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| | National Party (South Africa) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The National Party (with its members sometimes known as Nationalists or Nats) was the governing party of South Africa from 1948 until 1994, and was disbanded in 2005. | | | Botha resigned as National Party leader, and subsequently as President of the Republic, in 1989. | | | In 1977 the National Party got its best-ever result in the elections with support of 64.8% of the White voters and 134 seats in parliament out of 165. |
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| | National Party of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The party's membership and support base have been under strain in recent years, being caught between the populist economic and cultural demands of the more socially conservative part of its rural electorate (attracted to the One Nation Party), rising rural support for independents, and the growing strength of the Liberal Party in country areas. | | | The 1980s were dominated by the feud between Bjelke-Petersen and the federal party leadership, which led to defeat at the 1987 federal election and the fall of the Nationals in Queensland in 1989. | | | Page remained dominant in the party until 1939, when his refusal to serve under Robert Menzies led to his resignation as leader. |
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| | New Zealand National Party - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | George Forbes, the Prime Minister from 1930 until 1935 and United Party Leader, opened the conference: he served as Leader of the Opposition and of the New Zealand National Party until October 1936, when the party elected Adam Hamilton as Leader. | | | The New Zealand National Party is the second largest political party in the New Zealand Parliament, and forms the core of the Opposition. | | | The United Party gained its main support from the cities, and drew upon businesses and middle class voters for support, while the Reform Party had a rural base and received substantial support from farmers. |
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http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/new_zealand_national_party.htm
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| | Access International Domains |
| | National Assembly members in both the Senate and House of Representatives are elected by popular vote and serve four-year terms in the Sapha Phuthaen Ratsadon and six year terms in the Senate. | | | In September 1992, the Thais elected Chuan Leekpai of the Democratic Party to lead the new government. | | | The Supreme Court, or Sandika, represents the judicial branch of government and judges are appointed by the king. |
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http://webdb.iu.edu/internationalprograms/scripts/accesscoverpage.cfm?country=thailand
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| | Thailand legislative election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | At this election Thaksin's party was seeking to win an absolute majority in its own right, something no political party had ever achieved in Thailand at a genuinely free election (elections before 1992 were frequently rigged). | | | Veera also pointed out that the provinces directly affected by the tsunami were part of the Democrat Party's southern stronghold, and that Thaksin's high profile, particularly on state television, in delivering aid to the area might improve his party's chances of winning more seats in the south. | | | The results cast doubt over the future of both party leaders, and Banyat resigned as Democrat Party leader immediately after the election. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand_legislative_election,_2005
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| | Politics1 - Guide to American Political Parties |
| | National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), Speaker of the House Denny Hastert and House Republican Conference. | | | The remnants of the Minnesota GRP disbanded and merged into the Liberal Party of Minnesota in 2002. | | | The Natural Law Party was a New Age entity founded and run by followers of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (the founder of the TM movement -- a movement that some have labeled as a cult). |
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background |
| | Hassan Gouled APTIDON installed an authoritarian one-party state and proceeded to serve as president until 1999. | | | The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), which maintains a strong presence throughout the country, completed a disarmament program for former combatants in late 2004, but the security situation is still volatile and the process of rebuilding the social and economic structure of this war-torn country remains sluggish. | | | Azerbaijan - a nation with a Turkic and majority-Muslim population - regained its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. |
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| | Pakistan - Awami National Party |
| | The Awami National Party (awami means "people's"), which depends on Pakhtuns of the North-West Frontier Province and northern Balochistan as its political base, won six seats in the National Assembly in the 1990 elections. | | | In the 1993 national elections, the party won three seats in the National Assembly. | | | The Awami National Party was formed in 1986 by the merger of several left-leaning parties including the Awami Tehrik and the National Democratic Party. |
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http://www.countrystudies.us/pakistan/71.htm
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| | Thailand. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | New elections were held in July, 1995, after Chuan’s government fell because of a land-reform scandal; the Chart Thai (Thai Nation) party won a slight plurality, and Banharn Silpa-archa became prime minister, heading a seven-party coalition. | | | The bicameral national assembly consists of the 200-member senate, whose members are elected from constituencies on a nonpartisan basis for six-year terms, and the 500-seat house of representatives, whose members are popularly elected for four-year terms; 400 of the representives are elected from constituencies, and the rest on a proportional basis. | | | The government’s response to the disaster and the nation’s generally improved economic conditions resulted in strong support for the TRT and the prime minister in the Feb., 2005, parliamentary elections, and the governing coalition increased its majority in the lower house. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/th/Thailand.html
