Consequently, the CDA is currently a junior coalition partner in a right-wing minority cabinet with the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy ( VVD ), supported in parliament by the far-right Party for Freedom ( PVV ).

The cabinet was considered boring, because both left-wing and right-wing political parties were a part of it.

Backed by the CIA and the Programs Evaluation Office, Phoumi, then a colonel, became a cabinet minister in the right-wing government of the Kingdom of Laos in February 1959 and a general several months later.

This can in part be explained by the party standing in many more municipalities, but it can also be seen as a reaction to the so-called ' right-wing winter ' in national politics, as the welfare reforms of the right-wing second Balkenende cabinet were called by its centre-left and left-wing opponents.

Later that year he was briefly made part of a " counter-government " set up by Sihanouk to balance the right-wing cabinet of Prime Minister Lon Nol.

The early years of the right-wing Presidency of Gabriel González were marked by serious unrest between left and right-wing supporters, and on 2 August 1947 González named a cabinet of military officers and independents in a supposed attempt to depoliticise the situation.

He was not appointed to cabinet under Mike Harris, and soon developed a reputation as a maverick within his party, supporting right-wing and libertarian principles.

The cabinet fell soon after the centre-left Estonian Labour Party criticized Päts's right-wing politics and left the coalition.

The next cabinet, under Hendrikus Colijn, although right-wing, started social reforms to take away discontent which might give the socialists further support.

Despite the Harris government's right-wing reputation, Bassett is a Red Tory, and was one of the most socially progressive members of the Harris cabinet.

Villeneuve was not regarded as one of the more right-wing figures in the Harris cabinet, though his government presided over considerable funding cutbacks in the agriculture department and the elimination of local representatives.

The cabinet decided to confiscate the weapons of some they regarded as right-wing extremists and put them in administrative detention.

Papen and his supporters, mostly right-wing nationalists and monarchists ( his cabinet, packed with aristocrats, was dubbed " Kabinett der Barone " (" cabinet of the barons "), loathed the democratic system established by the Weimar constitution and aimed to replace it by an authoritarian regime.

More recently in the United States, left-wing and right-wing have often been used as synonyms for Democratic and Republican, or as synonyms for liberalism and conservatism respectively.

He has recently said that he considers himself neither left-wing nor right-wing and that he does not support Tony Blair or David Cameron.

Since then, the government alternated between a left-wing coalition ( composed of the French Socialist Party ( PS ), the French Communist Party ( PCF ) and more recently Les Verts, the Greens ) and a right-wing coalition ( composed of Jacques Chirac's Rally for the Republic ( RPR ), later replaced by the Union for a Popular Movement ( UMP ), and the Union for French Democracy, UDF ).

Magyar Sziget, held in Verőce, has a nationalist theme, with mainly right-wing performers, bands representing the recently emerged nationalistic rock, folk and folk-rock.

As recently as 2006, the BBC reported that Maciej Giertych, an MEP of the right-wing League of Polish Families, had expressed admiration for Franco's stature who allegedly " guaranteed the maintenance of traditional values in Europe.

Benoist considers himself, however, neither left nor right-wing, and has recently tried to appear less radical: in his preference for Martin Heidegger over his first influence, Friedrich Nietzsche ; his support of multiculturalism rather than disappearance of immigrants ' identities ( though he does not support immigration itself ); his interest in ecology ; and a less aggressive view of Christianity.

The paper had recently been taken over by the liberal publisher Ronald Staples who together with his new editor Vincent Evans was determined to cleanse it of its previous right-wing racist reputation.

* In September 2006, William Safire said that " The prevailing put-down of right-wing bloggers is wingnuts ; this has recently been countered by the vilification of left-wing partisans who use the Web as moonbats ..."

WPI-H denounce the WPI leadership as enacting a " retreat to the traditional Left " and WPI leadership call the WPI-H " a right-wing split " and sometimes in sarcasm " Anti-Hekmatist " or more recently " UnHekmatist ".

Moreover, Quigley states that he has recently been in direct contact with this organization, whose nature he contrasts to right-wing claims of a communist conspiracy:

Traditionally there has been much left-wing sympathy, but recently it seems changing to the central right-wing.

