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55-735: The Ulster Conservatives and Unionists , officially registered as the Ulster Conservatives and Unionists – New Force ( UCUNF ), was an electoral alliance in Northern Ireland between the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the Conservative Party . The alliance was launched in 2009. Conservatives and Unionists candidates were first selected for the 2009 European Parliament election . The first candidate to stand for election using this description

110-412: A coalition formed after an election, the partners in an electoral alliance usually do not run candidates against one another but encourage their supporters to vote for candidates from the other members of the alliance. In some agreements with a larger party enjoying a higher degree of success at the polls, the smaller party fields candidates under the banner of the larger party, with the elected members of

165-478: A lijstverbinding in the past . In a common list two or more political parties share a list and often have a common political programme for the election. The participating political parties are identifiable for the voters because the names of these parties are mentioned on the voting paper. It is similar to electoral fusion . Philippine Senate elections since 1987 have been primarily contested by multi-party electoral alliances, with guest candidates if an alliance

220-595: A combined party list . This practice, called the lijstverbinding, was abolished in June 2017 after being earlier abandoned for Senate elections. In the Netherlands, seats in parliament are allocated by the D'Hondt method , a proportional representation method that tends to favor larger parties (see highest averages method ). The lijstverbinding or kartel allowed two parties to pool their votes together when calculating representation, effectively treating them as

275-508: A presidential election in 2015. In the presidential election of 2019, Kirchnerism returned to power with the election of Alberto Fernández as President and Cristina Kirchner as Vice President. In the 2021 legislative elections on 14 November 2021, the Frente de Todos lost its majority in Congress for the first time in almost 40 years in midterm legislative elections . The election victory of

330-511: A redistributive agenda based on promoting the interests of organized labor. Just like classical Peronism, Kirchnerism relies on the support of the informal sector workers and the unemployed (the piqueteros), the poor, and trade unions. Kirchnerism promoted fair redistribution of income and nationalization - to this end, Kirchnerism "openly defied the IMF and international creditors", restored price controls and state ownership of public utilities, increased

385-483: A single, larger party when handing out seats. Typically, the parties in a coalition are ideologically related. For example, in the 2003 general elections , the Socialist Party and GreenLeft formed a lijstverbinding . In the 2004 European elections the social-democratic PvdA and GreenLeft formed a lijstverbinding . The Orthodox Protestant Reformed Political Party and Christian Union have also formed

440-416: A “neoliberal” force. Kirchner’s agenda, contrary to Menem’s, was in tune with the traditional state-centered Peronist preferences. Kirchner was therefore able to return Peronism to its political tradition." Kirchnerism came to be seen as a movement that "represents the current version of left Peronism, modernised for the times". Internationally, Kirchnerism has strongly supported Mercosur and vice versa, to

495-455: Is "clearly part of the anti-imperialist left". Political scientists Gary Prevost and Carlos Oliva Campos state that Kirchnerism represents a return of Peronism "to its traditional center-left stance" under Juan Perón, and note that under Kirchnerisms, "Peronists have returned to a progressive orientation, distancing themselves almost completely from the decade-long neoliberal detour under Carlos Menem." Economically, Kirchnerist governments pursued

550-700: Is highly nationalist and populist rather than class-based. Although originally a section in the Justicialist Party , Kirchnerism later received support from other smaller Argentine political parties (like the Communist Party or the Humanist Party ) and from factions of some traditional parties (like the Radical Civic Union and the Socialist Party ). In parties which are divided along Kirchnerist/Anti-Kirchnerist lines,

605-499: Is not able to complete a 12-person slate. Slates having guest candidates is seen as a weakness of finding candidates within their ranks. This has been a feature of midterm elections, where there are usually two or three major coalitions, with presidential elections years having major presidential candidates putting up their own senatorial slates. An electoral alliance called "holy alliance" was formed by Welfare Party , Nationalist Task Party and Reformist Democracy Party to contest in

