Claud Alexander [SEP] member of political party
Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1853–1856


by Charles Pasley (Colonial Engineer) in the Council on 16 October 1854 Rutledge resigned Mar. 1854; replaced by Claud Farie, by-election Apr. 1854, resigned Oct. 1885; replaced by James M. Knight, by-election, Dec. 1855 Splatt resigned Apr. 1854; replaced by William Taylor, by-election Sep. 1854 Stevens resigned Feb. 1854; replaced by Francis Beaver, by-election Mar. 1854 Alexander Thomson resigned Aug. 1955; replaced by Alexander Fyfe, by-election Sep. 1854 James Thomson resigned Feb. 1854; replaced by
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Mamadou Kamara Dékamo


Director-General of SEP Development from 1984 to 1992. He became a member of the Political Bureau of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT) in 1992, and he was elected to the National Assembly as a PCT candidate from the Poto-Poto section of Brazzaville in the 1992 parliamentary election. On 25 December 1992, he was appointed as Minister of Communication, Posts, and Telecommunications, as well as Government Spokesman, in the power-sharing government of Prime Minister Claude Antoine Dacosta, which was to serve until a new
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American Left


parties. The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is a political party that formed after a 1995 ideological rupture with Workers World Party over the issue of their support of the Fidel Castro government in Cuba, The SEP are composed of Trotskyists and are affiliated with the World Socialist Web Site. With fewer than one thousand members in 1996, the Socialist Worker's Party (SWP) was the second largest Marxist–Leninist party in the United States. Formed by supporters of Leon Trotsky, they believed that the Soviet Union and other Communist
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Naresh Balyan


Naresh Balyan () is an Indian politician and a member of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi in India. He represents the Uttam Nagar constituency of New Delhi and is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party political party. Naresh Balyan was born in Delhi. He attended the Haryana Shakti Senior Secondary School and attained ninth grade degree. Naresh Balyan has been a MLA for one term. He represented the Uttam Nagar constituency and is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party political party. On 21 Sep 2015, Balyan complained to police
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Socialist Equality Party (Australia)


The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is a Trotskyist political party in Australia. The SEP was established in 2010 as the successor party to the Socialist Labour League, which was founded in 1972 as the Australian section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). According to its 2019 election statement, the party opposes identity politics and the Me Too movement. The party also criticises contemporary trade unions, having adopted the position that "They are no longer workers’ organisations." Inspired by the British Socialist Labour League
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Socialist Equality Party (United States)


The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is a Trotskyist political party in the United States, one of several Socialist Equality parties around the world affiliated with the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). The ICFI publishes daily news articles, perspectives and commentaries on the World Socialist Web Site and maintains Mehring Books as publishing house. The SEP was formed in 1995 by the Workers League, the US supporters of the ICFI. The Workers League had been founded in 1966 by the American Committee for the Fourth International (ACFI)
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David North (socialist)


David North (born 1950) is an American Marxist theoretician. He is the national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States (SEP), formerly the Workers League. He served as the national secretary of the SEP until the party's congress in 2008. North was the principal political and theoretical leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International during the organization's split with the Workers Revolutionary Party in Britain. North is also the chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, the voice
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Claud Alexander


Sir Claud Alexander, 1st Baronet (15 January 1831 – 23 May 1899) was a Scottish Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1885. Alexander was the eldest son of Boyd Alexander and his wife Sophia Elizabeth Hobhouse, daughter of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1849, he joined the Grenadier Guards. He served in the Crimean War including at the Siege of Sevastapol. He was awarded the Crimean Medal and Clasp, the Turkish War
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Everyone to La Moneda


list, as only pacts with two or more legally constituted parties are accepted. As a consequence, several members of the movement, including Claude, adhered Todxs a La Moneda in an instrumental way. Todxs a La Moneda aims to "create a free society", which is the main focus (or axis) of Marcel Claude's presidential candidacy. Eight more goals have been proposed by the humanists and Claude, which are "essential to the Chilean society": "political constitution and democracy; deconcentration and decentralization of the
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Marcel-Claude Roy


Marcel-Claude Roy (11 September 1936 – 31 May 2018) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. Born in Laval-des-Rapides, Quebec, Roy was an agrologist by career. He entered national politics at the Quebec riding of Laval in the 1968 federal election. He was re-elected at Laval (subsequently Laval West) in the 1972, 1974, 1979 and 1980 federal elections but was defeated by Guy Ricard of the Progressive Conservative party. Roy served five successive terms from
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Claude Drouin


Claude Drouin, (born May 26, 1956) is a Canadian former politician. He was the Member of Parliament representing the riding of Beauce from 1997 to 2006 and was also the Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Paul Martin with special emphasis on Rural Communities. Born in Frampton, Quebec, Canada, Drouin is a former foreman and political advisor. He was elected as an MP for the riding of from Beauce as a candidate for the Liberal Party of Canada in the 1997 election. He is a former member of the Canadian
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Jamaican political conflict


JLP and PNP had established themselves as Jamaica's main rival political parties coming out of the recent Caribbean labor unrest. After the election of 1944 violence became a common aspect of their rivalry. Alexander Bustamante began to encourage the attack of PNP sympathizers, claiming they were communists. Alexander Bustamante also started to specifically cater to his political constituents, such as offering migrant work visas specifically along political lines that favored him. Jamaica gained independence in 1962, and by 1963 political parties were paying off members of the Rude boy subculture to engage
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Assassinations of Little Haiti journalists


were charged lacked the political connections rumored. Instead they were hired hit men. It was alleged that Billy Alexander, born ca. 1970, was contracted to kill D'Or for his opposition to Louis Thermitus, a local record store owner, who D'Or had accused of being a member of the Tonton Macoute and of supporting the regime that had ousted Haiti's elected President Aristide. At the time of his arraignment and later his conviction for the murder of D'Or and Jean-Claude Olivier, another radio journalist, Alexander was serving a
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Claude Gravelle


