His Social Democrat party captured 50.2 percent of the popular vote and 148 of the 250 seats in the Assembly of the Republic.

In the absence of a credible democratic left party, Czech center right politicians had the upper hand, and were relatively united, until 1997.

No strong social democratic party in Czechoslovakia could emerge from the rigid Czechoslovak Communist Party.

The Democratic Party needs major reform.

Christian Democracy (, DC) was a Christian democratic political party in Italy.

Gani Fawehinmi, a fiery lawyer who made his name as a human rights campaigner under military rule, is the candidate of the National Conscience Party (NCP). The PDP and ANPP are broadly center right parties, while the NCP styles itself as the party of the poor and espouses social democratic policies.

Canada, Ireland, and Portugal had right wing political parties that defied categorization the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, and Progressive Democrats in Ireland and the Social Democratic Party of Portugal.

The DPJ formed Japan's previous government before being toppled from power by Abe Shinzo and the Liberal Democratic Party in 2012.

When they bend towards the Trotskyites, they lose bourgeois supporters when they seek the middle ground, like the SDP in Germany, the Left Party grows.

These Kuchma crony parties go under many names For a United Ukraine,'' the Social Democratic Party (United)'', the Green Party of Ukraine,'' Women For the Future,'' the Democratic Union,'' New Generation,'' the Team of a Winter Generation'' among others.

For instance, MP Irina Karamushkina (Social Democratic Party) argued

The Social Democratic Party of Germany , or SDP, wants to make an example of Cyprus, in order to stop the vote in favor of European aid in the Bundestag , which is essential to Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Thailand s ruling Democrat Party immediately called Chavalit s remarks traitorous.

In response, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party established a Working Team on the Protection of Maritime Interests.

Since then, the Conservatives and the NDP have been the dominant parties.

But it is obvious that in the period of transition through which Serbia is going, there is a need for a strong, well organized European style social democratic party to address these issues.

Given all this, it might seem that Uruguay s carefully constructed social democratic alternative could unravel.

The country s two major political parties, the governing Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) recently chose their leaders, yet ordinary Japanese responded with a collective shrug.

Moreover, if elected, Obama will be constrained by his own Democratic Party.

But it is equally true that Venezuela enjoyed 40 years of democratic rule before Chávez, under the 1958 Punto Fijo Pact, whereby two parties, one social democratic and the other social Christian, alternated in power peacefully.

The DPP has long been the Taiwanese party keenest on securing independence for the country.

The National Democratic Party of Tajikistan (NDPT), Tajikistan's ruling party, is taking parliamentary elections very seriously, despite the fact that its victory is not in doubt.

By the 1960 s, all of democratic Europe was social democratic, a combination of free markets and mass social protection.

No surprise, then, that the Democratic Party has now picked up the protectionist baton.

The center left Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) took more than 300 of 480 seats in the lower house.

Obasanjo and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party were re elected in May 2003 in controversial circumstances.

But this is not the problem that the National Democratic Party of Tajikistan should be using to score points.

Meanwhile, the three main parties the National Action Party (PAN), the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) united in order to keep newcomers out of the electoral arena.

Nonetheless, the newly victorious Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has been able to make the accusation stick to free market policies.

The Liberal Democratic Party, which had ruled Japan for most of the post war decades, lost parliamentary elections to the Democratic Party of Japan.

Yukio Hatoyama s Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) thrashed the Liberal Democratic Party, which had governed almost continuously for a half century.

But President Hosni Mubarak and the ruling National Democratic Party have been stonewalling since the mid 1980's.

India is a democracy.

Burma s Democratic Charade

The United States of America is a democratic country.

The dominant National Democratic Party (NDP) takes a different view, arguing that political change can be achieved without constitutional reform.

After more than 50 years of almost uninterrupted power, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has been buried in a general election.

The Prime Minister recently claimed that the ODS will not be burdening business owners with its checks so is it forbidden or allowed?

The Pro Kurdish HDP (People's Democratic Party) has been maintaining a successful campaign ahead of Turkey's General Election on June 6 both online and offline.

While the DPJ remains unpopular with just about every demographic in Japan, to a certain extent Minshu kun has managed to appeal to a younger demographic.

In the first multi party election that took place in November 1990 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the three largest nationalist parties in the country won, the Party of Democratic Action, the Serbian Democratic Party and the Croatian Democratic Union.

The Movement for Popular Participation, a political party that belongs to the ruling left wing party Broad Front, shared a photo album on Facebook with more pictures.

Photo from League of Social Democrats.

But two other government parties, the National Alliance (a nationalist party) and the UDC (a Catholic one) have their electoral bases mainly in the South and oppose Bossi's project because it conflicts with their interests.

A similar choice was made on the left by Veltroni, whose Democratic Party is now allied with Antonio Di Pietro s Italy of Values Party.