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  Al-Ahram Weekly | Chronicles | The personality cult
In these countries, political parties were, first and foremost, a forum for indigenous nationalists of various ideological hues and material interests, but bound together by the desire to rid their country of colonialist hegemony.
Given the political party climate in Egypt in general and the suspicion with which attempts to create alternative parties were viewed, in particular, the inception of the new party was certain to engender bitter animosity.
Political parties, he wrote, "should be based on sets of principles, for these principles live on and thrive in the life of the nation until they are no longer appropriate, at which point new sets of principles will take their place".
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/467/chrncls.htm   (2939 words)

  
  Liberal Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Liberal Party is the name of dozens of political parties around the world.
It usually designates a party that is ideologically liberal, meaning that they advocate individual rights and civil liberties, and sometimes left wing, meaning that they are egalitarian and believe in the redistribution of wealth from rich to poor.
However, there are also many Liberal Parties which subscribe to classical liberalism and therefore support a mostly unregulated free market, or who are actually more conservative in nature than their opponents, or whose views are right wing, libertarian, or difficult to categorise.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberal_Party   (306 words)

  
 Liberal Party Bangladesh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Liberal Party Bangladesh strives to bring an urge in the people for social and economic conditions that ensure minimum standards of life for all, so that every person irrespective of religion, sex or color would be able to exercise their liberty.
Liberalism as we see it is nothing but confirmation and subsequent application of human mission to the life of man as a member in a social, national and global sphere.
Liberal party Bangladesh is the political for the sake of consolidation democracy.
www.liberalbd.org /english/aboutus.htm   (3587 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | VOTE2001 | PARTY POLICIES | Liberal Democrats: Constitutional affairs
The Liberal Democrats would establish a permanent secretariat to support the work of the Council of the Isles, although this was not mentioned in the manifesto.
The party argues the English regions should have a level of government which is on the same democratic footing as the Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliaments.
Party leader Charles Kennedy said in January this year he was still confident Labour would hold a referendum on the matter if it won a second term.
news.bbc.co.uk /vote2001/hi/english/main_issues/sections/party_policies/newsid_1204000/1204905.stm   (934 words)

  
 Constitutional Liberal Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Constitutional Liberal Party (Spanish: Partido Liberal Constitucionalista, PLC) is the governing political party of Nicaragua.
At the last legislative elections, held on 4 November 2001, the party won 53.2% of the popular vote and 47 out of 90 seats in the National Assembly.
The party left the Liberal International in 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberal_Constitutional_Party   (134 words)

  
 Liberal Party of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Liberal Party was reduced from a majority to a minority government due, in part, to a Chrétien-era scandal in which advertising agencies supporting the Liberal Party received grossly inflated commissions for their services.
When the Liberals formed a majority government after the 1993 election with Chrétien at the helm, party unity was assured by placing Martin, whom Chrétien had defeated for the party leadership in 1990, in the crucial role of Minister of Finance.
In April, 2005 David Kilgour, one of the party's two MPs from Alberta announced that he was leaving the party to sit as an independent member of the House of Commons due to the damaging allegations of corruption in the Liberal Party's Quebec wing based on testimony in the Gomery Commission inquiry.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Liberal-Party-of-Canada.htm   (2879 words)

  
 Liberal Democratic Party - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Liberal Democratic Party or Democratic Liberal Party is the name of dozens of political parties around the world.
It usually designates a party that is ideologically liberal or left wing.
There are however some Liberal Parties which are actually more conservative in nature than their opponents, or whose views are right wing, libertarian, or difficult to categorise.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Liberal_Democratic_Party   (192 words)