Claude Gravelle (born October 26, 1949) is a former Canadian politician, first elected to represent the electoral district of Nickel Belt in the 2008 Canadian federal election. He is a member of the New Democratic Party and was defeated in the 2015 Canadian federal election Gravelle is a retired machinist and union organizer at Inco's mining operations in Sudbury, where he was a member of the United Steelworkers union. Gravelle first entered politics in 1997 on the town council of Rayside-Balfour. He did not run for re-election
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Antoine-François-Claude Ferrand


Antoine François Claude, comte Ferrand (4 July 175117 January 1825), French statesman and political writer, was born in Paris, and became a member of the "parlement" of Paris at eighteen. Ferrand left France with the first party of emigrants, and attached himself to the prince of Condé; late he was a member of the council of regency formed by the comte de Provence after the death of Louis XVI. He lived at Regensburg until 1801, when he returned to France, though he still sought to serve
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2014 Belgian government formation


Kris Peeters as formateurs. Kris Peeters (CD&V) and Charles Michel (MR) prepared a draft, which was presented to the four negotiating parties as a basis for a coalition agreement. Each party has three negotiators: A difficult political issue in the negotiations was the designation of the Belgian member of the Juncker Commission being formed. CD&V insisted on proposing Marianne Thyssen, a member of the European Parliament and the candidate preferred by Jean-Claude Juncker as they are from the same party and the Commission needs more female members.
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Alexander Dabravolski


Alexander Alherdavich Dabravolski (; born November 23, 1958) is a Belarusian politician, lawyer, and radio physicist. He helped found the United Democratic Party of Belarus (UDPB) and became involved in the opposition, serving as the vice-chairman of United Civil Party (UCP) from 1995 to 2006. He is currently the director of the East European School of Political Studies and a member of the Political Council of the United Civil Party. Dabravolski was born in Sula, Minsk Voblast, Byelorussian SSR, and attended Belarusian State
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Political parties in the United States


subject of political parties. The Founding Fathers did not originally intend for American politics to be partisan. In Federalist Papers No. 9 and No. 10, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, respectively, wrote specifically about the dangers of domestic political factions. In addition, the first President of the United States, George Washington, was not a member of any political party at the time of his election or throughout his tenure as president. Furthermore, he hoped that political parties would not be formed, fearing conflict and stagnation,
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2011 Scottish Conservative Party leadership election


to the UK Conservative Party. This prompts mixed reactions from senior party figures. 4 Sep – Ruth Davidson formally announces that she will stand in the contest. 5 Sep – Murdo Fraser launches his campaign in Edinburgh. 8 Sep – Ruth Davidson launches her campaign in Edinburgh. 11 Sep – Lord Forsyth, at one point a suggested leadership candidate, declares his backing for Ruth Davidson. 23 Sep – Nominations for leadership close. Margaret Mitchell confirms she will stand in the election. 2 Oct – David Mundell MP declares his backing
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French and European Nationalist Party


The French and European Nationalist Party ( or PNFE) was a minor French far-right political group founded in 1987. It was led by Claude Cornilleau and despite its name was not a political party in the conventional sense. The group used the Celtic cross as its emblem and produced a journal entitled "Tribune nationaliste". The PNFE was made up of a mixture of former members of the outlawed FANE, and of neo-Nazi hardliners who had been expelled from the Front National when Jean-Marie Le Pen took on
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Alexander Boulton


Alexander Claude Forster Boulton (1862 – 12 March 1949) was a British Liberal Party politician whose career in the House of Commons lasted barely four years. He was elected at the 1906 general election as Member of Parliament for the Ramsey division of Huntingdonshire, a constituency which had been held by Conservatives since its creation in 1885. He was defeated at the January 1910 general election; He was unsuccessful when he stood again in December 1910. Boulton did not stand again until the 1923 general election, when he fought the Conservative-
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Jerry White (socialist)


Jerome "Jerry" White (born 1959) is an American politician and journalist, and is the Labor Editor reporting for the World Socialist Web Site. He is a member of the Socialist Equality Party of the United States, and was a member of its predecessor the Workers League, joining the movement in 1979. White ran as the SEP candidate for United States President in 1996 and 2008, and again in 2012 with running mate Phyllis Scherrer. White was again the SEP presidential nominee in the 2016 election. Jarome White was
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Alexander Zinoviev


the first. Power is reproduced "from below", at the level of the primary collective, where representation and democracy is exercised: people voluntarily join the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, members of the party are elected, they want to participate in power, the lower levels of the party influence the party top line. Despotic and informal power in social relations is literally everywhere. The cell structure leaves no room for law and politics: there are no parties or political competition, as well as political power. As
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Claude Lightfoot


indicted merely for being a member of the Communist Party, which, in turn, was alleged to be attempting to overthrow the government. His conviction in January 1955 was appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which reversed the conviction (), resulting in Lightfoot's acquittal in 1961. Lightfoot's autobiography, which was also his doctoral thesis at the University of Illinois, is: "From Chicago's Ghetto to World Politics: The Life and Struggles of Claude M. Lightfoot". It was first published as "
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Alexander Cockburn


Alexander Claud Cockburn ( ; 6 June 1941 – 21 July 2012) was an Irish-American political journalist and writer. Cockburn was brought up by British parents in Ireland but had lived and worked in the United States since 1972. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he edited the political newsletter "CounterPunch". Cockburn also wrote the "Beat the Devil" column for "The Nation" as well as one for "The Week" in London, syndicated by Creators Syndicate. Alexander Cockburn was born on June 6, 1941
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1901 Australian federal election


to the seat of Moreton, was a former member of the Labour Party, and rejoined the party in 1903. Alexander Paterson, representing Capricornia, had no political affiliation, and retired in 1903. South Australia and Tasmania went to the election as single multi-member constituencies. South Australia elected seven members, each elector casting seven votes: four Free Traders (Paddy Glynn, 59.5%; Frederick Holder, 59.5%; Alexander Poynton, 41.1%; and Vaiben Louis Solomon, 43.0%), two Protectionists (Charles
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New Haitian Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)