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660-627: Is seen as a response and a counter to neoliberalism; some political scientists propose the term ‘Pink Tide neopopulism’ to describe such movements, as opposed to the neoliberal populism of the 1990s. On foreign policy, Kirchnerism displays nationalist and anti-Western tendencies, denouncing the United States and the IMF. Kirchnerist governments were an ally of the Venezuelan presidents Hugo Chávez and Nicolas Maduro , and pursued economic and political ties with Venezuela as well as Cuba. This

715-495: The 1991 Turkish general election . Before the 1991 Turkish general election, social democratic SHP and pro-Kurdish HEP formed an electoral alliance. The Nation Alliance ( Turkish : Millet İttifakı ) is an electoral alliance in Turkey made up of some of the major Turkish opposition parties to contest under a common banner in the country's 2018 general-presidential election, later for the 2019 local elections, and presently for

770-495: The 2010 general election . The alliance has been consistently electorally unsuccessful, also contesting the 2015 general election , but endorsing Labour in 2017 . In the 2019 United Kingdom general election , pro-EU parties formed a pact in English and Welsh seats. Kirchnerism Kirchnerism ( Spanish : Kirchnerismo [kiɾʃneˈɾismo] ) is an Argentine political movement based on populist ideals formed by

825-580: The 2022 Barbadian general election . It is headed by the leader of the PdP, Bishop Joseph Atherley , with the leader of the UPP Lynette Eastmond becoming deputy head. In Belgium, the Dutch term for an electoral alliance is kartel . Current kartels include the following: Previous kartels include the following: The Red-Green Alliance was formed as an electoral alliance between

880-511: The 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections. Made up by the Communist Party of Turkey , Communist Movement of Turkey , Revolution Movement and the Left Party to contest the 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections. Made up by Victory Party , Justice Party , Turkey Alliance Party and My Country Party to contest the 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections. An electoral alliance survives to this day between

935-671: The ALCA and disobeyed the IMF’s guidelines, thereby enhancing national pride and connecting Argentina to the Latin American community." Unlike his predecessor Eduardo Duhalde , Kirchner was a Peronist that distrusted the Justicialist Party as a support for his government. He proposed instead a "transversalist" policy, seeking the support of progressive politicians regardless of their party. Thus he got support from factions of

990-623: The Broad Front and supported as Kirchnerist; and Julio Cobos , governor of Mendoza for the UCR and elected as Vice President of Fernández de Kirchner in 2007. The transversalist project was eventually dismissed. Kirchner took control of the Justicialist Party and some "Radicales K", slowly returned to the "anti-K" faction of their party, most notably Vice President Julio Cobos and Governor of Catamarca province Eduardo Brizuela del Moral , while other very prominent Radical politicians remained in

1045-581: The Communist Party (DKP), the Left Socialists (VS), and the Socialist Workers Party (SAP) in 1989. It reformed itself as a unified party in 1991, but the participating parties continue on their own in some ways (for example by having their own separate party newspapers). The Syriza Party started out as an electoral alliance but then united into a single party. Since 1994, Italian politics has been divided into two main blocs,

1100-608: The Labour Party and the Co-operative Party , which fields Labour Co-operative candidates in general elections in several constituencies, and in some local council elections. They have jointly contested elections since the 1927 Cheltenham Agreement. As of the 2019 general election , there are 38 Labour Co-operative MPs, the fourth-largest political grouping in the Commons (after the Conservative Party , Labour and

1155-741: The Peronist Youth ( Juventud Peronista ). Many of the Kirchners' closest allies belong to the Peronist left. Anti-Kirchnerists often criticize this ideological background with the term setentista ("seventies-ist"), suggesting that Kirchnerism is overly influenced by the populist struggle of the 1970s. In its electoral campaigns, the Kirchnerist candidates combined the traditional elements of Peronism - nationalism, anti-imperialism, and economic redistribution. Similarly to classical Peronism,

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1210-828: The We Alliance with the Free Democrats . Both parties campaigned on a similar Pro-European platform and sought to challenge a competing electoral alliance known as the My Step Alliance . The Alliance Party for Progress (APP) is a Christian and social democratic electoral alliance in Barbados . It was formed on 30 December 2021 by the United Progressive Party (UPP) and the People's Party for Democracy and Development (PdP) to contest

