Maria Farantouri [SEP] member of political party
Maria Farantouri


Maria Farantouri or Farandouri (; born 28 November 1947 in Athens) is a Greek singer and also a political and cultural activist. She has collaborated with Greek composers such as Mikis Theodorakis, who wrote the score for Pablo Neruda's "Canto General", which Farantouri performed. During the Greek military junta of 1967–1974, Maria Farantouri recorded protest songs in Europe with Mikis Theodorakis. In 1971, she recorded "Songs and Guitar Pieces by Theodorakis" with Australian guitarist John Williams which included seven poems by Federico García Lorca. She has
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Women in music


or Greek Maria Farantouri were also recognized for their engagement against the oppressive political situation in their home states. Sosa singing "Gracias a la vida", Makeba's "Pata Pata", and Farantouri's collaboration with composer Mikis Theodorakis were musical icons of the struggle for human rights. The "Queen of Salsa" Celia Cruz immigrated from Cuba to the United States in 1966. With the rising interest in the then so-called world music in the 1980s old recordings of long established artists were re-discovered for a global
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Music of Greece


éntekhno was the so called "political song"; songs with political message, of the Left, which arose during the military junta and became very popular after its fall in the late 70's. Manos Loizos, guitarist Panos Tzavellas, Maria Dimitriadi and Maria Farantouri were some representatives. Also, Thanos Mikroutsikos released an album of old Greek partisan songs of the Greek resistance, with his own orchestration. A form of éntekhno which is even closer to western classical music was introduced also during the late 1970s by Thanos Mikroutsikos. (
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Vangelis Trigas


for the evolution of the bouzouki’s technique and organized curriculum. His most important collaborations were with Maria Farantouri in 2004, and George Dalaras in 2007. With Maria Farantouri, he had the opportunity to perform at great music venues in many European cities such as the Wiener Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Munich Philharmonic etc. With George Dalaras, he performed at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens Concert Hall, Thessaloniki Concert Hall, etc. He has also collaborated in concerts with Mary Linda, Haris Alexiou, Dimitris Mitropanos, Marinela
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American Left


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


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


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


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


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


Maria Antonia Josefina, was elected president of the Liberal Party, thus becoming the first woman to preside a political party in Puerto Rico. The party ceased to exist in 1948. Ironically, his grandson Carlos Romero Barceló (Maria Antonia Josefina's son) on January 2, 1977, was sworn in as Governor of Puerto Rico with a pro-statehood agenda, a political status which Antonio R. Barceló had opposed, as member of the Partido Nuevo Progresista de Puerto Rico (New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico). Barceló was
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Lina Maria Becker


Lina Maria Becker (22 March 1898 - 1976) was a German Communist Party politician. Between 1924 and 1927 she was a member of the Hamburg Parliament (""Hamburgische Bürgerschaft""). Lina Maria Becker was born into a working class socialist family in Hanover. After 1918, like her brothers (1894-1942) and Ernst Becker (1900-1932) she joined the newly emerging Communist Party and became politically active in the Hamburg region. Between 1924 and 1927 she sat as a Communist member of the Hamburg
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Pieter Godfried Maria van Meeuwen


Albin Rauter to death. Van Meeuwen was active in politics as well. He was a member of the Roman Catholic State Party and its successor party the Catholic People's Party. He was a member of the States of North Brabant (15 April 1931–January 1936) and the States of Limburg (6 July 1954 – 1 December 1956). Van Meeuwen was a member of the Senate of the Netherlands from 6 November 1956 to 16 September 1969. Van Meeuwen married Louisa Augusta Johanna Maria van Lanschot; they had five children.
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Michael Collins (Irish leader)


by Maria Farantouri in 1966 on the album "Ένας όμηρος" ("The hostage") and became an instant success. It was the soundtrack of the movie "Z" (1969). "The laughing boy" became the song of protest against the dictatorship in Greece (1967–1974) and remains to date one of the most popular songs in Greek popular culture. Mary Kenny wrote a play "Allegiance", about a meeting between Winston Churchill and Michael Collins. The play was adapted for stage in 2006 for the
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Mario Frangoulis


Thessaloniki as well, in a concert with Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues, a performance that included 'Nights in White Satin' This performance was recorded and released on a DVD. In October, Frangoulis began a grand tour around Europe, the US and Asia in order to promote his new album 'Sometimes I Dream'. In November, his new DVD "Sometimes I Dream" was broadcast on PBS in The United States. At the end of the year, Frangoulis appeared with the Greek singer Maria Farantouri, in
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Charles Lloyd (jazz musician)


classical Greek singer, Maria Farantouri, for a concert at the Herodion Theater at the Acropolis. "Ta Nea", a newspaper in Athens, stated "Music has no borders...The audience was filled with a Dionysian ecstasy. While the music had reminiscences of a Hypiros fair, at the same time it took you to the heart of New York City." This concert was recorded and "Athens Concert" was released by ECM in 2011. Lloyd celebrated his 75th birthday in 2013 with concerts in the Temple of Dendur
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Zülfü Livaneli