The New Haitian Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (', NPCH(ML) ) is a Marxist-Leninist political party in Haiti. It was founded in 2000. In a statement regarding the party's ideological foundation, the NPCH(ML) refers to the theory and practice of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong. The NPCH(ML) participates in and was a founding member of the International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations (ICOR). Under the regime of Jean-Claude Duvalier and his father François Duvalier
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Claude Ryan


Claude Ryan, (January 26, 1925 – February 9, 2004) was a Canadian journalist and politician. He was the director of the newspaper "Le Devoir" from 1964 to 1978, leader of the Quebec Liberal Party from 1978 to 1982, National Assembly of Quebec member for Argenteuil from 1979 to 1994 and Minister of Education from 1985 to 1989. Ryan was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Blandine Dorion and Henri-Albert Ryan. Ryan's brother, Yves Ryan, was also politically active, serving
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Claude Vaillancourt


Claude Vaillancourt (born May 19, 1944) is a lawyer, judge and former political figure in Quebec. He represented Jonquière in the Quebec National Assembly from 1976 to 1983 as a member of the Parti Québécois. He was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec, the son of Albéric Vaillancourt and Marie-Paule Simard, and was educated in Arvida, at the Collège de Jonquière and at the Université Laval. Vaillancourt was admitted to the Quebec bar in 1969 and set up practice in the Jonquière region. He served as President of
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Claude Boucher (politician)


Claude Boucher (born September 2, 1942) is a former Quebec political figure. He represented Johnson in the Quebec National Assembly from 1994 to 2007 as a member of the Parti Québécois. He was born in Bromptonville, Quebec (now Sherbrooke, Quebec), the son of Edgar A. Boucher and Yvette Lecours, and was educated at the Université de Sherbrooke. He was employed in the fields of health, education and social services and was manager at the CLSC in Sherbrooke. Boucher was mayor of Saint-Denis-de
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Claude Wagner


left politics to return to the bench, receiving appointment once more as a Sessions Court judge. He then entered federal politics, and was elected as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Saint-Hyacinthe in the 1972 federal election. He was re-elected in the 1974 election, and stood as a candidate at the Progressive Conservative leadership convention of 1976. Wagner attracted support amongst Tories who believed that having a leader from Quebec would enable the party to break the federal Liberal Party's stranglehold on the province, and from right
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Alexander Boteler


Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1853. Boteler was also an artist and author. He published an illustrated book, "My Ride to the Barbecue" in 1860 about a major civic event he hosted on September 11, 1858 (probably in conjunction with his political campaign described below), which reportedly 5000 people attended. Boteler was fascinated by politics and was a member of several small and short-lived political parties. He was briefly the national secretary of the Know Nothing Party, and at other times a member of the
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Appeal of Conscience Foundation


Conscience Foundation Public Service Award Sep 23, 2008 Remarks by Deputy Secretary John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary highlights honorees at the 2008 ACF Annual Awards Dinner Sep 23, 2008 Address by Nicolas Sarkozy President of the French Republic is recipient of the 2008 Appeal of Conscience World Statesman Award Sep 23, 2008 Address by Henry A. Kissinger Henry Kissinger gives address on behalf of Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic, at the ACF 2008 Annual Awards Dinner Sep 21, 2005 Foreign Minister Alexander Downer Acceptance of the World Statesman Award on behalf of
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Alexander Gauland


Alexander Eberhardt Gauland (born 20 February 1941) is a German politician, journalist and lawyer who has served as leader of the German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the Bundestag since September 2017 and co-leader of the party since December 2017. He has been a Member of the Bundestag (MdB) since September 2017. Gauland was the party's co-founder and is its federal spokesman and the party leader for the state of Brandenburg. Gauland was born in 1941 in Chemnitz, a city that became
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Claude Richmond


Claude Harry Richmond (born August 3, 1935) is a former BC Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly in the Canadian province of British Columbia. He represented the riding of Kamloops from 1981 to 1991 and from 2001 to 2009. He was first elected as MLA for Kamloops in a by-election in 1981 to replace Rafe Mair. Richmond represented the riding for the Social Credit Party of British Columbia, serving in a variety of cabinet portfolios, until leaving politics in 1991. In his first term from 1981 to 1986,
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Claude Allègre


after the end of the eruption, and ended up in court. Claude Allègre is an ISI highly cited researcher. He is retired and significantly diminished by a 2013 heart attack, but retains an emeritus status at the "Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris" (Institute of Geophysics in Paris). A former member of the French Socialist Party, Allègre is better known to the general public for his past political responsibilities, which include serving as Minister of Education of France in the Jospin cabinet from 4 June 1997 to March
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Claude Lajoie


Claude G. Lajoie (26 January 1928 – 15 May 2015) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a businessman and building contractor by career. Born in Trois-Rivières, he represented Quebec's Trois-Rivières electoral district since his victory there in a by-election on 31 May 1971. He was re-elected in the 1972, 1974, 1979 and 1980 federal elections. After serving consecutive terms from the 28th through the 32nd Canadian Parliaments, Lajoie left national politics and did
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Jean-Claude St-André


Jean-Claude St-André (born September 27, 1962 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Quebec provincial politician and was the Member of the National Assembly of Quebec representing L'Assomption for the Parti Québécois. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in social sciences from the Université de Montréal in 1984 and subsequently studied business administration at the Université du Québec à Montréal. After working for several years in business he became involved in politics joining the staff of the MNA for Anjou in 1992 and then serving in the office of the Premier of
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Éric Halphen


