Most analysts pointed to the party's opposition status, noting that it is not allied with President Igor Smirnov, whose party, Respublica, lost several seats to Renewal in the latest parliamentary election.

The evident contradiction between the rosy picture of Russia's progress painted by the Communist party's program and the enormous dangers for all humanity posed by Premier Khrushchev's Berlin policy has already led to speculation abroad that the program may be severely altered.

Despite the party's weaknesses, Sinclair gained a high profile as he sought to recall the Midlothian Campaign and once more revitalise the Liberals as the party of a strong foreign policy.

These changes within the military wing of the Republican Movement were accompanied by changes in the political wing and at the 1986 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis ( party conference ), which followed the IRA Convention, the party's policy of abstentionism, which forbade Sinn Féin elected representatives from taking seats in the Oireachtas, the parliament of Ireland, was dropped.

He resigned both the deputy leadership and his shadow cabinet position in April 1972 however, over the party's policy on favouring a referendum on British membership of the European Economic Community ( EEC ).

At the party's April national convention in Tampa, Florida, the assembly voted not to disaffiliate Nevada, citing that affiliate's official position on the issue and national party policy against dictating the internal affairs ( such as electing leaders ) of any affiliate.

From 1926 when Lloyd George became leader of the Liberals, Keynes took a major role in defining the party's economics policy, but by then the Liberals had been displaced into third party status by the Labour party.

Hitler initially protected Röhm from other elements of the Nazi Party which held his homosexuality to be a violation of the party's strong anti-gay policy.

Distinct from the process of electoral alliances in that the political parties remain separately listed on the ballot, the practice of electoral fusion in jurisdictions where it exists allows minor parties to influence election results and policy by offering to endorse or nominate a major party's candidate.

The party's opposition to immigration is particularly focused on non-European immigration, and includes support for deporting illegal, criminal, and unemployed immigrants ; its policy is nevertheless more moderate today than it was at its most radical point in the 1990s.

The party's economic policy shifted from the 1980s to the 1990s from neoliberalism to protectionism.

From the 1980s to the 1990s, the party's policy shifted from favouring the European Union to turning against it.

Most recently, the organisation has become embroiled in a dispute with Irish political party Fine Gael over the party's policy to end the status of Irish as a compulsory subject for the Leaving Certificate.

Although in the early years of his tenure Hu attempted to pioneer a form of " intraparty democracy " that called for greater participation from lower-ranked members to determine policy and select the leadership, there has been little evidence of meaningful changes to the party's governing structure and decision-making process.

The 1966 election victory of the Social Democrats saw the formation of a new government by Rafael Paasio, with Koivisto, the party's expert on economic policy, appointed as Minister of Finance.

Under Butt, the party's MPs were a mixture of Catholic and Protestant, landlord and others, Whig, Liberal and Tory, often leading to disagreements in policy that meant that MPs split in votes.

Although she had sponsored a series of resolutions at the party's 2000 convention condemning what many saw as the party's distraction with social and governance policy at the expense of work on environmental issues, electoral reform moved to the top of Carr's agenda as leader.

The Bloc Québécois do not place a strong emphasis on economic policy, as the party's sole purpose has to do with issues of Quebec's place in Canada, but it is broadly social democratic.

According to the party's website, current policy is guided by the party's 2005 Westminster election, 2007 Holyrood election, and 2009 European election manifestos.

The Australia Party grew out of the Liberal Reform Group, a group of members of the Liberal Party of Australia who opposed the party's policy of conscription and military involvement in the Vietnam War.

According to the Party's official historian this period was marked by a growing division between the practitioners of cultural politics – heavily inspired by the writings of Antonio Gramsci and party's powerful industrial department which advocated a policy of militant labourism.

The other wing were powerful in senior levels of the trade union movement ( though few actually reached the very top in the unions ) and despite the party's decline in numbers were able to drive the TUC's policy of opposing the Industrial Relations Act.

At this time, COPE made an official overture to the Green Party of Vancouver, the local affiliate of the Green Party of British Columbia, offering the group some minor policy concessions, joint billing in the party's ballot name (" COPE-Green ' 93 ") and assurances that important party members would ensure some Greens were nominated.

In order to maintain the coalition, they will have to vote against the party's platform in the parliament.

The Ba ' ath platform is proclaimed succinctly in the party's slogan: " Unity, freedom, and socialism.

National convention delegates vote on changes to the party's national platform and bylaws, and elect representatives to the Libertarian National Committee ( LNC ).

These groups generally advocate ( d ) revising the party's platform, eliminating or altering the membership statement, and focusing on a politics-oriented approach aimed at presenting libertarianism to voters in what they deemed a " less threatening " manner.

The party's platform is predicated on the principles of the nation's founding documents.

The party's platform is strongly based around agrarianism.

A year later, Garfield entered politics as a Republican, after campaigning for the party's antislavery platform in Ohio.

Lincoln ran as the Republican nominee against Democratic candidate George B. McClellan, who ran as the " peace candidate " without personally believing in his party's platform.

The new party's platform was a mixture of the PC and Reform platforms.

A month after his arrival he was elected to the central committee of the newly formed branch of Poalei Zion in Jaffa, becoming chairman of the party's platform committee.

The effectiveness of his campaign was damaged when he repudiated his party's anti-war platform, which promised to end the war and negotiate with the Confederacy.

The party's platform is generally considered right of center in the Indian political spectrum.

The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian political spectrum.

The party's platform is based on the legalization of the Cannabis plant, marijuana and hashish, ecology, expansion of human rights and institutionalization of prostitution, gambling and same-sex marriage.

However, the party is considered by the Israeli public as the " light drugs party " since this is the main issue that gets attention in the party's platform.

The party's platform, commonly known as the Omaha Platform, called for the abolition of national banks, a graduated income tax, direct election of Senators, civil service reform, a working day of eight hours and Government control of all railroads, telegraphs, and telephones.

The party's interwar platform demanded the autonomy of Slovakia within a Czechoslovak framework.

The party's platform is largely considered left in the political spectrum.

Smith expected that Republicans, who had included equal rights for women in their party's platform since 1944, would probably vote for the amendment.

This had been part of the party's election platform since 1953.

The party's political platform is generally considered Right-wing in the Mexican political spectrum.

At a UFP congress in 1961, Smith publicly denounced the party's platform on Southern Rhodesia constitutional proposals.

The new party's platform was a mixture of the PC and Reform platforms.

Even so, stepping too far outside the party's platform can limit political ambitions or ability to obtain favorable legislation.