With most hardliners leaving the party, it sought to present itself as a respectable conservative party and to join forces with Forza Italia in the European People's Party and, eventually, in a united party of the centre-right.

Since 1990, Bulgaria has an unstable party system, in the past two decades differently dominated by the post-communist Bulgarian Socialist Party or by the right Union of Democratic Forces and recently by the new right-oriented party-Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria.

Unlike the communist parties in most other East European states, the BCP ( changing its name to Bulgarian Socialist Party ) retained majority power after the transition in Bulgaria by winning the first free national elections in June 1990.

The four left the Labour Party as a result of policy changes enacted at the January 1981 Wembley conference which committed the party to unilateral nuclear disarmament and withdrawal from the European Economic Community.

The origin of the party can be traced back to the ideological divisions in the Labour Party in the 1950s ( with its forerunner being the Campaign for Democratic Socialism established to support the Gaitskellites ), but publicly lies in the 1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission.

Jenkins argued the necessity for a realignment in British politics, and discussed whether this could be brought about from within the existing Liberal Party, or from a new group driven by European principles of social democracy.

In Taverne's case, he had been fighting efforts by the Lincoln Constituency Labour Party to deselect him largely over his support for British membership of the European Communities.

The CSU is a member of the European People's Party ( EPP ) and its MEPs sit in the EPP Group.

Democratic Progressive Party also differs from KMT on foreign and defense policies that DPP considers the relations with the United States, Japan, European states among other democratic countries are crucial for Taiwan security.

He presides over a multi-party chamber, the two largest groups being the Group of the European People's Party ( EPP ) and the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats ( S & D ).

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

The SNP, although being a predominantly social-democratic party, joined the European Progressive Democrats, which was led by the Gaullist Rally for the Republic, the SDLP the Socialist Group, VU and FDF the heterogeneous Technical Group of Independents, which comprised both conservative and left-wing MEPs, and the SVP the European People's Party group.

Before, the regionalists had been seated divided, with the SNP with the Gaullist-dominated European Democratic Alliance, VU, the Valdotanian Union and the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) in the Rainbow Group, together with green parties, the South Tyrolean People's Party ( SVP ) with the Group of the European People's Party, and Batasuna among the Non-Inscrits.

Moreover they had suspended the membership of their major affiliate, Lega Nord, for entering into government with the post-fascist National Alliance and the PNV chose to switch to the European People's Party ( EPP ).

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.

The logo followed a template very similar to the Democratic Party of the Left, with the previous logo in a small circle, as a means of legally preventing others from using it.

The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) and The Left ( Die Linke ) took control of the city government after the 2001 state election and won another term in the 2006 state election.

I regard myself as Left of Centre which … is where a Party Leader ought to be … It is no use asking, “ What would Keir Hardie have done ?” We must have at the top men brought up in the present age, not, as I was, in the Victorian Age .’

After World War II, the Conservative Party made concessions to the socialist policies of the Left.

At the 15th Party Congress ( 2 – 19 December 1927 ) the Left Opposition was crushed ; none of its members were elected to the Central Committee.

The European Conservatives and Reformists group, typified by centre-right parties such as the British Conservative Party, along with the European United Left – Nordic Green Left which is an alliance of the left-wing parties in the European Parliament, is soft eurosceptic.

Communist Party of Greece, Golden Dawn ( Greece ), Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow, Popular Orthodox Rally

Centre Party, Christian Democratic Party, Socialist Left Party and Liberal Party were against EU-membership in both referendums.

Centre Party and Socialist Left Party are also against the current membership in the European Economic Community.

The Left Party of Sweden was against accession to the European Union and still wants Sweden to leave the European Union.

The Democratic Party of the Left ( successor to the Communist Party ) started the procedure of impeachment ( Presidents of Italy can be impeached only for high treason against the State or for an attempt to overthrow the Constitution ).

" MI5, the intelligence department of the Home Office, noted: " It is evident from his recent writings – ' The Lion and the Unicorn ' – and his contribution to Gollancz's symposium The Betrayal of the Left that he does not hold with the Communist Party nor they with him.

New for the 2005 election was the alliance between the newly formed Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice ( WASG ) and the PDS, planning to fuse into a common party ( see Left Party. PDS ).

Three party coalitions and Coalitions involving the Left Party have been ruled out by all concerning parties ( including the Left Party itself ).

The Greens and the Left Party both suffer from some internal frictions.

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.

However, it was readily accepted by members of the Chinese Nationalist Party and is the name under which Chiang Kai-shek is still commonly known in Taiwan.

Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party, more commonly known as Fianna Fáil () is a centrist to centre-right Irish republican and conservative political party in Ireland, founded on 23 March 1926.

In China, the claim that Mao had " adapted Marxism – Leninism to Chinese conditions " evolved into the idea that he had updated it in a fundamental way applying to the world as a whole ; consequently, the term " Marxism – Leninism – Mao Zedong Thought " ( commonly known as Maoism ) was increasingly used to describe the official Chinese state ideology as well as the ideological basis of parties around the world who sympathized with the Communist Party of China ( such as the Communist Party of the Philippines, Marxist – Leninist / Mao Zedong Thought, founded by Jose Maria Sison in 1968 ).

Promising a national and social revolution, the Revolutionary Febrerista Party ( Partido Revolucionario Febrerista, PRF ), more commonly known as the Febreristas, brought Colonel Franco back from exile in Argentina to be president.

The Communist Party of Peru ( Spanish: Partido Comunista del Perú ), more commonly known as the Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ), is a Maoist organization in Peru.

Since 1832, the term " Tory " is commonly used to refer to the Conservative Party and its members.

The Long March most commonly refers to the transfer of the main group of the First ( or Central ) Red Army, which included the leaders of the Communist Party of China, from Yudu in the province of Jiangxi, to Yan ' an in Shaanxi.

The New Party ( NP ), formerly the Chinese New Party ( CNP ), is a centre-right conservative political party in the Republic of China ( ROC, commonly known as " Taiwan "), and part of the pan-blue coalition.

Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, commonly referred to as Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (), Claus von Stauffenberg, or Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg ( 15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944 ), was a German army officer and aristocrat who was one of the leading members of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power.

It was most commonly known as the Conservative Party.

The Pan-Green Coalition () or Pan-Green Camp, is an informal political alliance of the Republic of China, commonly known as " Taiwan ", consisting of the Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ), Taiwan Solidarity Union ( TSU ), and the minor Taiwan Independence Party ( TAIP ).

An opponent of the gold standard and national banks, he is most famous as the presidential nominee of the People's Party ( commonly known as the " Populists ") in the 1892 election.

In 1891 Weaver helped found the People's Party, a group commonly known as the " Populists.

The Indian National Congress ( abbreviated INC, and commonly known as the Congress ) ( Bhāratīya Rāṣṭrīya Kāṅgrēsa ) is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ).

Confronted by the rising Australian Labor Party in 1909, he merged his Protectionist Party with Joseph Cook's Anti-Socialist Party to create the Commonwealth Liberal Party ( known commonly as the Fusion ), the main ancestor of the modern Liberal Party of Australia.

* Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly simply as Conservatives

: The Democratic Party ), commonly known as the PDs, was a pro-free market liberal political party in the Republic of Ireland.

They are now known as the Communist Party of Great Britain ( Provisional Central Committee ), although they commonly call themselves the Communist Party of Great Britain, and publish the Weekly Worker, although the Communist Party of Britain are the designated ' Communist Party ' in the UK by the Electoral Commission.