  
 Liberal Party Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
History: The Liberal Party, the successor to the Whig Party, was formed on 6 June 1859, when Whigs, Peelites and Radicals met at Willis's Rooms in St. James Street, London, to unite in opposition to the Conservatives.
Under Jeremy Thorpe the party made substantial progress in the 1974 general election, returning almost 20 percent of the popular vote, and under Thorpe's successor as party leader, David Steel (1976-88), the Liberals retained their position as a significant national force in British politics.
The structure of the Liberal Party was decentralised; the local parties controlled the process of candidate selection, and also afforded their members a direct vote in the election of the party leader.
www.lse.ac.uk /library/archive/gutoho/liberal_party_archives.htm   (423 words)

  
 Category:Liberal parties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This includes both (free) market or classical liberal and social liberal parties, but the liberal-conservative parties are included in the sub-category liberal-conservative parties.
Also parties in the progressive liberal tradition of 'Radicalism' are included, even when these parties wouldn't label themselves as liberal.
The U.S. Democratic Party is included since it embraces a liberal wing, even in the European sense of the word.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Liberal_parties   (139 words)

  
 Middle East Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Political Parties' Committee, a semi-official body headed by the speaker of the upper house of parliament, gave the green light for the formation of the Liberal Constitutional Social party after reviewing a request presented by its founding members.
Three parties were set up by presidential decree in the 1970s: the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), the Marxist party Tagmmua and liberal-rightist Al Ahrar.
The party's founders trumpeted the move as a significant boost for democracy and pluralism in Egypt, but commentators said the authorization of Al Ghad was only a cosmetic move aimed at pleasing Washington.
www.metimes.com /articles/normal.php?StoryID=20041126-082726-1043r   (172 words)

  
 Liberal Party of the Philippines
The Liberal Party today belied the claim of Senate President Manuel Villar that it allegedly refused to share election returns with its Genuine Opposition (GO) coalition partners after the LP was designated as the dominant minority by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) during the May 2007 polls.
The Liberal Party (LP) came out with a party stand today that Senator-Elect Antonio Trillanes IV should be allowed to attend sessions and perform his duties as a duly-elected Senator of the Philippines when the 14th Congress commences next month.
LIBERAL PARTY SENATORIABLES: Liberal Party President Franklin Drilon (center) is flanked by LP senatorial candidates in the May polls, reelectionist Sen. Kiko Pangilinan and Tarlac Rep. Nonoy Aquino and surrounded by party leaders as they pose for photographers during the 61st LP anniversary celebration held at the Club Pilipino in Greenhills, San Juan Monday morning.
www.liberalparty.ph   (4484 words)

  
 Liberalism (Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Liberalism, Liberal in Germany The revolutionary wave of 1830 in German unleashed by the French July revolution allowed liberals their first experience with constitutional and popular movements.
The constitutional work of the Frankfurt St. Paul's Church, which closed with the election of emperor in 1849, was a compromise between liberal and democratic concepts.
The liberals' great successes in elections to the Frankfurt national assembly reached, were the suffrage right, which the right center obtained in the early months.
www.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/ip/libgerm.htm   (636 words)

  
 A short history of Japan
This is preluded by the formation by Itagaki Taisuke of the first political party, the liberal Aikoku Koto (Public Society of Patriots).
Oppositional are the liberal Rikken Jiyu-to (Constitutional Liberal Party) and the Rikken Kaishin-to (Constititutional Progressive Party), later named the Shinpo-to (Progressive Party).
A coalition of new parties and existing opposition parties forms a governing majority and elects as prime minister Hosokawa Morihiro of the new liberal Nihon Shin-to (Japan New Party).
www.electionworld.org /history/japan.htm   (1177 words)

  
 The Liberal Party...
The National Executive of The Liberal Party wishes to express its support to Jenny Tonge MP, concerning her clear and honest analysis of the political alienation and economic depravation of the Palestinian People.
Assembly believes that the Party’s commitment to a written constitution requires the use of referenda to amend such a constitution and accordingly resolves to amend the statement to read “The Liberal Party is opposed to the use of referenda except for determination of constitutional changes”.
Liberal Party members opposed the merger of the Liberal and Social Democrat parties in 1988, believing it to be an inadequate vehicle for promoting genuine Liberalism.
www.liberal.motime.com   (4884 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PARTY
In 1860 the Opposition party, minus much of its Democratic support, became the Constitutional Union party, and a state organizational meeting was held at Marshall, Texas.
The Galveston Constitutional Union party, one of the first to organize, almost appeared to be a gentleman's club; its members included a number of respected longtime Island City citizens and ex-Whigs.
The party lost heavily to the regular Democrats in a statewide election on August 6, and party leaders began to call for fusion with the Douglas Democrats.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/wac1.html   (1096 words)

