• However, according to a Leger poll from April 28 of this year, the CPCs received 40 percent of the Canadian vote, as opposed to the Liberals who got 27 percent-a significant shift from last August, where the Liberals had 39 percent and the Conservatives 27 percent. (crisismagazine.com)
  • Stephen Harper's Conservatives cleaned up in the Toronto suburbs in 2011-including in ridings where visible minorities made up the majority-before Trudeau's Liberals took 24 of those seats in 2015, leaving the Tories clinging to just six. (macleans.ca)
  • The only response the Conservatives have to their endless failures is to drag political discourse down to cheap, culture war battles. (libdemvoice.org)
  • By engaging with the Conservatives at their level, Labour are letting down the vulnerable groups who have been worst affected by this uncaring government. (libdemvoice.org)
  • It seems compassion for people is an afterthought for both the Conservatives and Labour in this area. (libdemvoice.org)
  • Polls have indicated an extremely close race, with both Thorning-Schmidt's "red block" of Social Democrats, Radikale, SF and the pseudo-left Red-Green Alliance (RGA) and the right-wing block of the Liberals (Venstre), Danish People's Party (DF), Conservatives and Liberal Alliance being predicted the winner. (wsws.org)
  • It's a natural progression, but of course we retire people about the same time they make the transition so most conservatives don't have a voice in the media. (joannenova.com.au)
  • In Canada, one political party uses the oxymoron Progressive Conservatives. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • The tyranny of the UN's "new majority" has accordingly been deplored, and there has been much comment that whereas opposition to the United Nations was once a position of "conservatives" in the United States, it is increasingly one of "liberals" also. (commentary.org)
  • Even though their books were not about politics at all, there would nonetheless be de rigueur political jibes aimed at Republicans and conservatives. (blogspot.com)
  • Geoffrey K. Roberts and Patricia Hogwood have noted that "Christian democracy has incorporated many of the views held by liberals, conservatives and socialists within a wider framework of moral and Christian principles. (wikipedia.org)
  • The recently-formed Liberal-SDP Alliance was riding high in the polls and even Michael Foot's Labour Party was more popular than Thatcher's Conservatives. (blogspot.com)
  • It could be proven that newspapers associated with either one of the two political power blocs have engaged in a further division between liberals and conservatives by disseminating partisan conspiracy narratives before the presidential election. (lu.se)
  • The Canadian government planned to make serious mental illness an eligible category in March 2023, but in an eleventh-hour announcement, it deferred its decision until March 2024. (medscape.com)
  • It will also allow time for the Government of Canada to fully consider the final report of the Special Joint Committee on MAID, tabled in Parliament on February 15, 2023. (medscape.com)
  • However, the bill does not go as far as the Liberal Party's own revamped rules, created after The Globe and Mail reported last fall that Mr. Trudeau and senior ministers were raising millions of dollars at private fundraisers hidden from public view. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • The party organisation, especially Brian Loughnane, one of our Party's greatest strategists. (tonyabbott.com.au)
  • COLIN Barnett has described the Liberal Party's preference deal with Pauline Hanson's One Nation as a "sensible and pragmatic result", saying his overriding aim was to beat Labor. (perthnow.com.au)
  • Frydenberg, who would have been a strong candidate for the Liberal leadership after the party's rout at the election, effectively conceded defeat late on Saturday night. (theage.com.au)
  • I took part in the Centre Party's local government days, meeting members from up and down the country and supporting the newly elected leader Muharrem Demirok, then I travelled to my family and was completely off that weekend. (lu.se)
  • Socialist Party leader Igor Dodon won the presidency in two rounds of an election held in October and November. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The Portuguese Communist Party, the Socialist Party and the Left bloc came together to offer an alternative. (cpim.org)
  • Does he call the Socialist Party in France leftist? (dissidentvoice.org)
  • By self-designation, the National Socialist Party in Nazi Germany was also leftist. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • He's adopted measures to the Left of the American Socialist Party, and he's a Republican market militant who's fought those Left-liberal measures all his life. (counter-currents.com)
  • In fact, the incumbent MP in Milton, Conservative Lisa Raitt, bucked the 2015 wave of Liberals ousting Tories across the GTA. (macleans.ca)
  • We share a goal that becomes more desperately important every day - getting the Tories out of government. (libdemvoice.org)
  • Whereas that destroyed Labour's credibility as a governing party for a generation, this destroyed the Tories' - perhaps unfairly as the Labour frontbench of the time under John Smith had been committed to exactly the same monetary policy that caused the debacle. (blogspot.com)
  • Mr. Cullen said the timing of the bill was designed as a "distraction" from the issue of electoral reform, which his party tried to reignite right before the legislation was introduced in Parliament. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Mr. Cullen tabled a motion this week that called for Parliament to adopt the proposals from the special committee on electoral reform, which recommended the government come up with an unspecified proportional voting system and hold a referendum on whether to change the current system. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • In 2017, Fairfax reported that nearly half of all Liberal MPs in the federal parliament were former political staffers, party officials or government advisers. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • In all of these policies, the government relied for support in parliament from the pseudo-left RGA, a coalition of ex-Stalinist and Maoist groups which includes the Pabloite Socialist Workers Party (SAP). (wsws.org)
  • I've been saying to people throughout this campaign, I wouldn't let my 21-year-old daughter work in Parliament House because I wouldn't be able to feel secure that she was safe there," she said. (theage.com.au)
  • In the next parliamentary elections in 2001, he led his party to a landslide victory, which made it the biggest party in the Danish parliament, a position held by the Social Democrats since the 1920s. (meeting-hotels.com)
  • After eleven years as the leader of Sweden's Centre Party and sixteen as a member of Parliament, Alumna Annie Lööf will finally get the chance to recharge her batteries this summer. (lu.se)
  • She was not going to take part in the 2026 election as party leader, but still had her sights set on a good election result and being able to work in government for a few years or in Parliament under a confidence and supply arrangement. (lu.se)
  • With the resignation of former leader Steven Del Duca following the 2022 election, the Liberals were left without a clear path forward. (mackaycartoons.net)
