Yvette Cooper [SEP] member of political party
London School of Economics


of economics. In the political arena notable alumni and staff include, 53 past or present heads of state, 20 members of the current British House of Commons and 46 members of the current House of Lords. Former British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee taught at the school from 1912 to 1923. In recent British politics, former LSE students include Virginia Bottomley, Yvette Cooper, Edwina Currie, Frank Dobson, Margaret Hodge, Robert Kilroy-Silk and former UK Labour Party leader Ed Miliband. Internationally, Brazilian defence minister Celso Amorim
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Yvette Cooper


Yvette Cooper (born 20 March 1969) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford since 2010, having served as the MP for Pontefract and Castleford since 1997. She served in the Cabinet between 2008 and 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and then as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. After Labour lost the 2010 general election, Cooper was appointed as Shadow Foreign Secretary, then became Shadow Home Secretary in 2011.
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Labour Party leadership of Jeremy Corbyn


leadership contest, Corbyn decided to stand on an anti-austerity ticket, but was viewed by commentators as an outsider because of his left-wing views. Of the four candidates who stood (the others were Andy Burnham, Liz Kendall and Yvette Cooper) Corbyn received the lowest number of nominations from Labour parliamentarians, many of whom said they had only given him their backing to widen the political debate. However, Corbyn soon became the frontrunner, his chances aided by a change in party membership rules that allowed new members a
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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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Balliol College, Oxford


and President of the International Humanist and Ethical Union graduated in 2004. In politics, Balliol has produced four British Prime Ministers: H. H. Asquith, Harold Macmillan, Edward Heath and Boris Johnson as well as politicians with senior leadership positions in the three major political parties, including Jo Grimond, Denis Healey and Roy Jenkins. Labour Party MP, former cabinet minister and 2015 Labour leadership candidate Yvette Cooper and Conservative Party MP and government minister Rory Stewart are current politically prominent alumni. Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany from 1984 to
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2012 Bradford West by-election


, concentrating instead on meeting the electorate. Several senior Labour politicians, including Ed Miliband, Dennis Skinner, Yvette Cooper and Ed Balls, visited the constituency to support his campaign. Galloway's campaign sought to capitalise on discontent with the local Labour party and tension in the Asian community. He criticised the claimed role of "Baradari" (brotherhood) an Urdu word denoting a hierarchical system of clan politics) in the area's local politics, particularly the local Labour party. He said that Baradari was responsible for "second- and
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Yvette Cooper


of Brexit, Cooper tabled a private members bill which has the intended effect of preventing a "no-deal" Brexit. The Bill was voted to be discussed as an important bill using processes often used for issues of national security. MP's voted 312 to 311 in favour of allowing her bill to be fast tracked and it was made law on 8 April 2019. Cooper has said "Sexism in politics is nothing new when you're standing for election. But don't stand for election and it's almost as bad
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Pontefract


of Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons. When the general election of 1997 was called he stood down to allow Yvette Cooper to be selected as the Labour Party candidate for that election. He was made a peer on 11 June 1997. Yvette Cooper MP, was elected MP for the Pontefract and Castleford constituency at the 1997 general election. Cooper held a number of positions in the Labour governments up to 2010, followed by Shadow Cabinet roles (most notably Shadow Home Secretary) after the election of that year, but returned
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Labour Party leadership of Jeremy Corbyn


, the "Islington Tribune", that he would stand in the election on a "clear anti-austerity platform". He added: "This decision is in response to an overwhelming call by Labour Party members who want to see a broader range of candidates and a thorough debate about the future of the party. I am standing to give Labour Party members a voice in this debate". The other candidates were Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham and Shadow Care Minister Liz Kendall. Corbyn had
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Yvette Cooper


." Cooper supports Sure Start. She has consistently voted in favour of hunting bans. She opposed Donald Trump making an address to Parliament. She is a member of Labour Friends of Israel. Cooper married Ed Balls on 10 January 1998 in Eastbourne. Her husband was the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and a candidate in the 2010 Labour Party leadership election. The couple have two daughters and one son. Cooper and Balls were the first married couple to serve together in the British cabinet. In February 2013 she was assessed as
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2015 Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party leadership campaign


proposal was condemned by all three rival Leadership candidates, Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall, with Cooper stating that Corbyn's plan was "turning the clock back instead of tackling the problem", while Conservative Women's Minister Nicky Morgan said she was "uncomfortable with the idea", which sounded like "segregation". On 21 July 2015, a YouGov poll for "The Times", sampling the voting intentions of current Labour Party members, projected Corbyn to win the leadership election, with 43% of first
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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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2015 Labour Party (UK) leadership election


call". Carwyn Jones, leader of Welsh Labour and First Minister of Wales, congratulated Corbyn and urged the party to embrace the fact that the campaign had "energised a huge number of people who were previously disengaged from party politics" and unite around their new leader. Corbyn's rivals for the leadership each reacted to the result. Andy Burnham said that Jeremy Corbyn was a politician with "very deep beliefs, very strong principles" which voters would embrace. Burnham later replaced Yvette Cooper as Shadow Home Secretary after she announced
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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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Rupa Huq


same year, she was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election, although she later supported Yvette Cooper. Huq was appointed vice chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Music Group and All-Party Parliamentary on Crossrail. She is also chairing an All-Party Parliamentary Group on London, with specific reference to planning and the built environment. Since her election, Huq has also been a member of the Justice Select Committee. In April 2016, Huq defended suspended Labour MP Naz
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Jeremy Corbyn


in this debate". He indicated that, if he were elected, policies that he put forward would need to be approved by party members before being adopted and that he wanted to "implement the democratic will of our party". The other candidates were Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham and Shadow Care Minister Liz Kendall. Corbyn had the lowest number of nominations from fellow MPs of any Labour Party Leader, and several who nominated him later claimed to have ensured he had enough votes to stand,
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Julie Hilling


