(f) Members of political parties

The guns must be taken out of the hands of the militias.

Our party wants political change this year.

The presence of extreme right wing parties in electoral politics had an impact on mainstream political parties and their policies and the political responses towards this phenomenon must be multifaceted and inclusive.

On matters of political controversy between nations, of party politics and of sectarian religion, SI maintains a position of strict neutrality.

The political parties have also accepted the verdict of the ballot boxes.

At the moment, the opposition reflects a large number of fractured and superficially united political parties.

All main electronic media are under the control of the main political parties.

The Government also stated that no one could be deprived of his freedom for his political affiliation or participation in political activities as recognized by law.

The purpose of making this easy when the country achieved independence was to offer the Government the vital human resources required to promote socio economic development.

In my opinion, these people are much more wiser than, not only the political elite, even the intellectual elite, even opposition leaders including political parties.

He also met with representatives of political parties and the local and international press.

Reformed Political Party (SGP)

Political parties have had a bad press in recent years, and there are good reasons for this. Still, they do fulfill a useful function by bundling interests and issues, thereby providing an element of stability in the political system.

The contemporary United States also is not a compelling demonstration that competition between two parties leads to increasing moderation and political centrism. On the contrary, the partisan struggle can play to the parties extremes.

Soon, Indian political parties began to break up, giving rise to a large number of regional and caste based parties. Most of these parties are led by political dynasties that prize loyalty over merit.

Extreme right wing parties had an effect on mainstream political parties and their policies.

The commitment not to co opt or favour any political party, or create any party or organization

And the third, democratic choice in Muslim majority societies has been relegated to a political choice, meaning political parties in many of these societies ask people to vote for them as the democratic party, but then the other parties ask them to vote for them as the military party wanting to rule by military dictatorship.

Some of the parties have indicated that they still wish to raise some political issues arising out of the legal report.

Other modes of participation included more direct participation as through political parties established along ethnic lines.

Participation of political parties, ethnic nationality parties and ceasefire groups

While FRODEBU (Front pour la démocratie au Burundi) and all the other members of the G 7 political parties (Hutu) as well as CNDD FDD (Nkurunzina) demanded that the schedule for elections be respected, the G 10 political parties (Tutsi) raised numerous conditions which should be fulfilled before elections were held.

The Transitional Government should spare no effort to integrate within the political arena all Haitian parties, as long as they reject violence.

Under the Measure, funding had been provided to three political parties Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin for the specific purpose of increasing the number of women holding decision making positions and the number of female electoral candidates and representatives.

The implementation of changes has generated favourable reactions among certain political parties and hostility among others and within factions of the main rebel organization, the Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie.

Mr. Frans presented his paper, entitled The ability of mainstream Western European political parties and politicians to integrate people of African descent in political life and in decision making processes the impact of racist and extreme right wing parties .

III.5.6 Reform of politics, political parties and electoral law

As the months pass, both parties will probably find that they face their greatest political difficulty in managing the fringes of their own camps rightists in the Conservative Party, who don t like the centrist moderation of the coalition s policies, and leftists in the Liberal Democratic Party who don t want to support a largely Conservative government.

Mindful that it is essential that all the political tendencies and political parties should play an active part in political and social life in order to ensure effective transition to a democratic and pluralist society,

The phrase dichotomy of gender versus party referred in particular to situations where women in elected positions responded to the interests of their political bloc or partisan group, while not genuinely taking into account women's specific needs.

Therefore, the associations of German Sinti and Roma contact parliaments and governments, parliamentary bodies and political party bodies as well as individual politicians to advance their interests and to obtain political support.

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That non partisan demonstration, which had included participants from the entire political spectrum, had been an affirmation of Puerto Rican nationhood.

But the importance of the distribution of seats pales in comparison to that of the longer term changes in Israeli politics implied by Kadima s victory. Indeed, having attracted leading figures from both Labor and Likud, Kadima is now established as the most successful centrist party in Israel s history.

The Government noted that its call for a genuine, unconditional political dialogue has not so far been responded to by representatives of the political parties of the Albanian national minority.

Member of the Political Committee of Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores

The former armed factions turned over a new leaf, with some forming new political parties and others associating themselves with existing parties.

2.1 The complainant belongs to the Ershad faction of the Jatiya Party in Bangladesh, which is not part of the present Government coalition.

The rights enshrined in article 25 should also be read to encompass freedom to engage in political activity individually or through political parties, to debate public affairs, to criticize the Government and to publish material with political content.

Judges must have no links whatever with social forces which could influence their decisions thus, they are forbidden to join political parties in order to prevent them from being subject to any form of partisan discipline.

If a country has a volatile political system, it is important that foreign investment be subject to non partisan consensus.

From independence in 1948 until 1977, the Labor party was dominant, before giving way to an opposition coalition of conservative, nationalist, and centrist parties allied in the Likud bloc. Since then, the two parties have taken turns in power, sometimes in grand coalitions and often in partnership with smaller parties.

The mission was reminded of the difficulty for MINUSTAH to play a role in promoting the political transition, given the fragility of the Transitional Government, the numerous political players, and the Haitian people's strong desire to chart their own political path.

The Government feels it is extremely disappointing that the SGP makes only extraordinary membership available to women.