  • On 15 September 2022, Annie announced that she intended to resign as party leader of the Centre Party. (lu.se)
  • Two-thirds of the Liberal candidates, including Edwin Montagu, had pledged support for such measures during the campaign. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although many Texans were not happy about RUP and opposed its ideals, many RUP candidates ran for political office during the 1972 state elections. (listverse.com)
  • Mr. Trudeau's mandate letter to Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould asked that the law make fundraisers involving ministers, party leaders and leadership candidates more transparent, including requiring them to be conducted "in publicly available spaces. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Mr Barnett said he was not going to run around criticising or defending candidates from other parties. (perthnow.com.au)
  • The Occupy activists have shown little interest in liberal organizations, the Democratic Party, political candidates, or liberal nostrums. (newpol.org)
  • Very few third party candidates break through the 10% barrier. (joannenova.com.au)
  • Her research focuses on the collective action and social resistance of communities within non-liberal democracies. (lu.se)
  • Goodman's research has focused on the political history of the Communist Party of China and on social and political change at local levels in China, most especially configurations of class, and the sociology of entrepreneurship in contemporary China. (booksandideas.net)
  • Politically, over the past half-century, the state, not to mention Newsom's own Democratic Party, has gone from white-majority/Black-minority to one where whites and Latinos share demographic majority status, with the rapidly growing Asian American community constituting the third-largest racial group, and Blacks, once the minority anchor of the state's Democratic Party, now coming in a distant fourth. (prospect.org)
  • They'd long elected distinguished progressive legislators in those districts, beginning, in Los Angeles, with Gus Hawkins, who was first elected on socialist Upton Sinclair's "End Poverty in California" Democratic Party slate to the legislature in 1934 and who went on to a notable congressional career from 1962 to 1991. (prospect.org)
  • For a time, Black and white liberal alliances dominated the state's Democratic Party (in the Bay Area, Black and white left alliances). (prospect.org)
  • The Democratic Party is awash with money, much of which comes from rich liberals. (powerlineblog.com)
  • Filat, a member of the center-right Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM), had worked to bring Moldova closer to the EU, but had become embroiled in multiple corruption cases and in 2015 was stripped of parliamentary immunity. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The election was called three months early by current Prime Minister and Social Democratic Party leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt. (wsws.org)
  • When the Mormon Church formally abandoned the practice of polygamy, Republicans and Democrats formed local parties, and after statehood in 1896, it appeared that Utah favored the Democratic Party. (digitalnewspapers.org)
  • Examples of major Christian democratic parties include the Christian Democratic Union of Germany , the Dutch Christian Democratic Appeal , the Centre in Switzerland, the Spanish People's Party , the Mexican National Action Party , the Austrian People's Party , and the Christian Democratic Party of Chile . (wikipedia.org)
  • By contrast, Christian democratic parties in Latin America tend to vary in their position on the political spectrum depending on the country they are in, being either more left-leaning, [24] [25] as in the case of the Christian Democratic Party in Chile , or more right-leaning, as in the case of the National Action Party in Mexico . (wikipedia.org)
  • Had he lived, Gaitskell would have turned Labour into a modern social democratic party. (blogspot.com)
  • Many Latino activists are frustrated at what they see as their underrepresentation in public office, particularly at the highest levels of government. (prospect.org)
  • State and local governments responded to the movement with police repression resulting in the arrest of 3,000 activists in a dozen cities in the first weeks. (newpol.org)
  • Yet Vietnamese communists and anti-government activists alike have reached a rare consensus that Thanh was no reformist ideologue. (thediplomat.com)
  • During 2013-2014 she conducted a study of 192 Cambodians including civil servants, political activists, factory workers and farmers, to investigate their perceptions of donations from political parties, a practice which has marked the country's democratic era. (lu.se)
  • We spend just under two per cent of our GDP on defence now, and both major parties are committed to reaching two per cent by 2021. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • After early mismanagement during the First World War, particularly the failure of the Dardanelles Campaign, Asquith was forced to bring the Unionists into the government in a coalition. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1973, a coalition of Black and Jewish voters elected Tom Bradley as mayor of Los Angeles (a post he held for 20 years)-the first Black person to govern a major American city in which Blacks did not constitute a majority of the population. (prospect.org)
  • The coalition of Liberal and Country parties was remarkably united, whereas the Labor Party suffered a major split in 1954-55 from which it did not recover until about 1970. (nla.gov.au)
  • Earlier, in January, a pro-European coalition government was voted in, amid calls by protesters and pro-Russian lawmakers for snap legislative elections. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The Social Democrats have ruled in a minority coalition with the Social Liberals (Radikale) since 2011. (wsws.org)
  • By the end of the book, the reader is treated with the chilling news that many of those same figures or their counterparts now occupy ministerial positions within the coalition government formed earlier this year. (electronicintifada.net)
  • He formed his first government and became Prime Minister of a coalition consisting of the Liberal Party and the Conservative People's Party. (meeting-hotels.com)
  • People did not call themselves socialists, and, like my son's peers would have argued the point had they been so designated. (blogspot.com)
  • They have swung en masse from Liberal to Conservative and back again in recent elections, making this by far the biggest concentration of tantalizingly up-for-grabs seats anywhere on the national map of 338 ridings. (macleans.ca)
  • Under the deal, the Liberals would direct its first preference to One Nation ahead of the National Party in Upper House regions, in return for Pauline Hanson's party preferencing the Liberals ahead of Labor in each Lower House seats it contests. (perthnow.com.au)
  • After a disappointing performance in the last provincial election, where they secured only eight seats and failed to gain official party status, the Liberals have been desperately searching for a leader who can reinvigorate the party and bring it back to its former glory. (mackaycartoons.net)