Michael Kelly, a Washington Post journalist and critic of anti-war movements on both the left and right, coined the term " fusion paranoia " to refer to a political convergence of left-wing and right-wing activists around anti-war issues and civil liberties, which he said were motivated by a shared belief in conspiracism or anti-government views.

That said, according to Lord Wyatt, this was to be expected as the Queen Mother was " the most right-wing member of the Royal Family.

Ware said that Australia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malta, New Zealand, Spain and the US had no conservative parties, although they had either Christian Democrats or liberals as major right-wing parties.

In contrast, Stalin and allies proposed that alliances with capitalist political parties were essential to realising a revolution where Communists were too few ; said Stalinist practice failed, especially in the Northern Expedition portion of the Chinese Revolution ( 1925 – 1927 ), wherein it resulted in the right-wing Kuomintang ’ s massacre of the Chinese Communist Party ; nonetheless, despite the failure, Stalin ’ s policy of mixed-ideology political alliances, became Comintern policy.

The meaning of left-wing and right-wing varies considerably between different countries and at different times, but generally speaking, it can be said that the right wing often values tradition and social stratification while the left wing often values reform and egalitarianism, with the center seeking a balance between the two such as with social democracy or regulated capitalism.

In a major 19 minute campaign address that was broadcast statewide, Davis said the recall was a " right-wing power grab " by Republicans and he blamed Republicans in the legislature and in Washington for many of the state's problems while at the same time he tried to take some of the responsibility for the state's problems.

Lydon said in response, " I really resent the presumption that I'm going there to play to right-wing Nazi jews.

" Tomlinson, he said, " found kindred spirits at the right-wing editorial board of The Wall Street Journal where the ' animal spirits of business ' are routinely celebrated.

In 2010, Kaufman said that those parts of the British Conservative party not controlled by Lord Ashcroft are controlled by " right-wing Jewish millionaires ".

FAIR has said that in the range of opinion discussed in the mass media, the right side of a discussion is usually represented by a committed supporter of right-wing causes, while the left side is often represented by a centrist.

The presiding right-wing mayor Gianni Alemanno, backed since July 2008 by culture undersecretary Francesco Maria Giro said he would tear down the new structure.

These allegations were repudiated by supporters of the KPD: the right-wing leadership of the SPD, it was said, rejected the proposals of the KPD to unite for the defeat of fascism.

The story is said to have been influenced by the right-wing anti-Communist political activities of General Edwin A. Walker after he resigned from the military.

In 1882, Itagaki was almost assassinated by a right-wing militant, to whom he allegedly said, " Itagaki may die, but liberty never!

Left-wing critics insisted that the party's stubbornness about keeping the settlements was an " obstacle to peace " while right-wing critics said the NRP did not pressure the Israeli government enough to use more military force against Palestinian terrorism.

As such he was an object of particular hatred to the Catholic and anti-Semitic right, and was denounced in the National Assembly by Xavier Vallat, a right-wing Deputy and sympathizer of the Action Française ( later Commissioner for Jewish Affairs in the Vichy wartime government ), who said:

The leader of a right-wing South Korean group, lawyer Lee Chul-sung, said, " Kim Jong-il must be arrested and punished if he comes to Seoul without admitting his criminal acts and offering an apology and compensation.

In July 1996 Prime Minister John Howard said in an interview with journalist Peter Cole-Adams: " I think one of the weaknesses of the ABC is that it doesn't have a right-wing Phillip Adams.

The final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, however, said that it " was unable to find evidence that the two murderers convicted of the killing of Chris Hani took orders from international groups, security forces or from higher up in the right-wing echelons.

Because Central America is a small, densely populated geographic area, with porous national borders, political news travelled quickly, and “ it was impossible to escape the contagion ”, said the right-wing journalist Clemente Marroquín Rojas when the general strike paralyzed the north coast of Honduras in May 1954.

Janusz Korwin-Mikke claims that one of the results of the Round Table agreement was that both sides pledged that " right-wing parties would never be allowed to rule ", and Jan Olszewski said that " basic issues had been settled before talks, and the negotiations at the Round Table were about secondary matters ".

The BBC has said that Phillips " is regarded as one of the media's leading right-wing voices " and a " controversial " columnist, although she defines herself as a progressive and a defender of liberal democracy.