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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Christian Democratic Union of Germany
Opponents of the CDU are the social democratic SPD, the post-communist Left Party/PDS and the left-wing environmentalist Bündnis'90/Die Grünen.
The liberal FDP party is considered to be the natural partner of any CDU government (although this was different in the past, when the CDU was more markedly conservative and the FDP more markedly liberal).
The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD – Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands) is one of the oldest political parties of Germany still in existence and also one of the oldest and largest in the world, celebrating its 140th anniversary in 2003.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Christian_Democratic-Union-of-Germany   (4176 words)

  
  Liberal democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Liberal democracies also tend to be characterized by tolerance and pluralism; widely differing social and political views, even those viewed as extreme or fringe, are permitted to co-exist and compete for political power on a democratic basis.
They would argue that 'liberal democracy' does not respect majority rule (except when citizens are asked to vote for their representatives), and also that its "liberty" is restricted by the constitution or precedent (in the UK) decided by previous generations.
Since many liberals see democracies with strong statist reflections through the public choice theory as slow, dogmatic, conservative and not too apt for change, the liberal democracy contrasts with what could be called the "statist" democracy in that it emphasizes the civil society as the engine of its public discourse and development further.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberal_democracy   (664 words)

  
 GOP: Pelosi's party too liberal for America | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Democrats are trying to frame the midterm elections as a referendum on an unpopular war and an unpopular president.
Pelosi is fond of deflecting the “San Francisco Democrat” charge by noting that as a mother and grandmother, she's hardly the left-wing icon figure her critics allege.
Pelosi's lifetime rating by the Americans for Democratic Action, the liberal benchmark for members of Congress, is 96 percent.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20061029/news_mz1e29caldwe.html   (906 words)

  
 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), also known as Jiyū Minshutō (自由民主党, more often abbreviated to Jimin-tō 自民党) is the largest Japanese political party as of 2004.
It is not to be confused with the now-defunct Liberal Party (1998), which merged with the main opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan, in November 2003.
By 1994, the liberal parties in the ruling coalition failed to form a majority, and the Japan Socialist Party won the election, thus the LDP was returned to the ruling parties, even though it was a junior coalition partner.
open-encyclopedia.com /Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Japan)   (1509 words)

  
 Liberal Forum is a hard core political forum & political chat room - "insurance for freedom"
Liberalism is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right by which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded on this planet.
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
This is a progressive political chat room and progressive poliical forum with liberal discussion of liberal parties with liberals and liberal political animals and intellectuals.
liberalforum.org   (1013 words)

  
 The Mongolian Liberal Democratic Party
The Mongolian Liberal Democratic Party is one of the youngest parties in one of the youngest democracies in the world, Mongolia.
Liberal parties have a strong presence in over half of the countries in the world, and in some cases, such as in Japan and the Philippines, they are the ruling party.
In March of 1990 a hunger strike by the leaders of the Mongolian democratic movement stunned the country and brought the Mongolian Communist regime to its knees.
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 SSA - Democratic Union   (Site not responding. Last check: )
DEMOCRATIC UNION is a body of men and women who, in the face of the growing threat to the democratic way of life, recognise the need for unity.
It must be drawn to the wide perspective of the scientific age, in full knowledge of the historic decision which modern man must effect: either the gruesome chaos of atomic war, or else the greatness and splendour of a new era based on scientific achievement.
THE POLITICAL STRUCTURE: Democratic Union believes that from top to bottom of the nation, from the smallest local councils to the national assembly, all the main democratic viewpoints should be represented, on the basis of one conservative, one liberal, one socialist, one communist and a non-party chairman.
www.gwiep.net /books/du.htm   (2038 words)

  
 Central Europe Review - Falling Down: The decline of liberalism in CEE
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDS), which after a merger with some minor parties in 1993 became Liberal Democracy of Slovenia, is the successor of the former Communist youth organisation.
This is not surprising since liberal parties are perceived as advocates of the free market and economic reforms, and therefore big business and small entrepreneurs are interested in supporting the liberal representatives of their interests.
If the liberal parties of the region are able to adapt to the ongoing changes and to exploit the peculiarities of political competition, they can improve their prospects and return to the high time of the early 1990s.
www.ce-review.org /00/31/lang31.html   (2374 words)

  
 Christian Democratic Union of Germany - Freepedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Helmut Kohl served as chairman of the CDU from 1973 until the party's electoral defeat in 1998, when he was succeeded by Wolfgang Schäuble; Schäuble resigned in early 2000 as a result of a party financing scandal and was replaced by Angela Merkel.
Opponents of the CDU are the social democratic SPD, the communist PDS and the environmentalist Bundnis90/Die Gruenen.
The liberal FDP party is considered to be the natural partner of any CDU government.
en.freepedia.org /CDU.html   (310 words)

