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Marc Spautz


Marc Spautz (born 10 April 1963 in Esch-sur-Alzette) is a Luxembourgian politician. He is a member of the Christian Social People's Party (CSV), sitting in the national legislature, the Chamber of Deputies, and the communal council of Schifflange. He is the son of Jean Spautz, a fellow CSV deputy and trade union leader, and a former President of the Chamber. Marc followed in his father's footsteps, becoming a member of the CSV in 1981. Spautz has been a councillor in
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Marcel Glesener


Marcel Glesener (born 17 April 1937, in Esch-sur-Alzette) is a Luxembourgish politician and trade unionist. He is a member of the Christian Social People's Party (CSV), sitting in the national legislature, the Chamber of Deputies. Glesener has been a member of the CSV since 1957. He was President of the CSV-leaning Luxembourg Confederation of Christian Trade Unions (LCGB) between 1980 and 1996, succeeding Jean Spautz. Glesener was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 1989 elections, representing
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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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Werner-Cravatte Ministry


At the Chamber of Deputies' session of 15 November, Jean Spautz acted as the spokesman of the young militants of the CSV, who were increasingly unhappy that the military controversy was affecting their party, and demanded the abolition of conscription. This initiative, which took the socialist coalition partners by surprise, as well as the leaders of the CSV, caused a government crisis. At the end of this, the government took steps to abolish conscription. An agreement was reached with NATO's authorities: Luxembourg would maintain a volunteer army
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Werner-Cravatte Ministry


which represented the interests of those forcibly conscripted into the Wehrmacht during the war, the Popular Independent Movement ("Mouvement indépendant populaire"), received two seats. After long negotiations, the CSV and LSAP formed a grand coalition. The near-equal size of the two parties in the Chamber caused tensions within the coalition on several occasions. A first change took place after the death of Nicolas Biever, who was replaced by Antoine Krier. In late 1966, the parliamentary intervention of Jean Spautz demanding the abolition of conscription provoked
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Marcelle Lentz-Cornette


She served only one term (until 1984), having become one of Luxembourg's six Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in 1980, replacing Jean Spautz. Lentz-Cornette sat in the European Parliament for two terms, including one full term, until 1989. During this time, she became friend with Otto von Habsburg and Simone Veil. In that year, she joined the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, of which she remained a member until 1999. During one of her official mission in Latin America
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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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Werner-Thorn-Flesch Ministry


, several ministerial reshuffles took place. Jean Wolter died on 22 February 1980, and was replaced by Jean Spautz, a former metal-worker and trade unionist. From 22 November 1980, Colette Flesch succeeded Gaston Thorn, who was appointed to head the Commission of the European Communities. On 3 December 1982, Camille Ney resigned for health reasons. Ernest Muhlen was promoted to minister, while Jean-Claude Juncker joined the government as Secretary of State for Work and Social Security. In the period 1979-1984, two problems
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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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Jean-Baptiste Manwangari


Jean-Baptiste Manwangari is a Burundian born in the 50s. It is from the Kirundo Province and more precisely in Busoni commune in northern Burundi.He was a member of the Pan-African Parliament from Burundi. Manwangari is a member of the nationalist Union for National Progress party . He is also a Tutsi.Since the beginning of his political career(under the chairmanship of President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza), he is a very influential members of Union for National Progress party of which he was the chairman. Indeed, member of
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Nova Civitas


, with a big centre-right/right-wing political party alliance in Flanders, including VLD, Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams, New Flemish Alliance and Vlaams Belang. At the time, this stirred controversy and several Nova Civitas members were rebuked by the VLD. Senators Hugo Coveliers and Jean-Marie Dedecker were even forced to leave the party in the ensuing turmoil. In 2007, Nova Civitas member Jean-Marie Dedecker started his own political party, the eponymous List Dedecker (now: Libertarian, Direct, Democratic)
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Strength in Democracy


leader on January 3, 2016. The party was deregistered by Elections Canada on September 9, 2016. The Strength in Democracy party was formed on October 21, 2014, by Jean-François Fortin, a member of the Bloc Québécois, and Repentigny MP Jean-François Larose, a member of the New Democratic Party. The two MPs stated that the four major federal parties in Quebec (the Conservatives, New Democratic Party (NDP), Liberals, and Bloc Québécois) were focused on power and politics over representing their
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Juncker–Poos Ministry


Wolter took over the Ministries of the Interior, the Civil and Administrative Reform, while Erna Hennicot-Schoepges became Minister for National Education and Vocational Training, Minister for Culture and Minister for Religion. Jean Spautz became President of the Chamber of Deputies, and was no longer part of the new government. During the formation of the government, a new Ministry of Women was created, and given to Marie-Josée Jacobs. A ministerial reshuffle took place on 30 January 1998 after the resignations of Marc Fischbach and Johny Lahure. Marc
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National Republican Movement