92 votes (0.19%), in a seat the Conservatives had targeted since the previous incumbent Ruth Kelly had become embroiled in the expenses scandal. She was appointed as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Yvette Cooper in her role as Shadow Women's and Equalities Minister in October 2010, the same month that she became a member of the Transport Select Committee. Hilling was appointed Chair of the all-party Rail in the North group of MPs. Julie also served on the Standards and Privileges Select Committee and is a member of the All
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Laura Kuenssberg


BBC had believed her safety was under threat because of online abuse considered to be mainly from supporters of Jeremy Corbyn. The BBC refused to comment about the story. The Labour politician Yvette Cooper defended the BBC's political editor: "It’s her job to ask difficult questions. It’s her job to be sceptical about everything we say." By the end of the campaign Kuenssberg was also being abused by some Conservative and UKIP supporters. At the Labour Party conference in Brighton in September 2017, Kuenssberg was accompanied by a
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Zac Goldsmith


Conservatives responded that it was "utterly predictable that Labour label their opponents as racists", citing the fact that during the 2008 mayoral campaign, the party had also accused Johnson of employing racist rhetoric. Goldsmith's campaign was criticised for using 'dog-whistle politics' and racist or Islamophobic campaigning. In April 2016 Labour MP Yvette Cooper wrote "What started as a subtle dog-whistle is becoming a full blown racist scream"; Conservative politician Baroness Warsi also criticised Goldsmith for using an image of the bus destroyed in the
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Jewish Labour Movement


's first female chair. Reginald Freeson served as the political secretary of Poale Zion, co-chair and editor of its journal "Vanguard" in the late 1980s to early 1990s. Poale Zion (Great Britain) was relaunched as the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) in 2004. There were JLM speakers at the official commemorations of the Battle of Cable Street on its 75th and 80th anniversaries. In the 2015 Labour Party leadership election, JLM nominated Yvette Cooper. In February 2016, Louise Ellman MP retired as Chair of the
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Yvette Cooper


On 13 May 2015, Cooper announced she would run to be Leader of the Labour Party in the leadership election following the resignation of Ed Miliband. Cooper came third with 17.0% of the vote in the first round. Cooper subsequently resigned as Shadow Home Secretary in September 2015. In October 2016, Cooper was elected chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee. Cooper was born on 20 March 1969 in Inverness, Scotland. Her father is Tony Cooper, former General Secretary of the Prospect trade union, a former non-executive
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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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Yvette Cooper


An investigation in MPs' expenses by Sir Thomas Legg found that Cooper and her husband had both received overpayments of £1,363 in relation to their mortgage. He ordered them to repay the money. After Labour were defeated at the 2010 general election, Cooper and her husband Ed Balls were both mentioned in the press as a potential leadership candidates when Gordon Brown resigned as Leader of the Labour Party. Before Balls announced his candidacy, he offered to stand aside if Cooper wanted to stand, but Cooper declined for the sake of their
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John Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington


in 2007, a position he held for 9 months focusing on the reorganisation and policing of the UK's borders. In 2011, he was appointed by Yvette Cooper MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Home Affairs to Chair an Independent Commission Policing Commission into the Future of Policing in England and Wales. The Commission, which reported its findings in Spring 2013, was set up in place of a Royal Commission and is made up of nearly 40 members all of whom are experts in the fields of academia, politics, national and
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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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Confederation of Revolutionary Anarcho-Syndicalists


-MPST members remaining in the CRAS-IWA and by new members. Both are autonomous in the frame of organizational and ideal principles of CRAS and of IWA. Members of CRAS-IWA can`t be persons exploiting the hired labor and members of political parties. There are no chiefs and paid functionaries in the organization. CRAS-IWA rejects participation in blocs and coalitions with any political party, but it is ready to cooperate (and it cooperates to the extent possible) with various civic, social, professional, environmental, and
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2012 Bahrain Grand Prix protests


drew closer, several British Members of Parliament — including Jeremy Corbyn, Peter Bottomley, Bob Russell, and Andy Slaughter — called for the immediate cancellation of the race, expressing concerns, "the Formula One race will be used by the Bahrain government as an endorsement of its policies of suppression of dissent". The Labour Party also appealed directly to British drivers Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton and Paul di Resta to boycott the race. Labour leader Ed Miliband and Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper openly called for the race to be cancelled
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Tim Loughton


