Parti Radical - Parti Radical The Parti Radical (Radical Party in French) was a French political party, considered radical (hence the name). One of its most famous members was Georges Clemenceau. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Radical Party - Radical Party A number of political organizations have called themselves the Radical Party. These include parties in France, the United Kingdon, Denmark, Argentina and Canada. Current users of the name include: the Italian Partito Radicale the Transnational Radical Party the Swiss Parti radical-démocratique the Serbian Radical Party See also: List of political parties.
Parti Québécois - Parti Québécois The Parti Québécois is a political party which advocates social democracy and independence for Quebec, a province of the Canadian federation since 1867. Members and supporters of the PQ are sometimes called Péquistes (pronounced [peˈkists]--the word is derived from the French pronunciation of the party's initials). The PQ is the result of the 1968 merger between René Lévesque's moderate Mouvement souveraineté-association (Movement for Sovereignty-Association) and the Ralliement national. Following its creation, the radical Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale held a general assembly which voted its dissolution. Its former members were invited to join the new Parti Québécois. The radical element of the party has maintained a strong influence since its inception. Its primary goals were and still are to obtain the complete political, economic and.
List of political parties in France - Middling parties 3 Minor parties 4 Former Parties Major parties Parti Socialiste (PS) (Socialist Party) Front National (FN) (extreme right-wing) Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP) (Jacques Chirac) Middling parties Diverse Droit (DD) Diverse Gauche (DG) Parti Communiste Français (PCF) (French Communist Party) Les Verts (Ecologist) Mouvement pour la France Parti Radical de Gauche (PRG) (radical left-wing) Rassemblement pour la France Union pour la Démocratie Française (UDF) Minor parties Chasse, Pêche, Nature, Traditions Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire (LCR) (Trostkyist) Lutte Ouvrière (LO) (Trostkyist) Parti des travailleurs (PT) Mouvement National Républicain (MNR) (extreme right-wing) Former Parties Démocratie Libéral Rassemblement du Peuple Français (RPF) - gaullist Rassemblement pour la République (RPR), merged into UMP Union des Démocrates pour la République - gaullist Union pour la Majorité Présidentielle (UMP), earlier name for UMP.
List of political parties in Europe - Party of Belarus Belgium Main article: List of political parties in Belgium Dutch speaking: Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams (Christian Democratic and Flemish) Groen Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie (New Flemish Alliance) Socialistische Partij - Anders (Socialist Party Another Way) Spirit Vlaams Blok Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten (Flemish Liberals and Democrats) French speaking: Centre Démocrate Humaniste Humanist Democratic Centre Ecolo Front National (National Front) Mouvement Réformateur (Reformist Movement) Parti Socialiste (Socialist Party) Bosnia and Herzegovina Main article: List of political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatian Democratic Community Party for Bosnia and Hercegovina Party of Democratic Action Serb Democratic Party Bulgaria Main article: List of political parties in Bulgaria Bulgarian Socialist Party National Movement for Simeon II Union of Free Democrats Croatia Main article: Politics of Croatia#Political parties, List of political parties in Croatia Croatian Democratic.
Irish Labour Party - party won 17 seats. However there were a number of strikes during the first year and a loss in support got the party. In the 1923 election Labour only won 14 seats. Until 1927 the party was the major opposition party in the Dáil until Fianna Fáil TDss took their seats. They attacked the lack of social reform by the Cumann na nGaedhael government. The party continued to lose support from farmers, the Catholic Church and other conservative groups. In 1923 Larkin returned to Ireland. He hoped to take over the leadership role he had left, however O Brien resisted him. Larkin sided with the more radical elements of the party and in 1924 he broke away and founded the Workers' Union of Ireland. Despite its small size the Labour Party.
History of Canada - it is as a historical event. In English Canada it is seen as a victory against American invasions, with heroic legends surrounding many of the participants (such as Isaac Brock and Laura Secord) and battles (especially those in the Niagara Peninsula). The timber trade As the fur trade declined in importance the timber trade became Canada's most important commodity. The industry became concentrated in three main regions. The first to be exploited was the St. John River system. Trees in the still almost deserted hinterland of New Brunswick were cut and transported to St. John where they were shipped to England. This area soon could not keep up with demand and the trade moved to the St. Lawrence River where logs were shipped to Quebec City before being sent on to.
Union pour la Démocratie Française - French center-right political party. It was founded in 1974 as an union between several smaller parties (Parti radical, Parti républicain - later renamed Démocratie Libérale - and Centre des démocrates sociaux), but now is a single entity. It may be compared to the Christian-Democratic Union of Germany in terms of its Christian democrat policies. Its current leader, as of 2003, is François Bayrou, and UDF is a junior partner in Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin's cabinet. A prominent former leader is Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. UDF's most marked political trait is that it is in favor of European federalism, up to turning the European Union into United States of Europe. The economic policies proposed by UDF's leaders used to range from left-wing-leaning, in favor of social justice, to strongly laissez-faire economics. Such divergences.