The National Republican Movement ("Mouvement National Républicain" or MNR) is a French nationalist political party, created by Bruno Mégret with former Club de l'Horloge members Yvan Blot (also a member of GRECE) and Jean-Yves Le Gallou, as a split from Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front on 24 January 1999. Although some political observers have labelled the MNR as a "far-right" party, the MNR presents itself as classical liberal and nationalist. It opposes immigration, Islamisation, philo-Semitism and
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Jean Rey (politician)


European Movement from 1974 to 1978 and was member of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe. In 1979, he became member of the first European Parliament elected by universal suffrage. Jean Rey also remained active in Belgian politics. He became the "éminence grise" of the French-speaking liberals who broke away from the unitary Party for Freedom and Progress to form the Parti Réformateur et Libéral Wallon (PRLW) in 1976. Jean Rey died in his native city Liège. In the European Quarter of Brussels, there is now a
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World Conference on Women, 1985


president; Yvette Roudy, the French Minister of Women's Rights; Jean Spautz of Luxembourg; Tom Vraalsen of Norway; among others. After opening remarks by Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi welcomed participants, expressing his hope that the conference would prove successful and that the objectives for women would not be obscured by distractions. Opening remarks by Margaret Kenyatta on the history of the conference were followed by the general discussion. The general session discussed that women ought to be
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Esch-sur-Alzette


is Vera Spautz, of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP). The governing majority on the council consists of the LSAP and The Greens. The council that is currently in office reflects the 2011 local election results. Its mandate will run out in January 2018. 'G' denotes parties that went on to form the governing majority. The most recent elections were held on 8 October 2017; the results are listed below. This new council will take office in January 2018. After the elections, a coalition agreement
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Strength in Democracy


Strength in Democracy (French: Forces et Démocratie, ) was a Canadian federal political party founded in 2014 by two Quebec Members of Parliament (MPs). From October 2014 to October 2015, the party was represented in the House of Commons of Canada by its two founding members, Jean-François Fortin and Jean-François Larose. The party was led from its inception by Fortin. The party failed to win a seat in the 2015 federal election, and both its sitting MPs were defeated. Fortin announced his resignation as
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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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Jean-Vincent Placé


Jean-Vincent Placé (born 12 March 1968) is a South Korean-born, French Green politician. Adopted by a French family as a child, Placé entered politics as a member of the Radical Party of the Left before joining Europe Ecology – The Greens. He and fellow Green François de Rugy left the party in 2015 to found their own Ecologist Party. He formerly was Senator for the department of Essonne, Secretary of State for State Reform and Simplification in the Second Valls government, and president of political group .
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Jean Juventin


Jean Juventin (9 March 1928 – 28 May 2019) was a French politician. He was mayor of Papeete from 1977 to 1995. He was also president of the Assembly of French Polynesia from 1988 to 1991 and again from 1992 to 1995 and a deputy of the National Assembly for French Polynesia's 1st constituency from 1978 to 1986 and 1993 to 1997. He was a member of the Rally for the Republic political party. School teacher then school director, Jean Juventin is a member of the autonomist party Here I created in
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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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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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Jhemp Bertrand


Jean-Pierre "Jhemp" Bertrand (1921 – 1 July 2008) was a politician and activist in Luxembourg. He was a councillor in Schuttrange for 43 years, and was a perennial candidate. A tax collector by profession, Bertrand became an anarcho-capitalist and tax resister. Bertrand started politics as a member of the Democratic Party, before founding a number of parties to advance his politics, including the Liberal Party (1979), the Republican Party (1989), the Party for Regional and Real Politics (1994
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Socialist Party of France – Jean Jaurès Union


The Socialist Party of France – Jean Jaurès Union (, PSdF) was a political party in France founded in 1933 during the late Third Republic which united the right-wing of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO). The PSdF was formed by neosocialist members of the SFIO expelled from the party in 1933. These included Marcel Déat, Paul Ramadier and Adrien Marquet. The party was weak and merged with the Republican-Socialist Party and the French Socialist Party to form the Socialist Republican Union (USR)
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Jean-Guy Guilbault


Jean-Guy Guilbault (born 14 March 1931) was a member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a businessman by career. Guilbault attended schools in Drummondville and Montreal. In federal politics, represented the Quebec riding of Drummond where he was first elected in the 1984 federal election and re-elected in 1988, therefore becoming a member in the 33rd and 34th Canadian Parliaments. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative party. Guilbault left federal politics after his defeat in the 1993 federal election to Pauline Picard
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Jean Alain Rodríguez Sánchez


Jean Alain Rodríguez Sánchez (born May 10, 1975) is a Dominican lawyer and politician who is the current Attorney General of the Dominican Republic. He was appointed to the position of President Danilo Medina. Before becoming Attorney General, Jean Alain served as the executive director of the CEI-RD (2012-2016).Rodríguez Sánchez is a member of the Central Committee of the Dominican Liberation Party (, or PLD), the current governing political party in Dominican Republic. Jean Alain Rodríguez Sánchez was born on May 10, 1975 in
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Supranational union