1265-665: The centre-right and the centre-left coalitions ; which under various forms alternatively led the country for more than two decades. For the 2022 general election the coalition is composed of four parties, the Brothers of Italy , League (Lega) , Forza Italia and Us Moderates . For the 2022 general election the alliance was formed by four parties; Democratic Party – Democratic and Progressive Italy , More Europe , Civic Commitment and Greens and Left Alliance . Dutch elections from 1973 to 2017 allowed for electoral alliances between two parties where both parties would nominate

1320-427: The "K" wing of the Radical Civic Union such as provincial governors Gerardo Zamora of Santiago del Estero , Ricardo Colombi of Corrientes and Miguel Saiz of Río Negro . After the 2011 general elections , several K radicals regretted having been part of that political space, turning once again to the opposition UCR. Such is the case of Miguel Saiz , former governor of Río Negro, who declared: "My commitment to

1375-544: The Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers during the first five years of Kirchnerism and former President of Argentina , they followed five tenets regarding the economy, which explained the perceived early success of the movement: According to Fernández, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner moved away from these five tenets after her husband's death, causing an economic crisis that resulted in the first political defeat of Kirchnerism in

1430-661: The Concertación ended in December 2011". In March 2015, dissatisfied with the UCR's alliance with Mauricio Macri 's Republican Proposal (PRO), the National Alfonsinist Movement (MNA) led by Leopoldo Moreau joined the Front for Victory. For this reason, Ernesto Sanz , the president of the UCR, announced the expulsion of Moreau from the party. Professor Gustavo Melella was reelected as mayor of

1485-419: The IMF and the United States, denouncing both for interventionist policies and promoting austerity measures. Under Kirchner, the national economy started recovering, which resulted in economic growth and declining unemployment by 2003. This allowed Kirchnerism to become the dominant force of modern Peronism. Political scientists Bonvecchi and Zelaznik wrote: "Menem had converted Peronism from a labor-based party to

1540-525: The Justicialist Party, the Radical Civic Union (which were called " Radicales K ") and small centre-left parties. Kirchner neglected the internal politics of the Justicialist Party and kept instead the Front for Victory party, which was initially an electoral alliance in his home province of Santa Cruz and in the 2003 elections premiered in the federal political scene. Some politicians favored by this policy were Aníbal Ibarra , mayor of Buenos Aires for

1595-509: The Kirchnerist economic model "complicating relationships and multiplying difficulties" in bilateral commerce. Kirchnerism, in particular former minister of health Ginés González García , has shown a liberal attitude to birth control and sexuality, including the legalization of same-sex marriage , both of which have provoked the opposition of the Catholic Church and other conservative sectors. According to Alberto Fernández ,

1650-635: The Scottish National Party). The SDP–Liberal Alliance began in 1981, shortly after the Limehouse Declaration . The Alliance contested the 1983 and 1987 elections, and became defunct in 1988, when the parties merged into the Liberal Democrats . In the first few years of the alliance, Liberals and Social Democrats were very confident it would be a success, David Steel even suggesting that Alliance could form

1705-602: The arrangement since early 2009, and left the UUP in March 2010, deciding to contest the forthcoming general election as an Independent . As such, the alliance had no incumbent MPs. On 7 April 2010 the candidate for Fermanagh and South Tyrone , Tom Elliott , withdrew in favour of Independent Rodney Connor , leaving that constituency without a Unionist Party candidate. 'As things stand, Northern Ireland MPs need to be involved in decisions about their lives that are not devolved. I want

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1760-490: The candidate's platform. The Frente de Todos (Everybody's Front or Front for All) ) was a coalition of Peronist and Kirchnerist political parties and associations in Argentina formed in 2019 to support the candidacy of Alberto Fernández and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in the 2019 Argentine general election . Juntos por el Cambio (Together for Change) is an Argentine big tent political coalition . It

1815-536: The center-right coalition, Juntos por el Cambio (Together for Change), meant a tough final two years in office for President Alberto Fernandez. Losing control of the Senate made it difficult for him to make key appointments, including to the judiciary. It also forced him to negotiate with the opposition every initiative he sends to the legislature. Ronaldo Munck described Kirchnerism as close to Chavismo , including left-wing nationalism . Munck wrote that Kirchnerism