Front de Libération du Québec - Marc Carbonneau Yves Langlois (aka Pierre Seguin) Nigel Barry Hamer The Chenier Cell members: Paul Rose- (top left) Jacques Rose - (top right) Francis Simard - (bottom left) Bernard Lortie - (bottom right) After James Cross was kidnapped from his home in Montreal by members of the Liberation cell, the FLQ released a list of demands for Cross' release, which included: the release of 23 political prisoners $500,000 in gold the broadcast and publication of the FLQ manifesto the publication of the names of the police informants for terrorist activities an aircraft to take the kidnappers to Cuba or Algeria the cessation of all police search activites Early in December 1970, police discovered the location of the kidnappers holding James Cross. His release was negotiated and on December 3, 1970, five.
French presidential election, 2002 - François Bayrou Union pour la Démocratie Française 1,949,436 6.84% Arlette Laguiller Lutte Ouvrière 1,630,244 5.72% Jean-Pierre Chevènement Mouvement des Citoyens 1,518,901 5.33% Noël Mamère Les Verts 1,495,901 5,25% Olivier Besancenot Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire 1,210,694 4,25% Jean Saint-Josse Chasse, Pêche, Nature, Traditions 1,204,863 4.23% Alain Madelin Démocratie Libérale 1,113,709 3.91% Robert Hue Parti Communiste Français 960,757 3.37% Bruno Mégret Mouvement national républicain 667,123 2.34% Christiane Taubira Parti radical de gauche 660,576 2.32% Corinne Lepage Citoyenneté Action Participation 535,911 1.88% Christine Boutin close to UDF 339,142 1.19% Daniel Gluckstein Parti des travailleurs 132,702 0.47% This election came as a shock to many commentators, almost all of whom had expected the second ballot to be between Jacques Chirac and Lionel Jospin. Jospin's poor showing and the widespread splintering of the left-wing vote in the.
French Socialist Party - French Socialist Party The Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste or PS) is the name of the main opposition party in France. It is a democratic socialist party, founded in 1969. It has existed under various names since 1880. For a century, however, it had only fleeting electoral success. In 1981, under François Mitterand, party won both the presidency and (with allies) a majority in the National Assembly for the first time, and held power for 14 years. France's first socialist party, the French Workers' Party (Parti Ourviere Français) was founded in 1880 by Jules Guesde and Paul Lafargue (the son-in-law of Karl Marx). But in 1882 it split into two factions, a Marxist group led by Guesde and a moderate or "Possibilist" group led by Paul Brousse. Further splits followed, and none.
Free Democratic Party of Switzerland - The Free Democratic Party of Switzerland (also rendered as Radical Free Democratic Party or Liberal Democratic Party) (in German: Freisinnig-Demokratische Partei (FDP), French: Parti radical-démocratique (PRD), Italian: Partito Liberale-Radicale Svizzero (PLR)) is a centre-right, liberal political party from Switzerland. A few of the cantonal parties in Central Switzerland are still named Liberal Party (Liberale Partei), and not affiliated with the Liberal Party of Switzerland. As of January 2004, the party president is Christiane Langenberger. Current members in the Federal Council are Pascal Couchepin and Hans-Rudolf Merz. Presidents 1978-1984 Yann Richter, Neuchâtel 1984-1989 Bruno Hunziker, Aargau 1989-2001 Franz Steinegger, Uri 2001-2002 Gerold Bührer, Schaffhausen From 2002 Christiane Langenberger, Vaud.
European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party - Réformateur (Reformist Movement) (Belgium) Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten (Flemish Liberals and Democrats) (Belgium) Det Radikale Venstre (The Radical Centre) (Denmark) Venstre (Denmark) (Centre Party) (Denmark) Svenska Folkpartiet i Finland (Swedish People's Party in Finland)(Finland) Suomen Keskusta (Centre Party) (Finland) Parti Radical (Radical Party) (France) Free Democratic Party (Germany) Margherita (Italy) Nuovo PSI (Italy) PRI-MRE (Italy) Union Valdotaine (Italy) Italia dei Valori (Italy) Democratic Party (Parti Démocratique / Demokratesch Partei) Luxemburg Democraten 66 (Democracy 66) - Netherlands Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (People's Party for Freedom and Democracy) (Netherlands) Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (Spain) Unió Valenciana (Spain) Folkpartiet Liberalerna (Liberal People's Party) (Sweden) Centerpartiet (Centre Party) (Sweden) Liberal Democrats - United Kingdom Alliance Party of Northern Ireland - Northern Ireland, United Kingdom See also Political parties of the world, Liberal International, European.