  • Hanson's party got 593,000 first preference votes nationally and won four Senate seats. (joannenova.com.au)
  • In WA, the Liberal Party won fully 3 of their 5 Senate seats on a average of just 600 "votes" each. (joannenova.com.au)
  • If the federal election result corresponded to the opinion polls, not only would the government suffer a massive defeat, but senior ministers, including Howard himself, could lose their seats. (wsws.org)
  • This chapter explores the developing politics of the region from the early 1970s to the events of early 2005, when the election of a new Palestinian prime minister and the proposed removal of Israeli settlements in some of the Occupied Territories brought new hope for peace. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The legislation, called Bill C-50, would apply to any fundraising event featuring the prime minister, cabinet, party leaders or leadership contenders. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Mr. Cullen said the Liberals should have banned ministers and the prime minister from attending such events. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Conservative Party spokesman Cory Hann said the party would continue to follow the law, but, "a new law will not make Prime Minister Trudeau's cash-for-access fundraisers ethical. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • The approval rating of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, has dropped significantly in the past few months-dropping several percentage points lower than U.S. President Donald Trump . (crisismagazine.com)
  • What has been most surprising is the mainstream media's turn on its former political darling, Prime Minister Trudeau. (crisismagazine.com)
  • Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been transforming the Liberal Party, making way for a younger, newer generation. (cbc.ca)
  • Veteran Liberals like Peter Donolo, former aide to former Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, says generational change is a normal part of every political party. (cbc.ca)
  • The federal Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner will investigate Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in connection with the Liberal government's now-cancelled contract with WE Charity. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • On the death of Lyons in April 1939, Menzies was elected leader of the United Australia Party and became Prime Minister. (nla.gov.au)
  • In June, former prime minister Vlad Filat, who during his 2009-13 tenure had worked to bring Moldova closer to the European Union (EU), was convicted on corruption charges related to a banking scandal that had rocked Moldovan politics. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The former is said to have previously been led by ex-Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, who was quietly forced to retire at the January 2016 Party Congress, and the latter by party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, who is also the de-facto head of government. (thediplomat.com)
  • After a week of political turmoil, with the majority of his cabinet wanting him to quit, Prime Minister John Howard has been forced to say that, while he will lead the government into the election, he will retire during the next term if his government wins office. (wsws.org)
  • The leadership turmoil then assumed farcical dimensions as senior ministers, who had earlier indicated they no longer supported Howard, emerged from a party room meeting on Wednesday to declare they were solidly behind the prime minister. (wsws.org)
  • That the prime minister has been able to cling to power despite losing the confidence of his cabinet indicates that while government MPs may have preferred Howard to resign, none is prepared to mount a challenge. (wsws.org)
  • Modern political history turns on the question of what would have happened had Margaret Thatcher never become Prime Minister. (blogspot.com)
  • Anders Fogh Rasmussen has been at the centre of European and global politics for three decades as Secretary General of NATO, Prime Minister of Denmark, Danish Minister of Economic Affairs, and a leading Danish parliamentarian. (meeting-hotels.com)
  • His government was re-elected in 2005 and 2007 respectively, and he held the position as Prime Minister until he was elected as future NATO Secretary General in April 2009. (meeting-hotels.com)
  • Since 1979, the country has been dominated by the Cambodian People's Party and its prime minister Hun Sen - whose 32 years in power make him one of the longest-serving political leaders in the world. (lu.se)
  • In August of last year, the Liberals enjoyed a 12 percent lead over the opposition Conservative Party of Canada (CPC), led by Andrew Scheer . (crisismagazine.com)
  • The NDP and Conservative Party had asked Mr. Dion to investigate the contract. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • These arguments are backed by this country's foundational liberal political approach to government, its belief that self-determination far exceeds anything other- or government-determined, and its extreme favor of autonomy. (cdc.gov)
  • While nobody knows exactly when and where the party started, RUP filed as a political party in several Texas counties in January 1970. (listverse.com)
  • The Palestinians emerged in the years after 1970 as a people with a national identity but without much land on which to build a nation. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The project would cost well over $1 billion, though the two governments involved are trying to shift as much of that cost and risk to a private developer as they can. (voiceofsandiego.org)
  • The brief three-week campaign ahead of Thursday's general election in Denmark has witnessed a further shift to the right by all of the political parties. (wsws.org)
  • Any biographer of California Gov. Gavin Newsom is sure to focus on Newsom's unanticipated power to appoint a host of figures to the state's most important elected positions. (prospect.org)
  • It is true that Minnesota's economy is sluggish, experiencing slow growth and below-average productivity and capital investment, but that is because of the left-wing policies that Education Minnesota-by far the state's most powerful political force-has helped to drive. (powerlineblog.com)
  • The Liberal leader said the car service centre was the kind of business his party would be focusing on if they end up forming government - reiterating their determination to grow the state's economy and create new jobs. (thewest.com.au)
  • Her opposition to the government's decision to open up these areas to developers shows a strong stance on environmental issues that matter to the people. (mackaycartoons.net)
  • While some Liberals who worked in previous governments didn't get hired, it had more to do with skill sets than age, they explained, pointing to a handful of ministerial aides with experience in previous federal Liberal governments. (cbc.ca)
  • In the wake of the banking scandal, many people turned against the European-leaning yet oligarchic parties that dominated previous governments, including the one headed by Filat. (freedomhouse.org)
  • One by one, older veterans of the party have been replaced by younger successors - from party officials to political aides and cabinet ministers. (cbc.ca)
