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Does the PVV want to stop all support for Ukraine?
The PVV party program (published in September 2023) mentions Ukraine four times. In the section on defense (on pages 36-37) it says:
Terwijl onze Krijgsmacht niet eens meer in staat is om het eigen ...
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Why are "the rich" more able to identify the party which represent their interests than "the poor"?
One problem with your definition of "left wing" and "right wing" parties over whom they benefit is with the ambiguity of what "benefits" mean. Like you seem to think of ...
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Besides Jamaica, are there other countries where a "Labour" (or Workers' etc.) party is actually right-wing/conservative?
The Danish party Venstre (literally "the Left") started out as a left-wing party, but by now is considered center-right.
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Besides Jamaica, are there other countries where a "Labour" (or Workers' etc.) party is actually right-wing/conservative?
The Cambodian People's Party - I know it's 'People's' and not Labour or Worker, but it started out as a dictatorial Communist Party - as in 'people's republic' - and is now a dictatorial conservative ...
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Besides Jamaica, are there other countries where a "Labour" (or Workers' etc.) party is actually right-wing/conservative?
Spain's Frente Obrero (literally: "Workers' Front") fits the description, at least when it comes to social matters:
Despite being strongly connected with the PML(RC) and supporting
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Besides Jamaica, are there other countries where a "Labour" (or Workers' etc.) party is actually right-wing/conservative?
The Liberal Party of Australia is a right-wing party.
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Besides Jamaica, are there other countries where a "Labour" (or Workers' etc.) party is actually right-wing/conservative?
In Portugal, the PSD (Partido Social Democrata, Social Democratic Party) is the main centre-right party, with 77 seats in the current Portuguese parliament. The main centre-left party is just the PS (...
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Besides Jamaica, are there other countries where a "Labour" (or Workers' etc.) party is actually right-wing/conservative?
Up until very recently, the Brazilian Labour Party would have fit these criteria; despite the name suggesting a left-wing ideology, the party pivoted right in recent years. In November 2023, it merged ...
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Besides Jamaica, are there other countries where a "Labour" (or Workers' etc.) party is actually right-wing/conservative?
At the European parliament there is the center-right European People's Party, and one of its Spanish members is Partido Popular (People's Party).
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Besides Jamaica, are there other countries where a "Labour" (or Workers' etc.) party is actually right-wing/conservative?
In early Russian Federation (and some would say to this day), Communist Party was conservative/Right Wing because other political forces were taking the progressivist / reformist / economic liberal ...
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What kind of amendment can oblige multiple political parties, and repair the unintended two-party malfunction of the constitution?
Aotearoa New Zealand moved from first past the post voting to multi-member proportional representation (MMP) in 1996, so I have some relevant experience of the change. Prior to that we had two parties,...
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What kind of amendment can oblige multiple political parties, and repair the unintended two-party malfunction of the constitution?
A false premise
What kind of amendment clause can encourage many parties to represent
the voters in the way originally intended by the founding fathers?
The Founding Fathers intended the ...
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What kind of amendment can oblige multiple political parties, and repair the unintended two-party malfunction of the constitution?
First, the Founding Fathers were not a homogeneous group. They came to a compromise represented in the Constitution which they ultimately passed, anything else is an argument or a negotiating position ...
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Why is are the terms government party and opposition party rarely used to describe the parties in the USA?
There are no political parties
At least, not at the same level than in other countries.
With first past the post, party discipline is way looser than it could be in, say, Germany or Spain, where party ...
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