 55.1 percent of the vote. |  | | Leonel Godoy Rangel, PRD party head, said that the victory of his party in Baja California Sur and Guerrero will reflect in the presidential elections in 2006. |  | | Though the presidential elections are not until July 2006, campaign politics and jostling between candidates are likely to dominate the headlines and priorities for the next year and a half. |
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| | Panamanian election, 1999 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Republic of Panama held a general election on 2 May 1999, electing both a new President of the Republic and a new Legislative Assembly. |  | | Following the legislative election, the Legislative Assembly contained the following party blocs: |  | | The winning candidate in the presidential contest was Mireya Moscoso of the Arnulfista Party. |
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| | Al-Ahram Weekly International Zapatistas at the gates |
 | | Should Fox decide to make a concerted effort to press Congress for a law recognising natives' rights, his strongest allies would be the left-wing Democratic Revolutionary Party, which is on the opposite end of the ideological spectrum. |  | | The two parties agreed on most issues following President Salinas Gortari's shift to the right in the early 1990s. |  | | This is not to say that Fox would not be able to garner enough support for such a law. |
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| | El Universal Online |
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| | CNN - Mexico Elections '97 |
 | | Mexico's viability as a democracy is on the line as voters go to the polls in midterm elections for federal and regional leaders July 6. |  | | Three major parties dominate the politics of Mexico -- the Institutional Revolutionary Party, the Democratic Revolutionary Party and the National Action Party. |  | | Results from the Mexican elections suggest the grip of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is weakening after almost seven decades in power. |
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| | VDARE.com: 07/25/03 - Mexico’s President OutFoxes Himself
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 | | Fox’s PAN party lost 54 seats while the establishment PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) gained 15 seats and the PDR (Democratic Revolutionary Party), 95.) |  | | I’m talking about the 2-1 victory the El Salvador soccer team hung on the outplayed and listless Mexicans at the Home Depot Center in Los Angeles. |
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| | NotiSur - Latin American Political Affairs; May 13, 1994 |
 | | In elections held in 1991, under Navarro's leadership, ADM-19 candidates won nine of the 103 Senate seats and 13 of 159 seats in the House of Representatives. |  | | At stake on Oct. 3 will be the presidency, as well as positions for 513 deputies, 54 senators, 27 governors, and nearly 1200 state legislators. |  | | Lula, who has been the front-runner in the polls for more than a year, was officially nominated as his party's presidential candidate at the PT party convention on May 1 (see NotiSur 05/06/94). |
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| | Lenin: 1901/witbd: Trade-Unionist Politics And Social-Democratic Politics |
 | | He is no Social-Democrat who forgets in practice his obligation to be ahead of all in raising, accentuating, and solving every general democratic question. |  | | is in fact an organ of revolutionary opposition that exposes the state of affairs in our country, particularly the political state of affairs.... |  | | e., to warn all and sundry that a strike is proceeding at a certain factory), explains the partiality of arbitration court judges who belong to the bourgeois classes, etc., etc. In a word, every trade union secretary conducts and helps to conduct "the economic struggle against the employers and the government". |
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| | CNN - Mexico Elections '97 |
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| | americas.org - Lawmakers Spar |
 | | Muñoz Ledos rebuttal outlined a program of democratic reforms, investigations into corruption and support for Chiapas peace efforts. |  | | Although Zedillo pledged an open selection of the partys new chief, he installed Congressman Mariano Palacios Alcocer, a former Queretaro governor. |  | | Amid ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party charges of illegal maneuvering, opposition deputies declared a quorum and selected Democratic Revolutionary Party representative Porfirio Muñoz Ledo as Chamber of Deputies speaker at the end of August. |
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| | Hanging Out at the Convention |
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| | AllRefer.com - Mexico - National Action Party - Democratic Revolutionary Party Mexican Information Resource |
 | | The PRD president, Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, served as president of the PRI during the sexenio of Luis Echeverría Álvarez. |  | | The Democratic Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Democrático--PRD), established in 1989, evolved from the National Democratic Front (Frente Democrático Nacional--FDN), under the leadership of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas. |  | | The PAN resembled a standard Christian Democratic party, and its early support derived primarily from the Roman Catholic Church, the business sector, and other groups alienated by the left-wing populist reforms of the Cárdenas government. |
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| | Catholic World News : Church will never approve euthanasia, says Mexican cardinal |
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 | | Hipólito Mejía, candidate of the opposition social-democratic Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), won the May 16 presidential election, defeating Danilo Medina of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) and former President Joaquín Balaguer of the rightwing Reformist Social Christian Party (PRSC). |  | | A PLD campaign manager denied any attack on Mejía and called the killings a premeditated assassination. The manager charged that PRD members entered Terreros house and beat up his wife and one of his sons. |
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 | | Some 95 percent of the assassinations of some 270 members of the center-left Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) in the past three years remain unresolved. |  | | Since the first assassinations in 1988, shortly after the party was founded by former Institutional Revolutionary Party member and current governor of Mexico City Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, 570 PRD members have been killed. |  | | The latest victim was Alejandro Reyes, head of the Union of Democratic Taxi Drivers, who was fatally shot in Guerrero February 23. |
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| | Online NewsHour: Political Revolutionary Party |
 | | As a PRI member, Cárdenas pushed for an end to "tapadismo," the presidential selection of the party's nominee without a vote. |  | | The Democratic Revolutionary Party, or PRD, split away from the ruling PRI in 1988 and has since become a legitimate political force in Mexico in short time. |  | | Former PRI member, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, founded the PRD in 1988 to offer Mexico a center-left platform, including increased government control of the economy, expanded social welfare and opposition to foreign trade and investment. |
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| | Lopez Obrador named PRD candidate for Mexico presidency |
 | | Mexico's left-wing Democratic Revolutionary Party named as its candidate for next year's presidential election Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the opinion poll front-runner. |  | | Mexico's left-wing Democratic Revolutionary Party named as its candidate for next year's presidential election Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, pictured May 2005, the opinion poll front-runner. |  | | Neither of the rival parties has yet designated its candidate for the election scheduled for July 2 next year. |
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| | Official web page of VMRO-DPMNE |
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http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/1999/11/10/mexico/index1.html
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