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| | Encyclopedia: National Liberal Party (UK) |
| | Liberal Associations who supported National Liberal candidates remained affiliated to the National Liberal Federation until that body was dissolved in 1936, whilst one Liberal National Cabinet Minister, Walter Runciman, remained President of the National Liberal Federation even after the two groups were on opposite sides of the Commons. | | | The National Liberals evolved as a distinctive group within the Liberal Party in 1931 when the main body of Liberals were maintaining in office the second Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald, who lacked a majority in Parliament. | | | In 1940 the National Government was replaced by an all-party coalition led by Winston Churchill and the Liberal Nationals were marginalsied, with Simon "kicked upstairs" to become Lord Chancellor. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/National-Liberal-Party-(UK)
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| | Thailand History |
| | In those elections, the political parties that had opposed the military in May 1992 won by a narrow majority, and Chuan Leekpai, a leader of the Democratic Party, became Prime Minister. | | | Thais date the founding of their nation to the 13th century. | | | Thais reacted to the appointment by demanding an end to military influence in government. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Asia-Pacific Thai election: Overview |
| | Much of the party's support comes from rural voters. | | | Thai Rak Thai's main challenger is the Democrat Party, led by Banyat Bantadtan. | | | Thailand is a constitutional monarchy, with a two-chamber legislature consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate. |
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| | Thailand - POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS, 1980-87 |
| | In 1985 Harn, who was deputy leader of the Democrat Party, and his party colleagues opposed a one-year extension of service for Arthit, who was due for retirement in September 1985. | | | Predictably, no party emerged with a majority, although the Democrat Party captured the largest bloc of seats with 100, which was 44 more than it had in 1983. | | | In the election held on April 18, 1983, for example, the Chart Thai Party captured 73 of 324 seats in the House of Representatives--nearly twice its 1979 total. |
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| | PBS: Think Tank: Transcript for "Is the Nation in Transformation?" |
| | McKinley is as much a continuum of Republican Party politics andleadership as anyone could imagine. | | | Roosevelt ushered in a new era of dominance forthe Democratic Party and for liberal government. | | | The Democrats historically, from Jefferson's day almost toRoosevelt's election in '32, were the small government party, theless activist party. |
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| | thai_pol.txt |
| | A national general election on July 24, 1988, won General Chatichai Choonhavan, a retired army major general and a wealthy businessman, head of Thai Nation Party the office of Prime Minister.9 His political party won most of the votes to have the Prime Minister directly elected rather than nominated. | | | On May 28 the military parties chose as the next prime minister Air Force Chief Marshal Somboon Rahong, the head of one of the military parties in Parliament and a close associate of Suchinda and his Class Five colleagues. | | | Bangkok voters gave thirty-two of their thirty-five parliamentary seats to the party of Chamlong Srimuang, an ascetic ex-general who had served as governor of Bangkok since 1985. |
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http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~karnchan/thai_pol.txt
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| | Constitution Party Platform |
| | The Constitution Party finds that a cause of this national state of disgrace is the deterioration of personal character among government leaders, exacerbated by the lack of public outcry against immoral conduct by public office holders. | | | Therefore, although a Supreme Court opinion is binding on the parties to the controversy as to the particulars of the case, it is not a political rule for the nation. | | | The Constitution Party seeks the restoration of an electoral process which is controlled at the state and local level and is beyond manipulation by federal judges and bureaucrats. |
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| | HN_21.txt |
| | Thanong Siripreechapong, a member of parliament from the opposition Chart Thai (Thai Nation) party, is likely to be expelled on the grounds he damaged the reputation of the party and the country, senior party official Burin Hiranburana said. | | | The national drugs commissioner, Eduard Lintner, said there was no precedent for the new state policy and predicted it would pose "most severe dangers for social and health policy." Germany registered 1,738 deaths from drugs overdoses last year. | | | "Party regulations are to oust him if he is judged to be guilty of wrong-doing." Burin is leading a five-person committee appointed by the Chart Thai party to investigate the drug-smuggling allegations against Thanong. |
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| | China - National Party Congresses |
| | The Ninth National Party Congress convened in April 1969, the tenth in August 1973, the eleventh in August 1977, and the twelfth in September 1982. | | | The National Party Congress reviews reports on party activities since the last session, revises the party constitution, ratifies the party program for a specific period, and elects the Central Committee, which serves as the highest organ of the CCP when the National Party Congress is not in session. | | | The delegates (there were 1,545 for the Twelfth National Party Congress) can observe firsthand the working of the party machine at the national level, gain a better perspective on the direction of political transformation planned by the leadership, and serve as communicators of party policies to the grass roots. |
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| | A National Party? |