. Among these soundtracks are the soundtrack for "Yol" (The Path), directed by Yilmaz Güney and winner of the Golden Palm in Cannes Film Festival, "The Herd", directed by Yılmaz Güney and Zeki Öktem, and "Shirin's Wedding" by German director Helma Sanders-Brahms. His recordings have been published in the USA, Sweden, Germany, Holland and France, and he has given dozens of concerts throughout the world. He has produced albums and performed with Mikis Theodorakis and Maria Farantouri, and
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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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Brendan Behan


recorded by Ann Sofi Nilsson on the album "När kommer dagen". The same poems have been translated in 1966 to Greek and recorded by Maria Farantouri on the album "Ένας όμηρος" ("The hostage") by Mikis Theodorakis. A pub named for Behan is located in the historically Irish Jamaica Plain section of Boston, Massachusetts. A bronze sculpture of the writer stands outside the Palace Bar on Dublin's Fleet Street. According to J.P. Donleavy's "History of The Ginger Man", Behan was instrumental in bringing
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Vangelis


have no fear" and "Secrets"). An Italian language Nana Mouskouri album featured her singing Vangelis composition "Ti Amerò". Collaborations with lyricist Mikalis Bourboulis, sung by Maria Farantouri, included the tracks "Odi A", "San Elektra", and "Tora Xero". Vangelis released "Soil Festivities" in 1984. It was thematically inspired by the interaction between nature and its microscopic living creatures; "Invisible Connections" (1985) took inspiration from the world of elementary particles invisible to the naked eye
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Tilemachos Chytiris


4), deputy minister for the Press and the Media (1994-5) and minister for the Press and the Media (1995-6). From 2000 to 2004 he was deputy minister Ministry for the Press and the Media in the third Cabinet of Costas Simitis. In the cabinet of George Papandreou he served as alternate Minister for Culture and Tourism responsible for the Media until 2011. When he was in Florence he met the famous Greek singer Maria Farantouri with whom he got married and has a son, Stephanos.
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Maria Farantouri


recorded songs in Spanish ('Hasta Siempre Comandante Che Guevara'), Italian, and English ("Joe Hill" and Elisabeth Hauptmann's "Alabama Song" from Bertolt Brecht's "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny"), as well as works by Greek composers Manos Hatzidakis, Eleni Karaindrou and Michalis Bourboulis ('San Elektra' and 'Tora Xero') in which she realized a special fusion of vocal and instrumental beauty with musical accompaniment by Vangelis. She also sang the notable 'Mauthausen Cycle'
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Jocelyn B. Smith


the composer Heiner Goebbels invited her to participate as a soloist in his work Surrogate Cities. She was at the premiere and subsequent performances in 2001 in Dessau, 2002 Edinburgh and 2003 in Brisbane, Australia and in Lucerne and Berlin – just like, for example, the Berlin Philharmonic. (Later performances were with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Scandinavia and Italy.) As soprano she appeared in Mikis Theodorakis opera "The Metamorphoses of Dionysus", sang duets with Maria Farantouri and released the CD "Margarita" with his songs.
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Youth Public Chamber of Russia


Party of the Russian Federation», Social Democratic Party of Russia, leaders of 30 non-governmental organizations, young politics Dmitriy Gudkov, Alexey Rogozin, Alexey Navalny, Maria Gaidar, journalist Sergey Evdokimov, political scientist Pavel Svyatenkov and others. Under the Youth Public Chamber exists board of trustees, which includes members of the Government of Russia, leaders of political parties, members of Public Chamber of Russia and famous Russian politicians. It was announced, that by the means of this council the Youth Public Chamber advance its own bills
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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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Music of immigrant communities in the United States


immigrant music art in America are: Stamatis Spanoudakis, Nana Mouskouri, Maria Farantouri, Marinella, Yanni, Mikis Theodorakis, Vicky Leandros etc. and remarkable composers and pianists such as Manos Loïzos and Stefanos Korkolis. Until the 1930s the Greek discography was separated by two musical genres: the Greek folk music and the "Elafró tragoudi" (literally: "light song"). The latter was made by ensembles of singers/musicians or solo artists like Attik and Nikos Gounaris. It was the Greek version of the international popular
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Griko people


subject for local and national dissemination, acting as recognized—but unofficial—ambassador to visitors and dignitaries to Calimera and the sea-side sections of Melendugno nearby. The Griko have a rich folklore and oral tradition. Griko songs, music and poetry are popular in Italy and Greece and famous music groups from Salento include Ghetonia and Aramirè. Also, influential Greek artists such as George Dalaras, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Marinella, Haris Alexiou and Maria Farantouri have performed in the Griko language. Every summer in Melpignano, a small town of
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Maria Sergeyeva


Maria Sergeyeva is a Russian political activist. Sergeyeva was born on September, 10th 1985 into a working-class family. Her father was a metal worker and her mother an accountant. Formerly a member of the Democratic Party of Russia, she left the party because of its support for Russia's inclusion in the European Union. In 2006, she joined the United Russia Young Guard. She continues to keep the public apprised of her political thoughts through her LiveJournal blog. She also posts about her personal life there, including provocative
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Mercedes Sosa


Latin America and the Caribbean. In a career spanning of four decades, she worked with performers across several genres and generations, folk, opera, pop, rock, including Martha Argerich, Andrea Bocelli, David Broza, Franco Battiato, Jaime Roos, Joan Baez, Francis Cabrel, Gal Costa, Luz Casal, Lila Downs, Lucio Dalla, Maria Farantouri, Lucecita Benitez, Nilda Fernández, Charly Garcia, León Gieco, Gian Marco, Nana Mouskouri, Pablo Milanés, Holly Near, Milton Nascimento, Pata Negra, Fito
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Manolis Mitsias