  • Answers from senior Treasury officials at last week's Senate investigation contradict Government claims, writes Alan Austin. (independentaustralia.net)
  • Elected officials are still wary about calling themselves "liberal," but this year the momentum seems to be strongly in the direction that Huffington sensed was coming. (nybooks.com)
  • CONTEXT: Increasing polarization of states reached a high point during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the party affiliation of elected officials often predicted their policy response. (bvsalud.org)
  • Unexpectedly, the leading news magazine of Canada, Maclean's Magazine, exposed the hypocrisy and shallowness of the ever-fading brand of Trudeau's politics . (crisismagazine.com)
  • Van Koeverden is watching the place fill up with supporters who are coming out to a fundraiser for his bid to win the Milton riding for Justin Trudeau's Liberals in the Oct. 21 election. (macleans.ca)
  • Privately, some who served in previous Liberal governments confide that their calls weren't even returned when they applied to join Trudeau's government, leaving them with the sense the new administration considered them past their best-before date. (cbc.ca)
  • The Liberal government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that began in 1905 and ended in 1915 consisted of two ministries: the first led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman (from 1905 to 1908) and the final three by H. H. Asquith (from 1908 onwards). (wikipedia.org)
  • The Liberal Party today is arguably now younger than the party Trudeau inherited three years ago. (cbc.ca)
  • Either way, days later Harold Wilson lost an election he was universally expected to win, and this proved to be the pivot on which the subsequent history of the 1970s, and arguably also the future of the Labour Party turned. (blogspot.com)
  • The US has two main political parties: the Democrats and the Republicans. (listverse.com)
  • With the Whig Party rapidly disintegrating, it was obvious that the Southern-influenced Democrats held nearly unlimited control over the US government, which allowed slavery to expand into new territories. (listverse.com)
  • They also made appeals to Northern Democrats who opposed slavery but were uncomfortable with the federal government. (listverse.com)
  • However, Liberal Democrats and Labour are both progressive parties and have more in common than divides us. (libdemvoice.org)
  • Thankfully Ed Davey, in comparison, has steadfastly pledged his and the Liberal Democrats' support for Trans rights. (libdemvoice.org)
  • There is so much that is important that Liberal Democrats need to be talking about, including the desperate position of so many fellow citizens this winter with the huge rise in the price of basic foodstuffs and now the increase in Council Tax, and the decline in local services because central government isn't granting local councils enough, as you must know so well. (libdemvoice.org)
  • The Liberal-Democrats in Britain leftist? (dissidentvoice.org)
  • On the European left-right political spectrum, Christian democracy has been difficult to pinpoint, as Christian democrats have rejected liberal economics and individualism and advocated state intervention, while simultaneously defending private property rights against excessive state intervention. (wikipedia.org)
  • Christian democrats are usually socially conservative [27] and generally have a relatively skeptical stance towards abortion and same-sex marriage , although some Christian democratic parties have accepted the limited legalization of both. (wikipedia.org)
  • But when the results arrived and there was a majority enabling the Sweden Democrats, Moderates, Christian Democrats and Liberals to form a government, the time had come. (lu.se)
  • Through the 1990s, Huffington had been a fairly dutiful Republican-at one point, even a Republican political wife. (nybooks.com)
  • But I suspect most people do not understand how partisan, and how radical, the teachers' unions are. (powerlineblog.com)
  • Her centrist political style, focused on addressing what's broken, resonates with voters who are tired of partisan politics and empty promises. (mackaycartoons.net)
  • Although the government lost a great deal of support by the two general elections of 1910, they managed to hold on by dint of support from the Irish Parliamentary Party. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Social Democrat-led block has closed a gap of 10 percentage points in the polls since March, and their ability to hold on to power could depend on whether the Alternative, a new party founded by disaffected Radikale members, achieves enough support to surpass the two percent hurdle for parliamentary representation. (wsws.org)
  • Is a political party accorded a position on the political spectrum by virtue of its self-designation? (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Taking advantage of the power vacuum left by the Whig Party, the Anti-Nebraska Party embarked on a campaign to bring as many Whigs to their side as possible. (listverse.com)
  • However, the move has also left some older members of the party feeling like they have been eclipsed. (cbc.ca)
  • Most rich people who participate in politics are on the left. (powerlineblog.com)
  • Senior federal minister Arthur Sinodinos yesterday left open the door for the Liberals to do further preference deals with One Nation, claiming Pauline Hanson's party was was a "different beast" compared to two decades ago. (perthnow.com.au)
  • But either way, what is most evident is how powerless the political 'left' has become in American politics. (pravda.ru)
  • That wasn't as dramatic a change as moving from right to left, but because it involved many more people, it had a large effect on the location of the political consensus. (nybooks.com)
  • In Denmark, a right-wing party calls itself Venstre , which translates to "Left. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Atzmon writes, "However, the Left's evident surprise exposes the depth of its detachment from society and is tragically symptomatic of contemporary left thinking and politics. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • What emerges is a portrait of an Israeli political spectrum that runs the gamut not from left to right but from center-right to far-right, in which talk of the forcible transfer of Palestinians from within Israel and the West Bank is openly heard. (electronicintifada.net)
  • With the rightward tilt of Israeli society, Blumenthal notes that even the liberal Zionist Labor Party is attempting to shed any links to left-wing politics. (electronicintifada.net)
  • Not only that, we would have to preface every discussion by explaining what we mean by "socialist" and why we don't employ the more commonly used phrase "left" or "liberal" - even though these are the designations that those who assume those positions assign to themselves. (blogspot.com)
  • I have edited books for people who define their own political views as "left of center. (blogspot.com)
  • Astrid Norén-Nilsson is interested in investigating perceptions of democracy and citizenship in a country where many political ideologies have left a profound impression, but the same party has been in power for four decades. (lu.se)
