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99 MP Party
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The 99 MP Party was a small New Zealand political party that contested the 2005 General Election. It supported a reduction of the number of Members of Parliament from 120 to 99, with the introduction of Mixed Member Proportional in 1996, the number of MPs rose from 99 to 120. Margaret Robertson organised a referendum in 1999 calling for the number to be reduced back to 99, Robertson took initial steps toward achieving the membership number required. Yan initially served as president and designed the logo and marketing collateral, but lived in Europe in the summer of 2002, became less involved on his return. The 2002 policies were centrist to conservative, including the toughening of the Crimes Act 1961 and reforming Parliament, in addition to the reduction of MP numbers, the party also supports making referendums mandatory for all constitutional changes. The Electoral Commission accepted the official registration on 14 April 2005. It put forward a party list of two people, Robertson and Ramasmy Ramanathan, in the 2005 elections, the 99 MP Party gained 0. 03% of the vote. Shortly afterwards, Margaret Robertson announced plans to step down, on 16 March 2006, the Parliament of New Zealand passed the first reading of New Zealand First MP Barbara Stewarts private members bill, to cut the number of MPs to 100. A number of parties indicated though that their support was for it to go to select committee, however, but the bill was defeated at its Second Reading on 8 November 2006. As of 2017, the size of parliament remains at least 120, in September 2006, the party was deregistered, having failed to provide evidence of the necessary 500 members
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Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany
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The Anarchistic Pogo Party of Germany is the self-declared party of the Pöbel and social parasites. It was created in 1981 by two punks in Hannover and took part in the 1998 election to the Bundestag with the promise to pay the voters with free beer, the official communication organ is the paper Armes Deutschland, formerly Asoziale Rundschau. The name refers to the dance, the Pogo. The party took part in the German federal election,2005 with their chancellor candidate Wolfgang Wendland, in the following years it was joined by many punks and organized many demonstrations, which were sometimes ended by the police, often leading to arrests. The party was dissolved in 1986, but was recreated in 1994, in the 1997 Hamburg city elections the APPD received a stunning 5. 3% of the votes in St. Pauli and thus became the fourth-strongest party in that district. In 1998 the APPD ran in the Bundestag election with Karl Nagel as its candidate for the chancellorship, the APPD failed, however, to gain the 0. 5% of the votes needed to pay to the voters in the form of a promised large party with free beer. With approximately 35,000, or 0. 1%, of the votes, finally the party was dissolved in 1999. In December 2000 the APPD was reestablished in Munich, but did not participate in the Bundestag election of 2002, in the following year, the APPD took place in the Bundestag election of 2005 with little success. As a result, the party split into two parties in 2006 - the APPD and the Pogo-Partei, the Pogo-Partei merged with others into the joke party Die Partei. The APPD elected a new chairman, Volker Stoi, and took part in Berlin elections 2011 with little success, sichere Beschäftigungs-Zonen for strait-laced workaholics who will finance the good life of the people in the APZ. This is a pun, since the SBZ in West-German use meant the Sowjetisch besetzte Zone or Sowjetische Besatzungszone and these parks will be surrounded by very high walls and are located in former East Germany. The APPD propagated the idea of a pension, to replace the existing old-age pension. The idea was that people should enjoy life first, and work later and they claim that pogo-anarchism has nothing to do with anarchism. Saufen, saufen, jeden Tag nur saufen, = Boozing, boozing, every day nothing but boozing. Anarcho-punk List of political parties in Germany List of frivolous political parties
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Christian Heritage Party of New Zealand
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The Christian Heritage Party of New Zealand was a New Zealand political party espousing Christian values. Although it never won seats in an election, it came close to doing so in 1996 as part of the Christian Coalition, on 3 October 2006, the Party said it would disband to allow new things to arise in Christian politics in New Zealand. This came after a highly publicised scandal which resulted in its leader, Graham Capill and we believe these are the key issues that need to be addressed if we are to make an impact for the next generation. It described its three key policies as Affirming Marriage, Building Families and Celebrating Life, i. e. opposition to marriage and abortion and support of law. The party espoused strongly conservative views on social policy and it favoured law changes to