Éric Halphen (born 10 October 1959) is a French judge best known as the investigating magistrate in the Parisian low-cost housing scandals of the 1990s. In January 1994 Halphen began an inquiry following the discovery of a series of forged invoices between Jean-Claude Méry and companies that were providing services to HLMs (subsidised low-cost housing) in Paris. In September 1994, Jean-Claude Méry, a former member of the central committee of the RPR political party was imprisoned for his involvement. The inquiry also investigated
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Alexander Serebrovsky


Alexander Pavlovitch Serebrovsky (; -10 February 1938) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet petroleum and mining engineer nicknamed the "Soviet Rockefeller". Serebrovsky was born in Ufa to the wealthy family of an exiled member of Narodnaya Volya, the organization responsible for the successful assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881. In 1903 Serebrovsky became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party member. Serebrovsky continued the family political activity; his first arrest was in 1902. Serebrovsky studied at St. Petersburg Institute of Technology, but emigrated in 1908 to Brussels
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Marc Alexander


as written, rather than any ideological opposition. Since leaving the United Future Party, Alexander has been an involved member of the National Party in Christchurch. He served as Policy Chairman for Wigram, and also edited the Canterbury/Westland policy newsletter ‘Thinking National’. He was selected as the National Party candidate for Wigram in the 2008 general election, and was placed 61st on the party's list. At this time he resigned his position with Sensible Sentencing, since the Trust's rules require all spokespeople to be politically unaligned
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Alexander Wassilko von Serecki


After completing his baccalaureate in 1846, Alexander studied philosophy and jurisprudence at the universities of Czernowitz and Lemberg. Since 1850 he worked as a lawyer in Czernowitz and after 1859 he managed his father's Baron Jordaki estates. Alexander became a member of the "Autonomist Romanian Conservative Party" and began his political career in 1862, when he was elected as one of their representatives in the Council (Diet) of Bukovina. In 1863 the Baron cofounded the society "Junimea", the most influential intellectual, cultural and political Romanian union
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Michael Barnard (politician)


Michael Thomas Claude Barnard (27 September 1942 – 11 December 1999) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1969 to 1984, representing Bass for the Labor Party. He was Deputy Premier under two Labor Premiers, Doug Lowe and Harry Holgate from 1980 to 1982, and a long-standing Minister for Tourism (1975–82) and Health (1977–80). Barnard had numerous family political connections. He was the grandson of Claude Barnard and the nephew of Lance Barnard, who both served
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Claude Hay (Conservative politician)


The Honourable Claude George Drummond Hay (24 June 1862 – 24 October 1920) was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. The fifth son of George Hay-Drummond, 12th Earl of Kinnoull and Lady Emily Blanche Charlotte Somerset, he was educated at Radley College and on the European Continent. He entered business as a member of the stockbroker company of Ransford & Co in London, and became a director of the Fine Arts & General Insurance Co. He became active in Unionist politics and was first secretary of the Primrose League.
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United Civic Party of Belarus


The United Civic Party of Belarus (, ) is a liberal-conservative political party in Belarus. The party opposes the government of Alexander Lukashenko and generally participates in the country's elections, but it did not have a single member in parliament until one member was elected during the 2016 elections. It claims that its lack of seats is due to the unfairness of the election process, a claim to which international election monitors have lent limited credence. Famous party members are former Prime Minister Mikhail Chigir, the mysteriously disappeared politicians Yury
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Yugoslav National Party


the political power remained in the hands of the King and the government, appointed by him. In May 1932, the Yugoslav Radical Peasants' Democracy was established to support Alexander's government, under the leadership of Petar Živković. It was formed mostly by dissident members of the Democratic Party and the People's Radical Party (NRS), as well as the Slovenian section of the Independent Democratic Party (SDS) and the right wing of the Slovene Peasant Party (SKS). Individual members from other parties, and from nationalist
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1981 Quebec general election


The Quebec general election of 1981 was held on April 13, 1981, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent "Parti Québécois", led by Premier René Lévesque, won re-election, defeating the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Claude Ryan. The PQ won re-election despite having lost the 1980 Quebec referendum on sovereignty-association, the party's proposal for political independence for Quebec in an economic union with the rest of Canada. To some extent, they
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Scottish Democratic Alliance


The Scottish Democratic Alliance (SDA) is a political organisation formed in 2009 as the successor to the Scottish Enterprise Party (SEP). It supports Scottish independence and withdrawal from the European Union. Although it evolved from a political party, the SDA spent some time operating as a think tank on current affairs in Scotland. It stood its first candidate for election in the 2013 Aberdeen Donside by-election, coming last with 35 votes (0.1%). The SDA favours a low-tax Scotland independent of both the EU
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W. Ted Alexander


William Theodore Alexander III (born August 13, 1960) is an American politician. On August 13, 1960, Alexander was born in Morganton, North Carolina. Alexander earned a BA degree in Political Science from University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Alexander earned a MA degree in Historic Preservation from Cornell University. Alexander is a Republican member of the North Carolina State Senate, representing the 44th district. Alexander has served previously as mayor of Shelby, North Carolina and as chair of the Cleveland County, North Carolina Republican Party.
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M. A. Baby


M.A. Baby (Mariam Alexander Baby) is an Indian politician and member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from Kerala. He was elected to the Polit Bureau of CPI(M) in the 20th Congress held at Kozhikode, Kerala, in 2012. M.A. Baby was born to P.M. Alexander and Lilly Alexander on April 5, 1954 at Prakkulam in Kollam district of Kerala. Baby did his schooling from Prakkulam Lower Primary School and Prakkulam NSS High School. It was during his high school days where he first acquainted with politics.
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Alexander Semyonovich Belyakov