Hatzinasios, Thanos Mikroutsikos, Yannis Markopoulos, Giannis Spanos and Stamatis Kraounakis, to name but a few. He has sung lyrics by many Greek poets and lyricists and even Spanish writer Federico García Lorca. In terms of fellow singers, he has worked with Maria Farantouri, Dimitra Galani, Vicky Moscholiou, Babis Stokas, Sotiria Bellou and others. He has appeared in concert around Greece and Cyprus and for Greek audiences abroad (London, New York and other cities). During the summer of 2009, he celebrated forty years of
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Betty Harlafti


performers in her country who have recorded a personal album with a symphony orchestra. World renowned artists Zülfü Livaneli and Maria Farantouri honour her with their participation. George Perris also participates. Harlafti has performed in several concerts in the United States and Europe with diverse repertoire. Amongst other she has performed in Manhattan, New York - Merkin Concert Hall for the 90th anniversary of Mikis Theodorakis birthday, in the Harvard Club of New York, in Switzerland - Salle Paderewski, in Germany-Lutherkirche in Cologne, Cyprus, Finland, Israel,
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Olympus Festival


singers, actors and actresses took part at the Olympus Festival during its 45 years (as of 2017) of operation. Famous Greek artists like Maria Farantouri, Mario Frangoulis, George Dalaras, Nana Mouskouri, Haris Alexiou, Anna Synodinou, Antigone Valakou, Thimios Karakatsanis, Dimitris Mitropanos and many others have appeared at the Olympus Festival. The first Olympos Festival took place in 1972. Since 2010, the Olympus Festival has been cooperating with a guest country of honor. The aim is to deepen the friendship between Greece and the guest
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Hasta Siempre, Comandante


versions of this song. The song has also been covered by Compay Segundo, Soledad Bravo, Óscar Chávez, Nathalie Cardone, Robert Wyatt, Nomadi, Inés Rivero, Silvio Rodríguez, Ángel Parra, Celso Piña, Veronica Rapella (whose performance is attributed to Joan Baez by a common mistake), Rolando Alarcón, Los Olimareños, Maria Farantouri, Jan Garbarek, Wolf Biermann, Boikot, Los Calchakis (commonly wrongly attributed to Buena Vista Social Club), George Dalaras, Apurimac, Giovanni Mirabassi and Al Di Meola, Ahmet
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Dimitris Basis


continued with additional appearances in Athens and in summer concerts all over Greece. At the same time he was working on his new CD with the title “Diskoli Kardia” (music by Nikos Antipas and lyrics by Lina Nikolakopoulou, Mirto Kontova) which was released in December 2004. In the summer of 2004 he gave some personal concerts with songs from his entire repertoire. He also sang alongside Maria Farantouri, songs of the great Mikis Theodorakis. In the winter of 2004–2005, he started his appearances with Dimitris Mitropanos and Themis Adamantidis
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Maria Walter


had also, by this time, participated in 1930 in a course for party officers at the in Berlin-Fichtenau. Régime change in January 1933 marked he start of a rapid transition to one-party dictatorship. The Reichstag fire in February 1933 was blamed in "communists" with an implausible level of immediacy, and was followed by the arrest of people who had been identified as politically active Communist Party members during the Weimar years. Maria Walter emigrated to Switzerland. However, at the beginning of September 1934 she returned to
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Maria Eckertz


workers' welfare organisation with close links to the party. Between 1932 and March 1933 she sat as a Communist member of the Prussian regional parliament (""Landtag""), representing the Cologne-Aachen electoral district. However, in January 1933 the Nazis took power and converted Germany into a one-party dictatorship. In the space of a couple of months political activity (except in support of the Nazi party) became illegal. Maria was arrested in April and held in "protective custody" till 15 August 1934
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Asteris Koutoulas


productions by fellow Greek artists (Maria Farantouri, George Dalaras, Demis Roussos, Elli Paspala, Alkistis Protopsalti, Haris Alexiou etc.) worldwide, but also arranged or accompanied concerts by international stars like Mercedes Sosa, Sting, Thomas Anders, Milva, Kelly Family, Zülfü Livaneli etc. Since 1999, A. Koutoulas has been acting as manager and producer of the director and light architect Gert Hof. Till Hof's death in 2012 he has produced more than 40 mega events across the world, a. o. the simultaneous millennial events
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Betty Harlafti


etc. She has also appeared in Brussels singing Theodorakis’ great oratorio Canto General. She has performed in major theaters in Greece like in Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Greek National Opera Alternative Stage, the Athens Concert Hall, the Badminton Theater etc Betty Harlafti has appeared on stage with Maria Farantouri, El Sistema Greece, Mario Frangoulis etc. She has also performed in festivals, live television & radio broadcasts and participated as guest artist in several album releases. When her first album “Who may you be?”, with old
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Maria Heubuch


Maria Heubuch (born 12 December 1958) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) representing Germany since July 2014. She is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens, part of the European Green Party. Prior to entering politics Heubuch worked as a farmer and was a carer. She also served in various roles within the German farming community such as Federal Chair of the Working Group on Small-Scale Farming, District team member of the Association of German Dairy Farmers and Board member of the
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Maria Walsh (Irish politician)


