Since 1949, the party system has been dominated by the Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

The Christian Democratic Popular Front voted with the Communist Party for the dismissal of the Alliance government on November 9, 1999.

The political leaders of the Nationalist (Christian Democratic) Party and the Labor Party have enacted a law whereby, since 1994, they alone share more than 200,000 state financing.

If you want to join the UK Conservative Party or the German Christian Democrats or America s Democratic Party, you can do so easily, and they will welcome you with open arms.

The clear model for a moderately religious party one committed to the rules of the democratic game are the Christian Democratic parties of Western Europe and, to a lesser extent, Latin America.

The party describes itself as Social Christian.

He presented his Justice and Development Party as the Muslim equivalent of Europe s Christian Democratic parties, combining economic growth, anti corruption policies, and free elections.

(Signed) Anna Maria Stame Cervone President Christian Democratic Women International

The Democratic Party (, PD) is a social democratic political party in Italy.

In the 1970s, the party system became more volatile the Christian democratic parties lost seats, while new parties became successful, such as the radical democrat and progressive liberal D66.

Liberal democratic party LDS

Civic democratic party GDS

Yet Christian Democratic parties today are one of the pillars of European democracy.

The Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire African Democratic Rally () is a political party in Côte d'Ivoire.

It must transform itself into something like the Social Christian or Christian Democratic parties that exist in Costa Rica, Chile, Venezuela, and Peru.

Among the smaller parties, the centrist Liberal Party and Christian Peoples Party hold the balance of power.

Social democratic party SDP BiH

Party of democratic action SDA

MILAN I have just had the privilege of speaking at the main annual conference of Germany s Economic Council, the economic and business arm of the Christian Democratic Union, the current governing party.

Yves Camille Désiré Leterme ( born 6 October 1960) is a Flemish Belgian politician, a leader of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD V), and was the 48th Prime Minister of Belgium.

Others, like Nooke, who left some time later, resented the growing cooperation with Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of East Germany, which had formerly been a party in the socialist dominated democratic block of parties and mass organisations and had supported the Communist regime.

Geagea is the executive chairman of the Lebanese Forces, the second largest Christian political party in Lebanon, while Aoun is the founder of the Free Patriotic Movement, the country s largest Christian political party.

Anna Maria Stame Cervone, Christian Democratic Women International (A C.4 60 5 Add.28)

The death last May of Umaru Yar Adua, Nigeria s president, upended the informal agreement between members of the ruling People s Democratic Party (PDP) to rotate power between northern Muslims and their southern, mainly Christian counterparts.

Malawi has a democratic, multi party government.

The Liberal Democratic Party, which had ruled Japan for most of the post war decades, lost parliamentary elections to the Democratic Party of Japan.

Christian fundamentalism in the United States has come to dominate large segments of the Republican Party.

On 16 March 1978, Aldo Moro, President of the Christian Democratic Party, was kidnapped by the Red Brigades, an ultra left terrorist group, on the day that the new government was going to be sworn in before parliament.

In 1889 The Swedish Social Democratic Party was founded.

He is a member of the Workers Democratic Party.

It is a splinter of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

Rita Süssmuth (born 17 February 1937) is a German politician and a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

Democratic Party On 7 October 2000, he was elected unopposed as the President of the Democratic Party during the historic electoral congress at which the founder of the Party, Spyros Kyprianou, stood down.

Whereas electorates across the European Union have punished their governments for the Great Recession and the euro crisis, Germans reelected Chancellor Angela Merkel and displayed strong support for her party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), in the recent election.

For starters, even if the current Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Free Democrat Party (FDP) coalition forms the next government, Chancellor Angela Merkel could make longer term and more courageous decisions without having to worry about the immediate electoral impact.

Another incumbent, Donna Christian Christensen of the Democratic Party, was re elected in 2004 to her fifth two year term as the United States Virgin Islands Delegate to the United States Congress, with 66 per cent of the vote.

The Party of Democratic Action ( or SDA) is a Bosniak political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

OSAKA Yesterday s landslide general election victory by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) terminated the one party dominated system that the catch all Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has controlled almost without interruption since 1955.

The Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro (Montenegrin Demokratska Partija Socijalista Crne Gore , Демократска Партија Социјалиста Црне Горе, DPS) is a social democratic political party in Montenegro.

These elections showed further gains for the Independent Social Democratic Party (SNSD) and a further erosion of Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) pre eminence in Republika Srpska politics.

At the invitation of the Chairman, Ms. Stame Cervone (Christian Democratic Women International) took a place at the petitioners' table.

All the largest political parties (Pro Patria Union, the Reform Party, the United People's Party, the Social Democratic Party, the Centre Party) have women's associations.

Social liberal coalition () in the politics of Germany refers to a governmental coalition formed by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Free Democratic Party (FDP).

After a period of time, this new party was united with the Kurdish Democratic Party of Syria.

However, some parties have also specifically called on women to join the party (e.g. the Estonian Centre Party, the Social Democratic Party).