strengthen heterosexual marriage and to prevent same-sex marriage and civil unions. The CHP had a stance, but for most of its existence. Christian Heritage NZ supported restrictions on prostitution, as well as standards for television with a view to reducing violence. In economic policy, Christian Heritage espoused moderately right-wing views, in education the Party emphasised parental influence over the curriculum and parents rights to choose the school their child attended. CHP supported New Zealands constitutional monarchy, in foreign affairs, the party supported New Zealands alliance with Australia and a resumption of its alliance with the United States. CHP supported the Treaty of Waitangi and the work of the Waitangi Tribunal and urged settlement of Māori land claims, the party had long required its members to publicly declare themselves as Christians. Some commentators criticised this rigid confessional policy for supposedly limiting the partys base, the Christian Heritage Party of Canada was part of the inspiration behind the formation of New Zealands Christian Heritage Party, and other influences also existed. Dirk Vanderpyl noted in his book Trust and Obey that many Reformed Churches of New Zealand members came from a slice of Netherlands society, centred in Zeeland, Veluwe. In those Netherlands provinces, the Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij had existed since 1922, however, the SGP has only ever existed as a testimonial party – which raises some intriguing questions about the role of the Christian Heritage Party of New Zealand. Bill van Rij founded the party and became its first President, the partys first convention took place in 1990 and established the groups structure. In 1991 the party confirmed Graham Capill, a Reformed Churches of New Zealand pastor, during the 1990s, some non-Reformed evangelical Christians repeatedly complained that the CHP took too long to transcend this initial base. Eighteen Christian Heritage candidates contested seats in the 1990 general election, the Party did not gain any seats, but did secure over 10,000 votes across the country. In 1992 the partys candidate, Clive Thomson, finished fourth in a by-election in the electorate of Tamaki, the Christian Heritage Party supported the ultimately successful campaign to change New Zealands electoral system from first-past-the-post to mixed-member proportional. In 1994, the Christian Heritage Party gained new competition when National Party MP Graeme Lee formed the Christian Democrats, Lee had originally considered joining Christian Heritage, but eventually declined because of the partys requirement that all members declare themselves Christians
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Communist Workers League (Norway)
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Communist Workers League, was a small communist group in Norway. It was formed in 1972 by a group of Communist Party of Norway militants, first KA oriented itself towards China, and later towards Albania. KA published Den Røde Arbeideren annually in connection with May Day until 2005, during the 1970s KA published Røde Fane. In the spring of 2006 the group announced that it had dissolved itself
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Democratic and Social Centre (Spain)
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Democratic and Social Centre was a centrist, social liberal political party in Spain, which was founded in 1982 by former prime minister Adolfo Suárez. In 2006, most of its members merged into the Peoples Party. The followers of CDS claimed that their party was the inheritor of the legacy of the Union of the Democratic Centre. After resigning both as Prime Minister of Spain and party president of the UCD in January 1981, Suarez continued to struggle for control of the party machine. When he failed in his bid to regain party leadership in July 1982, the new centrist party fared poorly in the October general elections, gaining only two parliamentary seats. By 1986 the partys fortunes had improved dramatically under the leadership of the former Prime Minister and this strategy enabled him to draw some votes from those who had become disillusioned with the PSOE. In the municipal and the elections held in June 1987. A poll taken at the end of 1987 revealed even stronger support for the party, from 1988 onwards, the party was a member of the Liberal International. Suarez was the LIs president from 1988 to 1991, on March 25,1995 the Centrist Union was born as a federation consisting of the CDS and some liberal and green groups. Subsequently, from November 1995, the party was called UC-CDS, in October 2002 the party reverted to its original name, CDS. A party congress held in 2005 decided, under the presidency of Teresa Gómez-Limón, at that point, CDS had 54 municipal councillors and around 3,000 members. The merger of CDS with the PP took place on 18 February 2006, a minority faction refused to accept the merger with the PP. They were headed by the suarista, Fabian Villalabeitia Copena and Carlos Fernandez García, at that congress Villalabeitia was elected speaker with the purpose of presiding over a Congress to select a national president. Before they had met in Logroño, members of the Executive Committee, initially this group called itself the Liberal Democratic Centre. However, in 2007, following a review, they obtained the right to use the CDS name. In the 2007 local elections the party received 14,000 votes, the continuing party has a youth wing, the Democratic and Social Center Youth. The principal objectives of the organisation are increasing youth participation in political, economic, and social life. loc. gov/frd/cs/
