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Zambia is a multi-party system with the United Party for National Development in power. Opposition parties are allowed and do have some significant representation in government.
Party | Abbr. | Leader | Political position | Ideology | MPs | |
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United Party for National Development | UPND | Hakainde Hichilema | Centre | Liberalism | 82 / 156 | |
Patriotic Front | PF | Miles Sampa | Centre-left | Social democracy Social conservatism | 59 / 156 | |
Party of National Unity and Progress | PNUP | Highvie Hamududu | Centre-right | Liberalism | 1 / 156 |
American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the United States. Since the 1850s, the two largest political parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party—which together have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and controlled the United States Congress since at least 1856. Despite keeping the same names, the two parties have evolved in terms of ideologies, positions, and support bases over their long lifespans, in response to social, cultural, and economic developments—the Democratic Party being the left-of-center party since the time of the New Deal, and the Republican Party now being the right-of-center party.
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The National Democratic Focus (NDF) was a political alliance in Zambia.
Zambia, officially known as the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west. The capital city is Lusaka, located in the southeast of the country. The population is concentrated mainly around the capital and the Copperbelt to the northwest.