Maria Walsh (born 11 June 1987) is an Irish politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland since July 2019. She is a member of Fine Gael, part of the European People's Party. Outside of politics, she is known for winning the 2014 Rose of Tralee pageant as a Mayo Rose. Maria Walsh was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 11 June 1987. Her mother, Noreen, grew up in Leitir Móir in Connemara in County Galway, while her father Vincent
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Zülfü Livaneli


collaborations with Mikis Theodorakis of Greece have been noted as a gesture of bringing together the two countries. Livaneli has been a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador since 1996. Livaneli has composed some three hundred songs, a rhapsody recorded by London Symphony Orchestra–, and a ballet. His compositions have reached cult status nationwide and have been performed by artists such as Joan Baez, Maria Farantouri, María del Mar Bonet, Udo Lindenberg, Haris Alexiou, Jocelyn B. Smith, and Kate Westbrook. He has also written five plays and thirty film soundtracks
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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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Maria Blum


, which led to the loss of her residence permit in 1921. She returned to Germany where, following a political reconfiguration on the political left, the USPD had been subsumed into the recently launched Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which she joined. Settling in Cologne she became a member of the KPD Central Rhine Women's Section. During 1923 she was sent to study at the Party Academy in Jena. From 1925, still at this stage based in Cologne, she was employed as an editor in the party's
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Ana Gomes


Ana Maria Rosa Martins Gomes , better known as Ana Gomes, (born 9 February 1954 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese politician, who suspended her career as a diplomat to enter party politics in 2003. In 2004, she was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (Portuguese Socialist Party member of the European Socialist Party) and was reelected in June 2009. She is married with one daughter, three stepchildren and six grandchildren. Ana Gomes is currently a City Council member of Sintra. She has been a career diplomat
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Marleen Barth


Magdalena Antoinette Maria 'Marleen' Barth (born 21 March 1964) is a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and trade unionist, and a former journalist. Magdalena Antoinette Maria Barth was born on 21 March 1964 in Den Helder in the Netherlands. Barth studied political science with a specialty in public administration at the University of Amsterdam. Barth worked as a parliamentary reporter for "Trouw" (1990–1997), was a member of the House of Representatives (1998–2002), a member of the States-Provincial of
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Maria Smith-Falkner


Maria Natanovna Smith-Falkner (; February 16 [February 4, Old Style], 1878 in Taganrog – March 7, 1968 in Moscow) was a Soviet economist and statistician of Jewish origin, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR from 1939 onwards. She was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, having joined the Bolsheviks in 1918. Smith-Falkner's research was focused on the issues of political economy of capitalism and socialism. Her scientific interests were: economics of capitalism and socialism,
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2016 United States presidential election


and Maria Cantwell for vice president. Sanders is the first Jewish American to receive an electoral vote for president. LaDuke is the first Green Party member to receive an electoral vote, and Paul is the third member of the Libertarian Party to do so, following the party's presidential and vice-presidential nominees each getting one vote in 1972. It is the first election with faithless electors from more than one political party. The seven people to receive electoral votes for president were the most in a single election since 1796, and
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Article One (political party)


and two senators were former members of the Five Star Movement. The groups elected Francesco Laforgia and Maria Cecilia Guerra as leaders, respectively. Deputies and senators were followed by three members of the European Parliament: Antonio Panzeri, Massimo Paolucci and Flavio Zanonato. In October MDP's only member of the government (Bubbico) resigned, and the party stopped supporting the Gentiloni Cabinet. On 3 December 2017 the MDP was a founding member, along with SI and POS, of Free and Equal (LeU), the left-wing
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Maria Rentmeister


end of 1932 was heading up the women's section in the party's district leadership team (""Unterbezirksleitung"") for Oberhausen, and was also a Communist town councillor. The Nazis took power in January 1933 and lost no time in transforming the country into a one-party dictatorship. That made political activism on behalf of non-Nazi political parties illegal, and after the Reichstag fire it became obvious that political activism on behalf of the Communist Party was viewed with particularly savage disfavour by government agencies. Maria Rentmeister
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Maria Butina


Maria Valeryevna Butina (, sometimes transliterated as Mariia Butina; born November 10, 1988) is a Russian woman who pled guilty to conspiracy to act as a foreign agent, in connection with unregistered political lobbying in the United States. Beginning in 2011, she worked as an assistant for Aleksandr Torshin, a former member of the Federation Council, a member of Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, and a deputy governor of the Central Bank of Russia. She established a cooperative relationship between the National Rifle Association and Russian "Right
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Maria Giannakaki


Maria Georgiou Giannakaki (; born 6 May 1969) is a Greek politician, former Democratic Left MP and current secretary general at the Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights. She was born in Piraeus, near Athens in 6 May 1969 1969 and grew up in Nice. She studied Classics and Political Sciences at the University of Athens and graduated in Paris She was a founding member of the Democratic Left and a member of the Central Committee of the party. Was elected MP with the Democratic Left in the May and June 2012
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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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José Maria Neves