  
 Issue 19 - Newsletters
The RDR, a member party of LI, have stated that they do not believe that President Gbagbo should be the Head of State during this extended period.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Liberal Prime Minister of Denmark, from LI member party Venstre, has been brought under law suit by 24 Danish citizens, claiming that his decision to go to war against Iraq was unconstitutional.
As a case of constitutional principle, the suit is likely to take up to five years to go through the courts.
www.liberal-international.org /newsletter.asp?ia_id=1209   (808 words)

  
 Constitutional Democratic party - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The members of the party were called Kadets (Cadets), from the abbreviation K-D of the party name (Конституционная Демократическая партия in Russian).
This type of government would have the tsar only as a figurehead, a parliament, and a constitution.
This political party- and liberalism-related article is a stub.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Kadet   (266 words)

  
 Liberalism
Liberal International (LI) is the world federation of liberal and progressive democratic political parties.
LI was founded in 1947 to strengthen liberal protection from totalitarianism, facism and communism.
It has since become the pre-eminent network for promoting liberalism, individual freedom, human rights, the rule of law, tolerance, equality of opportunity, social justice, free trade and a market economy.
www.liberal-international.org   (245 words)

  
 Polity IV Country Report 2003: Nicaragua   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
While the Sandinistas continue to use their organizational and institutional powers to block government initiatives that they believe threaten the social reforms of the 1979 revolution, nevertheless, Daniel Ortega has been relatively successful in portraying the FSLN as a moderate party that is committed to national unity and reconciliation.
Since the opening of politics and the return to electoral government with the 1990 elections, Nicaraguan politics has coalesced around a dual party structure that is promoted and protected by the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE), which is empowered to supervise elections and political parties but remains dominated by the PLC and FSLN.
In the run up to the November 2001 elections, the CSE voted not to recognize two emerging parties: the National Unity Party led by former army commander Gen. Joaquin Cuadra Lacayo and the Liberal Democratic Party led by former Defense Minister Jose Antonio Alvarado.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Nic1.htm   (504 words)

  
 Liverpool Liberal Party
It is now up to the developer to submit a fresh application Liberal Party Councillors are welcoming plans to build 4 terraced houses to extend the current row of Gloucester Road North, this will eradicate waste land currently used as an illegal driveway.
Liberal Party Councillors have tabled this issue for a council debate however they are expecting the Lib Dems to vote against this issue being discussed with their track record in refusing to debate local issues whilst they prefer to take shots at the government on national issues.
Whilst the Labour Group abstained,rather than make their mind up, the majority of Lib Dems voted for the Liberal Party Resolution Moving the resolution Liberal Party Councillor Steve Radford argued that vast numbers of young people were interested in politics as evidenced by the numbers at Stop the War demonstrations.
www.liverpoolliberalparty.motime.com /archive/2003-09   (1554 words)

  
 Bolaños win opens new doors for Nicaragua | csmonitor.com
Ortega made a pact between their parties, the Liberal Constitutional Party and the Sandinista National Liberation Front, that reformed the Constitution, making it extremely difficult for third parties to gain a foothold.
From the congress, and with the support of hard-line party members, the pair could wield considerable power within their own parties.
Serrano says: "The movement for new leadership in both parties is not only important for those parties but for the country on the whole...
www.csmonitor.com /2001/1107/p7s2-woam.htm   (718 words)