One of the Communities was defined in the treaty with a Commission with fewer members than the number of its member states.) Thus, the members of the Commission are becoming predominantly party-political, and composed of sometimes rejected, disgraced or unwanted national politicians. The first president of the High Authority was Jean Monnet, who never joined a political party, as was the case with most of the other members of the Commissions. They came from diverse liberal professions, having made recognised European contributions. Governments also wish to retain
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Jean-Christophe Canter


(INHESJ), which is under the auspices of the Prime Minister’s administration. Politically, Jean-Christophe Canter is known to promote the social values of the popular right wing within the UMP party. His vision of the European Union does not include Turkey, as promoted by other members of the UMP, but rather one that would welcome East European countries into the Union, such as Russia and Ukraine. Jean-Christophe Canter was elected mayor of Senlis in 2008 without the support of his own party, the UMP,
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Jean Miruho


Jean Miruho was a Congolese politician who served as President of Kivu Province. Jean Miruho was born in Kabare, Belgian Congo. He was a Catholic and worked as a cashier at the Banque du Congo Belge. He was a member of the Centre du Regroupement Africain (CEREA), a political party based in Kivu Province, and organised a chapter of the organisation in Goma and the surrounding area. The party later divided and he became leader of a moderate splinter faction based in North Kivu. In January 1960 he assisted an
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Pole of Communist Revival in France


The Pole of Communist Revival in France (, PRCF) is a French political party founded in January 2004. It was an internal tendency of the French Communist Party (PCF) that left the party, rejecting the PCF's "mutation" beginning in the early 1990s. The president-delegate of the PRCF is Leon Landini, the president of the National Political Committee (CPN) is Jean-Pierre Hemmen, the national, directing political spokesman of "Communist Initiative" is George Gastaud, and George Hage, a member
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French Section of the Workers' International


non-distinction between political and industrial aims. In addition, some CGT members refused to join the SFIO, because they considered it extremist. They created the Republican-Socialist Party (PRS). In contrast to other European socialist parties, the SFIO was a decentralized organization. Its national and executive institutions were weakened by the strong autonomy of its members and local levels of the party. Consequently, the function of secretary general, held by Louis Dubreuilh until 1918, was essentially administrative and the real political leader was Jean Jaurès
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Jean-Robert Gauthier


Jean-Robert Gauthier, (October 22, 1929 – December 10, 2009) was a Canadian politician. A chiropractor by training, he entered politics as trustee on a local school board. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada to represent the riding of Ottawa East in the 1972 election as a Liberal Party Member of Parliament. He remained its representative for several decades winning by large majorities each time in the safe Liberal seat. In 1984, he was appointed opposition whip and became a member of the party
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Anderz


Anderz or Sociaal - Libertijns Verzet Anderz was a Belgian libertarian political party founded in 2014 by the Belgian economist, author and former member of the Belgian Parliament. Jean-Pierre Van Rossem. 'Sociaal - Libertijns Verzet Anderz" can loosely be translated as "Social libertarian Resistance Different". The party was founded in June 2014 by Jean-Pierre Van Rossem and 5 other members after the dissolution of Rossem after losing the election of the European, Flemish and Belgian federal elections in May 2014. Anderz was originally meant as a
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Ruthild Hahne


movement and Communist Party. In 1930 she first met Jean Weidt, and in the early 1930s was a member of Weidt's expressionist "Red Dancers" company. Between 1931 and 1933 she took part in performances at Communist Party events. In 1933 she even took part in the first Theatre Olympiad Review in Moscow. However, 1933 was also the year in which, in January, the political backdrop was transformed when the Nazi Party took power and converted Germany into a one-party dictatorship. Jean Weidt himself fled abroad in
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Centrist Alliance


The Centrist Alliance () (AC) is a centrist political party in France. It was founded in June 2009 by Jean Arthuis, a former member of the Union for French Democracy (UDF) and currently Member of European parliament, where he also serves as chair of the Committee on Budgets. The party is seen as a successor to Arthuis' Rally the Centrists ("Rassembler les centristes") political association, whose main tenet was to re-create the UDF which was dissolved upon creation of the MoDem and the
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Jean-Jacques Ekindi


Jean-Jacques Ekindi (born January 1945) is a Cameroonian politician. He has been the National President of the Progressive Movement ("Mouvement Progressiste", MP), an opposition political party, since its foundation in 1991, and he was a Deputy in the National Assembly of Cameroon from 2007 to 2013. Ekindi was born in Douala. Early in his political career, he was a member of the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (UPC). He was politically active while studying in France, and he was
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Freedom Party of Austria


several European political parties and groupings. Additionally, according to political analyst Thomas Hofer, the party's policies and brash style helped inspire like-minded parties across Europe. From 1978 to 1993, under the party's liberal leadership, the party was a member of the Liberal International. In the early years of Haider's leadership, meetings were held with figures such as Jean-Marie Le Pen of the French National Front and Franz Schönhuber of the German Republicans. In the late 1990s, however, he chose to distance himself
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Jean-Yves Le Gallou


