Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares was a Portuguese politician,who served as prime minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985,and subsequently as the 17th president of Portugal from 1986 to 1996. He was the first secretary-general of the Socialist Party,from its foundation in 1973 to 1986. A major political figure in Portugal,he is considered the father of Portuguese democracy.
The Democratic Party (DP) was the name of the South African political party now called the Democratic Alliance. Although the Democratic Party name dates from 1989,the party existed under other labels throughout the apartheid years,when it was the Parliamentary opposition to the ruling National Party's policies.
The Republican People's Party is a Kemalist and social democratic political party in Turkey. It is the oldest political party in Turkey,founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,the first president and founder of the modern Republic of Türkiye. The party is also cited as the founding party of modern Turkey. Its logo consists of the Six Arrows,which represent the foundational principles of Kemalism:republicanism,reformism,laicism (Laïcité/Secularism),populism,nationalism,and statism. It is currently the second largest party in Grand National Assembly with 128 MPs,behind the ruling conservative Justice and Development Party.
The Radical Party was a liberal and libertarian political party in Italy.
Democratic globalization is a social movement towards an institutional system of global democracy. One of its proponents is the British political thinker David Held. In the last decade,Held published a dozen books regarding the spread of democracy from territorially defined nation states to a system of global governance that encapsulates the entire world. For some,democratic mundialisation is a variant of democratic globalisation stressing the need for the direct election of world leaders and members of global institutions by citizens worldwide;for others,it is just another name for democratic globalisation.
Sir Graham Robert Watson is a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South West England from 1994 to 2014. Watson was the chairman of the Parliament's committee on citizens rights,justice and home affairs (1999–2002). He then served for seven and a half years as leader of the Liberal Group in the European Parliament,first as leader of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Group (2002–2004) and then as leader of the new Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group (2004–2009). From 2011 until 2015,he was the president of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party. From 2015 to 2020,he was a UK Member on the European Economic and Social Committee. He is currently an adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
The Federation of the Greens,frequently referred to as Greens (Verdi),was a green political party in Italy. It was formed in 1990 by the merger of the Federation of Green Lists and the Rainbow Greens.
Philippe Douste-Blazy is a French United Nations official and former centre-right politician. Over the course of his career,he served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations,Special Adviser on Innovative Financing for Development in the UN and chairman of UNITAID.
The political groups of the European Parliament are the officially recognised parliamentary groups consisting of legislators of aligned ideologies in the European Parliament.
Harpal Brar is an Indian communist,politician,writer and businessman,based in the United Kingdom. He is the founder and former chairman of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist),a role from which he stood down in 2018.
Giorgio Almirante was an Italian politician who founded the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement,which he led until his retirement in 1987.
Rainbow Greens was a green political party in Italy.
The Proletarian Unity Party was a far-left political party in Italy.
The 1968 Italian general election was held in Italy on 19 May 1968. The Christian Democracy (DC) remained stable around 38% of the votes. They were marked by a victory of the Communist Party (PCI) passing from 25% of 1963 to c. 30% at the Senate,where it presented jointly with the new Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity (PSIUP),which included members of Socialist Party (PSI) which disagreed the latter's alliance with DC. PSIUP gained c. 4.5% at the Chamber. The Socialist Party and the Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI) presented together as the Unified PSI–PSDI,but gained c. 15%,far less than the sum of what the two parties had obtained separately in 1963.
The 1992 Italian general election was held on 5 and 6 April 1992. They were the first without the traditionally second most important political force in Italian politics,the Italian Communist Party (PCI),which had been disbanded in 1991. Most of its members split between the more democratic socialist-oriented Democratic Party of the Left (PDS),while a minority who did not want to renounce the communist tradition became the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC);between them,they gained around 4% less than what the already declining PCI had obtained in the 1987 Italian general election,despite PRC absorbing the disbanded Proletarian Democracy (DP).
The Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (CUNPA) is a global network of more than 300 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and 1,500 current and former parliamentarians from around 150 countries devoted to establishing a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly.
Proletarian Democracy was a far-left political party in Italy.
Mátyás Eörsi is a Hungarian politician who was the leader of the liberal Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (ALDE-PACE) Group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). He became a member of the PACE in 1994. On 6 March 2009 the Hungarian government nominated Eörsi to Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
Franco Turigliatto is an Italian politician.
Matteo Mecacci is an Italian diplomat serving as director of the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODHIR). In the past,he was a Radical Party Member of Parliament in Italy and elected in the lists of the Democratic Party,President of the International Campaign for Tibet and leading advocate for the International Criminal Court,the abolition of the death penalty,religious freedom and other prominent human rights campaigns.
