PDFLP poster ( 1965 ), the caption of which reads: " Solidarity with the people of the Middle East in their struggle against imperialism, feudalism, Zionism and Arab reaction " In 1969, a faction of the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) broke away from the main organization to form the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PDFLP ).

Aided by Communist and leftist governments such as the former South Yemen ( People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ), the rebels formed the Dhofar Liberation Front, which later merged with the Marxist-dominated Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arab Gulf ( PFLOAG ).

The Partido Liberal, Neto, Auténtico y Completo, an independence political party, later became the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) which would ironically end up promoting the " Estado Libre Associado " ( Free Associated State ) status that Barceló, as president of Union Party, had asked for in 1923 under Campbell Bill and which Muñoz Marín had always opposed, instead of independence.

Luis Muñoz Marín founded the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) in 1940.

In 1972 the NPP lost to a reunified Popular Democratic Party ( PDP ).

Aníbal Acevedo Vilá of the Popular Democratic Party ( PDP ) by more than 223, 000 votes.

The Popular Democratic Party has challenged the Bush Administration's Task Force Reports stating that in 1953 Puerto Rico achieved a compact of association between both nations that was recognized by the United Nations.

The remaining political organization, the Popular Democratic Party, is less active in its opposition of this case of disfranchisement but has officially stated that it favors fixing the remaining " deficits of democracy " that the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations have publicly recognized in writing through Presidential Task Force Reports.

* Popular Democratic Party ( PDP )

* Democratic and Popular Union ( Spanish: Unidad Democrática y Popular ) a former Bolivian umbrella party

The conflict is largely between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Algerian-backed nationalist organization the Polisario Front ( Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saguia el-Hamra and Río de Oro ), which in February 1976 formally proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ( SADR ), now basically administered by a government in exile in Tindouf, Algeria.

According to Said Aburish, the government of Jordan and a number of Fatah commandos informed Arafat that large-scale Israeli military preparations for an attack on the town were underway, prompting fedayeen groups, such as George Habash's newly formed group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) and Nayef Hawatmeh's breakaway organization the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ), to withdraw their forces from the town.

* Popular sovereignty, developed by Lewis Cass and Douglas as the eventual Democratic Party position, letting each territory decide whether to allow slavery.

In the Italian Popular Party founded by Don Luigi Sturzo in 1919, Savonarola was revered as a champion of social justice, and after 1945 he was held up as a model of reformed Catholicism by leaders of the Christian Democratic Party.

Following President Aguirre Cerda's death in 1941, he was again elected deputy while the Popular Front was renamed Democratic Alliance.

* a local abbreviation for Popular Movement of the Revolution, a political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

In 1995 other parties included the Belarusian Ecological Party, the National Democratic Party of Belarus, the Party of People's Accord, the All-Belarusian Party of Popular Unity and Accord, the Belarusian United Agrarian Democratic Party, the Belarusian Scientific Industrial Congress, the Belarusian Green Party, the Belarusian Humanitarian Party, the Belarusian Party of Labor, the Belarusian Party of Labor and Justice, the Belarusian Socialist Party, the Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus, the Polish Democratic Union, and the Republican Party.

Local leadership came from groups and organizations affiliated with the PLO that operated within the Occupied Territories ; Fatah, the Popular Front, the Democratic Front and the Palestine Communist Party.

The remaining political organization, the Popular Democratic Party has officially stated that it favors fixing the remaining " deficits of democracy " that the Clinton and Bush administrations publicly recognized through Presidential Task Force Reports.

Stalin had respected his agreement with Winston Churchill to not intervene, but Yugoslavia and Albania defied the USSR's advice and sent supplies during the Greek Civil War to the partisan forces of the Communist Party of Greece, the ELAS ( National Popular Liberation Army ).

He was a Marxist physician and member of Chile's Socialist Party, who headed the " Popular Unity " ( UP or " Unidad Popular ") coalition of the Socialist, Communist, Radical, and Social-Democratic Parties, along with dissident Christian Democrats, the Popular Unitary Action Movement ( MAPU ), and the Independent Popular Action.

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

He took over the premiership later in the year and turned his back on the Popular Party by announcing his engagement to the daughter of the Progressive Party leader, Shefqet Verlaci.

The exhaustion of most opposition forces enabled Stroessner to crush the Paraguayan Communist Party ( Partido Communista Paraguayo-PCP ) by mercilessly persecuting its members and their spouses and to isolate the exiled Colorado epifanistas ( followers of Epifanio Méndez Fleitas ) and democráticos, who had reorganized themselves as the Popular Colorado Movement ( Movimiento Popular Colorado-Mopoco ).