| | A National Party No More remains required reading--but now for Republicans. | | | A national party intent on a generation of authority would avoid the mistake Democrats made when they drove every pro-life official from its leadership ranks. | | | FROM ALMOST THE MOMENT he was appointed to the United States Senate, Georgia Democrat Zell Miller began to warn his party from the floor and via op-ed that it was allowing its ideology to cripple its appeal. |
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| | Scottish National Party - encyclopedia article about Scottish National Party. |
| | The party was founded in 1934 as the result of a merger between the National Party of Scotland (NPS) and the Scottish Party. | | | The party has an active youth wing The Young Scots for Independence (YSI) is the youth wing of the Scottish National Party (SNP). | | | Although it is widely accepted that the SNP is in modern times a moderate left-of-centre political party, this has not always been the case. |
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| | Polity IV Country Report 2003: Thailand |
| | This effort has been institutionalized in recent years with the strengthening of the National Electoral Commission (NEC) and the Senate (which will serve as an oversight body for limiting corruption in the House of Representatives). | | | Parties do not generally offer platforms or represent particular ideologies and electoral campaigns continue to be influenced by vote-buying and party violence. | | | National elections since 1992 have largely been viewed as being procedurally free and fair by international observers. |
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| | Nation Planet: nationalism resources |
| | Museum of the Centre of Europe - this is in the section on nationalism, because it it used as a symbol of the uniqueness of Lithuania: the monument is a stone version of a distance signpost. | | | Nations (peoples) have a monopoly of state formation. | | | Note however, that a rationalist, humanist, republican nation state is still a nation state: two forms of nationalism are opposed here. |
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| | Politics1 - Guide to American Political Parties |
| | National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), Speaker of the House Denny Hastert and House Republican Conference. | | | The remnants of the Minnesota GRP disbanded and merged into the Liberal Party of Minnesota in 2002. | | | The Natural Law Party was a New Age entity founded and run by followers of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (the founder of the TM movement -- a movement that some have labeled as a cult). |
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| | National Confederate Party - |
| | We the people of the National Confederate Party shall uphold the Constitution of the Confederate America, establish the Confederate governemnt, establish justice, provide domestic stability and to hold the blessings of liberty high upon ourselves. | | | With the support of the millions of Americans who have become disillusioned with the current system, we will push to return this great nation to the freedoms and greatness it once knew before the federal government began overstepping its Constitutional boundaries. | | | The National Confederate Party wants to reawaken the true meaning of justice, "People for the People!" The National Confederate Party is not in hopes of creating an uprising that is negative, but as we all know in reality with every change comes the good and the bad. |
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| | Nazi Party (NSDAP) |
| | However, the national government in Berlin were concerned and passed a "Law for the Protection of the Republic". | | | Other members of the Nazi Party also received light sentences and Eric Ludendorff was acquitted. | | | Adolf Hitler knew that the growth in the party was mainly due to his skills as an orator and in the autumn of 1921 he challenged Anton Drexler for the leadership of the party. |
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| | National Republican party on Encyclopedia.com |
| | It was under this name that, following the lead of the Anti-Masonic party, they held a national nominating convention at Baltimore in Dec., 1831, and chose Henry Clay to oppose Jackson in the 1832 election. | | | Clay was badly beaten, and by 1836 the National Republicans had combined with other groups opposed to Jackson to form the Whig party. | | | The adherents of the National Republican party constituted a mixture of industrialists, business leaders, farmers, laborers, and mechanics, who believed in Clay's program of high tariffs, internal improvements, and a national bank. |
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| | ::.Angus Reid Consultants.:: |
| | More than 100,000 Thais living overseas have registered to vote in the election, either by mail or casting ballots at one of 160 polling booths located outside the country. | | | The Thai Love Thais Party - Phak Thai Rak Thai (TRT) leader was the first democratically elected head of government to serve a full period. | | | On Jan. 5, the Thai Journalists Association (TJA) urged the Commission to reconsider its decision. |
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| | National Libertarian Party |
| | America Needs The Party of Principle - The recent indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has served to further diminish the credibility of the Republican Party as it falls in the wake of other ethics allegations against senior Republicans. | | | North Carolina removes LP ballot access - The North Carolina Board of Elections on Aug. 22 decertified the Libertarian Party removing the LP from the ballot in all elections in the state. | | | Louisiana LP chair joins rescue effort - Vinson Mouser, chairman of the Libertarian Party of Louisiana, lives about an hour and a half from New Orleans, so he was pretty far removed from the immediate damage caused on Aug. 29 and following days by Hurricane Katrina and by the failure of levees surrounding that city. |
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| | The Manila Times Internet Edition OPINION > Thailand’s massage-parlor king: ‘Political parties are afraid of me’ |
| | As the head of the First Thai Nation party he formed in October, he has built a populist “no-to-corruption” platform, which, simplistic as it may be, he will use to run in national elections due in early 2005. | | | He is hoping to field First Thai Nation candidates for half of the constituencies. | | | Political parties that once dismissed Chuwit as an outsider are now courting his support just a few months ahead of general elections. |
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