Timothy Paul Loughton, (born 30 May 1962) is a British Conservative Party politician and former banker, who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for East Worthing and Shoreham since the 1997 general election. Loughton was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families from 2010–2012. In September 2016, Loughton was confirmed as the Acting Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee following the resignation of Keith Vaz until being replaced by Yvette Cooper the following month. He has been a keen supporter of Leave Means Leave,
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Yvette Cooper


of the cuts to child tax credit announced by George Osborne in the July 2015 Budget; she authored the following statement in the "New Statesman": In 2015, she was nominated as one of four candidates for the Labour leadership following the party's defeat at the 2015 general election and the resignation of Ed Miliband. Cooper was nominated by 59 MPs, 12 MEPs, 109 CLPs, two affiliated trade unions and one socialist society. "The Guardian" newspaper endorsed Cooper as the "best placed" to offer a strong
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Yvette Cooper


vision and unite the party while the "New Statesman"'s endorsement praised her experience. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown publicly endorsed Cooper as his first choice for leader, as did former Home Secretary Alan Johnson. During the campaign, Cooper supported reintroducing the 50p income tax rate and creating more high-skilled manufacturing jobs. She proposed the introduction of a living wage for social care workers and the construction of 300,000 houses every year. Cooper disagreed that Labour spent too much whilst in government. Cooper finished in third place, securing
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Yvette Cooper


postgraduate studies with an MSc in Economics at the London School of Economics. Cooper began her career as an economic policy researcher for Shadow Chancellor, John Smith in 1990, before spending time working in Arkansas for Bill Clinton, nominee of the Democratic Party for President of the United States, in 1992. Later that year, she became a policy advisor to Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Harriet Harman. At the age of 24, Cooper developed chronic fatigue syndrome, which took her a year to recover from. In 1994 she
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Yvette Cooper


71,928 votes or 17.0% in the first round, compared to 59.5% for the winning candidate, Jeremy Corbyn. Following the 2015 Labour Party leadership election, Cooper returned to the backbenches, after nearly seventeen years on the frontbench. Building on her existing work on the European refugee crisis, Cooper was appointed chair of Labour's refugee taskforce, working with local authorities, community groups and trade unions to develop a sustainable and humanitarian response to the crisis. She spoke about the issue at Labour's annual conference in 2016. She
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List of United States political appointments across party lines


United States presidents typically fill their Cabinets and other appointive positions with people from their own political party. The first Cabinet formed by the first president, George Washington, included some of Washington's political opponents, but later presidents adopted the practice of filling their Cabinets with members of the president's party. Appointments across party lines are uncommon. Presidents may appoint members of a different party to high-level positions in order to reduce partisanship or improve cooperation between the political parties. Also presidents often appoint members of a different party because
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John Robertson (Glasgow MP)


John Webster Robertson (born 17 April 1952) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow North West from 2000-2015. Until 2010, he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Yvette Cooper. Robertson attended Shawlands Academy Secondary School. He left school and started work for the GPO (P.O. then British Telecom then BT) on 14 July 1969 as a TTA (Trainee Technician Apprentice) and three years later became a Technician 2A when his initial
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Justice Party (India)


new political system. Justice considered Gandhi to be an anarchist threatening social order. The party newspapers "Justice", "Dravidan" and "Andhra Prakasika" persistently attacked non-cooperation. Party member Mariadas Ratnaswami wrote critically of Gandhi and his campaign against industrialisation in a pamphlet named "The political philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi" in 1920. K. V. Reddi Naidu also fought non-cooperation. This stance isolated the party—most political and social organisations supported the movement. Justice party's believed that he associated mostly with Brahmins,
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National Democratic Party (Japan)


The National Democratic Party (, "Kokumin Minshutō") was a political party in Japan. It was active from 1950 until 1952. The party was established on 28 April 1950 as a merger of the Democratic Party (the 47 National Diet members remaining in the party after another faction had left to form the Democratic Liberal Party), the National Cooperative Party (14 members) and the New Politics Council (five members); the new party also had 43 members of the House of Councillors, 36 from the DP and
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Alliance for Peace and Freedom


The Alliance for Peace and Freedom (APF) is a far-right European political party founded on 4 February 2015. The main member parties had been involved in the now defunct European National Front. The party wishes to establish a network of nationalist movements across Europe that will cooperate to strengthen their shared ideals. The party cooperates and supports other nationalist groups across Europe that are not members, these include former party member Golden Dawn, Tricolour Flame, Alternative for Sweden and the ELAM. The party is described as neo-Nazi
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Yvette Cooper


October 2013. On 20 January 2011, she took the position of Shadow Home Secretary amidst a shadow cabinet reshuffle. In this position, Cooper shadowed Theresa May at the Home Office. She labelled the government's vans displaying posters urging illegal immigrants to go home a "divisive gimmick" in October 2013. In 2013, she proposed the appointment of a national commissioner for domestic and sexual violence. She spoke at the Labour Party Conference in 2014 about eastern Europeans who were mistreated by employers of migrant labour. Cooper was strongly critical
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Yvette Ngwevilo Rekangalt


Yvette Ngwevilo Rekangalt is a Gabonese human rights leader who worked for 25 years as a lawyer in the oil and gas industry. She has been a member of the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council representing Central Africa for three terms, as well as chairperson of the Infrastructure and Energy Committee. She ran for office during the 2009 Gabonese election before vanishing from the political scene after the results. She is still very active in business and social activities. She studied law at Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne. Yvette
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2015 Labour Party (UK) leadership election


