left-wing party
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left-wing
adjective
uk/ˌleftˈwɪŋ/us/ˌleftˈwɪŋ/
supporting the political left; relating to the belief that wealth and power should be shared between all parts ...
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party
noun
uk/ˈpɑː.ti/us/ˈpɑːr.t̬i/
a social event at which a group of people meet to talk, eat, drink, dance, etc., often in order to celebrate a ...
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The middle-of-the-road leader of theleft-wingpartyis always in very grave danger in having to give hostages to fortune, to the left wing of his party.
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He was controversial within his generallyleft-wingparty, however, for his populist, nationalist tone.
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That decision of the parliament decision was partially boycotted byleft-wingpartydeputies.
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This variable measures the share of government portfolios held by left-wing parties.
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This fact leads to a situation in which the availability of candidates for higher offices in left-wing parties is smaller than in right-wing parties.
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The attempt by the left-wing parties to create a general political link-up between union struggle in the south had a similar function of national integration.
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Nonetheless, left-wing parties still have fewer members than right wing parties in federal, state, and municipal legislative branches.
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Conversely, it is maintained that the more strongly the left-wing parties participate in government, the higher will be welfare spending.
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Traditionally, left-wing parties are seen as proponents of a strong public sector.
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But he was defeated by a coalition of left-wing parties and pensioners' associations.
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There was no indication in the empirical analysis that governments dominated by left-wing parties behaved differently from other governments in their public finance management.
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Left-wing parties were the most enthusiastic advocates of deportation, but they also claimed to rule in the interests of the working class.
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Left-wing parties hold fewer executive office positions than legislative positions.
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The higher the proportion of left-wing parties in the executive, the larger will be the public sector.
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In this it was largely successful and in the 1920s it was labour which was more likely to suffer from a split vote due to the competition from left-wing parties.
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Local opponents of pension privatisation also included special interest groups with privileged pension schemes, social security employees, trade unions, left-wing parties and, last but not least, pensioners' associations.
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The law will therefore allow extreme right-wing parties, extreme left-wing parties or any others to take part in the process; they are not proscribed.
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Thirdly, the radical suggestions it contains require a national referendum, which, in my country, is to take place at the initiative of the left-wing parties.
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I have a supplementary question: how do you behave towards extreme left-wing parties and what is your opinion of them?
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