Canadian and US politics compared - of the immigrants who formed that nation. Thus the American poltical tradition originates with those leaving Britain, either because of religious prosecution or to pursue trade and make money. Neither of these groups was keen on powerful government and they were much affected by the writings of British political philosophers John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. By comparison, some of those who founded English Canada were United Empire Loyalists who had lived in the United States but who wanted to remain under the British Crown. French Canada was formed by settlers loyal to an autocratic monarchy and the Catholic Church. Canada thus was originally far more conservative than the US. In later years, however, Canada was a major destination of Eastern European socialists and British Fabians that have given Canada a much.
PRD - PRD PRD may stand for: Parti radical-démocratique suisse, the French language name of Free Democratic Party of Switzerland (see also Politics of Switzerland) Partido de la Revolución Democrática Pearl River Delta This is a disambiguation page. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
October Crisis - Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the "Liberation cell" of the FLQ. This was followed by a communiqué to the authorities that contained the kidnappers' demands that included the release of a number of convicted or detained terrorists and the broadcasting of the "FLQ Manifesto". The terms of the ransom note were the same as those found in June for the planned kidnapping of the U.S. consul. At the time, the police did not connect the two. October 10 - Montreal, Quebec: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte is kidnapped by members of "Chenier cell" of the FLQ; October 15 - Quebec City - The Government of Quebec calls in the services of the Canadian army, as is its right alone under the National.
Nationalism and resistance in Algeria - the Young Algerians in 1926 formed the Federation of Elected Natives (Fédération des Elus Indigènes--FEI), as many of the former group's members had joined the circle of Muslims eligible to hold public office. The federation's objectives were the assimilation of the évolués into the French community, with full citizenship but without surrendering their personal status as Muslims, and the eventual integration of Algeria as a full province of France. Other objectives included equal pay for equal work for government employees, abolition of travel restrictions to and from France, abolition of the indigénat (which had been reinstituted earlier), and electoral reform. The first group to call for Algerian independence was the Star of North Africa (Étoile Nord-Africain, known as Star). The group was originally a solidarity group formed in 1926 in Paris.
May 1968 - deal with the unrest, dissolved the National Assembly and called for new parliamentary elections for June 23, 1968. The government was close to collapse at that point, but the revolutionary situation evaporated almost as quickly as it arose. Workers went back to their jobs, urged on by the Confédération Générale du Travail, the leftist union federation, and the Parti Communiste Français, the French Communist Party. When the elections finally were held in June, the Gaullist party emerged even stronger than before. Most of the protesters espoused left-wing causes, be it Communism, Anarchism or the rejection of the Vietnam War. Many saw the events as an opportunity to shake the "old society" on many social aspects, including methods of education and sexual freedom. A small minority of protesters, such as the Occident,.
List of members of the Swiss Federal Council - the German speaking ones (1:6). In recent years, those are overrepresented 3:4 (proportional to their population). 5Since 1959: Magic formula (Zauberformel) of party composition (proportional to parties in federal parliament): FDP/PRD 2, CVP/PDC 2, SPS/PSS 2, SVP/UDC 1. 6Change to magic formula of party composition (again proportional to parties in federal parliament): FDP/PRD 2, SPS/PSS 2, SVP/UDC 2, CVP/PDC 1. Statistics/trivia Political party of the councilors Parties Members1 Years in office 1 FDP/PRD (Freisinnige, parti radical) 67 LPS/PLS 1 CVP/PDC (formerly KVP) 19 SVP/UDC 9 SPS/PSS 12 Years in office 31 Karl Schenk in 1895 29 Adolf Deucher in 1912 28 Giuseppe Motta in 1940 27 Wilhelm Matthias Naeff in 1875 25 Emil Welti in 1891 Eugène Ruffy in 1919 Giovanni Battista Pioda in 1882 Philipp Etter in 1959 24 Eduard.
Louis-Joseph Papineau - of his involment in politics. Elected Member of Parliament in the riding of Kent in 1808, he gave his support to the Parti canadien. He served as captain of the militia during the war of 1812. Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Papineau was elected Speaker of the Legislative Assembly on January 21, 1815. The same year, he replaced Pierre-Stanislas Bédard as leader of the Parti canadien. Under his leadership, the party worked for the reform of Lower Canada's political institutions and strongly opposed the abuses of the appointed Legislative Council. He married Julie Bruneau, in Québec City on April 29, 1818. In 1820, he refused a position in the Legislative Council offered by governor Dalhousie. In 1822, he was sent to London with John Neilson to present a petition of 60,000.