Alexander Semyonovich Belyakov (; born 20 May 1945) is a Russian politician who served as Governor of Leningrad Oblast in 1991–1996 and member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation in 1999–2005. Alexander Belyakov was born in Sortavala, Karelo-Finnish SSR in 1945. He was elected governor of Leningrad Oblast in 1991 and joined the pro-Boris Yeltsin Our Home is Russia political party in 1995. He was defeated by an independent, Communist Party of the Russian Federation-backed candidate, Vadim Gustov in the election in 1996. Belyakov
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John Alexander Brewster


collapsed and a new political party emerged. This party called itself the American Party and its candidates were elected overwhelmingly in the 1855 California state election. General John A. Brewster was elected as a member of the American Party. Although popular in its day, the American party's platform opposing the election of Roman Catholics and "foreigners" was controversial. The American Party came to be known as the "Know Nothing Party", because when asked about its platform, the members said: "I know nothing". By the
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Reasonable Force (political party)


Reasonable Force (Ukrainian: Розумна сила; Rozumna Syla) is a Ukrainian political party, founded on January 22, 2016. It is led by Alexander Solovyov. The party consists of 26 regional and more than 600 local (city and district) organizations. The members of the party are more than 20 thousand citizens of Ukraine. It is represented in 16 local councils based on the results of the elections, held in December 2016 and April 2017. The party declares a moderate multi-vector foreign policy of neutrality and non
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Our Land (Ukraine)


's ideology de-emphasizes nationalism and focuses on self-identification with local-government at the expense of national politics. The party is headed by five party leaders all of which were members of Party of Regions until 2014 Oleksandr Mazurchak, Oleksandr Feldman, Yuriy Hranaturov, Anton Kisse, and Serhiy Kaltsev. The political council of the party: Yuri Granaturov, Kaltsev Sergey, Kisse Anton, Mazurchak Alexander, Oleksandr Feldman (Co-founders of the Party), Volodymyr Makeyenko (International Relations Coordinator), Telehuzov Valentin, Kravchuk
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Claude-Ernest Ndalla


a new ruling Marxist-Leninist ruling party was created under President Ngouabi: the Congolese Labour Party (PCT). Ndalla was one of the party's founding members; he was included in the PCT's original Political Bureau and was designated as First Secretary in charge of Organization, in which capacity he was responsible for managing internal organizational matters. Ndalla represented the far-left faction of the PCT, and his designation as First Secretary bolstered the far-left while positioning him as "Ngouabi's principal rival", as he
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Parti Socialiste (Belgium)


and the Government of the German-speaking Community. The party, or its members, have from time to time been brought into connection with criminal activities and political scandals, mostly concerning bribery and financial fraud (Cools assassination, Agusta scandal, Dassault Affair, , ICDI affair). The Carolorégienne affair caused Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe to step down as Minister-President of the Walloon region. The PS performed well in the 2003 general election, but were overtaken as the largest Francophone party by the Reformist Movement in the 2007
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Bonivert Claude


for president in the 2000 elections, where Jean-Bertrand Aristide won in a controversial race. But this decried election was boycotted by most political parties. Mr. Claude was named by the Renovated Social Party (PSR) to run for President of Haïti in the presidential race whose first round was scheduled for November 20, 2005. In 1974, Claude created the “Ecole de Formation des Cadres Techniques et Commerciaux” (EFCTEC) a private educational complex with a commercial school, a technical school, a computer school, an elementary
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Alexander Wilkie


Alexander Wilkie (30 September 1850 – 2 September 1928) was a Labour Party politician in Scotland, best known for his service as a Member of Parliament for Dundee. Along with the Dundonian George Nicoll Barnes Wilkie was one of the first two Labour Members elected in Scotland. Alexander Wilkie was born in Fife in 1850 and prior to his political career was a ship carpenter. Wilkie was known for his work in the Labour movement serving as general secretary of the Ship Constructive and Shipwrights Association. He helped to form Labour Representation Committee
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Luc Mesadieu


Luc Mesadieu is a Haitian political figure and member of the political party New Christian Movement for a New Haiti (Mochrena). Mesadieu has been a political opponent of former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He has been attacked in his home in December 2003 by thugs associated with Aristide, among them Amiot Métayer. His assistant, Ramy Daran, was burned to death that day. Mesadieu is a dentist by profession. He worked for Jean-Claude Duvalier as his personal dentist. Mesadieu is an Evangelical pastor with two churches
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Claude Hettier de Boislambert


"the regime of the parties" did not permit the operation of a strong and efficient state. In 1951 the RPF won 121 of the 625 seats in the parliament, which was more than the number of seats won by any other individual party. Nevertheless, the other parties were unanimous over rejecting the idea of giving significantly increased political power to any president, so the RPF was excluded from government coalitions during Hettier de Boislambert's time as a parliamentarian. His status as an opposition member of the assembly permitted him a degree
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Pierre Claude Nolin


as a high-profile member of the PC Party Senate Caucus. In 2002, Nolin raised eyebrows by chairing the Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs and supporting its recommendations to legalize but not decriminalize the use of marijuana in Canada. Nolin supported the merger of the PC Party and the Canadian Alliance in 2003 that created the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC). Nolin supported auto-parts magnate Belinda Stronach during the 2004 CPC leadership election. Between former Tory MP André Bachand's departure from politics in June 2004 and January
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Suzanne Belperron


(1866–1931), was born 26 Sep 1900 in the town of Saint-Claude, in Jura Mountains (eastern France), 60 kilometres from Geneva (Switzerland). To fill the long winter months, the inhabitants of the Jura region had developed over the centuries a wide array of traditional crafts, including the art of cutting stones. The town of Saint-Claude was also, between 1885 and 1929, one of the most important world centres of diamonds cutting. Aware of Suzanne's talent as a designer, her
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Scottish Democratic Alliance


Norway to promote tourism. The Scottish Enterprise Party was a centre-right political party in Scotland which supported Scottish independence and withdrawal from the European Union. It was formed in July 2004 to provide an alternative to the largely social democratic Scottish National Party for centre-right voters who support independence. The party opposed Scottish membership of the European Union and any prospective membership of the euro; it supported the principle of a constitutional monarchy and elections conducted through the Single Transferable Vote. The SEP backed the constitutional view that parliamentary sovereignty does
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Golden Dawn (political party)


