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But this does not mean that political parties whose programs are based on religious faith cannot be democratic.
But, even in the best case, if free elections were to be held, perhaps after interim governments led by such fatherly figures as Mohammed ElBaradei, Islamist parties could still play a major role.
Due to their dominance in Parliament, the intransigence of the postcommunists on this point forced the other political parties participating in drafting Poland’s new constitution to kowtow to their position.
Today, there are growing concerns about third parties accessing and manipulating Facebook user data; and before that, there was a raging debate about whether the government should be able to unlock devices belonging to suspects of terrorism or other crimes.
Parties without pacts, consensus, or a shared vision were made co-responsible in matters of national security, which enhanced the influence of the drug gangs.
In the political realm, populist, anti-globalization, anti-immigration, and in some cases outright racist and anti-Semitic parties are on the rise.
Anemic economic recovery has provided an opening for populist parties, promoting protectionist policies, to blame foreign trade and foreign workers for the prolonged malaise.
The resulting economic insecurity for the working and middle classes is most acute in Europe and the eurozone, where in many countries populist parties – mainly on the far right – outperformed mainstream forces in last weekend’s European Parliament election.
If income and job growth do not pick up soon, populist parties may come closer to power at the national level in Europe, with anti-EU sentiments stalling the process of European economic and political integration.
Europe’s aid to Greece is an example of a cooperative agreement whereby the various parties negotiate with the others’ interests in mind.
A striking feature of the protests has been the distance that the demonstrators have put between themselves and existing political parties, including the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the largest force in the center-left secular opposition.
That has weakened center-left parties.
Because the government parties control barely more than half of the Bundestag, they no longer overwhelm the opposition, rendering it irrelevant.
Moreover, the share of the Bundestag held by opposition parties that are only semi-loyal to liberal democracy – the AfD and its left-wing counterpart Die Linke (the Left) – now approaches one-quarter.
A Merkel-led CDU/CSU minority government would have meant open debate on all major policy issues and legislative proposals, enlivening the Bundestag and showing the public that political parties matter, and that a grand coalition isn’t essential to progress.
As a result, both parties and their coalition will become increasingly unstable over time, a trend that would be accelerated by their poor performance in the 2019 European Parliament election, not to mention in Germany’s upcoming state and local elections.
To be sure, elections empirically demonstrate support for particular politicians, parties, and even policies.
Like many of today’s right-wing parties, including the Republicans in the United States, PiS is an amalgam of mainstream conservatives and extremists who reject the very foundations of Western-style democracy.
These developments in Germany are in keeping with trends across Europe, where nationalist and populist parties have made electoral gains by rejecting EU-level solutions and calling for closed borders.
If one were to listen to these parties’ rhetoric, one might think that refugees and migrants are pouring into Europe unhindered.
And populist and nationalist parties have managed to paint a picture of a Europe under siege.
But, though the post-election coalition negotiations have been unusually prolonged, there is little disagreement between the parties over foreign and security policy.
Only a few state-owned companies file International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) accounts and many have large numbers of subsidiaries, which can dilute benefits to shareholders, while offering opportunities for managers and other connected parties to enrich themselves.
Russia's Manipulative MediaMOSCOW: Today, there are no political parties in Russia, only mass media.
But in more developed systems, political programs and ideas are ultimately the work of political parties and politicians – what people ultimately vote for or against.
They are not yet a serious threat to Megawati, only because they are not backed by Indonesia's powerful Islamic political parties.
Mrs Megawati's challenge is to keep these Islamic parties firmly within Indonesia's conventional political framework.
In the first month of the war on terrorism, some Islamic political parties were drawn into anti-American protests and even Vice President Hamzah Haz (chairman of one of Indonesia's strongest Islamic parties) was tempted to ride this tiger for a time.
Together with the former Communists and the Greens, the left held a comfortable 12-15% lead over the four non-socialist parties.
In these discussions, all parties affirmed their readiness to cooperate regarding the Arctic.
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