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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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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/