  • As noted by one study, They (the Liberal Cabinet members) sought to respond to the discontent of the electorate by using the existing structure of government to correct the ills of society through innovative legislation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion, 61, was shuffled out of cabinet Tuesday and is leaving active politics. (cbc.ca)
  • Bardish Chagger, the Minister for Diversity, Inclusion and Youth, said on Friday in a statement that the government and the charity agreed on the cancellation. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • They are a lot more sophisticated, they have clearly resonated with a lot of people," said the Industry Minister, who is one of Malcolm Turnbull's top confidantes. (perthnow.com.au)
  • In 1929 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly and in 1932 he became Attorney-General and Minister for Railways in the Argyle Government. (nla.gov.au)
  • He was immediately appointed Attorney-General and Minister for Industry in the Government of J.A. Lyons. (nla.gov.au)
  • Moldovan politics in 2016 largely revolved around political and economic fallout from the corruption scandal that emerged in late 2014, in which the central bank had eventually taken control of three troubled financial institutions, and an independent assessment concluded that $1 billion had disappeared from the banks in a fraudulent borrowing scheme. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Meanwhile, some corruption investigations are progressing, and the political situation stabilized somewhat in 2016 compared to the previous year. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Thanh, who served as chairman of PetroVietnam Construction (PVC) from 2009 to 2013, began a sudden plunge in May 2016 after pictures emerged online of his Lexus, said to be worth $250,000, with government license plates illegally attached. (thediplomat.com)
  • Regular public contestation between these two influential parties has provoked the Polish people to further divide into two main blocs. (lu.se)
  • The public and their politicians are on the same side here - paeans of praise to the US alliance are boilerplate for politicians from both major parties, and the Lowy Poll has consistently showed that this reflects public preferences. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • It was the Liberal Party that ended the White Australia policy, and it was the Liberal Party that formalised the US alliance. (tonyabbott.com.au)
  • He had not yet discussed it with Brendon Grylls, the Leader of the National Party, which is said to be fuming over the deal cut by its alliance partner. (perthnow.com.au)
  • Additionally, any resistance to the Conservative's horrifying rhetoric around refugees and asylum seekers from the national Labour Party is distressingly mute. (libdemvoice.org)
  • Last year, her government introduced a new residency permit for refugees which only allows them to stay in the country for a year, and a separate measure banning any asylum seeker on such a permit from bringing their families to join them. (wsws.org)
  • He was a card carrying communist who taught that democracy was simply a tool of bourgeoisie capitalist pigs, that religion was the opiate of the people, that the only good government was an overthrown government, and that American imperialism was the seed of evil in the modern world. (pravda.ru)
  • Nguyen Quang A, a retired businessman and ex-party member turned pro-democracy dissident, said any falling out between Thanh and the government could not have been spurred by ideology. (thediplomat.com)
  • Reduced to caricature, it might be stated as follows: ‚Democracy' means the system of a representative government that exists in various advanced industrial countries. (uni-bremen.de)
  • The main difference between democratic states and nondemocratic mass-participatory systems lies in the free competition between political parties and other organizations characteristic of democracy. (uni-bremen.de)
  • Christian democracy is a political ideology inspired by Christian social teaching to respond to the challenges of contemporary society and politics. (wikipedia.org)
  • [33] Christian Democracy fosters an " ecumenical unity achieved on the religious level against the atheism of the government in the Communist countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • A strong advocate for the rules-based international order and universal liberal values, Fogh Rasmussen placed Denmark on the world stage by engaging in international missions for the promotion of democracy and the fight against terrorism. (meeting-hotels.com)
  • Conspir- acy theories can create doubt about political opponents and their integrity and unfold a con- siderable danger to democracy. (lu.se)
  • Through my research, I can contribute to identifying the political ambitions of various groups - and build up a theory about perceptions of democracy and citizenship in non-liberal states. (lu.se)
  • Opposition parties don't have anything to hide. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Opposition parties immediately expressed suspicions. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • The motion was supported by all the opposition parties, but only two Liberals - Toronto MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith and Prince Edward Island's Sean Casey - voted in favour and the motion failed. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • It is vitally important that the opposition parties resist this degradation of our political landscape. (libdemvoice.org)
  • Opposition parties sharply criticized the deal, and questions were raised about how the charity would manage the program, its plans to hire hundreds of volunteers for itself, and to pay teachers to recruit students. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • The PCP stated that while maintaining its ideological and political positions, it is committed to ensure the departure of the right wing policies in Portugal. (cpim.org)
  • It is well known that most people start off with an ideological view of how the world "Should be" and slowly move to the conservative side as they see how the world really works - For example using 1/2 the corn crop for Ethanol results in starvation for millions of poor people. (joannenova.com.au)
  • In blogs written by those who favor people like Barak Obama, Cindy Sheehan, or for those who read Daily Kos, we are called "Bacon" and "Lymph Node. (blogspot.com)
  • Interestingly, the federal CPC has raised more money than any party in Canadian history for a first quarter. (crisismagazine.com)
  • Neil Moss is a reporter with The Hill Times who covers federal politics, foreign policy, international trade, Canada-U.S. relations, and defence, as well as leading the newspaper's annual Top 50 list of foreign policy influencers. (hilltimes.com)
  • It is already a given that spending will rise dramatically-again-and, with a multi-billion dollar surplus and billions more flowing in from the federal government, tax increases are not in the offing. (powerlineblog.com)
  • According to Elections Canada filings, neither has donated to any other federal political party. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Early on Friday morning, separate statements from the federal government and WE said the decision to cancel the contract was mutual, but Mr. Trudeau told reporters the charity made the call. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • In 1934 Menzies moved to Federal politics, winning the United Australia Party seat of Kooyong, which he held until his retirement in 1966. (nla.gov.au)