Dawn members in the GVG were decorated by Radovan Karadžić, but, according to Charis Kousoumvris, a former member of Golden Dawn, those who were decorated, later left the party. In April 1996, Giannopoulos represented the party at a pan-European convention of far-right nationalist parties in Moscow, where he presented a bust of Alexander the Great to Liberal Democratic Party of Russia leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky for his birthday. Golden Dawn participated in the 1996 legislative election in September, receiving 4,487 votes nationwide; 0.07% of the
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Claude Sabourin


Claude Sabourin (born October 9, 1961) is a Canadian politician, educator, and author. He was elected as leader of the Green Party of Quebec in November 2010. Sabourin has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the Université du Québec à Montréal. He joined the Green Party in 2002 and has been a party candidate in two federal and three provincial elections. The provincial party's president from 2004 to 2006, he has also written a book entitled, "Le Parti Vert: Pour une politique du
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Alexander Trachtenberg


Alexander "Alex" Trachtenberg (1884–1966) was an American publisher of radical political books and pamphlets, founder and manager of International Publishers of New York. He was a longtime activist in the Socialist Party of America and later in the Communist Party USA. For more than eight decades, his International Publishers was a part of the publishing arm of the American communist movement. He served as a member of the CPUSA's Central Control Committee. During the period of McCarthyism in America, Trachtenberg was twice subject to prosecution and convicted under
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Alexander Dubček


Július, was killed. During the war, Alexander Dubček joined the Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS), which had been created after the formation of the Slovak state and in 1948 was transformed into the Slovak branch of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ). After the war, he steadily rose through the ranks in Communist Czechoslovakia. From 1951 to 1955 he was a member of the National Assembly, the parliament of Czechoslovakia. In 1953, he was sent to the Moscow Political College, where he graduated in 1958
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Marcel Claude


Marcel Henri Claude Reyes (born in Santiago, Chile on 26 February 1957) is a Chilean economist, academic, and political activist. He was an independent candidate to become President of Chile in the 2013 Chilean presidential election, and has been endorsed by the Humanist Party. Previously, Claude worked at the Central Bank of Chile between 1983 and 1995, and later directed two Chilean environmental NGOs. Claude was born on 26 February 1957 in Santiago de Chile to Rolande Hugo Claude Dellepiane, a native of Concepción, and Leyla del
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Bernard-Claude Savy


Bernard-Claude Savy (1922–1997) is a French physician, publisher and politician. Bernard-Claude Savy was born on September 1, 1922 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris. Savy was a physician. Savy also wrote several books about economic freedom. He joined the Rally for the Republic, a center-right political party. He founded Clubs Avenir et Liberté, a center-right political organization, in 1981. The organization held meetings with center-right politicians like Alain Madelin, Charles Pasqua and Alain
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Alexander Dovgopol


Alexander Ivanovich Dovgopol (; born 12 November 1965) is a Russian politician, lawyer and businessman. On June 6, 2013 is the head of the Perovo District. A member of a political party United Russia. Alexander Dovgopol born on November 12, 1965 in the village of Barakhta Kiev region. In Moscow External University of Humanities received yurist.Takzhe profession received higher professional education at the Moscow Institute of national and regional relations. In 2008, Alexander was appointed head of the municipal formation of intra-municipal entity Perovo in Moscow
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Democratic Party (Bulgaria)


The Democratic Party (, "Demokraticheska partia", DP) is a centre-right political party in Bulgaria led by Alexander Pramatarski. The party was a member of the European People's Party (EPP). The Democratic Party was formed by a breakaway from the Liberal Party led by Petko Karavelov in 1896. In the 1899 elections the party won 10 seats. It went on to win 27 in 1901, with Karavelov briefly serving as Prime Minister after the elections in a coalition government with the People's Liberal Party (
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Rob Jetten


unanimously chosen by D66 as party leader succeeding Alexander Pechtold. Jetten began his political career as a policy advisor for the D66 political faction in the Senate of the States General and as chairman of the Young Democrats. In addition, between 2010 and 2017, he was a member of the municipal council and his party chairperson in the Nijmegen municipal council. At the 2017 national parliamentary general elections, he was elected to the Dutch parliament. He became his party's spokesperson for climate, energy and gas, rail, democratic renewal and
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Milan Šufflay


In 1924, Šufflay became a member of the leadership of the Pure Party of Rights, a rightwing Croatian political party inspired by the work of Josip Frank, a fervent nationalist. The party had reportedly not managed to win more than a few seats in the 300-strong legislative. In 1928, when Stjepan Radić was assassinated in the Yugoslav parliament, a year before king Alexander I would establish his dictatorship, Šufflay wrote "Hrvatska u svijetlu svjetske historije i politike" (Croatia in the Light of World History and Politics). He
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Girve Fretz


Claude Girven (Girve) Fretz (born March 4, 1927) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Erie in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 to 1993. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Born in Ridgeway, Ontario, Fretz worked as a retail merchant for many years before entering politics. He served as both Mayor and Regional Councillor for the city of Fort Erie from 1977 to 1978. He won the Progressive Conservative Party nomination for Erie riding in 1979 and
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Lance Barnard


Lance Herbert Barnard AO (1 May 19196 August 1997) was an Australian politician and diplomat. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1954 to 1975, representing the Labor Party, and served as the party's deputy leader from 1967 to 1974. In the Whitlam Government, he was deputy prime minister from 1972 to 1974. After leaving politics he served as Ambassador to Norway, Finland, and Sweden from 1975 to 1978. Barnard was born in Launceston, Tasmania, one of four children born to Herbert Claude
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Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago)