José Maria Pereira Neves (; born March 28, 1960) is a Cape Verdean politician who was Prime Minister of Cape Verde from 2001 to 2016. He is a member of the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV). Born on the island of Santiago,“José Maria Neves became interested in the politics and government of Cape Verde as a teen-ager.” “He was the leader of a nationalist youth organization during the country’s transition from Portuguese rule to independence and democracy in 1975.” Part of his
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Maria Amalia of Austria


interests. Like Charles Albert, she enjoyed court life, pomp and parties, and together they made the Bavarian court a cultural center. Maria Amalia was interested in politics, had a passion for hunting, and managed to engage also in her interest for travels with the argument that pilgrimages would make it easier for her to give birth to sons. She protected churches and convents and had a close relationship with her sister-in-law Maria Anna, who was a member of the Poor Clares in Munich. She liked the
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Maria Wachter


Maria Wachter (21 April 1910 - 18 August 2010) was a political activist (KPD) who resisted Nazism both before and after 1933. She spent most of the twelve Nazi years in exile or detained in camps and prisons. She was asked in 2010 if she was proud, on the occasion of her hundredth birthday, to be among the last survivors of those who had resisted the Nazis. Evidently she was not. But she was proud to have been a member of the Communist Party for nearly eighty years. Maria
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Raimon Obiols


Josep Maria "Raimon" Obiols i Germà (born 5 August 1940 in Barcelona) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), part of the Party of European Socialists. He is a high-ranking-member of the PSOE Catalonia wing, the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC). Obiols began his political career in 1977 when he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing Barcelona Province serving until 1984, when he resigned after being elected to
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Eliza Jane McKissack


— Eliza had a sister, Maria Caroline Cauthorn, Aykroyd (b. June 20, 1831, New Bern, North Carolina; d. Sep. 17, 1894). On July 21, 1869, Maria married Benjamin F. Cauthorn (b. July 20, 1836, Virginia; d. June 1, 1902); both were buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee (tombstone image for Maria); (tombstone image for Benjamin). Maria was a music teacher in Nashville. Maria's will was filed September 1894 in Will
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Maria Weiterer


party local leadership in the Charlottenburg quarter of Berlin, then becoming head of the women's section in the party local leadership in the city's Prenzlauer Berg quarter. Still in Berlin, she then, till 1933, served as a party political leader (""Polleiter""). The Nazi take over in January 1933 triggered a rapid transition to one-party dictatorship for Germany. At the end of February 1933 the Reichstag fire was immediately blamed on "communists", and it was indeed communist party members who were
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Maria Rauch-Kallat


Maria Rauch-Kallat is a former Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) politician who served as Minister of Health and Women from 2003 to 2007 in the Austrian government. She is currently a management consultant. She entered politics in 1983 as a member of the Austrian Senate until 1987, when she became a member of the City Council of Vienna. In 1992 she served as Federal Minister for Environment, Youth, and Family under Chancellor Franz Vranitzky's third cabinet (or Vranitzky Cabinet III). She also became Deputy President of
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Maria Vamvakinou


Maria Vamvakinou () (born 4 January 1959), is a Greek-born Australian politician. She has been member of the Australian House of Representatives since November 2001, representing the Division of Calwell, Victoria for the Australian Labor Party. She is a member of its Socialist Left faction. A high school teacher before entering politics, Vamvakinou is the first Greek-born woman to be elected to parliament in Australia, having emigrated to Australia with her parents when she was four years old. (She renounced her Greek citizenship
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Maria Rentmeister


armaments conglomerate]" (""Damit du weißt wofür du fällst ... das Vaterland ist die Firma Krupp"""). Käthe Rentmeister was a member of the Social Democratic Party while her children were small, but in 1929 she would join the Communists. Käthe Rentmeister's six children could not avoid the effects growing up in an atmosphere of heightened political awareness. Maria's younger brother also left a significant footprint on history an am anti-Nazi activist. After successful conclusion of her school career, Maria Rentmeister underwent a
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Akbayan


The Akbayan Citizens' Action Party (ACAP), better known as Akbayan, is a democratic socialist and progressive political party in the Philippines. Akbayan is noted as a leading member of the democratic left in the Philippines, which consists of moderate leftist groups who are not affiliated with the more radical Communist Party of the Philippines. The party was founded by Joel Rocamora in the 1990s after he left the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) over ideological differences with its founder and leader, Jose Maria Sison. Sison maintained a
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Communist Party of the Philippines


HMB. The party congress was attended by 12 members, namely Jose Maria Sison, Monico Atienza, Rey Casipe, Leoncio Co, Manuel Collantes, Arthur Garcia, Herminihildo Garcia, Ruben Guevara, Art Pangilinan, Nilo Tayag, Fernando Tayag at Ibarra Tubianosa. Jose Luneta was counted as the 13th member. He was elected in the Central Committee in absentia, since he was still in China. Soon after its reestablishment, the Party linked up with the other cadres and commanders of the HMB and engaged them in ideological and political
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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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Mariateguist Unified Party


Mariateguist Unified Party (in Spanish: "Partido Unificado Mariateguista – PUM") was a political party in Peru founded in 1984 by Revolutionary Vanguard (VR), Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), Workers Revolutionary Party (PRT) and a sector of Revolutionary Communist Party (PCR). Leaders included Javier Diez Canseco, Agustín Haya de la Torre, Santiago Pedráglio, Hugo Blanco, Eduardo Cáceres and Carlos Tapia. Maria Elena Moyano was also a member of PUM. PUM was a part of United Left (IU).
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Proletariat (party)