1870-579: The city of Río Grande in 2015, through the FORJA Concertación Party . During the presidency of Alberto Fernández , Ricardo Alfonsin was appointed as the Ambassador to Spain. Kirchnerism has encountered opposition from various sectors of Argentine society, which tend to criticize its personalism. In 2012, there was a massive anti-Kirchnerism protest in several cities within Argentina and also in several Argentinian embassies around

1925-411: The dictatorship, although late in that period in 1983, when its end was already in sight. Economically, Kirchnerism has pursued an economic policy of industrialist developmentalism , and tariffs to protect the local industry and employment. The movement was also characterized by actively developing economic relations with Brazil and Venezuela; Kirchnerism also took an antagonistic position towards

1980-769: The election. The UUP lost their only seat in North Down to Hermon's independent campaign, and Connor also lost Fermanagh and South Tyrone. Across Northern Ireland, the joint share of the vote was 15.2%. After failed calls for the UUP to disband and join the Conservatives, the Conservatives in Northern Ireland were relaunched as NI Conservatives on 14 June 2012. In October 2023, Ulster Unionist leader Doug Beattie attended Conservative Party conference in Manchester . Electoral alliance Each of

2035-533: The following view about the situation in Argentina: Argentina needs change. As Ms Fernández slips out of office the economy is starting to crumble. Currency controls and trade restrictions [...] are choking productivity; inflation hovers at around 25%. [...] Argentina cannot seek external financing until it ends its standoff with creditors who rejected a debt-restructuring plan. Unless the new president quickly reverses Ms Fernández's populist policies,

2090-512: The governments of Carlos Menem (1989–1999). The willingness of the Kirchner government to revoke these immunities has led many Argentine pressure groups, such as the Madres de Plaza de Mayo and Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo , to take an actively Kirchnerist position. This has led to many controversies and to allegations that the Kirchners were never fully committed to human rights, especially during

2145-526: The interests of the international creditors and global markets, not of the Argentinians"; because of this, Kirchnerism frequently targets "IMF, foreign and domestic capitalists, bondholders and the military" in both policies and rhetoric. Raimundo Frei Toledo argues that Kirchnerism "broke the ‘Washington consensus’ when, together with other leftist Latin American leaders (e.g. Chavez, Lula), he rejected

2200-408: The members of the Kirchnerist faction are often distinguished with the letter K (for instance " peronistas / justicialistas K", " radicales K" or " socialistas K") while the anti-Kirchnerist factions, those opposing Kirchnerism, are similarly labelled with the expression "anti-K". Both Kirchner and Fernández come from the left-wing of Peronism and both began their political careers as members of

2255-467: The minimum wage, and removed legal restrictions from collective labor strikes. Prevost and Campos argue that Kirchnerism was protectionist and state interventionist, much like Perón. The unique trait of Kirchnerism was its focus on anti-neoliberalism, postulating the need to move away from neoliberal Menemism and reverse its policies. It was also described as economically nationalist , and socialist . Kirchnerism, similarly to movements such as Lulism ,

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2310-477: The most talented people to form my government and that will mean people from all corners of the UK. Why are there great Ulstermen and women on our television screens, in our boardrooms and in our military but not in our Cabinet? The semi-detached status of Northern Ireland politics needs to end. This is not true representative democracy and it has got to change.' The Conservative and UUP alliance failed to gain any seats in

2365-519: The next government. Later on, however, the alliance faced difficulty with political and personal clashes between Steel and David Owen , as well as presentation issues (such as contradiction on policy). When the parties merged in 1988, Owen did not join the Liberal Democrats. A socialist coalition comprising RMT , Socialist Party , Solidarity , &c. candidates, the TUSC formed to contest

2420-400: The parties within the alliance has its own policies but chooses temporarily to put aside differences in favour of common goals and ideology in order to pool their voters' support and get elected. On occasion, an electoral alliance may be formed by parties with very different policy goals, which agree to pool resources in order to stop a particular candidate or party from gaining power. Unlike