The 2015 Labour Party leadership election was won by Jeremy Corbyn with a landslide victory. The election was triggered by the resignation of Ed Miliband as Leader of the Labour Party on 8 May 2015, following the party's defeat at the 2015 general election. Harriet Harman, the Deputy Leader, became Acting Leader but announced that she would stand down after the leadership election. Four candidates were successfully nominated to stand in the election: Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Jeremy Corbyn, and Liz Kendall. The voting process began on Friday
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Yvette Berry


Yvette Simone Berry (born 1 August 1968) is an Australian politician and Deputy Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory. She has been a Labor Party member for the seat of Ginninderra in the ACT Legislative Assembly since the 2012 ACT election. Berry is the daughter of Wayne Berry who was a Member of the ACT Assembly for Ginninderra from 1989 to 2008, Deputy Chief Minister from 1991 to 1994, Opposition Leader from 1997 to 1998 and Speaker from 2001 to 2008. Berry is the first family member of a current or previous
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National Election Commission (South Korea)


Assembly members, local council members and heads of the local government. The Commission also manages entrusted elections for heads of the Agricultural, Fisheries, Livestock and Forestry Cooperatives and for candidates of presidents of National Universities. The Commission administers the registration, change, performance and dismissal of political parties and supports their activities on the basis of the constitution and the Political Parties Act, provides national subsidies for political parties, oversees the establishment and performance of supporters associations, collects and distributes political funds and monitors how the political funds are spent to
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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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Bridget Phillipson


to call for a People's Vote on any eventual deal. Within the Labour Party, she voted for David Miliband as leader in 2010, for Yvette Cooper in 2015, and for Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 Labour Party (UK) leadership election. Described by the "New Statesman"'s Stephen Bush as "one of Labour’s brightest MPs," she has written for "Labour List", "Renewal", "Progress", and the "New Statesman" on
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2015 Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party leadership campaign


win. However, following a series of televised and radio debates with the other three candidates, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall, Corbyn received the highest number of supporting nominations from Constituency Labour Parties, winning over 100 by the end of July. Corbyn went on to gain the support of six of the Labour Party's fourteen affiliated trade unions, including the UK's two largest trade unions, Unite and UNISON, On 12 September 2015 Corbyn was elected Leader of the Labour Party in a landslide victory, with 59.5
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Christian Democratic Appeal


, a left-wing party that sought cooperation with the Labour Party (PvdA). Locally and provincially however the three parties had long cooperated well, in some areas they formed one Christian-democratic parliamentary party and proposed one list of candidates. In the 1971 general election, the three parties presented a common political program, which lay the foundation for the first Biesheuvel cabinet. After the disastrous elections of 1972 the cooperation was given new momentum. Piet Steenkamp, a member of the Senate for the KVP was appointed chairman of
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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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Democratic Labour Party (Brazil)


The Democratic Labour Party (, PDT) is a social democratic and democratic socialist political party in Brazil. The party is organized in state and municipal directories and also in cooperational social movements, such as the Black Movement, the Labour Woman Association, the Labour Syndicate Union, the Socialist Youth and the Green Labour Movement. Its national directory is composed of over 250 members, while its national executive is composed of 21 members. The cooperational social movements have their own statutes and nationwide organization. The PDT combined a pro-labour
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Sarah Solemani


, Solemani was named one of the year's "Broadcast" Hot Shots. Solemani is against the criminalisation of sex work, and has been a champion for sex worker rights since 2002. She was nominated by the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) to represent them in Parliament in order to halt further efforts to criminalise clients. She was an active supporter of former shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper in the 2015 Labour Leadership contest. She has introduced Cooper at various Labour Party events and has contributed to her speeches. Solemani married
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Danish Social Liberal Party


The Danish Social Liberal Party (, literally "Radical Left") is a social-liberal political party in Denmark. Historically the party has played a central role in Danish politics, and as a centre party they have supported governments on both sides of the political spectrum. Cooperation across the middle is a primary belief of the party. The party is a member of Liberal International and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and has two MEPs in the European Parliament. The party was founded in 1905 as
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Edward McMillan-Scott


of expression and responsibility for transatlantic relations. In the 2014 election he lost his seat as an MEP in an election that saw nationwide gains for the UK Independence Party, and the Liberal Democrats coming fifth and losing all but one of their seats. At the 2015 general election, he was asked by Liberal Democrat HQ to stand as a nominal candidate for the Yorkshire parliamentary seat of Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford. The seat was retained by the Labour Party candidate Yvette Cooper MP with a 15,428 majority. McMillan-Scott was born
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Thomas Cooper (American politician, born 1764)


convention that ratified the U.S. Constitution in 1787. Isaac was also a member of the 1792 Delaware Constitutional Convention. Cooper's brother was Governor William B. Cooper. Cooper completed his preparatory studies at his home in Little Creek Hundred. After studying the law with James P. Wilson, he was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1805 and began a lifelong practice at Georgetown, Delaware. Cooper was a member of the Federalist Party and began his political career as a member of the State House of Representatives, where he served from 1803 to
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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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Dan Hodges