Jean-Yves Le Gallou is a French politician. He served as a member of the European Parliament since the 1994 election. Le Gallou began his political career as a member of the Republican Party, although in 1974 he joined Yvan Blot in setting up the Club de l'Horloge. As the club developed links with GRECE Le Gallou grew in importance as he served as a link between the "Nouvelle Droite" tendency and mainstream politics. Le Gallou grew close to the National Front and helped to develop their "préférence nationale" policy
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Jean-Marc Jacob


Jean-Marc Jacob (born 18 February 1947) was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 1997. He is a veterinarian by career. He was elected in the Charlesbourg electoral district under the Bloc Québécois party in the 1993 federal election, thus serving in the 35th Canadian Parliament. On 28 April 1997, Jacob lost his riding's party nomination in the riding to Richard Marceau for the 1997 federal election after which he left Canadian politics. Jacob faced accusations that he advised Quebec members of the Canadian
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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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Political parties in Belgium


right-liberal" parties: MEP Ward Beysen (Liberaal Appèl, LA), senator Leo Govaerts (Veilig Blauw), senator Hugo Coveliers (VLOTT), VLD board member Boudewijn Bouckaert (Cassadra vzw) and senator Jean-Marie Dedecker (Lijst Dedecker, LDD). The first communist party in Belgium was founded by the more radical elements of the Belgian Labour Party in 1921 and was named the Communist Party of Belgium (KPB-PCB). The party was a member of the Comintern and entered parliament in 1925
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Jean-Luc Dehaene


Jean Luc Joseph Marie "Jean-Luc" Dehaene (; 7 August 1940 – 15 May 2014) was a Belgian politician who served as Prime Minister of Belgium from 1992 until 1999. During his political career, he was nicknamed "The Plumber" and "The Minesweeper" for his ability to negotiate political deadlocks. A member of the "Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams" (CD&V) party and its antecedents, Dehaene gained his first ministerial appointment in 1981. Dehaene's first government (1992–1995) included both Christian and Social
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Rally the Centrists


Rally the Centrists () is a French political association founded on July 16, 2008 by Jean Arthuis, a centrist Senator of Mayenne. The association unites elected officials and activists of centrist political ideology, most of which used to be members of the Union for French Democracy (UDF). The association's goal is to prepare the creation of a new centrist political party which would unite all the centrist forces, currently divided between parties such as the Democratic Movement, New Centre, Radical Party, Civic Alliance for Democracy in Europe
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Jean-Michel Bokamba-Yangouma


the single party rule of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT), he also became a member of the PCT Political Bureau in 1979 and was assigned responsibility for party organization. In addition, he was Secretary of the Central Committee in charge of the coordination of the party and the activities of mass organizations from 1984 to 1990. In 1989, he was assigned responsibility for the coordination of the activities of mass organizations in the Political Bureau; for Bokamba-Yangouma, who had been the regime's third-ranking figure, the
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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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Jean-Chrysostome Weregemere


they allowed him to find work. The administration in turn asked him to promise to abstain from politics. Weregemere gave them an ambivalent answer but nevertheless was able to become an accountant. In 1958 Bralima Brewery in Bukavu hired him as an agent. On 23 August 1958 Weregemere joined 11 other Congolese in forming the Centre du Regroupement Africain (CEREA) party. Party members nominated him as chairman of the sectional committee for Bukavu and as a member of the political bureau, and he was appointed secretary of peasant affairs. He then
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La France Insoumise


(EELV). These organizations are not themselves parts of the movement. The Left Party, of which Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a member, is the main political force involved in the movement. Several of its executives are organizing the campaign. The French Communist Party (PCF) is split on support for the movement. The party's national conference rejected a motion of support for Mélenchon by 55% on 5 November 2016, but party members voted three weeks later in favour of support, by 53.6%. Several executive
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2007 Belgian federal election


political parties Vivant (left-liberal) and Liberal Appeal (Liberaal Appèl) (right-liberal). The VLD has seen some infighting in the last years, resulting in two prominent members leaving the party, Hugo Coveliers (VLOTT) and Jean-Marie Dedecker (Lijst Dedecker). After the 2006 municipal elections, the party had tried to revamp itself with the newly named Open VLD cartel, under direction of noted political strategist Noël Slangen. Groen! is an ecological party, and the successor of Agalev. It
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Jean Landry (Canadian politician)


Jean Landry (born 3 October 1948 in Saint-Valère, Quebec) was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 1997. His career has included photography and food preparation. He was elected in the Lotbinière electoral district under the Bloc Québécois party in the 1993 federal election, thus he served in the 35th Canadian Parliament. He left the party and ran as an independent candidate in the 1997 federal election. He lost the riding and left Canadian politics afterwards. He joined the federalist Progressive Conservative party for
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Jeane Freeman