2475-468: The period of the last military dictatorship, and that it was only when Kirchner became President and began to make alliances with the left-wing parties in Congress and with the Madres de Plaza de Mayo that he started to campaign about these rights in order to promote his own platform and gain popular favor. It is documented nevertheless that the Kirchners did push for trial against human rights violators during

2530-645: The point that the President of Mercosur, Carlos Álvarez , is a Kirchnerist. One of the most prominent aims of Kirchnerism is to strengthen Argentine relations with the countries of Latin America and to establish a South American economic axis. Recent economic measures posited by Fernández's government have nevertheless hurt Argentina's relationship with these countries, mainly Brazil and Uruguay , whose President José "Pepe" Mujica expressed worries regarding Argentina going towards an "autarkist" form of government and

2585-438: The smaller party sitting with the elected members of the larger party in the cabinet or legislature. They usually aim to continue co-operation after the election, for example by campaigning together on issues on which they have common views. If the alliance endures beyond elections, the association is a parliamentary group . By offering to endorse or nominate a major party's candidate, minor parties may be in position to influence

2640-578: The support base of Kirchnerism became the working class, unemployed, and the new social movement. Kirchnerism is considered to be a part of the larger Pink Tide in Latin America - a rise of left-wing populist movements. Initially, Kirchnerism has shown itself to be concerned with the defense of human rights , particularly in prosecuting those who committed human rights violations during the Dirty War and were later made immune from prosecution by

2695-463: The supporters of spouses Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner , who consecutively served as Presidents of Argentina . Although considered a branch of Peronism , it is opposed by some factions of Peronists and generally considered to fall into the category of left-wing populism . It is considered a representative of the socialism of the 21st century , although similarly to Peronism and in contrast to other left-wing ideologies, it

2750-477: The upcoming 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections in June. The alliance consists of Republican People's Party , Good Party , Felicity Party , and Democrat Party . The People's Alliance ( Turkish : Cumhur İttifakı ) is an electoral alliance in Turkey, established in February 2018 between the ruling Justice and Development Party and the formerly opposition Nationalist Movement Party . The alliance

2805-589: The world. It became known as 8N . In 2015, when Foreign Policy was discussing corruption in Latin America it was stated that: The viceroys of the colonial era set the pattern. They centralised power and bought the loyalty of local interest groups. [...] Caudillos , dictators and elected presidents continued the tradition of personalising power. Venezuela's chavismo and the kirchnerismo of Ms Fernández are among today's manifestations. In an editorial published in October 2015, The Economist expressed

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2860-503: Was Ulster Unionist Jim Nicholson , who polled 82,893 votes, 17.0% of the total, and was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). On 24 February 2010, the alliance announced 9 of the 18 candidates who were to run in the 2010 United Kingdom general election . The UUP's sole Member of Parliament (MP) from the 2005 general election, Sylvia, Lady Hermon for North Down , had expressed public dissatisfaction with

2915-502: Was combined with an anti-American rhetoric, in which the Kirchnerist administrations accused the USA of interference in Latin American affairs, and strongly opposed the War on Drugs , especially in the aspect that spill over to Latin America. Similarly, both Nestor Kirchner and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner "moved to break the popular conception that political parties and the government mainly heed

2970-530: Was created in 2015 as Cambiemos (Let's Change), and renamed in 2019. It is composed of Republican Proposal (PRO), the Radical Civic Union (UCR), the Civic Coalition (CC-ARI) and sectors of Federal Peronism since the arrival of Miguel Ángel Pichetto to the national coalition. Prior to the 2018 Armenian parliamentary election , the Republic Party formed an electoral alliance known as

3025-454: Was formed to contest the 2018 general election , and brings together the political parties supporting the re-election of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan . The Labour and Freedom Alliance ( Turkish : Emek ve Özgürlük İttifakı , Kurdish : Hevkariya Ked û Azadiyê ) is formed by Peoples' Democratic Party , Workers' Party of Turkey , Labour Party , Labourist Movement Party , Social Freedom Party and Federation of Socialist Councils to contest

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