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Independent Group may refer to: * Independent Group (art movement), a group of artists *Independent Group (Kenya), a defunct political party in Kenya *Independent Group (Solomon Islands), a political faction in the Solomon Islands *Independent Group (Turkey), a former opposition group in the Turkish parliament *Independent Group of Benalmádena, a municipal political party in Benalmádena, Spain *Independent Group of the Condado de Treviño, a municipal political party in Condado de Treviño, Spain *The Independent Group for Change, a former political party founded and dissolved in 2019 in the United Kingdom Groups with similar names *Independent Labour Group, a nationalist political party in Northern Ireland, active 1958–1965 *Independent Parliamentary Group, a right-wing UK political organisation, active 1920–1921 *Labour Independent Group, an organisation of former UK Labour MPs, active 1948–1950 *Independent Senate Group (in Dutch: Onafhankelijke SenaatsFractie), a Dutch ...
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Independent Group (art Movement)
The Independent Group (IG) met at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, England, from 1952 to 1955. The IG consisted of painters, sculptors, architects, writers and critics who wanted to challenge prevailing modernist approaches to culture. They introduced mass culture into debates about high culture, re-evaluated modernism and created the "as found" or " found object" aesthetic.Livingstone, M., (1990), ''Pop Art: A Continuing History'', New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. The subject of renewed interest in a post-disciplinary age, the IG was the topic of a two-day, international conference at the Tate Britain in March 2007. The Independent Group is regarded as the precursor to the Pop Art movement in Britain.Arnason, H., ''History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture'', New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1968. First session (1952) The Independent Group had its first meeting in April 1952, which consisted of artist and sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi feeding a mass o ...
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Independent Group (Kenya)
The Independent Group of Members of the Legislative Council was a right-wing political party in Kenya. History Led by Llewellyn Briggs Llywelyn, Llewelyn or Llewellyn is a name of Welsh language origins. See Llywelyn (name) for the name's etymology, history and other details. As a surname Arts *Carmen Llywelyn, American actress and photographer * Chris Llewellyn (poet), American ..., the Independent Group was a European party that called for ministerial positions to be awarded without consideration for the racial makeup of the cabinet, using the slogan "Merit and Ability",Kenya from Mau Mau to Independence
Michael Farquhar
effectively seeking to exclude Africans from government. It nominated ten candidates for the fourteen European seats in the
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Independent Group (Solomon Islands)
The Independent Group (IG) is a political faction in the Solomon Islands comprising the independent members of the Solomon Islands Parliament. History The formation of the Independent Group began in 1974 during the election of the first Chief Minister, and became a formal group towards the end of 1976 by supporters of Solomon Mamaloni and Francis Aqorau after they had left the Coalition Opposition Group led by Bartholomew Ulufa'alu.Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific: Laos–Western Samoa'', Greenwood Press, p1000 In the 1976 general elections the Independent Group emerged as the largest faction in the Legislative Assembly, winning 15 of the 38 seats, and supported Peter Kenilorea in his successful bid to become Chief Minister. Despite claiming not to be a political party, the group issued a manifesto for the 1980 elections. Following the elections, it joined the Solomon Islands United Party-led coalition government with Kenilorea as Prime Min ...
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Independent Group (Turkey)
Independent Group ( tr, Müstakil Grup) was an opposition group in the Turkish parliament between 1939-1946. Backgrounds After the Turkish Republic was proclaimed in 1923 by Atatürk and members of the Republican People's Party (CHP), the CHP became the ruling party up to 1950. This was a one-party regime. During this period two times an opposition party was founded; the Progressive Republican Party (TCF) in 1924 and the Liberal Republican Party (SCF) in 1930. But in both cases the opposition party was short-lived. The group After İsmet İnönü became the president in 1938 he proposed another system for opposition. Probably this was due to İsmet İnönü's desire to take part on the side of western countries and to show democratization efforts in domestic policy. During the general congress of CHP held on 29 May 1939, party by-law was amended to form an independent group within the parliament. According to the amendment, the chairman of the group was the president. But he ...
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Independent Group Of Benalmádena
Independent Group of Benalmádena (in Spanish: ''Grupo Independiente de Benalmádena'') is a political party in the municipality of Benalmádena, Spain. GIB is led by the mayor of the municipality, Enrique Bolín. In the 1999 municipal elections GIB won 5,251 votes (40.93%) and eleven seats in the municipal council. It was joined by the sole Independent Liberal Group The Liberal Independent Group ( es, Grupo Independiente Liberal, GIL) was a right-wing Spanish political party, founded in 1991 by the businessman Jesús Gil y Gil who was mayor of Marbella in the Costa del Sol, and convicted of corruption. "GIL ... (GIL) councillor of the municipality, José Luis Fuentes. In the 2003 municipal elections GIB got 5,995 votes (41.63%) and won 10 seats in the municipal council. It has formed a majority government together with the People's Party (PP). There have been discussion on having a joint GIB-PP list for the 2007 elections. External linksGIB website {{DEFAULTSORT:Independent G ...