College of Technology and studied sociology and politics. Freeman was a leading member of the Communist Party's student wing and in 1979 she became the first woman to chair the National Union of Students Scotland. In 1983 Freeman was a member of the Communist party's Congress Arrangements Committee which oversaw the running of that year's party congress. In 1987, Freeman established Apex Scotland, a criminal justice employment organisation for which she served as Chief Executive for twelve years. She was appointed as a member of the Parole Board for Scotland in
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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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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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Jean Messiha


Jean Messiha (born Hossam Messiha, 1970) is an Egyptian-born French economist, high-ranking civil servant, political advisor and candidate. He became the deputy under-secretary of management at the Ministry of Defence in 2014. A member of the nationalist, right-wing party National Rally since 2016, he is the spokesperson of the "Horaces", a group of high-ranking civil servants and business executives who meet once a month to discuss the party platform. He was a candidate in the 2017 French
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Jean Allaire


Jean Allaire (born 1930) was the author of the Allaire Report, and subsequently in 1994 the first leader of the fiscally conservative, autonomist provincial level political party in Quebec, the Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ). Allaire resigned within a few months for health reasons and was succeeded by Mario Dumont. Prior to joining the ADQ, Allaire was an influential member of the Quebec Liberal Party. He and Mario Dumont, organized a group a Liberal dissidents called the Network of Liberals for the No, that campaigned against the
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Parti canadien


The Parti canadien () or Parti patriote () was a primarily francophone political party in what is now Quebec founded by members of the liberal elite of Lower Canada at the beginning of the 19th century. Its members were made up of liberal professionals and small-scale merchants, including François Blanchet, Pierre-Stanislas Bédard, John Neilson, Jean-Thomas Taschereau, James Stuart, Louis Bourdages, Denis-Benjamin Viger, Daniel Tracey, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Andrew Stuart and Louis-Joseph Papineau. The British Government established
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Ensemble!


, Clémentine Autain and Jean-François Pellissier. Two Members of Parliament, Jacqueline Fraysse and François Asensi, both former communists who left the French Communist Party in 2010, were, until it was dissolved in 2015, members of the FASE, one of the original constituent groups of Ensemble. An unknown number of local elected officials (including Mayors) and councillors are also members or associates of Ensemble. Philippe Marlière, professor of political science at University College London, and a long-standing member of the French Socialist Party,
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Municipal Action Group


later became divided between its radical and centrist members, with some of the centrists forming the nucleus of the MAG. Both parties were regarded as being to the left of mayor Jean Drapeau's Civic Party, which dominated city politics in this period. The MAG's founding members included two sitting councillors who had been elected for the MCM — Nick Auf der Maur and Bob Keaton — and Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Serge Joyal, who was nominated as the party's candidate for mayor. Both the MAG and the MCM
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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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Alsatian Workers and Peasants Party


The Alsatian Workers and Peasants Party (, ), initially the Opposition Communist Party of Alsace-Lorraine ( abbreviated KPO, ), was a political party in Alsace-Lorraine. The party was led by Jean-Pierre Mourer and Charles Hueber. The party was founded in late October 1929. The party was a member of the International Communist Opposition, but was expelled from the organization in 1934 and gradually moved towards pro-Nazi positions. The party emerged from a split in the Alsatian federation of the French Communist Party (
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Jean-François Lisée


Jean-François Lisée (born February 13, 1958 in Thetford Mines) is a Quebec nationalist politician who served as the leader of the Parti Québécois from October 2016 until October 2018. He was first elected a member of the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2012 Quebec election in the electoral district of Rosemont. Prior to winning political office, he was a political analyst, journalist, author, intellectual and sovereignist thinker. He was a "special advisor" to former PQ premiers of Quebec Jacques Parizeau and Lucien Bouchard. Prior
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Jean-Félix Tchicaya


representatives of the Niari department: , Auguste Nzoungou, Raymond Ango; Of the elected representatives of the Pool department: Prosper Decorad, Louis Vouama, Toundé Néré, Jean Maniaki, Nicolas Bakala and the elected member of the Kouilou department: . Tchitchellé joined Abbé Youlou to establish the UDDIA (Democratic Union for the defence of African interests). The latter party, by mobilizing the laris politically, takes political leadership on the CPP. and allowed Stéphane Tchitchelle to become the first indigenous mayor of Pointe-Noire, before occupying several
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Brian Jean


Brian Michael Jean (born February 3, 1963) is a Canadian politician who was the Leader of the Opposition of Alberta and the last leader of the Wildrose Party (2015-2017). He was a federal Member of Parliament who represented the riding of Athabasca from 2004 to 2006 and Fort McMurray—Athabasca from 2006 to 2014 in the House of Commons. After resigning from the House in 2014, he returned to political life in February 2015 by announcing he would seek the leadership of the Wildrose Party. He was elected
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Laurier Lévesque