of London, not just the balkanized segments whose votes he craves". However, he still voted for Labour London Assembly candidates. Following the House of Commons vote on 29 August 2013 against possible military involvement in the Syrian civil war, and objecting to Ed Miliband's conduct, Hodges left the Labour Party. Hodges rejoined the Labour Party in July 2015 and supported Yvette Cooper for the Labour leadership, strongly opposing Jeremy Corbyn's candidacy. Hodges announced his resignation from the Labour Party a second time in a December 2015 op-
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People's Party of Abkhazia


was announced the People's Party and the newly founded Party for Economic Development of Abkhazia had signed a cooperation agreement. On 10 July 2013, the People's Party signed a cooperation agreement with fellow opposition parties United Abkhazia, the Forum for the National Unity of Abkhazia and the Party for the Economic Development of Abkhazia, and with a number of social movements. On 29 February 2016, the People's Party became a founding member of the Council for the National Unity of the Republic of Abkhazia, uniting political forces that were neither
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Labour Democratic Party


The Labour Democratic Party (, PDL) was a social-democratic and social-liberal political party in Italy, founded in 1943 as the heir of defunct Italian Reformist Socialist Party, formed by those Socialists who wanted to cooperate with the Liberal political guard which governed Italy from the days of Giovanni Giolitti. Leading members of the party were Ivanoe Bonomi, Meuccio Ruini and Enrico Molè. The party became one of the six members of the National Liberation Committee which governed Italy during the war against Fascism from 1944 to 1946. After
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2015 Labour Party (UK) leadership election


the result should be accepted and the party should focus on attacking the Conservative government. During the announcement of Corbyn's victory, Jamie Reed resigned as a Shadow Health Minister, citing his difference in opinion, with the new leader, over the replacement of the Trident missile system. Chris Leslie (Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer), Yvette Cooper (Shadow Home Secretary), Chuka Umunna (Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills), Rachel Reeves (Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions), Emma
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Kate Green


entering Parliament, Green has been elected as a Vice-Chair of the Labour Party's National Policy Forum and serves as the chairman of the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party. Following a reshuffle of Labour's shadow ministerial team in October 2011, Green was promoted to shadow Minister of State for Equalities at the Government Equalities Office, working alongside Yvette Cooper. In November 2011, Green was criticised for failing to declare an interest when tabling an amendment to a bill. Green had neglected to mention her membership of the GMB trade union
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List of political parties in China


. The Chinese political system allows for the participation of some non-CPC members and minor parties in the National People's Congress (NPC), but they are vetted by the CPC. The Constitution of China states in the preamble: "The system of the multi-party cooperation and political consultation led by the Communist Party of China will exist and develop for a long time to come." The following parties have been and are currently suppressed in China. Due to censorship and suppression, they most likely have their headquarters
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Representative Party of Ontario


party's traditional populist beliefs in representative and direct democracy follow those of the politics of pre-Confederation Reform Party leader William Lyon Mackenzie, former United Farmers of Ontario premier Ernest Charles Drury and former Ontario Cooperative Commonwealth Federation member Agnes Campbell Macphail. It planned to adopt a statement of principles, policies and platform built on a "people-first-politics" constitution. The constitution was to be ratified in a democratically-held assembly by on a one-member one-vote basis. The party's interim leader, Bill
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Michael Cashman


the party. In 2015, Cashman supported Yvette Cooper for the leadership and gave his second preference to Liz Kendall. Cashman registered a civil partnership with Paul Cottingham, his partner of over twenty years, on 11 March 2006. They met in 1983 and were together for 31 years until Cottingham died. A fellow actor and humanitarian activist, Cottingham who also worked for the Labour Party as High Value fundraiser and for Britain in Europe, became Cashman's researcher during Cashman's time in the European Parliament. In March 2011 he was
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2015 Andy Burnham Labour Party leadership campaign


Ed Miliband resigned on the day following the 2015 general election, Burnham was the bookies' favourite to succeed him as party leader. This was reflected in the first opinion polls that were released days later, with Burnham holding a lead over Chuka Umunna and Yvette Cooper, although the number of undecided voters had the greatest share of the vote. This continued following the PLP nomination deadline, as a poll by "The Independent", published on 24 June, showed him opening up an 11-point lead, although Jeremy Corbyn's polling
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Ruth Smeeth


Party candidate for the Stoke-on-Trent North constituency, following the retirement of incumbent Labour MP Joan Walley. She was subsequently elected at the 2015 general election. Smeeth backed Yvette Cooper in the 2015 Labour Leadership Election. On 27 June 2016, Smeeth resigned her post as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the shadow Northern Ireland and Scotland teams, alongside others, in protest at Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. She supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 Labour Party (UK) leadership election. She
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Political alliance


A political alliance, also known as a coalition or bloc, is cooperation by members of different political parties, in countries with a parliamentary system, on a common agenda of some kind. This usually involves formal agreements between two or more entire parties, and often takes place mainly for the purpose of contesting an election. An alliance is usually especially beneficial to the parties concerned during and immediately after elections – due to characteristics of the electoral systems concerned (e.g. allowing each party to clear election thresholds) and/or allowing parties to participate
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Rojava


with the regime fraught but functional" and a "semi-cooperative dynamic". In late September 2017, Syria's Foreign Minister said that Damascus would consider granting Kurds more autonomy in the region once ISIL is defeated. The region's dominant political party, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), is a member organisation of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) organisation. As KCK member organisations in the neighbouring states with Kurdish minorities are either outlawed (Turkey, Iran) or politically marginal with respect to other Kurdish parties (
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Creme Yvette


