When Sousa Franco and his SPD-inspired social democrats started their break with the rest of the party he referred to a division between " a rural wing, led by Sá Carneiro, and an urban wing, more moderate and truly social democratic, close to the positions of Helmut Schmidt " Due to the electoral influence of ruralism on the PSD's politics they may be seen inside of or influencing most factions.

His other major SF novels also contained bisexual characters: in his mosaic novel 334, gay people are referred to as " republicans " in contrast to the straight " democrats ".

" The FDP secretary-general Patrick Döring said that Klarsfeld's nomination was a " slap in the face of all democrats in our country ," claiming that she was " an accomplice of the SED regime.

With the exception of the 1946 election the social democrats won a majority of the seats from 1938 until 1966.

Discussions on the reform of the constitution continued, and the election of 1895 memorably returned a powerful party of democrats.

After the election 1917, which was a success both for the Social democrats and the Liberals, the offer to form a cabinet was first given to the liberal-conservative Johan Widén who failed to create a coalition.

On May 6, 1946 there was the first election after the war but the people of Roigheim, still deeply rooted in traditional ideas, were not yet true democrats.

In 1991, since Turkey's election system had two large election thresholds ( 10 % nationwide and 15 % local thresholds ) and since centre-left is divided into two parties ( SHP and DSP ), social democrats and democratic left groups had little power in the parliament.

During the 1998 election the purple coalition, with social-democrats, democrats and liberals fortified its majority.

During the gubernatorial election of 1919, Ritchie made his interest known and quickly gained support from the state democrats.

Following an election victory for the social democrats, Gabi Burgstaller became governor on 28 April 2004.

♦ Kansas House: After the election and some defections to the democrats, the Republicans held 78 House seats, a net loss of 5 seats.

After the 1945 parliamentary election SKDL was a major player in the Paasikivi III coalition with social democrats and parties of the centre, and in 1946 SKDL's Mauno Pekkala became the prime minister.

The extended suffrage contributed to a success for the left-wing parties, the liberals and the social democrats in the election for the second chamber in 1911.

With the pan democrats securing an estimated 205 votes, Albert Ho took part in a pan-democrat primary election on 8 January 2012 against Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood lawmaker Frederick Fung and won.

Oligarchical in his sympathies, he offended his own party and was distrusted by the democrats.

One could assume the new term was coined and adopted by Athenian democrats.

In 461 BC, Cimon was ostracized and was succeeded in his influence by democrats such as Ephialtes and Pericles.

The Old Guard agreed with Ike however on the development and ownership of nuclear reactors by private enterprises, which the democrats opposed.

Disillusioned with the capitulation of the social democrats, excited by the emergence of workers ’ councils, and slowly distanced from Leninism, many communists came to reject the claims of socialist parties and to put their faith instead in the masses.

Libertarian Marxism is also critical of reformist positions, such as those held by social democrats.

Although delegates from the Soviet Union and Comintern had attended, the first congress ignored Lenin's advice by refusing to accept a temporary alliance between the communists and the " bourgeois democrats " who also advocated national revolution ; instead they stuck to the orthodox Marxist belief that only the urban proletariat could lead a socialist revolution.

In July 1922, the Second Congress of the Communist Party took place in Shanghai ; while Mao lost the address and was unable to attend, the delegates decided to finally adopt the Leninist advice by agreeing to an alliance with the " bourgeois democrats " of the Kuomintang for the good of the " national revolution " to unite China and free it of foreign imperialist influence.

Rather, traditional social democrats advocated the creation of socialism through political reforms by operating within the existing political system of capitalism.

For their part, the social democrats pointed to the dislocation caused by revolution, and later, the growing authoritarianism of the Communist Parties.

She publicly opposed the proposed free trade agreement of the European Economic Community ( EEC, later European Union ) in 1973, by signing a petition along with 500 other more-or-less prominent social democrats and socialists.

Most of them were social democrats by European standards.

These internationals sought to steer a course between the social democrats of the Second International, who were seen as insufficiently socialist ( and had been compromised by their support for World War I ), and the perceived anti-democratic Third International.

The affinity between labor movement causes and this advocacy is very strong-and often shared by social democrats, socialists, communists and greens.

Willy Brandt lectured in Sweden on 1 December 1940 at Bommersvik college about problems experienced by the social democrats in Nazi Germany and the occupied countries at the start of World War II.

Like the old revolutionary States-General, the new National Assembly contained radically opposed parties: the unitary democrats, led by Pieter Vreede, Johan Valckenaer, and Pieter Paulus, and the federalists, such as Jacob Abraham de Mist and Gerard Willem van Marle.

The " democrats " were mostly replaced by the Patriot regents, who had no patience with democracy, and the old Orangist regents, who did not even have to disguise their allegiance as in early 1801 a convenient amnesty was proclaimed.

He concluded by calling upon the workers, all democrats and patriots to join him in defending the Chilean Constitution and the revolutionary process.

* The First Roman Civil War starts with democratic uprising led by Gaius Marius, but the democrats under the tribune P. Sulpicius Rufus are crushed by the conservatives under Sulla.

The first system of socialized medicine based on compulsory insurance with state subsidy was created by Bismarck's social legislation, a pragmatic answer to vanishing traditional networks of mutual support in a world of modern individualism, as well as an attempt to take the wind out of social democrats sails in the 1880s.

While the moderate, Seeheimer Kreis social democrats strongly support the Agenda 2010 reformist programs introduced by former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, the Keynesian social democrats continue to defend classical left-wing policies such as the expansion of the welfare state.

The classical left-wing of the SPD claims that in recent years the welfare state has been curtailed through reform programs such as the Agenda 2010, Hartz IV and the more economic liberal stance of the SPD, which was endorsed by the moderate social democrats.

Benito Mussolini promoted ambiguity about fascism's positions in order to rally as many people to it as possible, saying fascists can be " aristocrats or democrats, revolutionaries and reactionaries, proletarians and anti-proletarians, pacifists and anti-pacifists.

They can force the democrats to make inroads into as many areas of the existing social order as possible, so as to disturb its regular functioning and so that the petty-bourgeois democrats compromise themselves ; furthermore, the workers can force the concentration of as many productive forces as possible-means of transport, factories, railways, etc.

Historians have suggested several possible explanations for the German Sonderweg of the 20th century: discreditation of democrats and liberals, their estrangement, and the unfulfilled desire for a nation-state, which had led to separation of the national question from the assertion of civic rights.

At the top of the agenda for empowered proletarians was “ to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible .” The 19th and early 20th century Left, from social democrats to communists, were focused on industrialization, economic development and the promotion of reason, science and the idea of progress.