, and 1970. In the 1974 election, he lost by 95 votes to the Progressive Conservative candidate Jean-Pierre Ouellet in the newly created riding of Madawaska-les-Lacs. Without the Parti acadien contesting the riding, Lévesque may have won. The Parti acadien received 99 votes, ones that are generally accepted as being traditional Liberal supporters. Laurier Lévesque attempted a political comeback in the City of Edmundston riding in 1982 but lost to Jean-Maurice Simard. As a Member of the Legislative Assembly in the government of Premier
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Jean Blondel


". Blondel is particularly noted for the contributions he has made to the theory of party systems, the comparative study of cabinets, and the relations between parties and governments. In honour of his work, the ECPR has since October 2003 awarded the annual Jean Blondel PhD Prize for the best thesis in politics nominated by a member institution in a given year. His work has focused recently in a comparison of different presidential systems across the globe, with a particular emphasis on Latin America, Africa and the ex-Soviet republics.
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Hugo Coveliers


, and starting his own political party VLOTT in the fall of 2005. This party is willing to work together with the Vlaams Belang (VB) and formed a cartel with it for the Antwerp city elections in October 2006. He also became the subject of the first known Googlebomb in Belgium. After the dismissal of Jean-Marie Dedecker from the VLD, Coveliers, Dedecker and Boudewijn Bouckaert (and other Nova Civitas members) started negotiations to form a new right-wing liberal party. Coveliers and members of VLOTT stood on
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Union for a Popular Movement


Chirac and later Sarkozy 'postponed' the creation of such organised movements indefinitely. Nevertheless, prior to the organisations of formal "movements" in November 2012, there existed informal groupings of like-minded members, either through associations, political clubs, associated political parties or even informal factions. Jean-François Copé allowed for the organisation of formal movements within the party following the November 2012 congress. According to the party's statutes, motions backed by at least 10 parliamentarians from 10 departmental federations and which obtain at least 10%
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Montreal Citizens' Movement


New Democratic Party (NDP); union activists from the Montreal Councils of the CSN and FTQ federations; and many others with backgrounds in student, community or political movements. Amongst the founders were journalist Nick Auf der Maur, Louise Harel, later a member of the Provincial government, and other activists who were not satisfied with the management style of the administration Jean Drapeau. While FRAP had seen itself as a radical social movement as well as a municipal political party, the MCM defined itself as an electoralist party with firm community
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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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Jean Henderson


then practised as a barrister on the London and Midland Circuits. She sat as an independent member of five Industrial Wages Councils and was Head of Chambers, 5 Pump Court Chambers, Temple, from 1970-1979. She also sat as a Justice of the Peace at Willesden. Jean Henderson was strongly influenced by her parents. She followed her father’s politics and supported the Liberal Party all her life but she was independent and determined enough to choose her own political beliefs and causes. She fought three general elections for the Liberals
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Western Goals Institute


populist right-wing political party led by Jean-Marie Le Pen. On 12 October 1989, the Western Goals Institute hosted a controversial fringe meeting at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, at which Pierre Ceyrac, a Front National Member of the European Parliament, was the Guest Speaker. Western Goals also hosted a widely reported dinner for Jean-Marie Le Pen, whom they had invited to Britain, at the Charing Cross Hotel in the Strand, London in December 1991. There was a large demonstration against the dinner outside
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Electoral history of Kim Campbell


resignation. Jean Charest became the party leader. Campbell stood for election to the Commons twice: she won her seat in 1988, and was defeated in 1993. She served in the Commons for four years, eleven months, and three days. Prior to entering federal politics, Campbell had been on the Vancouver School Board, and then a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, elected as a member of the Social Credit Party of British Columbia. In 1986, she entered the leadership race for the Social Credit party
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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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Jean Arthuis


Jean Georges Arthuis (born 7 October 1944 in Saint-Martin-du-Bois, Maine-et-Loire) is a French politician. Over the course of career, he has held various ministerial positions and served as Member of the European Parliament from France, where he chaired the Committee on Budgets. He also serves as Senator representing Mayenne in the French Parliament. He is the President of the Centrist Alliance political party and was a member of the ALDE group in the European Parliament. Arthuis was born in 1944 in
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Jean-Pierre Brard


Jean-Pierre Brard, (born 7 February 1948 in Flers, Orne), is a French politician. Initially a teacher, he entered politics and was elected was deputy mayor of Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, a post he held until 1984 when he was elected mayor of the same city. He remained mayor until March 2008. He is a member of the Convention for a Progressive Alternative (CAP) and a deputy to the French National Assembly since 1988. A former member of the French Communist Party (
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Jean-Pierre Jolivet