  
 Log Cabin Chronicles Peter Black's Bourassa to Dumond column
The first version was a masterful account of the Quebec Liberal party from Robert Bourassa's humiliating defeat at the hands of the Parti Québécois in 1976 to his extraordinary comeback as leader in 1983.
At a fateful Liberal convention in August 1991 Dumont and some of his followers (including the future mother of his children) walked out of the hall and the Liberal party when Bourassa chose to reject the inflated demands of the Allaire committee and buy into the Charlottetown process.
Once out of the bottle, the two genies conjured up the fantastic Action Democratique party which is now poised to deny Bourassa's successors in the Liberal party their turn at government.
www.tomifobia.com /black/bourassa_dumont.shtml   (681 words)

  
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The leading candidate, Arnoldo Alemán, the former mayor of Managua, is running under the banner of the Liberal Alliance, which includes the party over which he presides, the Liberal Constitutional Party, which in turn was the political platform that helped to legitimize the rule of Nicaragua's most infamous political family, the Somozas.
Nicaraguan Liberals have carried the banner of free trade and open access to foreign investment ever since political unrest in the mother country afforded Central Americans the opportunity to claim the right to define their own political future.
It was these same Liberals who requested the intervention of William Walker, hoping that a mercenary army from the metropolis of the North would help them consolidate their power against the oligarchic interests of the Conservatives.
www.smcm.edu /users/jrrogachevsky/nicaelec.html   (1769 words)

  
 Nicaragua reports Nov. 13 & 15
Pat and Kathy Floerke were in Nicaragua until just prior to the election, but by then the writing was on the wall for the Sandinista's second place finish to conservative Arnaldo Aleman in the general election October 20.
Indeed, reading the September/October issue of NACLA Report on the Americas coverage of Nicaragua just prior to the October elections, it accurately assessed what was happening in Nicaragua now that we know that Arnaldo Aleman's Liberal Constitutional Party (PCN) prevailed without a runoff.
Aleman, whose father was an official in the Somoza government, has become a slick selfpromoter who built himself a powerhouse through first working within the Sandinista system in the coffee growers association in the 1980s, then as the 1990s approached, became more openly anti-Sandinista, when he contested for and won the mayorship of Managua.
www.afn.org /~iguana/archives/1996_11/19961106.html   (335 words)

  
 Peg Luksik: The Constitutional Party candidate has expanded beyond the abortion issue to focus on "family" concerns, as ...
In the 1994 general election for governor, running this time under the banner of the Constitutional Party, Luksik won 13 percent of the vote, a record for a third-party candidate.
She supports a constitutional amendment declaring the fetus a "person," and thus protected by all Constitutional rights.
At the first debate of the campaign, he was also an aggressive critic of government economic development efforts, arguing that politicians and bureaucrats have neither the competence nor the right to be making decision that should be made by the marketplace.
www.post-gazette.com /regionstate/19981025luksik3.asp   (1325 words)

  
 Vietnam Veterans Against the War: THE VETERAN: The Promised Land, Nicaragua
Jarquin is a member of the Christian Social Party that aligned with the Sandinista.
The FSLN is a party of the poor.
The FSLN is a revolutionary party and has paid the price in two wars financed by the United States and Reagan.
www.vvaw.org /veteran/article?id=94&print=yes   (1093 words)

  
 americas.org - Anti-Corruption Crusade Targets Nicragua's President   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
LEADERS of the upstart Alliance for the Republic (APRE), the party Bolaños defected to last June, are blaming the crisis on the political brinkmanship authored by Alemán and Ortega, as part of the infamous “pacto” formed between the two party bosses in 2000.
APRE president and secretary of Congress Miguel López is urging Bolaños to resort to the law, not political negotiations with Alemán and Ortega, to survive the crisis.
Navarro said the Liberals are willing to vote for impeachment, and it is up to the Sandinistas whether or not National Assembly can muster the 58 votes (two thirds) needed to remove the President from office.
www.americas.org /item_16641   (1055 words)

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