Roman Catholicism had become the sole recognized religion ; the powerful democratic Catholic Popular Party, in many ways similar to the Centre Party in Germany, had been disbanded, and in place of political Catholicism the Holy See encouraged Catholic Action, ' an anaemic form of clerically dominated religious rally-rousing.

Discredited after the Second World War, French radicals split into a left-wing party – the Radical Party of the Left, an associate of the Socialist Party – and the Radical Party " valoisien ", an associate party of the conservative Union for a Popular Movement ( UMP ) and its Gaullist predecessors.

Popular Radicalism, Organised Labour and Party Politics in Britain, 1850 – 1914 ( Cambridge University Press, 1991 ).

The politics of Puerto Rico are dominated by three political parties: the Partido Nuevo Progresista ( PNP ), the Partido Popular Democratico ( PPD ), and the Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño ( PIP ).

Although he has had limited success at the voting booth regarding his candidacy for the colonial post of Governor of Puerto Rico in 1976, 1980, 1988, 2000 and 2004-losing every time to either the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) or the New Progressive Party ( PNP ) candidate-he nevertheless has enjoyed great electoral success regarding his candidacy to the Senate, receiving more votes than any other candidates in the Puerto Rican senatorial elections of 1972, 1984, 1992 and 1996.

Rosselló began his political career in 1988 when he ran for the post of Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, ( the island's non-voting observer / representative in the United States Congress ) losing to incumbent Jaime Fuster of the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ).

An engineer of profession, Berríos became the 22nd mayor of Caguas for the first time in 1973, after winning the 1972 elections, as a member of the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ).

In 1996, he was elected as a member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives for the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ).

" In December 1980, Barroso joined the right-of-centre PPD ( Democratic Popular Party, later PPD / PSD-Social Democratic Party ), where he remains to the present day.

It is commonly known by its initials, PSD ; on ballot papers, its initials appear as PPD / PSD, with the first three letters coming from the party's original name, Democratic People's Party ( Partido Popular Democrático ).

A member of the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ), Cordero went on to work in the Departments of Finance and Workers ' Rights ( Spanish: Departmento del Derecho al Trabajo ).

The current mayor of Aguas Buenas is Luis Arroyo Chiqués, of the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ).

The current mayor of Añasco is Jorge Estéves Martínez, of the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ).

Mayor Sol Luis Fontánes has held the mayor's seat for the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) since 1986.

The current mayor of Comerío is José A. Santiago, of the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ).

That year, the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico ( PPD ) won the governorship and created a political status known as the Associated Free State ( Estado Libre Asociado, or ELA ).

The Partido Liberal, Neto, Auténtico y Completo, an independence political party, later became the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) which would ironically end up promoting the " Estado Libre Associado " ( Free Associated State ) status that Barceló, as president of Union Party, had asked for in 1923 under the Campbell Bill and which Muñoz Marín had always opposed, instead of independence.

In May 1974, a month after the Carnation Revolution, Sá Carneiro founded the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ), together with Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Joaquim Magalhães Mota, Carlos Mota Pinto, João Bosco Mota Amaral, Alberto João Jardim, António Barbosa de Melo and António Marques Mendes, and became its secretary-general.

He was a militant member of the Democratic Popular Party ( PPD, which is today's Social Democratic Party ).

After the Carnation Revolution, on April 25, 1974, he helped in the foundation, jointly with Francisco Sá Carneiro, Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Joaquim Magalhães Mota, João Bosco Mota Amaral, Alberto João Jardim, António Barbosa de Melo and António Marques Mendes, of the Democratic Popular Party ( PPD, today PSD ).

The preliminary certification was signed by Gerardo Cruz, electoral commissioner of the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ), Brunilda Ortiz, alternate electoral commissioner of the New Progressive Party ( PNP ), and Andrés Miranda Rosa, alternate electoral commissioner of the Puerto Rican Independence Party ( PIP ).

Such was the case after the 2004 elections, when four defeated Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) Senate candidates, one at-large, and three district candidates, were added on as at-large Senators, joining the five PPD Senators who had achieved election in their own right.

" The Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico ( PPD ) disagreed with this definition, stating that it portrayed the island as a colony of the United States, and not as a true commonwealth or free associated state ( estado libre associado ) between two nations.