Proletariat is the name used to refer to three Polish political parties: The First Proletariat (or Great Proletariat) was the first Polish socialist party. It was founded in 1882 by Ludwik Waryński from members of Warsaw socialist circles. At a meeting in Vilna in 1883, The First Proletariat joined with parties from other cities in creating a central committee composed of Waryński, Stanisław Kunicki, Tadeusz Rechniewski, and others. Other important party activists were Edmund Płoski, Maria Bohuszewiczówna, Marian Stefan Ulrych, Aleksandra Jentysówna, and Henryk Dulęba.
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Elsa Teixeira Pinto


Elsa Maria Teixeira de Barros Pinto is a São Tomé and Príncipe politician, and the country's former Defence and Justice Minister and since December 2018 Foreign Minister. In 2003 and 2004 (at least), she was a member of the Council of Ministers, as Secretary of State for Administrative Reform and Public Administration, and was a member of the Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe/Social Democratic Party (MLSTP-PSD) political party. In 2004, she was also Minister for Justice. According to Pravda
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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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Raimond Kaljulaid


Raimond Kaljulaid (born 27 January 1982) is an Estonian politician and a member of the Estonian Parliament since 2019. Kaljulaid was elected in the list of Centre Party, but quit the party after the first sitting in protest of Centre party's decision to form a coalition with the far-right Conservative People's Party. Kaljulaid began his political career in 2002 as a public relations advisor of Edgar Savisaar, the then Mayor of Tallinn and father of his partner at the time Maria. He left the position in 2004 and went
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Feminist Party of Spain


Feminist Party of Spain (in Spanish: "Partido Feminista de España", PFE) is a feminist political party which operates in Spain. It was founded in 1975 by the feminist, anti-fascist, and communist activist Lidia Falcón. In 1983, the 1st congress of the party was held in Barcelona, where the executive committee was elected. The members of it were: Lidia Falcón, Carmen Sarmiento, Maria Encarna Sanahuja, Mercedes Izquierdo, Montserrat Fernández Casido, Pilar Altamira, Siurana Elvira, Isabel Marin, and
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Progett'Azione


Progett'Azione (PA, meaning "ProjectAction"), also known as Piedmontese Populars ("Popolari Piemontesi"), was a regional centrist Italian political party active in Piedmont. The party, whose leader was Maria Teresa Armosino, was a spin-off of The People of Freedom (PdL). The party was launched in June 2012 by Armosino, a long-time member of the Italian Parliament and president of the Province of Asti, and five regional councillors, namely Angelo Burzi, Roberto Boniperti, Roberto Tentoni, Rosanna
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Catholic People's Party


Lubbers, came from the KVP side of the merger. In the early years a system of equal representation of Catholics and Protestants was practiced, from which the KVP as only Catholic group profited. Nowadays many CDA members, like Maxime Verhagen and Maria van der Hoeven have a background in the KVP's political Catholicism. The name Catholic People's Party (Dutch: "Katholieke Volkspartij"; KVP), must be seen in contrast with the name of its predecessor Roman Catholic State Party. The party no longer uses the name
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Democrats of Catalonia


Democrats of Catalonia (, DC) is a Christian-democratic, pro-Catalan independence political party in Catalonia. Its founders are Antoni Castellà, Núria de Gispert, Rosa Maria Carrasco Azemar and Joan Rigol. The party was founded in July 2015 by former members of the Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC) who were dissatisfied with what they saw as the party's weak support for the independence movement. The new party joined the Junts pel Sí (Together for Yes) pro-independence alliance for the parliamentary elections of September
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Maria Rentmeister


was through Norden that Maria Rentmeister become involved with the party's "Weltfrauenkomitee" (""World Women's Committee""), for which she also worked. One senior activist comrade who escaped to Paris during the Autumn/Fall of 1935 was Wilhelm Beuttel, who took on a position of responsibility for political "education" within the exiled party leadership. Maria Rentmeister and Wilhelm Beuttel teamed up and became partners. One source indicates that the two political exiles married at some stage, but most infer, that Beuttel and
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P. C. Wren


Crispin Shoveler and Lucy Maria Parker. Alice Lucille Wren died at Poona, India 26 Sep 1914 and was buried 27 Sep 1914. Their daughter Estelle Lenore Wren was born at Greenwich in early 1901 She died at Basford in 1910. Wren reportedly dedicated an early edition (no date known) of "The Snake and the Sword" to "my wife Alice Lucille Wren". Another of his early novels, "Driftwood Spars" published in 1915, contained a dedication: "To the memory of my beloved wife."
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Girolamo Melzi


Girolamo Melzi (1599–1672) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Pavia (1659–1672). Girolamo Melzi was born in 1599 and ordained a priest on 21 Sep 1659. On 22 Sep 1659, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Alexander VII as Bishop of Pavia. On 16 Nov 1659, he was consecrated bishop by Giacomo Corradi, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Traspontina, with Marco Antonio Tomati, Bishop Emeritus of Bitetto, and Marcantonio Oddi, Bishop of Perugia, serving as co-consecrators
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Piero Fassino


in Italy won by the House of Freedoms rival coalition, he was still re-elected as a Member of Parliament. In 2001, during the National Party Congress of the Democrats of the Left, he was elected as secretary (a position of leader in Italian political parties). He was then re-elected in February 2005, during the party congress. He received the "America Award" from the Italy-USA Foundation in 2010. Fassino is married to Anna Maria Serafini, who was elected in Italian Senate (
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United Social Democratic Party