Jean-Pierre Jolivet was a politician in Quebec, Canada. He served as Cabinet Member and Member of the National Assembly of Quebec. He was born in 1941 in Montreal and grew up in the Mauricie area. He attended Séminaire Sainte-Marie and obtained an Education Degree from Université Laval. Prior to entering politics, Jolivet was a teacher and a union activist. Jolivet ran as a Parti Québécois (PQ) candidate in the 1973 and 1976 provincial elections in the district of Laviolette. He was elected on his second attempt
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Jean Guy


for his campaign, he continued to feel that he would fit in better with the Democratic Party, which was widely outnumbered in Cass County by Republican voters. He confided to his wife that, "I am interested in politics, but there’s no future in North Dakota in politics unless you’re a part of the Republican Party." Jean Guy reportedly replied that, "Well there could be a Democratic Party in North Dakota if people wouldn’t give up before they start." Jean Guy persuaded her husband to run
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Hégésippe Légitimus


was followed shortly afterwards by other black deputies, Gratien Candace, Blaise Diagne, Ngalandou Diouf, Achille René-Boisneuf and Maurice Satineau. Légitimus was one of the founders of the Parti Ouvrier, the socialist party of Guadaloupe, which was politically aligned with that of mainland France. Hegesippe Jean Légitimus, councilor and mayor of Pointe-à-Pitre, founder of the socialist movement in Guadeloupe, Member of Parliament in Paris, scored heavily at the beginning of the century French political life. He was the first black to sit
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Nation (political party)


that members of NATION had been visiting Halal shops wearing pig masks, however it was never confirmed that they were members of NATION. It has been reported that Molenbeek-Saint-Jean is a safe haven for jihadists in relation to the support shown by some residents towards bombers who carried out the Paris and Brussels attacks. In response to this NATION organised a protest against then Socialist mayor, Philippe Moureaux. The party claims that Moureaux's due to his views and policies was responsible for a wave of terror attacks. Members of
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Jean-Jacques Aillagon


Jean-Jacques Aillagon (born 2 October 1946, Metz) is a French politician, a close confidant of Jacques Chirac and member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) political party. From 1972 to 1976 he was a high school teacher in the Corrèze region of France. From 1982 to 2002 he was an administrator and eventually Chairman of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. He became Minister of Culture and Communication in Jean-Pierre Raffarin's national government from 2002 to 2004. In 2005 he was elected CEO
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Jean Alfred Fraissinet


As a culmination of the right wing nationalist views he espoused in his newspapers, he was elected to the National Assembly of France, as a member of the National Centre of Independents and Peasants party, on 30 November 1958. Jean Fraissinet passed direction of the family concern to his son Roland. During Jean Fraissinet's four years in political office, he was a staunch advocate of retaining a French Algeria, thus being opposed to Charles de Gaulle's policies. Fraissinet's term ended on 9 October 1962; he was not re
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Jean-François Bertrand


Jean-François Bertrand is a Canadian former politician in Quebec, Canada. Bertrand served in the National Assembly of Quebec. He was born on June 22, 1946 in Cowansville, Quebec and has a degree in political science from Université Laval. He is the son of politicians Jean-Jacques and Gabrielle Bertrand. Bertrand became an executive member of the Parti Québécois in 1974 and was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 1976 election. He served as parliamentary assistant and Deputy House Leader from 1978 to the 1981 election.
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Harlem Désir


the post from another veteran who has also been convicted of financial misconduct, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis. He became the first black person to lead a major European political party. At the time of his election, he had never been a minister or member of the national parliament. Désir remained head of the party until April 2014, when he stood down after being appointed State Secretary for European Affairs. He was replaced by Jean-Christophe Cambadélis. His resignation was partly explained with his attitude during the Dibrani case. On 9
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Britannica Party


Britannica is a far-right political party in the United Kingdom, led by Charles Baillie, the former organiser of the British National Party's Glasgow branch. It was first registered in August 2011. The party was formed by Baillie when he, along with other leading members of the BNP in Scotland, was expelled for plotting against the then party leader, Nick Griffin. It is, in essence, the core of the BNP Glasgow branch, including Max Dunbar (treasurer and former treasurer of BNP Glasgow), Jean Douglas
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Socialism and Liberty Party


The Socialism and Liberty Party ( , (PSOL) ) is a Brazilian political party with 147,096 active members. PSOL is a left-wing to far-left party which is self-described as socialist and democratic. The party leader is Luiz Araújo and the federal deputies Ivan Valente, Chico Alencar, Jean Wyllys, Edmilson Rodrigues, Glauber Braga and Luiza Erundina, with a number of well-known Brazilian left-wing leaders and intellectuals, such as Guilherme Boulos, , Michael Löwy, Luciana Genro, , Marcelo Freixo
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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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Parti Communautaire National-Européen


The Parti communautaire national-européen (PCN) is a Belgium-based political organisation led by Luc Michel, a former member of the neo-Nazi FANE party. A largely National Bolshevik movement, it also has activists in France. The PCN was founded in 1984 as a successor to the similar "Parti Communautaire Européen". The party bases its ideas on those of Jean-François Thiriart (who served as an advisor to Michel for a time after the foundation of the group) and seeks the creation of a single
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Jean Alain Rodríguez Sánchez


obtained a Masters in Public Administration and Penal Law graduating summa cum laude. Rodríguez has practiced law for nearly 20 years, has been a professor in the faculties of Dominican Republic for over a decade and also holds a Masters in Spanish, English, French and Italian. Since the 1990s, Jean Rodríguez is an active member of the Dominican Liberation Party, where he studied politics. From then on, he has taken a role as member and campaign manager, contributing in the presidential campaigns of 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008
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Jean Nkuete