Creme Yvette, also called Creme d'Yvette or Creme de Yvette, is a proprietary liqueur made from parma violet petals with blackberries, red raspberries, wild strawberries and cassis, honey, orange peel and vanilla. It was once manufactured by Charles Jacquin et Cie in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who purchased the brand formerly made by Sheffield Company of Connecticut. It became almost impossible to find after production stopped in 1969. The liqueur was, however, recently resurrected by Rob Cooper, the creator of St-Germain elderflower liqueur. In the
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Jon Ashworth


Yvette Cooper to be Leader of the Labour Party following the resignation of Ed Miliband after the 2015 general election. He nominated Tom Watson as Deputy Leader. Following his election as Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn appointed Ashworth to the Shadow Cabinet role of Shadow Minister without Portfolio. Ashworth was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Health in October 2016. He has gone on record to say that a Labour government would not repeal the controversial Health and Social Care Act 2012 despite Labour's 2017 general election manifesto commitment to do so. In
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PC Leisure


-format magazine "The One", as EMAP decided to split it into "The One for Amiga Games" and "The One for ST Games". The final issue #9 Sep/Oct 1991 included a two-page special across pages 28 and 29 stating that the magazine was going to be renamed "PC Review" and released monthly from October 15, 1991. Jenny Abrook, Andy Beswick, Gregory Brown, Allister Cordice, Pete Hawkes, Nick Howells, Gareth Jones, Yvette Nicholls, Simon Poulter,
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Mustafa Sarıgül


CHP that tarnished his potentials to get involved with national politics of Turkey. After a period as an independent, he announced in 2008 to become again member of the Democratic Left Party. In 2009 he founded a new political movement called Turkey's Change Movement ("Türkiye Değişim Hareketi") and began to transform it into a new political party. Since Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is the party leader, Sarıgül cooperates within the CHP. He unsuccessfully ran for mayor of the metropolitan municipality of Istanbul from the Republican People's Party in the local
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VoorNederland


failing to garner any seats in the 2017 general elections and with no further financial means, members voted to absolve the party on 18 June of that year. On May 28, 2014, the group officially founded a new political party, VoorNederland (VNL) (in English "For the Netherlands" or "Pro-Netherlands"), a classical liberal and liberal conservative and eurosceptic political party. On 13 November 2014, the party announced that it would cooperate with the UK Independence Party in the Alliance for Direct Democracy in
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1935 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election


Hamilton is the political affiliations of the new City Council may be taken as a criterion," Detailing the political affiliations of the members of council, the "Spectator" acknowledged that the mayor and 12 members of council were elected with the help of the local Conservative Party, five Liberals were returned, while Controller Nora Frances Henderson and Ward 7 Alderman Donald Clark were members of the Reconstruction Party of Canada, with Ward 8 Alderman Agnes Sharpe serving as the only Cooperative Commonwealth Federation-affiliated member of council. In addition to the
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Association of Professional Flight Attendants


TWU also ratifies a concessionary deal. APA rejects its first tentative agreement but a “Me Too” letter, secured by APFA, guarantees that the labor savings from the Pilots Agreement are equivalent to the savings achieved in the flight attendants’ CBA. Sep 2012: US Airways and American begin to exchange confidential information regarding operations and finances. This cooperation is subject to a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) between the two parties which includes a mandatory “quiet period” during which no party can speak publicly about the merger talks
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European Movement Germany


European Movement Germany is a non-partisan network of interest groups in the field of EU politics in Germany. It cooperates closely with all EU stakeholders on a national and European level, most particularly with the German Federal Government and the European Commission. The 247 member organisations represent various social groups including business and professional associations, trade unions, educational and academic institutions, foundations and political parties, amongst others. The aim is to continually improve, in close cooperation with political institutions, communication on European politics, European perspectives and the
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The Guardian


." In a 2013 interview for NPR, the "Guardian's" Latin America correspondent Rory Carroll stated that many editors at "The Guardian" believed and continue to believe that they should support Hugo Chávez "because he was a standard-bearer for the left". In the 2015 Labour Party leadership election, "The Guardian" supported Yvette Cooper and was critical of left-winger Jeremy Corbyn, the successful candidate. These positions were criticised by the "Morning Star", which accused "The Guardian" of being
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Reformed Political Party


orthodox Protestant political ideals and had the same political strategy, as testimonial parties. They cooperated in municipalities, both in municipal executives, where the parties were strong, as well as in common municipal parties, where the parties were weak. In the 1984 European Parliamentary election the parties presented a common list and they won one seat in parliament. After 1993 the cooperation between the GPV and the RPF intensified, but the SGP's position at the time on female suffrage prevented the SGP joining this closer cooperation. However, in 2000
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Charter Party


voters. The party has also turned its sights on establishing regional government. The last Charterite mayor of Cincinnati was Arn Bortz. The party was nearly extinguished in the 1990s. From 1993 to 2003, the city council had only one Charterite member. Currently, there are three Charterite members of the city council, Yvette Simpson, Kevin Flynn, and Amy Murray. The Charter Party slowly expands throughout the Greater Cincinnati area. As of January 1, 2003, the current president of the Charter Committee is Michael Goldman. The previous
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Japan Agricultural Cooperatives


years ago. To maintain the founding act and the trade barriers intact, JA makes full use of its political leverage over Diet members, especially members of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) who are from electorates with a large farming population. JA has a government affairs arm (JA Zenchu) as well as a political committee (Noseiren), and the latter especially has historically contributed to organizing farmer votes in support of LDP candidates. As a political party that has kept its majority in the Lower House for almost entirely since
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Yvette Estermann