Muslims were said to be less loyal to the party than Indian Hindus. The party symbol was a flaming torch. The DLP was formed through the merger of three Opposition parties in the Legislative Council, the People's Democratic Party, the Trinidad Labour Party and the Party of Political Progress Groups. Also joining was Stephen Maharaj, a member of the Butler Party. The three parties aligned with the Democratic Labour Party of the West Indies Federation under the leadership of Sir Alexander Bustamante and merged to form a single national party. The
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Alexander Shalamberidze


Alexander Shalamberidze () (30 March 1958 – 1 July 2015) was a Georgian politician. Shalamberidze was involved in the anti-Soviet Georgian national movement in the late 1980s. He was in office of the President, Curator to Imereti Region 1991-1991. 1992-2003 Executive Secretary of the political party Union of Georgian Traditionalists. Member of parliament, 5th Term of the Parliament of Georgia 20-11-1999 - 22-04-2004. Member of parliament, 6th Term of the Parliament of Georgia 22-
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2011 Scottish Conservative Party leadership election


MSP and Liz Smith MSP endorse Murdo Fraser. 30 Aug – Liz Smith is declared as Murdo Fraser's campaign manager. 1 Sep – Gavin Brown, formerly speculated as standing in the election, states that he will not run and lends his backing to Murdo Fraser. 2 Sep – Jackson Carlaw officially launches his leadership campaign in Glasgow. 4 Sep – Murdo Fraser makes the high-profile announcement that if elected leader, he would disband the Scottish Conservatives and seek to create a new centre-right party, autonomous but allied
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Claude Turmes


Claude Turmes (born 26 November 1960) is a Luxembourgish politician and a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Luxembourg. He is a member of the Green Party, part of the European Green Party. Turmes has been a member of the European Parliament since the 1999 European elections. In parliament, he first served on the Committee on Budgetary Control before joining the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy in 2002. In this capacity, he served as rapporteur on the 2008 draft of the EU Renewable Energy Directive
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Green Party of Bulgaria


The Green Party is a centre-left political party. It was founded in 1989 in Sofia as the Green Party of Bulgaria. The initiator for the establishment of the party and its long-time chairman was Alexander Karakachanov. The Green Party was established on December 28, 1989 by Alexander Karakachanov and activists of the largest dissident movement "Ecoglastnost" under the name of The Green Party in Bulgaria and recorded in court in 1990 under the new Law on Political Parties. Right after its formation, the Green party became a part
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Alexander Trishatny


Alexander Iosifovich Trishatny () (1870 — after 1920) — a Russian right wing politician, one of the founders and leaders of the Union of the Russian People ("URP"), a loyalist right-wing nationalist party, the most important among Black-Hundredist monarchist and antisemitic political organizations in the Russian Empire of 1905–1917; Deputy Chairman of URP, member of its first Board and one of the authors of the URP Charter. Concurrently, in 1905 was a leader of URP peripheral branch in Yaroslavl. Alexander Trishatny
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Alexander Bittelman


Alexander "Alex" Bittelman (1890–1982) was a Russian-born Jewish-American communist political activist, Marxist theorist, influential theoretician of the Communist Party USA and writer. A founding member, Bittelman is best remembered as the chief factional lieutenant of William Z. Foster and as a longtime editor of "The Communist", its monthly magazine. Alexander Bittelman was born in Berdichev (Berdychiv), in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) on January 9, 1890. He was radicalized at an
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National Unity Party (Haiti)


The National Unity Party (, PUN) is a political party in Haiti. It was the "de facto" only political party in the country during the Duvalier dynasty (), an authoritarian family dictatorship of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, which lasted from 1957 to 1986. The PUN was founded in 1957 as a political platform to support the presidential candidacy of "Papa Doc" Duvalier in the 1957 general election. In the aftermath of the July 1958 coup
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Society of Experimental Psychologists


conduct plenary sessions in which members can present papers. It holds meetings every spring, scheduled by a member at the host university who serves as the chair of the SEP for that year. The meetings are open to all members and to students and faculty from the host university who are invited by the chair. Membership in the SEP is by invitation only and is considered to be a great honor because it represents significant accomplishment in the field of experimental psychology. The SEP currently admits at least 6 new members annually from among the
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Claude Wathey


Claude Wathey (full name Albert Claudius Wathey; 1926 – January 1998), was a prominent politician of the Democratic Party from the island of Sint Maarten. He was knighted by the Dutch Crown for his political longevity. Wathey championed political independence for the island in 1989, but was later convicted on charges of perjury; however, many on Sint Maarten felt the trial was nothing more than a witch hunt conducted by his rivals and adversaries in Curaçao and the Netherlands in order to break his monopoly on political power in Sint Maarten
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Gilles Grondin


of Shawinigan-Sud from 1977 to 1985. He did not run for re-election in 1985 and was succeeded by Claude Pinard. On 29 September 1986, Grondin won a by-election and filled the seat left by Jean Chrétien, becoming the Liberal Member for the district of Saint-Maurice. Chrétien had left federal politics in February that year and would stay out of office until he became Liberal party leader and subsequently Prime Minister. After serving in the remaining months of the 33rd Canadian Parliament, Grondin left federal politics
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People's Party of Georgia (country)


list, after which Koba Davitashvili became member of the Parliament of Georgia in the October 2012 elections. Then in Tbilisi City Council Koba Davitashvili was replaced by a member of the political council Kakhaber Firuashvili, who headed the Environmental Commission in the Sakrebulo. In 2013 Koba Davitashvili left the parliamentary majority and ran for the presidency and took 1,2% of votes, after which Davitashvili left the position of "People's Party" in April 2014 as well. On 27 June 2015, "People's Party" chose Alexander Shalaberidze, who
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Montenegrin Federalist Party


common goals of federalisation and obtaining autonomy for Montenegro. The two parties ran in coalition in 1926 local elections. In 1927, Montenegrin Federalist Party agreed a coalition with the Croatian Peasant Party. Afterwards, the party joined the Croatian Peasant Party and the Independent Democratic Party in the Peasant-Democratic Coalition and became a minor coalition member. In 1929, King Alexander established a dictatorship, officially changing the name of the country to Kingdom of Yugoslavia. All political parties were banned, and Montenegrin federalists cooperated with communists, and even plotted
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Belarusian Left Party "A Just World"