RDPC) on 9 December 2011. Nkuete was a member of the Central Committee and the Political Bureau of the ruling Cameroon National Union and remained in these positions when the party was transformed into the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (RDPC) in 1985. He left the Political Bureau in 1989, but remained a member of the Central Committee. On 4 April 2007, Biya, in his capacity as National President of the RDPC, appointed Nkuete as the RDPC's National Secretary for Economic and Social Affairs and Employment. During the
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Paul Rose (political figure)


member of the "Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale" political party, Rose's involvement with radical groups began in 1968 after meeting Jacques Lanctôt, a member of the FLQ, during a rally against Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau at the "Saint-Jean-Baptiste" parade. During what became known as the October Crisis, on October 5, 1970, members of the FLQ's Liberation Cell kidnapped the British Trade Commissioner James Cross from his Montreal home as part of a violent attempt to overthrow the elected government and to establish
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David Whissell


into provincial politics, he was the president of the Liberal Party of Canada association in the Argenteuil region. He was later the member for Argenteuil in the National Assembly of Quebec as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. He was first elected in a by-election on June 1, 1998, and was re-elected in the general elections held on November 30, 1998 and April 14, 2003. When the Liberals regained power he was named the Parliamentary secretary to Jean Charest. In 2005, after a Cabinet shuffle
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Fathers' rights movement by country


"Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting)" is currently registered as a political party with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC). Fathers' rights groups in Australia have condemned the actions of a militant men's group that engaged in criminal activities, including stalking and harassment. Since Sep 2006 the Belgian federal law on "co-parenté" came into effect. It introduced a presumption of dual location or shared residency which by law should be taken into serious consideration and thorough investigation with priority in each individual case by
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1998 Quebec general election


The Quebec general election of 1998 was held on November 30, 1998, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Parti Québécois, led by Premier Lucien Bouchard, won re-election, defeating the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Jean Charest. After the narrow defeat of the PQ's proposal for political independence for Quebec in an economic union with the rest of Canada in the 1995 Quebec referendum, PQ leader Jacques Parizeau resigned. Bouchard left federal politics, where he was leader
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Citizens' List


The Citizens' List (, ) is a Luxembourgian political party. It was founded in the run-up to the 2009 Chamber of Deputies election and European election. It ran in two circonscriptions; in Sud, the list was to be headed by Aly Jaerling, then an independent member of the Chamber of Deputies, whilst, in Nord, it was led by Jean Ersfeld, formerly leader of the Free Party of Luxembourg. The party stands for increased pension rights, following on from Jaerling's former membership of the (
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Pan-African Union for Social Democracy


the congress were a 601-member National Council, a 135-member Political Bureau, and 25 Vice-Presidents; the Vice-Presidents included major figures in the party such as Joseph Kignoumbi Kia Mboungou, Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty, Ange Edouard Poungui, Clément Mouamba, Jean Itadi, and Mireille Lissouba. Despite being in the opposition, UPADS chose to participate in the June 2007 parliamentary election, which was boycotted by many other opposition groups. The party put forward about 50 candidates. The party received three seats out the 46 declared in the
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Émilien Lafrance


Danville, later becoming the chairman. Lafrance was elected to the National Assembly in the 1952 Quebec election as a member for Richmond. As a member of the opposition during Maurice Duplessis' time as Premier, he served as the party's deputy whip, and later its chief whip. When Jean Lesage led the Liberal Party to victory in the 1960 election, Lafrance became Minister of Social Welfare, and later Minister of Family and Welfare in the . Lafrance played an interesting role in the politics of marijuana and other drugs in Quebec
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Blanke Bevrydingsbeweging


the ban on the BBB in February 1990. Schabort officially disbanded the BBB and the "Blanke Party" in 1990 and joined the Conservative Party. Some members of the BBB like Keith Conroy would go on to support the Afrikaner Volksfront. A few members, led by Jean Pierre du Plessis, sought to continue the BBB, with the BBB as the political wing to which would be added an underground organisation called the National Socialist Partisans (NSP). Schabort chose not to become involved. Du Plessis continued to form the NSP
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Lucile Schmid


the Europe Ecology – The Greens party (EELV). She is also a member of the founding college of the Political Ecology Foundation (alongside, among others, Jean-Paul Besset and Alain Lipietz)). During the cantonal elections of 2011, she was a candidate for the EELV in the canton of Issy-les-Moulineaux-East, she obtained 15.13% of the votes in the first round. In the second round, she supported the Socialist Party candidate. In the leadership of the party, she was
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