  • The Canadian federal government is currently considering adding serious mental illness as an eligible category. (medscape.com)
  • Also, our politicians increasingly form a seperate tribe, a professional caste with diminishing connections to the people they are supposed to represent. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • With her impressive track record and the overwhelming support she has received, Crombie is poised to become a formidable challenger to Premier Doug Ford and his increasingly arrogant government. (mackaycartoons.net)
  • Blumenthal makes clear that it is a small and embattled group of people that still enjoys a measure of Jewish privilege but is increasingly targeted and prevented from holding protests. (electronicintifada.net)
  • Israeli politics became deeply divided over how to deal with Palestinians and surrounding Arab countries, but a strong desire for peace influenced almost all political movements during this time period. (encyclopedia.com)
  • This time around, with the party dinged up by four years in power, what's on offer inevitably looks more battle-tested than fresh-faced. (macleans.ca)
  • Others, who have given up weekends and time with their families to knock on doors and campaign for the Liberals over the years, feel their experience and their expertise are no longer really wanted or required. (cbc.ca)
  • They have a problem with people over 45 or so,' said one long-time Liberal organizer who traded anonymity for candour. (cbc.ca)
  • The only time they listen to people like me is when the information I have to offer is essential. (cbc.ca)
  • I think the world changed a lot between the time there was a Liberal government last time and now,' they said. (cbc.ca)
  • I think that it may be that a lot of the people who had worked in previous Liberal governments had skill sets devoted to that time and era that we felt were less applicable to this one. (cbc.ca)
  • Please note that in that 1980 census, California was home to more than twice as many Latinos as Blacks, but Latinos held far fewer elective offices, partly because they were not at the time as clustered residentially as Blacks, and in general had lower levels of political activism than the Black community had developed in its centuries-long battle for equal rights. (prospect.org)
  • But let's be frank, for parties with a preference for freedom, and for smaller government, the pandemic was an especially dispiriting time, as governments around the world ditched their own pandemic plans, for the Wuhan plan of locking down and spending big. (tonyabbott.com.au)
  • Charles has attended globalist Bilderberg meetings, has been an extreme climate change fanatic, co-hosted a WEF meeting, and is a friend of Klaus Schwab, but he now says he is going to change because the King is not supposed to be political (his change may be questionable, but time will tell). (prophecyupdate.com)
  • Crombie's decision to enter the leadership race comes at a crucial time for the Ontario Liberal Party. (mackaycartoons.net)
  • During her campaign launch, Crombie wasted no time in highlighting the failures of the Ford government. (mackaycartoons.net)
  • A person in The Sooner State could get between two and ten years prison time for more than one offense. (huffpost.com)
  • Since I am also responsible for our Treasury I know the old say that politics has only a short time influence on the stock markets. (uni-bremen.de)
  • In this form of government, procedural niceties are carefully followed (most of the time) and individual rights are respected (much of the time). (uni-bremen.de)
  • Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has lost the seat of Kooyong to "teal" independent Monique Ryan, but hinted broadly that he planned to return to politics some time in the future. (theage.com.au)
  • [nb 4] at the same time, Christian Democratic parties enshrine confessional liberty . (wikipedia.org)
  • In a press release, the government said that the 1-year extension would "provide additional time to prepare for the safe and consistent assessment and provision of MAID in all cases, including where the person's sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness. (medscape.com)
  • For the first time, the democratic opposition came close to victory over the ruling party in the 2013 national elections. (lu.se)
  • Well, Trudeau and his Liberal Party have been involved in a political scandal with the Quebec-based engineering firm SNC Lavalin . (crisismagazine.com)
  • While those close to Trudeau say it was all about geography and preparing for incoming U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, for many Liberals, it was also a sign of generational change. (cbc.ca)
  • Ever since he became leader of the Liberal Party in 2013, Justin Trudeau, 45, has slowly but surely been transforming the Liberal Party, fulfilling the pledge of renewal he made when he sought the leadership. (cbc.ca)
  • Those close to Trudeau, however, dismiss any suggestion that older MPs and party supporters are being sidelined. (cbc.ca)
  • News of the ethics investigation, the third into the conduct of Mr. Trudeau since he came to power in 2015, came hours after the Liberals announced that the deal to outsource a $900-million student-volunteer program to WE Charity had been cancelled. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Mr. Trudeau did not directly address accusations of conflicts of interest between his family and the charity, but said his government will study how the process unfolded. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • While the Liberal Party now requires its own events to be held in public spaces and be open to the media, the bill would allow fundraisers in private homes as long as they are advertised publicly in advance. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • The Globe and Mail first made the story public this February with allegations of political interference and of possible obstruction of justice by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). (crisismagazine.com)
  • A tour through this year's Lowy Institute Poll to see where the public differs from political leaders. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • Our politics is dominated by two big parties, yet the public doesn't care about political parties at all (in 2006, only one per cent of Australians were members of a political party) . (lowyinstitute.org)
  • Let's take a quick tour through this year's Lowy Institute Poll, and specifically the parts of it related to national security, to see where the public does and does not differ from their political leaders. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • Public services are crippled by strikes, people are feeling the pinch and the economy is set to shrink, Brexit has been a disaster and any kind of meaningful response to the climate emergency is entirely absent. (libdemvoice.org)
  • But the Liberal Party hasn't just given me a long public life. (tonyabbott.com.au)
  • Teachers' unions, like all public sector unions, have always been pro-government and therefore liberal. (powerlineblog.com)