The United Social Democratic Party () (PUSD) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Guinea-Bissau. The party was established on 30 May 1991 and legalised on 6 June 1992. Victor Saúde Maria was its initial leader. In the 1994 general elections Saúde Maria finished seventh in the presidential elections with 2% of the vote, and the party failed to win a seat in the National People's Assembly. Saúde Maria died on 25 October 1999, and a subsequent leadership crisis prevented it from contesting the
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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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Maria Weiterer


Maria Weiterer (born Maria Tebbe: 18 February 1899 - 1 December 1976) was a German political activist, increasingly prominent in the Communist Party during the 1920s and 1930s. She survived the twelve Nazi years, living in exile from 1934. She returned to Germany after the war, settling in the Soviet occupation zone and building a career in what became the East German political establishment. In 1950, however, she was stripped of her offices and party membership and given a low grade clerical post in the south of the country
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Robert Montague (Jamaican politician)


Robert Montague (born 1965) is a Jamaican politician with the Jamaica Labour Party. He comes from a political family; his father Asquith Nathaniel was a charter member of the JLP. He entered politics in 1990 as a councillor for Carron Hall, Saint Mary Parish. He later became the mayor of Port Maria. In 2012, Opposition Leader Andrew Holness named him a member of the Senate of Jamaica. He is now the Minister of Transport And Mining in the Andrew Holness-led government after winning the 2016 Jamaican general election
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Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours


Maria Luisa would have a close relationship with their grandmother, and both would make weekly visits to the Palazzo Madama. Her relationship with Maria Adelaide in particular is documented in letters the two sent to each other after 1696 when the young princess married Louis of France. Maria Luisa married Louis' brother Philip V of Spain by proxy on 11 Sep 1701. Sadly Maria Adelaide would die in 1712 at Versailles of Measles. These two prestigious marriages were designed by Louis XIV to entice Savoyard support during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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Vundavalli Aruna Kumar


be heard. Vexed with the political scenario in the Indian Parliament, 2014, during the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh State in which his party Indian National Congress did not listen to his concern about the future of the state and moreover the absence of Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy (died in Sep, 2009) in his life let him to step down from election politics forever. After the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh state the government at central was charges with BJP and at state it was taken over by TDP. Both TDP and BJP
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Giles Dilnot


the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), accused Dilnot of issuing "politically slanderous" commentary during a live interview claiming his comment "crossed accepted journalistic boundaries", a complaint that was later rejected. While interviewing Marsden for BBC 2’s "Daily Politics" on 21 May 2014 during the campaign for the European election, Dilnot, referring to Marsden's claim that existing news media would be removed in a revolution, said "Please tell me I am not first up against the wall when it comes." According to Marsden
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Parvesh Verma


Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma (born 7 November 1977) is an Indian politician and a Member of parliament from West Delhi Lok Sabha Constituency. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In May, 2014 he was elected to 16th Lok Sabha, and he was reelected in 2019. Since 1 Sep, 2014 onwards he is Member of the Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament and Member of the Standing Committee on Urban Development. He is a son of senior BJP politician and former Chief
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2016 Romanian legislative election


Movement Party led by former president Traian Băsescu, despite protests from some UNPR members. Oprea, himself under investigation for abuse of power, resigned from the party and declared his intention to leave politics. Conservative MEP Maria Grapini accused PC of betrayal after fusion with PLR. The People's Movement Party, formed around former President Traian Băsescu after splitting from PDL, was rocked by the arrest of its leader Elena Udrea in Microsoft licensing corruption scandal and is losing popularity. A new nationalist party, United Romania Party (PRU),
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Maria Blum


order to attend parliamentary sittings in Berlin. Around this time, desperate to try and defuse the political temperature, the government implemented a major amnesty for political prisoners, during the course of which, late in 1930 or early in 1931, Maria Blum was released. She moved to Berlin where she joined the National Women's Department of the Party Central Committee. Political and economic conditions continued to deteriorate, and 1932 was a year of two general elections. The principal gainers in the general election of July 1932 were again Nazi Party
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Fortunato Mizzi


Fortunato Mizzi (1844–1905) was the founder of the Anti-Reform Party and also the one who started the process which eventually led to Malta's independence. The Anti-Reform Party was the forerunner of the Nationalist Party in Malta. He was a member of the Pro-Italian Maltese community and showed in his political activity strong support toward Italy's Risorgimento and the official use of the Italian language in Malta. Fortunato Mizzi married Maria Sofia Fogliero de Luna. They had a son by the name of Enrico who later became
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National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria


Kasabov and Dancho Hadzhiev. Secretary of the party is Maria Petrova. The National Political Council includes 19 people - councilors "Independent" by Burgas and hosts from SKAT TV, as - Velizar Enchev and Valentin Fartunov. Among the party's founders and is former regional president of the Union of Democratic Forces in the city Vladimir Pavlov. The party was member of the Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) group during the 7th European Parliament. On 3 August 2014 a coalition agreement was signed between NFSB and IMRO – Bulgarian National
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Mieke Vogels