Yvette Estermann born as Gavlasova (born February 26, 1967) is a Swiss politician and member of the National Council from the Canton of Lucerne. Estermann was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). She studied medicine at the Comenius University, where she obtained her doctorate in 1993. One year later, she emigrated to Switzerland to marry her Swiss partner and pursue studies in homeopathic medicine. After ceasing to practice medicine due to the time demands of her political office, she now works as a life coaching consultant.
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Oliver Napier


he led a group of four party members who joined the New Ulster Movement, accepting the post of joint Chairman of its political committee. The Liberal Party promptly expelled him, but, working with Bob Cooper, he used his position to establish a new political party, the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, which sought to become a political force that could command support from across the divided communities of the province, but remaining pro-union. This aimed to offer an alternative to what Napier described as the sectarianism of the Ulster
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Pirate Party


event. The European Pirate Party (PPEU) is a European political party founded in March 2014 which consists of various pirate parties within European countries. Pirates Without Borders is an international association of pirates. Unlike Pirate Parties International (which accepts only parties as voting members and organizations as observing members), Pirates Without Borders accept individuals as members. The PWB see themselves as a basis for international projects. Through global cooperation, they strive to reveal the impact of multinational trade agreements on all people on Earth, and foster freedom and
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1953 Winnipeg municipal election


with members elected in alternate years. A total of three political parties contested this election. The Civic Election Committee (CEC) was a pro-business alliance of Progressive Conservatives and Liberals, and was the dominant party in Winnipeg's predominantly middle-class first ward. The CEC claimed not to be a political party as such, but held nomination meetings and ran organized campaigns in a partisan manner. The socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the communist Labour Progressive Party (LLP) also contested the election. Both parties
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Ed Balls


in 2016, Balls baked a cake featuring the tweet. Six years on from the original tweet, Ed Balls Day 2017 drew tweets from organisations including Virgin Atlantic and the National Trust – the latter in response to a tweet parodying Prime Minister Theresa May's criticism of the National Trust for omitting the word "Easter" from promotional material for Easter egg hunts. He married Labour MP Yvette Cooper, who later became Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Shadow Home Secretary, in Eastbourne on 10 January 1998. Cooper is Member
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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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Sharad Pawar


Legislative Assembly over more established members by the undivided Congress Party. He won the election and represented the constituency on and off for decades.In 1969 joined the Congress(R) faction of prime minister Indira Gandhi along with his mentor Yashwantrao Chavan. As the MLA of Baramati in the early 1970s, he was instrumental in building percolation tanks during a severe drought in Maharashtra.Like most Congress party politicians from rural western Maharashtra, he was also heavily involved in the politics of the local cooperative sugar mills and other member run cooperatives societies.
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Cambodian People's Party


PRK activities; to develop political, military and economic capabilities; and to strengthen special relations with Vietnam as well as mutual cooperation with other fraternal countries. Before Heng Samrin's closing address on 16 October, the 250 party delegates to the congress elected a new Central Committee of 45 members (31 full members and 14 alternates). The Central Committee in turn elected Heng Samrin as general secretary, a new Political Bureau (nine full members: Heng Samrin, Chea Sim, Hun Sen as Second Secretary, Say Phouthang, Bou
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Cooperative movement in India


owned by local cooperative societies. The members of the society include all farmers, small and large, supplying sugarcane to the mill. Over the last fifty years, the local sugar mills have played a crucial part in encouraging political participation and as a stepping stone for aspiring politicians. This is particularly true in the state of Maharashtra where a large number of politicians belonging to the Congress party or NCP had ties to sugar cooperatives from their local area and has created a symbiotic relationship between the sugar factories and local politics.. However,
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Participation Party (South Korea)


The Participation Party (Hangul: 국민참여당, Hanja: 國民參與黨, Abbreviation: 참여당) was a political party of South Korea. It was formed by many of the former members of the Uri Party after the death of former President Roh Moo-hyun. Rhyu Si-min was elected as Party Chairman on March 19, 2011. In March 2011 it had 45,335 members. For the April 27 by-elections, the People's Participation Party has cooperated with the Democratic Party to enter as the single opposition candidate for the Kimhae
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Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova


Vlad Filat was elected as president. The initiative group of the party was centered on Filat, who had been a prominent member of the Democratic Party of Moldova, who was disappointed with the direction taken by that political party under Dumitru Diacov's leadership. Soon, a lot of local branches of the Christian Democratic Popular Party, disappointed with Iurie Roşca's policy of cooperation with the Communist Party of Moldova, joined PLDM en masse. The party attracted many of prominent members of civil society. At its first election, in April
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Hans Wiegel


