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.

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Executive posts are divided between the National Congress Party ( NCP ), the Sudan People's Liberation Army, Eastern Front and factions of the Umma Party and Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ).

The Northern Ireland Executive is led by a diarchy, currently First Minister Peter Robinson ( Democratic Unionist Party ) and deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness ( Sinn Féin ).

There has been a significant decrease in violence over the last twenty years, though the situation remains tense, with the more hard-line parties such as Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist Party now holding the most parliamentary seats ( see Demographics and politics of Northern Ireland ).

The unionism Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ), the republican Sinn Féin, the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ), and the nonsectarian Alliance Party of Northern Ireland all gained seats in Parliament in the 2010 election, the Alliance Party for the first time.

* April 10 – Good Friday: 1 hour after the end of the talks deadline, the Belfast Agreement is signed between the Irish and British governments and most Northern Ireland political parties, with the notable exception of the Democratic Unionist Party.

Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party is founded in Northern Ireland.

When Sinn Féin came to nominate its two ministers to the Northern Ireland Executive, for tactical reasons the party, like the SDLP and the Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ), chose not to include its leader among its ministers.

* Sammy Wilson, Northern Irish politician, Democratic Unionist Party

Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) councillor and former Police Federation chairman Jimmy Spratt said if the report " had had one shred of credible evidence then we could have expected charges against former Police Officers.

Democratic Unionist Party, which had a considerable influence on the province's culture.

In March 1998, during the negotiations for the Good Friday Agreement, the LVF issued a statement expressing support for the stance of the anti-agreement Democratic Unionist Party, saying the party's leader, Ian Paisley, had got it " absolutely right ".

By the mid 1980s, a Loyalist paramilitary-style organisation called Ulster Resistance was formed on 10 November 1986 by Ian Paisley, then leader of the Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ), Peter Robinson of the DUP, and Ivan Foster.

As the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ), he and Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness were elected First Minister and deputy First Minister respectively on 8 May 2007.

Paisley revised this stance in September 2004, when he agreed to meet Ahern in his political capacity as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party.

In the 2005 elections, 22 members were elected from the following political parties: 8 Sinn Féin, 5 Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ), 4 Ulster Unionist Party ( UUP ) 4 Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) and 1 Éirígí ( EIR ).

At the local elections in May 2011, members of Strabane District Council were elected from the following political parties: 8 Sinn Féin, 4 Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ), 1 Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ), 1 Ulster Unionist Party ( UUP ) and 2 Independent Nationalist.

Johnson continued to ingratiate himself with the North, the President-elect and his party, with his Unionist speeches in the Senate in early 1861: " I have an abiding confidence in the intelligence, the patriotism, and the integrity of the people, and I feel in my own heart that, if this subject could be got before them, they would settle the question and the Union of these States would be preserved.

Nor does he account for the deviousness of the Duke of Hamilton, the official leader of the various factions opposed to the Union, who seemingly betrayed his former colleagues when he switched to the Unionist / Government side in the decisive final stages of the debate.

In the following May 2010 UK general election, the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, launched in January 2010 and backed by Bob Crow, the leader of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union ( RMT ), other union leaders and the Socialist Party among other socialist groups, stood against Labour in 40 constituencies.

" Father ," as the children called him, was an ardent Unionist, a prominent supporter of Abraham Lincoln and the Union effort during the American Civil War.

He was accused of war crimes at the Battle of Fort Pillow for allowing forces under his command to conduct a massacre upon hundreds of black Union Army and white Southern Unionist prisoners.

The Liberal Association in Birmingham could no longer be relied upon to provide loyal support, so Chamberlain created the Liberal Unionist Association in 1888, associated with the National Radical Union, having extracted his supporters from the old Liberal organisation.

The National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations also declared majority support for tariff reform.

During the Civil War, the county was strongly Unionist, voting against secession from the Union in a state-wide referendum by a higher percentage than in any other Tennessee county.

Inspired by MacManaway's blend of unionism and Protestantism, Paisley joined independent Unionist MP Norman Porter's National Union of Protestants, but left after Porter refused to join the Free Presbyterians.

When the dissident Liberals eventually formed the Liberal Unionist Council, which was to become the Liberal Unionist party, Chamberlain organised the separate National Radical Union in Birmingham.

In 1889 the National Radical Union changed its name to the National Liberal Union and remained a separate organisation from the main Liberal Unionist Council.

The pinnacle of this was a meeting on 9 April in the grounds of the Royal Agricultural Society near Balmoral, attended by seventy Unionist MPs, the Primate of All Ireland and topped by " perhaps the largest Union Jack ever made " – 48 feet by 25 feet on a flagpole 90 feet high.

Though always a keen sympathizer with the Irish people in their misfortunes and aspirations and he had criticized severely the methods by which the Act of Union was passed, Lecky, who grew up as a moderate Liberal, was from the first strenuously opposed to William Ewart Gladstone's policy of Home Rule and, in 1895, he was returned to parliament as Unionist member for Dublin University in a by-election.

As commissioner of education in Ireland ( 1896 – 1901 ), trustee of the National Library of Ireland, secretary of the Irish Liberal Union and vice-president of the Irish Unionist Alliance, he enforced his view that literature should not be divorced from practical life.

According to Al Jazeera English, it was formed in 2002 and includes Islah, Yemeni Socialist Party ( YSP ), Hizb Al-Haq ( a semi-religious party ), the Unionist party, and the Popular Forces Union party.

The National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations was a federation of the voluntary wing of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom.

" In 2005, New Union Party abandoned publication of their official newsletter, New Unionist.

He has been a member of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations Executive Committee ( 1992-5 ) and has served as a member of the Carlton Club Political Committee.

The Unionist Party was formed in 1917 by Members of Parliament ( MPs ) in Canada who supported the " Union government " formed by Sir Robert Borden during the First World War.

Still, nearly 120, 000 Southern Unionists served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and Unionist regiments were raised in every Southern state.

He led a strike at the BBC in 1985 when the Governors, bowing to Government pressure, suppressed a documentary called Real Lives: At the Edge of the Union which covered the home life of Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin and Gregory Campbell of the Democratic Unionist Party.

He had already been Chairman of his own Association in 1965, and served on the Executive of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations from 1967 to 1976.

The Democratic Unionist Party () ( Al Hizb Al-Ittihadi Al-Dimuqrati ) is the oldest political party in Sudan.

Malik Sir Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana ( 1900-1975 ), KCSI, OBE () was the Punjab Unionist party Premier of the Punjab during the climacteric period 1942-47.