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Democratic National Alliance (Trinidad and Tobago)
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The Democratic National Alliance was short lived political party in Trinidad and Tobago. It was introduced on Wednesday June 7,2006 after its first meeting at the Crowne Plaza, Yetming described the party as embodying the principles and aspirations of UNC Political Leader Winston Dookeran. The party was to be launched in August. Gerald Yetming or the Democratic Party of Trinidad and Tobago, effectively splitting the coalition of the three entities. In reply Mr Yetming said he would continue to work with the NAR, DPTT and he added that another group would soon be joining his attempt to unite the small parties, and promised an announcement on that by next week. I am trying to build a force of all the small political groups, bearing in mind that the UNC cant do that any more. Alexander, Gail, DNA is T&T’s ‘third force’ in local politics
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Independent Moralizing Front
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The Independent Moralizing Front was a Peruvian political party. At the legislative elections,8 April 2001, the party won 11. 0% of the vote and 11 out of 120 seats in the Congress of the Republic. Its presidential candidate at the elections of the day, Luis Fernando Olivera Vega. It was allied with former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledos party, Peru Possible, at the legislative elections held on 9 April 2006, the party won 1. 5% of the popular vote but no seats in Congress. Some months after the results in the 2006 elections, the party became disbanded. Party Website on the Congresses server
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Islamic Party of Britain
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The Islamic Party of Britain is a defunct political party in the United Kingdom that was active from its formation in 1989 until 2006. The IPB was Islamist, opposed to capitalism and communism. David Musa Pidcock, a Sheffield man who converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam while working as an engineer in Saudi Arabia, the IPB published a quarterly magazine entitled Common Sense. The party entered the 1992 general election, standing three unsuccessful candidates in the constituencies of Bradford, a city with a large Muslim minority, the Islamic Party never achieved a seat in either house of Parliament. Pidcock represented the party in the Bradford North by-election,1990, earning 800 votes, in the 1992 General Election, the party stood candidates in each of the three constituencies in the City of Bradford. All of them finished last, with Pidcock in Bradford West doing the best and it also stood a candidate in Streatham, coming fifth of seven. In its first year, Pidcock claimed that his party was planning co-operation with the ecologist Green Party, members of the party have supported the Respect Party, one of their leading members, home affairs spokesman Mohammad Naseem, stood for and funded the party. The party believed in equal treatment under the law regardless of an individuals status, the IPB argued that religion is the most important thing in life. It called for reform of the British banking system to make it interest-free and Islamic, at one time, the party answered questions sent in by readers
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Liberal Party (Croatia)
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Liberal Party was a Croatian political party active between January 1998 and April 2006. During its existence the party ran in two elections and in each election won two seats in the 151-seat Sabor. LS was a member of Liberal International and the European Liberal Democrat and its last leader was Zlatko Benašić. Gotovac was joined by other prominent liberals such as Osijek mayor Zlatko Kramarić, in 2000, the party had two representatives in the Parliament and had one minister in a coalition government with the much larger Social Democratic Party of Croatia. In 2002 another HSLS faction split from the party after party leader Dražen Budiša announced pulling out of the ruling coalition and they called themselves LIBRA, and their members participated in the Cabinet of Ivica Račan II. LS confirmed their two representatives in the Parliament in the 2003 elections, in an alliance with the social democrats, Banac was replaced at the party convention. After the 2005 local elections Zlatko Kramarić started merger negotiations with the Croatian Social Liberal Party and that prompted a group of dissidents in Split to form a new party called Dalmatian Liberal Party. Liberal Party formally ceased to exist with all of its membership, in the meantime, LIBRA merged with Croatian Peoples Party in February 2005. Vlado Gotovac Božo Kovačević Zlatko Kramarić Ivo Banac Zlatko Benašić The following is a summary of the results in legislative elections for the Croatian parliament