  • Amid a public outcry that proliferated through both state-controlled newspaper and independent social media, the party promised an investigation. (thediplomat.com)
  • If the German lawyer is claiming he was politically persecuted, please bring evidence," said Le Dang Doanh, a former senior economic advisor to the government and member of the Communist Party, pointing out there's no public record of Thanh advocating reform. (thediplomat.com)
  • Annie has always strived to be herself in her political public role and she points out that doing so builds trust and strength. (lu.se)
  • In Japan, there was a public uproar when the government introduced a consultation fee for discussing end-of-life (EOL) options for elders 75 and over in 2008. (who.int)
  • People now talk about the Thatcherite hegemony of the 1980s as if it were a historical inevitability. (blogspot.com)
  • It's difficult because of the entrenched position of people and their social networks in the system which Xi has said has to be reformed in order to ensure the continued legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party, and it's dangerous because those same social networks are a necessary bastion of resistance. (booksandideas.net)
  • Political donations have lost legitimacy among the masses. (lu.se)
  • In the 1970s, the Raza Unida Party (RUP) formed in Texas through a number of spontaneous grassroots political organizations. (listverse.com)
  • The 46-year internal armed conflict continued between the government and terrorist organizations, particularly the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN). (state.gov)
  • The Occupy Wall Street Declaration published on September 30 is a remarkable catalog of the grievances of the American people, touching on every issue from the economic crisis to the wars abroad, to the looming environmental catastrophe. (newpol.org)
  • Conservative daily Berlingske noted shortly after that the crisis "has been a party for the very richest in Denmark. (wsws.org)
  • The world capitalist economic crisis continues despite all the efforts to emerge from this crisis by further intensifying exploitation of the people. (cpim.org)
  • The crisis wracking the government was precipitated by last week's publication of a Newspoll opinion survey, which showed the government trailing the Labor Party 41 to 59 percent. (wsws.org)
  • Whatever the case, Howard's response to the crisis has reportedly caused further ructions within the government. (wsws.org)
  • In relation to the current economic, environmental, and immigration crisis in the West, if radical political change does not happen what are your predictions? (counter-currents.com)
  • As I've said consistently throughout this campaign, (for) the Liberal party, our opponent is the Labor Party, that's what we're after. (perthnow.com.au)
  • So my task is to defeat the Labor Party and hopefully continue what I think is a very good government. (perthnow.com.au)
  • You can have a dysfunctional, chaotic Liberal-One Nation government or you can have a stable, competent WA Labor government. (perthnow.com.au)
  • He resigned in August 1941 and three months later the Labor Party came to power. (nla.gov.au)
  • He forged a distinction between then and now by not repeating his infamous gaffe on the eve of the 2014 poll, when he urged people to vote Labor. (thewest.com.au)
  • As the political historian Zeev Sternhell and others have pointed out, the roots of labor Zionism display a greater affinity with what he termed "nationalist socialism" than Marxist socialism. (electronicintifada.net)
  • Teal independent Monique Ryan - who looks set to be the next member for Kooyong - says she is yet to receive a call from the incoming Labor government or outgoing Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. (theage.com.au)
  • Last week's Newspoll was just the latest in a series of polls this year consistently showing the government far behind the Labor Party. (wsws.org)
  • Although I guess it should be conceded that the Hawke government also shaped that quarter century of economic modernisation, that the Howard government completed: a legacy that we're still drawing down and living off. (tonyabbott.com.au)
  • Our place to talk - an independent website for supporters of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK. (libdemvoice.org)
  • My job as the Liberal Democrat Leader of the Opposition in Southwark is to hold Southwark's Labour Council to account. (libdemvoice.org)
  • This is not to question the work of WE or their dedication to young people," New Democrat MP Charlie Angus wrote in his letter to the commissioner. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Being more than a political soapbox, the Democrat thrived for more than ten years by offering readers coverage of local government and the latest from the agricultural and mining industries. (digitalnewspapers.org)
  • Worldwide, many Christian democratic parties are members of the Centrist Democrat International . (wikipedia.org)
  • Many Christian democratic parties in the Americas are affiliated with the Christian Democrat Organization of America . (wikipedia.org)
  • Even by the standards of Danish politics, which have moved sharply to the right, the current campaign has been particularly reactionary. (wsws.org)
  • Policy Points The increasing political polarization of states reached new heights during the COVID-19 pandemic, when response plans differed sharply across party lines. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Liberals had promised that the 2015 election campaign would be the last under the first-past-the-post voting system. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Eventually, politicians-including a young Abraham Lincoln-realized that they would need to organize into a political party to have any say on the national level. (listverse.com)
  • Australians are disconnected from politics, but that doesn't necessarily mean they differ from politicians in their policy preferences. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • Slipping into the nasty politics is not a good move,we need to demonstrate we are above that,there is too much disillusionment amongst voters about politics and politicians without moving further down. (libdemvoice.org)
  • F]or decades, the richest Minnesotans-and the conservative politicians that choose the rich over the rest of us-have rigged the economy against regular people…" Really? (powerlineblog.com)
  • In finding the answer to the question of why so many people currently support populist ideas and populist politicians, a first avenue to take is so obvious that it is often ignored: one should not a priori dismiss the charges anti-political establishment actors formulate. (uni-bremen.de)
  • I think that having more women there, and more women who are not career politicians who have life experience in other important sectors like health, will improve the tenor of political discussion, hopefully, in this country. (theage.com.au)
  • It is not clear whether DF would enter government with Venstre should the right-wing block secure victory, or decide to support a minority administration from the outside. (wsws.org)
  • The Liberals would still preference the Nationals first in the Lower House. (perthnow.com.au)
  • He's a rarity in this fall's campaign-a bona fide star newcomer to politics. (macleans.ca)
