" Drawing on remnants of the old Whig party, and on disenchanted Free Soil, Liberty, and Democratic party members, he was instrumental in forging the shape of the new Republican Party.

In the presidential election in 1848, the Democratic Party split over the slavery issue, with the abolitionists leaving the party and forming the Free Soil Party, and making Martin Van Buren their nominee.

Ian Paisley, future British MP, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, and Moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, who has referred to the Pope as a " Roman anti-Christ.

The CSU currently governs at the federal level with the CDU and the liberal Free Democratic Party ( FDP ).

In the 1980 elections he ran against the incumbent Helmut Schmidt of the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ), but lost thereafter, as the SPD and the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) managed to secure an absolute majority together, forming a Social-liberal coalition.

For example, Helmut Kohl's CDU governed for years in coalition with the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ), from 1998 to 2005 Gerhard Schröder's SPD was in power with the Greens and from 2009 Angela Merkel, CDU / CSU was in power with the FDP.

The largest are Freedom and Justice Party, al-Nour Party, New Wafd Party, Free Egyptians Party, Justice Party, Wasat Party, Egyptian Social Democratic Party, and Coalition of the Youth of the Revolution.

Furthermore, the leader of the German Free Democratic Party ( FDP ), Philipp Rösler, serves as Vice-Chancellor of Germany and the leader of the British Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, serves as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Petr Mach, an economist, a close associate of president Václav Klaus and a member of the Civic Democratic Party between 1997 and 2007, founded the Free Citizens Party in 2009.

Following German reunification in 1990, the FDP merged with the Association of Free Democrats, a grouping of liberals from East Germany and the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany.

Below are charts of the results that the Free Democratic Party has secured in each election to the federal Bundestag.

After negotiations, the Saarland Greens rejected the option of a left-wing ' red-red-green ' coalition with the SPD and The Left ( Die Linke ) in order to form a centre-right state government with the CDU and Free Democratic Party ( FDP ), a historical first time that a Jamaica coalition has formed in German politics.

His intervention in the Pullman Strike of 1894 to keep the railroads moving angered labor unions nationwide and angered the party in Illinois ; his support of the gold standard and opposition to Free Silver alienated the agrarian wing of the Democratic Party.

In 2010 Geneva City Council was made up of two representatives of the SDP ( Social Democratic Party, one of whom is the mayor ), one member of the FDP ( Free Democratic Party ), one member of the Green Party and one member of the À gauche Toute party.

The pro-business Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) had been in coalition with the SPD, but now it changed direction.

Hans-Dietrich Genscher ( born 21 March 1927 ) is a German politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party ( FDP ).

In 1952, Genscher fled to West Germany, where he joined the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ).

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Theodor Heuss was elected the first President of the Republic, and Adenauer was elected Chancellor ( head of government ) on 16 September 1949 with the support of his own CDU, the Christian Social Union and the liberal Free Democratic Party.

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When the House reconvened, the party schism caused by the Free Soil Party precluded the formation of a majority needed to elect a Speaker.

The EFA and European Green Party operate together to form The Greens – European Free Alliance political grouping in the European Parliament.

Following the 1999 European Parliament election EFA members formed a common European parliamentary group with the European Green Party called The Greens – European Free Alliance.

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The Free German Youth, also known as the FDJ (), was the official communist youth movement of the German Democratic Republic and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.

The Leipzig University (), located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in the world and the second-oldest university ( by consecutive years of existence ) in Germany.

The Free, Independent, and Strictly Neutral City of Kraków ( Cracow ) with its Territory (), more commonly known as either the Free City of Kraków or Republic of Kraków (, ), was a city-state created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, and controlled by its three neighbours ( Russia, Prussia, and Austria ) until 1846, when in the aftermath of the unsuccessful Kraków Uprising it was annexed by the Austrian Empire.

The Movement of Free Citizens (), also known by its acronym KEP, was a short-lived, right-of-center political party in Greece.

Its motto was “ honor, freedom, fatherland ” (), and the original colors were red-black-red with a golden oak leaves cluster, which might be based on the uniform of the Lützow Free Corps, being a corps of volunteer soldiers during the wars of liberation.

The Rhine Province (), also known as Rhenish Prussia ( Rheinpreußen ) or synonymous to the Rhineland ( Rheinland ), was the westernmost province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia, within the German Reich, from 1822-1946.

The British Free Corps (), which was classed as a division of the Waffen-SS Foreign Legions, was not a Germanic-SS group.

The Free State Stadium (), also known as Vodacom Park, is a stadium in Bloemfontein, South Africa, used mainly for rugby union and association football.

The Free Software Foundation has developed its own OpenPGP-compliant program called GNU Privacy Guard ( abbreviated GnuPG or GPG ).

Invisible Hand of the Free Market Man ( abbreviated I. H. O. T. F. M .- Man in dialog in the strip ) is a superhero character, wearing what is basically a Superman costume, with an I. H. O. T. F. M .- Man logo ( a hand with the IHOTF in each finger, and M in the palm ) where the Superman logo would be.

The university's name is sometimes abbreviated by " VUB " or translated to " Free University of Brussels ".

Some facilities shared by both universities use the name " Brussels Free Universities ", abbreviated BFU ( e. g. the Brussels Free Universities Computing Center, BFUCC ).

The Free Papua Movement ( Indonesian: Organisasi Papua Merdeka, abbreviated OPM ) is a militant organisation established in 1965 to encourage and effect the violent overthrow of the current governments in the Papua and West Papua provinces of Indonesia, formerly known as Irian Jaya to secede from Indonesia, and to reject economic development and modernity as well as to eliminate non-native populations in the island.

The Festival achieved widespread national recognition when, from 1951 to 1973, NBC broadcast abbreviated performances each year that were carried by more than 100 stations and, after 1954 on Armed Forces Radio and Radio Free Europe.

The Bavarian State Library (, abbreviated BSB ) in Munich is the central " Landesbibliothek ", i. e. the state library of the Free State of Bavaria and one of Europe's most important universal libraries.

The Campaign for Free Education ( often abbreviated CFE ) was a left-wing grouping in the National Union of Students of the United Kingdom of those opposed to tuition fees and the abolition of student grants.