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Livable Netherlands
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Livable Netherlands was a Dutch political party. Pim Fortuyn began his career in the party. Historically there have always been parties in States-Provincial and Gemeenteraad that were independent from the party system. During the 1980s, independent parties began to spread to parts of the Netherlands. Some successful groups like Independent Rijswijk began to move towards a national movement, some of them choose the name Leefbaar. It became a political movement. It is not a party in itself but consisted of municipal branches. These branches had no ties, and often have radically different programs. Nagel had previously been chair of the VARA, a linked to the PvdA. In 2001 the partys support and visibility began to increase and they came to be seen as an opposition movement against the second Kok cabinet. In November 2001 Pim Fortuyn was elected as the partys lijsttrekker, on February 10, a few months before the election he was discharged because of a controversial interview published in the Volkskrant newspaper. Fortuyn subsequently organized his own party, the Lijst Pim Fortuyn, on March 10, the Amsterdam public prosecutor Fred Teeven was chosen as new lijsttrekker. In the elections of May 2002 the party won two seats in the House of Representatives. In the elections of 2003, self-help guru Emile Ratelband was put forward by the party board as their candidate for the lijsttrekkers position. Teeven, who had gained recognition as MP, withdrew his candidacy for the position when a motion of no confidence was not supported by the partys congress. During a tumultuous congress, the 22-year-old Haitske van der Linde and she was unable to hold on to the two seats the party held, and the party left parliament. Ratelband, who had formed his own list, was less successful in the polls. The party tried to dissolve itself, but there were not enough members present at the congress to do that, the term Leefbaar was turned into a political brand by the Leefbaar Utrecht and Hilversum parties, the founders tried to reproduce this success by taking over the name
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Basingstoke (UK Parliament constituency)
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Basingstoke /ˈbeɪzᵻŋˌstoʊk/ is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the U. K. Parliament. With the exception of a 1923-1924 Liberal Party MP, since modern creation in 1885 it has elected Conservative MPs so has been a Conservative safe seat, the current MP is Maria Miller. The town was represented in the Model Parliament convened in 1295, from 1295 inclusive to the one year parliament of 1831-32 its area was part of the Hampshire constituency and from 1832-1885 its area lay in the North Hampshire constituency. 1885–1918, The Municipal Borough of Basingstoke, and the Sessional Divisions of Basingstoke, 1918–1950, The Municipal Boroughs of Andover and Basingstoke, and the Rural Districts of Andover, Basingstoke, Kingsclere, Stockbridge, and Whitchurch. 1955–1974, The Municipal Boroughs of Andover and Basingstoke, and the Rural Districts of Andover, Basingstoke, the Basingstoke constituency is based around the town of Basingstoke, and the surrounding countryside, in Hampshire. For the 2015 election, the Green Party attempted to field two candidates who would job share, sarah Cope has young children and Clare Lorraine Phipps has a disability, so neither could work as a full-time MP. Endorsed by Coalition Government General Election 1914/15, Another General Election was required to place before the end of 1915
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National Alliance (Norway)
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The National Alliance was a Norwegian political party that was founded on 25 February 1999. The two main forces behind the party were Arnljot Moseng and Kjell Tore Vogsland, both of them, along with the vice leaders Kenneth Hartmann and Tore Petersen, had a past in the Fatherland Party. In the summer of 2000, Oddbjørn Jonstad, who had founded the Norwegian Peoples Party the year before, became new chairman, after receiving merely 0. 06% of the votes in the 2001 election the party chose to take its old name and profile back. Shortly after, with some internal turmoil, Jonstad left the party, at the annual meeting in May 2004 a new board was selected, however, shortly after this the party was left inactive. The National Alliance was finally disestablished on 13 March 2006, the party had officially no clearly defined ideology, however, it was clearly nationalistic in nature. Its main issues were to stop immigration to Norway, as well as repatriate all immigrants who already were in the country. In addition, the party focused on district-, and green politics. Party leader Kjell Tore Vogsland also expressed an admiration for Jörg Haider, the youth organization of the party was Norwegian Youth