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Independent Group Of The Condado De Treviño
Independent Group of the Condado de Treviño ( es, Agrupación Electoral Independiente del Condado de Treviño, AECT) is a municipal political party in Condado de Treviño (Castille and León, Spain) created in 1991. Ideology and goals The party supports an integration of the Enclave of Treviño in Álava and therefore in the Basque Country. The main arguments in favor of integration are the will of most of the treviñeses, and the problems that the Enclave of Treviño suffers due to its isolation from the rest of the Province of Burgos The Province of Burgos is a province of northern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is bordered by the provinces of Palencia, Cantabria, Vizcaya, Álava, La Rioja, Soria, Segovia, and Valladolid. ..., especially in the area of public services.
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The Independent Group For Change
The Independent Group for Change, also known as Change UK, was a British centrism, centrist, Pro-Europeanism, pro-European Union political party, founded in February 2019 and dissolved ten months later, shortly after all its Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), MPs lost their seats in the 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019 general election. Its principal policy was support for a proposed referendum on the Brexit withdrawal agreement, second withdrawal referendum on European Union membership, in which it would campaign to remain in the European Union, EU. On economic issues it expressed a commitment to the social market economy. In February 2019, seven MPs resigned from the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party to sit as The Independent Group. They were dissatisfied by Labour's leftward political direction under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, its approach to Brexit and its handling of allegations of Antisemitism in the UK Labour Party, antisemitism within the party. They were ...
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Independent Labour Group
:''See also the Independent Labour Party, which was active in Ireland in the early twentieth century.'' The Independent Labour Group was a nationalist political party in Northern Ireland from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. Sometimes known as the Independent Labour Party, it was formed in 1958 in Belfast by independent Labour MP Frank Hanna, with the support of various local Roman Catholic clerics. That year, the party wiped out the Irish Labour Party on Belfast City Council. John Joseph Brennan stood under the party banner in Belfast West in the 1959 UK general election, where he received 37.6% of the votes cast, then stood in Belfast Falls in the 1962 Northern Ireland general election. Hanna continued to hold his Belfast Central seat for the organisation. In the 1965 Northern Ireland general election The 1965 Northern Ireland general election was held on 25 November 1965. Like all previous elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland, it produced a large majori ...
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Independent Parliamentary Group
The Independent Parliamentary Group was a right-wing political organisation in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1920 by Horatio Bottomley, elected in the 1918 general election as an independent Member of Parliament. In 1919, Bottomley founded the People's League. He hoped the League would become "a great Third Party" which would represent "the People" against organised labour and organised capital. The 4th Marquess of Salisbury was also initially involved in the League. According to Sir Oswald Mosley, he and Leslie Hore-Belisha were also active members. In 1920, Bottomley complemented the League by forming the "Independent Parliamentary Group" with other MPs sympathetic to his ideas, while still using the People's League to stand George Makgill in the 1920 Leyton by-election. Several Members of Parliament joined the group, including Bottomley, Cecil Beck, Christopher Lowther, Claude Lowther,F. W. S. Craig, ''Minor Parties at British Parliamentary Elections'' Charles ...
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Labour Independent Group
The Labour Independent Group was an organisation of five former Labour Party (UK), Labour Party Members of Parliament (MPs) in the United Kingdom. In April 1948, the MP John Platts-Mills organised a petition in support of Pietro Nenni and the Italian Socialist Party, who were in alliance with the Italian Communist Party, counter to Labour Party policy. He was expelled from the party. In May 1949, six Labour MPs voted against signing the North Atlantic Treaty, and of them, Lester Hutchinson, Leslie Solley and Konni Zilliacus were expelled.Spartacus: Konni Zilliacus
All these MPs were known for their communist sympathies, and the four joined with another independent MP, Denis Pritt, who had been expelled from the Labour Party in 1940 for supporting the Soviet Union in the Winter War, to form the Labour Independent ...
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Independent Senate Group
The Independent Politics Netherlands ( nl, Onafhankelijke Politiek Nederland, OPNL) formerly known as the Independent Senate Group (Onafhankelijke Senaatsfractie) is a political party in the Dutch Senate with one senator, representing several provincial parties. OPNL differs from other Dutch political parties in that it does not allow for individual membership, but only grants membership to provincial parties, or municipal local parties that are members of a provincial party. The OPNL only contests the elections for the Eerste Kamer and represents regionalist interests. History In 1995, several provincial parties and The Greens proposed their own independent list for the Senate elections, called the Platform of Independent Groups/Greens (''Platform van Onafhankelijke Groepen/De Groenen).'' Marten Bierman (a member of The Greens) was elected through preferential vote. In 1999 Bierman was reelected. In 2003, Henk ten Hoeve became senator for the OSF. He was a member of the Fri ...
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First Chamber Of The Netherlands
The Senate ( or simply ' , literally "First Chamber of the States General", or sometimes ' ) is the upper house of the States General, the legislature of the Netherlands. Its 75 members are elected on lists by the members of the twelve States-Provincial and four electoral colleges for the Senate every four years, within three months of the provincial elections. All provinces and colleges have different electoral weight depending on their population. Members of the Senate tend to be veteran or part-time politicians at the national level, often having other roles. They receive an allowance which is about a quarter of the salary of the members of the lower house. Unlike the politically more significant House of Representatives, it meets only once a week. It has the right to accept or reject legislative proposals but not to amend them or to initiate legislation. Directly after a bill has been passed by the House of Representatives, it is sent to the Senate and is submitted to a par ...
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