The Belarusian Left Party "A Just World" (, ) is a left-wing political party in Belarus, which opposes the government of president Alexander Lukashenko. Until October 2009 it was known as the Party of Belarusian Communists (, ). Founded as the Party of Belarusian Communists (PKB) in 1991 as the successor of the ruling Communist Party of Byelorussia, the organization originally emerged as one of the major political parties in independent Belarus. The Party of Communists of Belarus should be distinguished from the pro-Alexander Lukashenko
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Claude Hettier de Boislambert


"). As the RPF party began to break apart under the pressure of its own internal contradictions, Hettier de Boislambert did not join the 27 party members in the assembly who voted on 6 March 1952 to support the appointment as Prime Minister of Antoine Pinay. He chose to abstain in the vote to approve the composition of the Pinay government. Shortly after this Charles de Gaulle, who continued to direct the RPF from his lofty position above and beyond the political fray from his home in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises
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Humanist Party (Chile)


a member of the coalition Juntos Podemos Más (Together We Can Do/Achieve More). Their presidential candidate Tomás Hirsch won 5.37% of the vote in a 4-way race between Michelle Bachelet, Sebastián Piñera, and Joaquín Lavín in the 2005 elections. He polled 4th place and therefore did not make the runoff. On 12 March 2013 they selected economist and university professor Marcel Claude as their candidate for the 2013 presidential election. Since 2017, the Humanist party is part of the Broad Front, a new political coalition. Their
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Claude I. Bakewell


firm Bakewell & Church whose wife was a granddaughter of the first Missouri governor Alexander McNair. Claude Bakewell's great-grandfather was a Missouri judge, Robert Armytage Bakewell, who was married to Nancy de Laureal. Claude Bakewell graduated from St. Louis University High School and then in 1932 from Georgetown University. In 1935, he graduated from St. Louis University School of Law and became a lawyer in private practice. In the 25th Ward, he served as member of the board of aldermen of St. Louis, Missouri from 1941–45 and was
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Claude Beauchamp


Beauchamp to become their party's candidate for mayor in the 1994 municipal election. He declined the offer, saying that he was too busy with talks on the constitution. Beauchamp announced in November 1993 that he would run for mayor of Montreal, not as a Civic Party candidate but as the leader of his own political movement. Supported by incumbent councillor Nick Auf der Maur and former Civic Party leader Claude Dupras, he cast himself as a reformer who could change the culture of city hall, fix the economy, and create jobs
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Jean-Claude Juncker


presidency as Juncker's campaign director, head of Juncker's transition team and finally as Juncker's head of cabinet (chief of staff). Almost all major European political parties, put forward a lead candidate, or "spitzenkandidat" for their respective election campaign. At the election Congress of the European People's Party (EPP), held in Dublin on 6–7 March, Jean-Claude Juncker was elected the party's lead candidate for President of the Commission, defeating Michel Barnier. The congress also adopted the EPP election manifesto
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David Knezek


David Knezek (born August 13, 1986) is an American politician who formerly represented the 5th District in the Michigan Senate. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to his election to the Michigan Senate in 2014, Knezek served as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2013-2014. Knezek was defeated by Betty Jean Alexander in the Democratic primary election held on August 7, 2018. Alexander succeeds Knezek. David Knezek has a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Michigan-Dearborn
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Bernard Pons


Bernard Pons (born 18 July 1926, Beziers) was a French politician and medical doctor who was a member of the Union of Democrats for the Republic from 1971 to 1976 and a member of the Rally for the Republic party thereafter. He has served as Secretary General of Rally for the Republic, Minister for Transport and continued as a special advisor to the Union for a Popular Movement until 2008 after his retirement from active politics in 2002. Born Claude Bernard Pons on 18 July 1926 in Beziers, Pons qualified as a doctor
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50PLUS


The 50PLUS (), abbreviated to 50+, is a political party in the Netherlands that advocates pensioners' interests. The party was founded in 2009 by Maurice Koopman, Alexander Münninghoff, and Jan Nagel, a politician formerly connected to the Labour Party and Livable Netherlands. Henk Krol has been the Leader since 2016. The party first participated in elections during the Dutch provincial elections of 2011. During these elections the party obtained 9 seats in the States-Provincial. In the Dutch Senate election of 2011 the members of the
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Vladimir Velebit


to Leskovac. Once there he hooked up with Communist Party (KPJ) members (a political party that was at the time an underground organization because of the ban on its activities in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and took part in starting the newspaper "Leskovačke nedeljne novine" that wasn't openly communist, but supported political opposition to the ruling coalition and by proxy to King Alexander I Karađorđević. Because of this Velebit got transferred again, this time to Priština where he was a judge in the County Court. The continual career
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Algie Martin Simons


Algie Martin Simons (1870–1950) was an American socialist journalist, newspaper editor, and political activist, best remembered as the editor of "The International Socialist Review" for nearly a decade. Originally an adherent of the Socialist Labor Party of America and a founding member of the Socialist Party of America, Simons' political views became increasingly conservative over time, leading him to be appointed on a pro-war "labor delegation" to the government of revolutionary Russia headed by Alexander Kerensky in 1917. Simons was a bitter opponent of
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Vpered


Vpered (, "Forward") was a subfaction within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). Although Vpered emerged from the Bolshevik wing of the party, it was critical of Lenin. The group was gathered by Alexander Bogdanov in December 1909 and was active until 1912. Other notable members of the group included Maxim Gorky, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Mikhail Pokrovsky, Grigory Aleksinsky, Stanislav Volski, and Martyn Liadov. Vpered developed in a political atmosphere of counterrevolution and squabbling for political control, authenticity and funds within the RSDLP
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