Maria Bertha Charlotte (Mieke) Vogels (born 20 April 1954) Belgian politician from Flanders in the environmentalist party Groen!. In 1978, Vogels earned a master's degree in Political and Social Sciences from the University Institution Antwerp (present "University of Antwerp"). She quit as minister after her party Agalev was heavily defeated in the federal parliament elections of May 2003. She was succeeded by her fellow party member Adelheid Byttebier. In October 2006 she was elected for the city council of Antwerp, as well as for
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Rana Bokhari


provincial party. Despite this, she was endorsed by the Manitoba Senator Maria Chaput, the leading Liberal candidate from the 2011 elections, Paul Hesse and party Vice-President Robert Young. She won a first ballot victory by one vote, with 431 votes. The victory made Rana Bokhari the youngest person ever to lead the Manitoba Liberals and the first Manitoban of South Asian descent to lead a political party in the province. She faced internal criticism from party members and former leadership challenger Bob Axworthy, who accused Bokhari of "purging
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Maria Van Bommel


Maria Van Bommel is a Canadian former politician in Ontario, Canada. From 2003 to 2011, she was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the London area riding of Lambton—Kent—Middlesex for the Ontario Liberal Party. Van Bommel attended the Centralia College of Agricultural Technology, Fanshawe College and the University of Western Ontario. Before entering politics, Van Bommel worked in farming, accounting and small business. She use to own a poultry farm near Strathroy, Ontario . Van Bommel has served as a provincial director
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Franco Maria Malfatti


Franco Maria Malfatti (; 13 June 1927 in Rome – 10 December 1991) was an Italian politician who served as the 3rd President of the European Commission from 1970 to 1972. He served at Italian level as Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1979 to 1980 and Italian Minister of Education from 1973 to 1978. Malfatti was born in Rome to parents native of the province of Rieti. He was an important member of the governing council of Democrazia Cristiana (the Christian Democratic party) in which he became chief of political bureau, and
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Maria Antonescu


territory, where she was only interrogated once. They were not told of each other, even though their cells at Moscow's Lubyanka are said to have shared a wall. From November 1945, the leftist Union of Patriots issued calls for her and Veturia Goga to be tried in Romanian custody. Maria Antonescu returned in April 1946, at the same time as her husband. She was submitted to interrogations by Interior Ministry Secretary, Romanian Communist Party member and public investigator Avram Bunaciu, who recorded her views on Antonescu's political choices
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Asociación de Víctimas del Terrorismo


Provincial Assembly of Gipuzkoa and member of the Council of the Realm, assassinated by ETA in 1976. During the presidency of Jose Maria Aznar, the AVT advocated political positions criticised as extreme, including conspiracy theories regarding the Madrid train bombings. This led to the creation of other terror victims' associations with less divisive political agendas. This association promoted a campaign against other Basque nationalist organisations, such as the political party Batasuna, Jarrai or Gestoras pro Amnistía, as well as music groups such as Su Ta Gar that it accuses of
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Hrvoje Sep


Hrvoje Sep (born 26 February 1986) is a Croatian professional boxer. He was boxing for BK Leonardo under Leonardo Pjetraj. Sep was 6 times champion of Croatia (2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016), two times runner-up (2012, 2015). He was also WSB Season I Champion (As member of Paris United team) and two times (Season III and season V) as member of Astana Arlans team, with a 22-8 record. He competed in the light
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Maria Mourani


Maria Mourani (born May 19, 1969) was an independent Member of Parliament in the federal riding of Ahuntsic in Canada. She was formerly a member of the Bloc Québécois before leaving the party over its support for the proposed Quebec Charter of Values. She joined the New Democratic Party in November 2014 but was not a member of the party's caucus due to the party's policy against crossing the floor; she stood for the NDP in the 2015 Canadian federal election, but did not win. Mourani was the first woman
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Alice Wosikowski


to Maria Grünert as leader of the Hamburg district group of the which was the women's version of the quasi-military Red Front Fighters, operating under the auspices of the Communist Party. The objective was to awaken political awareness, on behalf of the party, among working women. Principal demands included equal workplace treatment for women and men, prevention of mass unemployment and the abolition of the country's . Along with these activities, between 1927 and 1933 Wosikowski sat as a Communist member of the Hamburg Parliament (""Bürgerschaft
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Colombian economy and politics 1929–58


had the power, and the government sent money to the party and the party used the money to pay people to get rid of the liberals. Leon Maria receives a telegram informing him that he had an urgent meeting with the conservative leaders. In this reunion the conservatives tell Leon Maria that he was the man chosen to protect its party and they gave him guns and money to start right away. During the rest of the movie they show how Leon Maria kills, threaten, and torture liberals for them to leave their homes
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Ernst Maria Lieber


Philipp Ernst Maria Lieber (16 November 1838, Bad Camberg, Duchy of Nassau – 31 March 1902, Bad Camberg) was a German Centre party politician and member of the Reichstag. Ernst Lieber was the son of the lawyer, politician, and tea merchant Moritz Joseph Josias Lieber. The religious painter Philipp Veit, the Limburg Bishop Peter Joseph Blum and politically influential Bishop of Mainz, Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, were friends of his parents. Lieber earned his "Abitur" in Hadamar. He studied from 1858 law in Würzburg
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