  
 Liberal Democrats : Finance
That is, engaging with democratic parties of liberal orientation, to ensure an option for voters which is a party, democratic both in its own organisation and externally, and which is policy based, promoting liberal democratic ideals, principles and policies.
Vital to this is the strengthening of the liberal network in Africa, the Africa Liberal Network, into an effective and active network which will provide a forum for skills and information exchange, building capacity for sister parties in Africa to undertake their own training and development programmes.
In the former Soviet Union, Asia, and the Middle East, we aim to continue development work to strengthen the liberal democratic parties and contacts that we already have and to seek new parties and contacts where we have none.
www.libdems.org.uk /international/finance.html   (673 words)

  
 Labor Union Political Abuse, Liberal Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Union bosses would no longer be paying "volunteers" to go and work for their hand-picked tax-and-spend Liberal Democratic candidates.
Union dues wouldn't be spent for the causes the union bosses have been pushing--increased government spending, opposition to tax cuts, and establishment of socialized medicine and other Liberal Leftist "cradle-to-the grave" social welfare programs.
Union dues would be spent for only one thing--providing representation for their members in the economic arena, i.e., in area of labor-management relations.
www.proconservative.net /PCVol4Is92BigLabor.shtml   (1937 words)

  
 Liberal-Democratic Party --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The Liberals continued as a minor party until 1988, when they merged with the Social Democratic Party to form what is now called the Liberal...
Democratic socialists expected the gradual evolution of society from capitalism to the worker state.
In 1980, the Democratic Party was a house that was divided among the Kennedy and Carter camps.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9048114   (755 words)

  
 Liberalism
Liberal International (LI) is the world federation of liberal and progressive democratic political parties.
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.
Liberal International Conference on Human Rights, 8-9 December 2007 General Assembly of CALD (Council ofAsian Liberals and Democrats), 1...
www.liberal-international.org   (239 words)

  
 LDPR - MN-FILES - MOSNEWS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: )
LDPR is an acronym for Liberalno-demokraticheskaya partiya Rossii (The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia).
Before the fall of the Soviet Union it was called LDPSS (The Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union).
Oleg Malyshkin, supported by Zhirinovsky, won the majority of the votes and was nominated as the official candidate from the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.
www.mosnews.com /mn-files/ldpr.shtml   (805 words)

  
 Christian Democratic Union of Germany biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU - Christlich Demokratische Union) is a political party in Germany, founded after World War II by Konrad Adenauer among others.
It is generally conservative on economic and social policy and more identified with the Roman Catholic and (to a lesser extent) the Protestant churches than are the other major parties, although its programs are pragmatic rather than ideological.
Helmut Kohl served as chairman of the CDU from 1973 until the party's electoral defeat in 1998, when he was succeeded by Wolfgang Schäuble ; Schäuble resigned in early 2000 as a result of a party financing scandal and was replaced by Angela Merkel.
www.biography.ms /CDU.html   (339 words)

  
 Women's Council - Liberal South Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Liberal Union moved quickly to capitalise on the electoral value of the women's branches and resolved that a Women's Branch Committee (later Council) of not less than twenty-four should be appointed.
In June 1911, prior to the first Liberal Union conference, eighty-five women delegates from many parts of South Australia met at the Lady Colton Hall in Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide, where Mrs Emily Mayfield was elected first Chairwoman [sic].
The first woman General Secretary of the Liberal and Country League was Miss G Jude who served from 1932-35 and, in 1992, Ms Vickie Chapman became the first woman President of the SA Liberal Party.
www.sa.liberal.org.au /content/Women.asp   (518 words)

  
 History - Liberal South Australia
The Liberal Party is the political organisation that is the most representative of the Australian people.
The men and women present represented eighteen separate political and semi-political organisations who stood for "liberal, progressive policy" and were opposed to "socialism with its bureaucratic administration and restriction of personal freedom".
John Olsen was elected Leader in 1996 and the Liberal Party won a second term of office with John Olsen as Premier in October 1997.
www.sa.liberal.org.au /content/History.asp   (670 words)

  
 The official web site of LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC UNION PARTY of ARMENIA
LDUA is a rise of movement incarnating certain stream of political views and concepts which subsequently went through lots of discussions, arguments, disputes and trials had been improved and acquired its official form: Liberal Democratic.
 LDUA party’s manifesto is a brief program of democratic liberal political stream including tasks, objectives, problems and other issues with appropriate solution of their realization.
Chairman of National Democratic Union party was elected Davit Vardanyan deputy of National Assembly, chairman of NA Foreign affairs commission.
www.hjam.am /index.php?page=history&lng=en   (966 words)