  • Three decades after Ronald Reagan's brilliant enunciation of conservative ideals at the end of the 1964 campaign, he told me "Now that I've retired from active politics, I don't mind that you've become the number-one voice for conservatism in our country. (heritage.org)
  • Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie's official campaign launch to become the leader of the Ontario Liberal Party has injected a much-needed energy and experience into the race. (mackaycartoons.net)
  • In his campaign, Dodon promised to bring about prosperity through closer ties with Russia, and his victory highlighted voters' rejection of pro-European parties that had been embroiled in numerous scandals. (freedomhouse.org)
  • I suspect one reason why 77% of people in this country tell pollsters that they want our troops out of Afghanistan is because they either do not know what are the objectives for their presence or do not believe that these can be achieved. (libdemvoice.org)
  • Our soldiers are easily portrayed as foreign invaders who should be resisted by Afghan patriots, and our presence in the country may not only contribute to instability there but increase the risk of maverick attacks on people here. (libdemvoice.org)
  • Nearly a decade on the American-led forces are still very far from establishing an Afghan national army or police force that can claim to be representative of all people in the country. (libdemvoice.org)
  • At this point, it was "Mother" Pratt's voice that should have been heard, calling for the country to come together because crime was no respecter of persons. (tribune242.com)
  • Indeed, the whole world, in 2020 had never been more free, more safe and more prosperous, thanks to the global spread of those ideals that our Party champions in this country: the dignity of the person, freedom under the law, humane institutions, and effective markets. (tonyabbott.com.au)
  • Minnesota is one of the most liberal states in the country, with the fifth highest top personal income tax rate, and the fourth highest corporate income tax rate. (powerlineblog.com)
  • The country continues to reel from a 2014 banking scandal, which led to a bailout that devastated its national budget and fostered deep mistrust in the political establishment. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The attack was seized on by the political establishment to portray Denmark as a country in danger of being overrun by terrorist groups so as to justify the passage of anti-democratic reforms granting additional powers and funding to the intelligence agencies. (wsws.org)
  • To accept that we cannot demand that every country ensure freedom for gay, lesbian or trans people, and uphold women's equal rights to make their own decisions about their lives. (lu.se)
  • If this law passes, the country will have the most liberal assisted-death policy in the world. (medscape.com)
  • The Cambodian government has also introduced new laws enabling the dissolution of political parties - a move which could result in the main opposition party being dissolved before the national elections in 2018. (lu.se)
  • These are just tactics, tactics that governments and statesmen and senior economists and industrialists and capitalists use. (counter-currents.com)
  • This trend has affected the political atmosphere in Poland in a way that has further propelled political polarization in the domestic sphere, with conspiracy theories and suspicion toward one another being one of its symptoms. (lu.se)
  • SA-BEST leader Nick Xenophon's final pitch on Friday, at a shopping centre in his electorate of Hartley, was filled with the political stunts he's known for. (thewest.com.au)
  • Having no viable alternative-the leader-in-waiting Treasurer Peter Costello is more unpopular than Howard-the senior Liberals fell into line behind the incumbent. (wsws.org)
  • The Liberals have introduced a bill to increase the transparency around party fundraisers, but the opposition is still accusing the government of allowing cash-for-access events. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • So much for his "sunny ways" and politics of transparency . (crisismagazine.com)
  • The Occupy movement has changed the American political landscape. (newpol.org)
  • A handful of young people started Occupy Wall Street in mid-September, as a protest against the banks and corporations that have grown rich while most Americans have grown poorer. (newpol.org)
  • Occupy is not anti-capitalist, but neither is it liberal. (newpol.org)
  • In the subsequent election, the Liberals won an enormous majority. (wikipedia.org)
  • The American-led assault against the Taliban government was launched in the wake of the 2001 aircraft hijackings and attack upon the World Trade Centre. (libdemvoice.org)
  • At work, I lived in a liberal world - again, self-defined. (blogspot.com)
  • The Friedmans of this world, the Hayeks of this world, and the Keyneses of this world believe that people will go to the barricade for a theory about how the economy should be run. (counter-currents.com)
  • In her view, we often don't think about what is happening in that part of the world - but it is at least as important to monitor the political currents there as those in the US and Europe. (lu.se)
  • When hundreds of millions of people are governed by certain laws that run contrary to logic and compassion, then everyone suffers from the irrational fears of an older generation of voters. (huffpost.com)
  • While their support was often expressed in general terms, their intent was clear: Social and economic reform must be the first order of the new government. (wikipedia.org)
  • It's a way for Canadians to show support for a party with whom they share values, ideals and policies," she said. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Plus, cross-party support for Magnitsky sanctions against Iranian human rights abusers, and NDP MP Fin Donnelly will not seek re-election. (hilltimes.com)
  • Sadly, if Labour continue to their descent into gutter politics, those who need the most support may still find no respite. (libdemvoice.org)
  • Or as I liked to say: as liberals, we support lower taxes, smaller government and greater freedom. (tonyabbott.com.au)
  • The decision taken by WE this morning to withdraw from this work with the government is one that we support. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • They said they wouldn't support the privatisation of Western Power, yet they are supporting the Liberals," he said. (perthnow.com.au)
  • They said they'd stand against foreign workers taking WA jobs yet they are supporting the Liberals who support that. (perthnow.com.au)
  • Popular support for Russian-oriented parties has since been building. (freedomhouse.org)
  • After yesterday's party meeting, Costello issued a statement formally declaring his support for Howard's leadership. (wsws.org)
  • Bill C-50 would require all fundraisers that cost $200 or more to attend to be advertised five days in advance and for political parties to report the names of who attended to Elections Canada within a month. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • It would require all events that cost $200 or more to attend to be advertised five days in advance, including location and contact information for the person holding it, and for political parties to report the names of who attended to Elections Canada within a month. (theglobeandmail.com)