. On 15 September 2009 he repeated these words in the morning bulletin "Goodmorning Netherlands" Wiegel then called his party should seek cooperation with the Party for Freedom. Thirty years after leaving national politics, Wiegel is still mentioned often as a potential Prime Minister. He still is very popular among People's Party for Freedom and Democracy party members in the Netherlands. He has 'threatened' to return to national politics a number of times, usually resulting in the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy going up in the polls.
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Yvette Cooper


director of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and a former Chairman of the British Nuclear Industry Forum. He was also a government adviser on the Energy Advisory Panel. Her mother was a maths teacher. She was educated at Eggar's School, a comprehensive school in Holybourne, and Alton College, both in Alton, Hampshire. She read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford, and graduated with a first-class honours degree. She won a Kennedy Scholarship in 1991 to study at Harvard University, and she completed her
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Ed Miliband


with a Master of Science in Economics. In 1992, after graduating from the University of Oxford, Miliband began his working career in the media as a researcher to co-presenter Andrew Rawnsley in the Channel 4 show "A Week in Politics". In 1993, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Harriet Harman approached Rawnsley to recruit Miliband as her policy researcher and speechwriter. At the time, Yvette Cooper also worked for Harman as part of Labour's Shadow Treasury team. In 1994, when Harriet Harman was moved by the
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Douglas Young (classicist)


was sentenced to a second term in prison. In October, his appeal was heard at the Court of Criminal Appeal but dismissed by Lord Cooper. Young resigned from the SNP in 1948, in protest against the party's new constitution, which prohibited being a member of the SNP while also being a member of another political party. He had been a member of both the Labour Party and the SNP until he was elected leader in 1942, and had argued against efforts to ban dual-party membership when this was proposed over
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Communism in Nepal


students, leaders and activists in India, began to organise under the common goal of birthing a conscious political movement against the Rana regime, and bringing democracy to Nepal, with the help of the Indian friends, after independence was achieved in India. Pushpa Lal went on to become a prominent member of the Nepal Rastriya Congress (NRC), one of the prominent forebears of Nepali Congress Party. Disillusioned by the political infighting within the party, and the party's willingness to cooperate with some Ranas, Pushpa Lal left the party
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Indonesian National Party


The Indonesian National Party (, PNI) is the name used by several political parties in Indonesia from 1927 until the present day. On July 4, 1927, Sukarno, a young engineer at the time, and members of the Algemeene Studie Club formed a movement called the Indonesian National Association. In May 1928, the name was changed to the Indonesian National Party. The organization's aim was economic and political independence for the Indonesian archipelago. This would be achieved by non-cooperation with the Dutch colonial regime. By the
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Narendra R Deoghare


Narendra Ramcharaji Deoghare (born 2 May 1922 Nagpur) was a member of the 4th Lok Sabha of India from the Nagpur constituency of Maharashtra and a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party. He has at Govindram Seksaria College of Commerce at Wardha. He was married to Mrs Shashilabai and had 4 sons and 1 daughter and resides at Bhandara road Nagpur. He was previously associated with the Praja Socialist Party. He was Chairman of Nagpur Resham and Vinkar Cooperative Society during 1956—60 and Director of Vidarbha Weavers Cooperative Society
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2014 Hungarian parliamentary election


some kind of electoral compromise and cooperation against Viktor Orbán's government. The leadership of the LMP positioned the party to the centre, and, as a newcomer, rejected both Fidesz and MSZP's politics. Prominent party member András Schiffer also criticized the previous Socialist cabinets, blaming Gyurcsány's "disastrous governance" for Fidesz winning a two-thirds majority in 2010. However prominent politicians in LMP were divided on the issue of cooperation. During the party's congress in November 2012, LMP decided not to join Together 2014, the
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Self Reliance (political party)


2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party won 1 seat (in one of the electoral constituencies). The name and ideology of the party is referring to the history of Ukrainian cooperative movement, which started in Western Ukraine in the beginning of 20th century. The financial societies that appeared prior to World War I in Galicia were formed as a part of Ukrainian national movement. The idea to start Ukrainian national financial cooperation societies belonged to Dr. Yevhen Olesnytskyi, lawyer, the head of Stryi's Prosvita movement and member of the Austro-Hungarian
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YCSU Young Democrats


political campaigning for oppositional candidates and street actions. In 2002 the Youth Christian Social Union merged with the Youth of the United Civil Party of Belarus and a new brand YCSU Young Democrats was created From 2002 to 2008 the YCSU Young Democrats was cooperating with the United Civil Party of Belarus, but at the last congress the decision was taken to work as an independent youth organisation. Some members of the YCSU Young Democrats did not support the decision to restrain cooperation with United Civil Party, left the YCSU Young Democrats, and stayed in
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Hilary Benn


vote supporter. The result, announced on 19 October, was 330 votes to Benn, and 209 to Hoey, so Benn became the new chairman. In this position, he supported the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2019 as proposed on a cross-party basis by Labour's Yvette Cooper and Conservative's Oliver Letwin to force the Government to ask for an extension of the Article 50 process. Benn supports the maintenance of a nuclear-armed strategic force by the United Kingdom. In 1973, whilst at university, Benn
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