  
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The founders - New Choice, the Radical Democratic Party and New Democracy - are all former members of Bulgaria's major opposition force, the Union of Democratic Forces.
LDU will start active political work early this autumn, when the presidential election is due.
A Political Council of LDU was appointed as an interim body; the adoption of programme documents has yet to be done.
www.b-info.com /places/Bulgaria/news/96-07/jul12.bta   (3206 words)

  
 Country Profile: Albania : Article from CultureMonster.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Although Albania has made strides toward democratic reform and maintaining the rule of law, serious deficiencies in the electoral code remain to be addressed, as demonstrated in the June 2001 parliamentary elections.
International observers judged the 2001 elections to be acceptable, but the Union for Victory Coalition, the second-largest vote recipient, disputed the results and boycotted parliament until January 31, 2002.
The democratically elected government that assumed office in April 1992 launched an ambitious economic reform program meant to halt economic deterioration and put the country on the path toward a market economy.
www.culturemonster.com /articles/article-14555-133.html   (2155 words)

  
 TPMCafe || Democratic Enlargement versus Liberal Order
The current liberal order, in their view, acts as a constraint on the use of U.S. power which is needed to facilitate the democratic enlargement.
Democratic "man" is a free individual and a citizen with civic sensibilities and responsibilities that cut across national borders.
To address the original topic; for liberal internationalism to survive in the next century, it has to be reframed in a context that acknowledges the size and dominance of the United States in respect to other liberal countries.
americaabroad.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/6/13/8413/48217   (4040 words)

  
 Union of Democratic Control   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Members of the Union of Democratic Control were strong opponents of the Versailles Treaty.
In the 1930s the Union of Democratic Control campaigned against fascism in Germany and Italy, supported China in its struggle with japanese aggression and advocated Indian independence.
No evidence has at present come to light which shows that the Union of Democratic Control or the No-Conscription Fellowship are financed from enemy sources, and the fact that they command the support of very wealthy Quaker families may account for their ability to carry on their present activities.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWudc.htm   (2254 words)

  
 Center for Liberal-Democratic Studies
Dr Zoran Vacic, the president of the CLDS, is mostly involved in research of social and health policy, and the functioning of democratic institutions in FRY.
He was an MP in the Serbian Parliament from 1993 to 1997 on the behave of the Democratic Party, and he is currently the editor of library Paviljon 38.
Bosko Mijatovic, Ph.D., the president of the Advisory board of the CLDS, is a senior research fellow of the Economics Institute, Belgrade.
www.friends-partners.org /CCSI/eeurope/yugoslav/clds.htm   (232 words)

  
 Chairman of French Liberal Democratic Party Visited Vietnamese Dissidents   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In its press release dated August 28, 2000 the Liberal Democratic Party, a major political force in France, reported the Party's Chairman, Alain Madelin, had taken a trip through Vietnam in early August to visit a number of dissidents here.
Alain Madelin currently serves as the Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Representative of the Ille and Villaine areas, and the Mayor of Redon City.
The Liberal Democratic Party worked for the release of Dr. Nguyen Thanh Giang in 1999 by convincing the European Parliament to send Dr. Giang the "Passport de la Liberte'" as its declaration of support for the prisoners of conscience in Vietnam.
www.fva.org /0900/story03.htm   (546 words)

  
 POLAND : parliamentary elections Senat, 1991
Major groups included the centre-left Democratic Union by former Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the Democratic Left Alliance made up of former Communists, three Solidarity (trade-union movement) splinter parties and three Catholic groups.
Polling day was marked by a low turnout, which observers varyingly attributed to the complex electoral law and the bewildering array of parties.
Final results ushered in a fragmented legislature - 29 parties in the Sejm, with the leading one (Democratic Union) obtaining 62 seats and 12.3 % of the popular vote; only 113 of the 460 members had served previously.
www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2256_91.htm   (350 words)

  
 PROGRAMME of theLITHUANIAN LIBERAL UNION   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Lithuanian Liberal Union is based upon traditional liberal values that are an inseparable part of Western civilisation.
Liberal democracy is an implement of citizen to look for the best solutions, taking minorities and majorities' interests balance into account.
Participating in European Union activity, Lithuania should strengthen the role of small state in it; Lithuania should declare for the UN functional, structural and financial reformation.
www.lls.lt /engl_program1996.html   (5070 words)

  
 Liberal Democratic Party of Russia biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia is an extreme right-wing political party in Russia.
It has been led by Vladimir Zhirinovsky since its founding, in 1990, as the Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union.
Policies include the re-annexation of the Soviet Republics, defaulting on all external loans, and the abolition of Russia's federal system in place of 15 provinces with appointed governors.
www.biography.ms /LDPR.html   (146 words)

  
 The Democratic Party
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