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Christian Democratic Party (Timor-Leste)
The Christian Democratic Party () is a centre-left political party in Timor-Leste. In the parliamentary election held on 30 August 2001, the party won 2.0% of the popular vote and 2 out of 88 seats. In the parliamentary election A general election is an electoral process to choose most or all members of a governing body at the same time. They are distinct from by-elections, which fill individual seats that have become vacant between general elections. General elections ... held on 30 June 2007, the PDC won 4,300 votes, 1.03% of the total, and did not win any seats in parliament, as it did not reach the 3% threshold to win seats."National Provisional Results from the 30 June 2007 Parliamentary Elec ...
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Christian Left
The Christian left, otherwise referred to as the religious left, is a range of Christian political and social movements that largely embrace social justice principles and uphold a social doctrine or social gospel based on their interpretation of the teachings of Christianity. Given the inherent diversity in international political thought, the term ''Christian left'' can have different meanings and applications in different countries. While there is much overlap, the Christian left is distinct from liberal Christianity, meaning not all Christian leftists are liberal Christians and ''vice versa''. In the United States, the Christian left usually aligns with modern liberalism and progressivism, using the social gospel to achieve better social and economic equality. Christian anarchism, Christian communism, and Christian socialism are subsets of the socialist Christian left. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of the '' Communist Manifesto'', both had Christian upbrin ...
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2017 East Timorese Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Timor-Leste on 22 July 2017. Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, Fretilin narrowly emerged as the largest party in the National Parliament (Timor-Leste), National Parliament, winning 23 seats to the 22 won by the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction, which had been the largest party in the outgoing Parliament. Background After the 2012 East Timorese parliamentary election, there was first of all a coalition of the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT), Partido Democratico (Timor Leste), Democratic Party (PD), and Frenti-Mudança (FM). With the exit of Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão, the new Prime Minister, on February 16, 2015, Rui Maria de Araújo. Since there was no parliamentary opposition, Taur Matan Ruak, the President of Timor-Leste, took on this role himself, leading to more conflict between the president and the rest of the government. This led to a split between the CNRT and the PD. The creatio ...
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Political Parties In Timor-Leste
Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. Politics may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and non-violent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but the word often also carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or in a limited way, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external for ...
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Christian Democratic Parties In Asia
A Christian () is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Christians form the largest religious community in the world. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title (), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term '' mashiach'' () (usually rendered as ''messiah'' in English). While there are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict, they are united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance. The term ''Christian'' used as an adjective is descriptive of anything associated with Christianity or Christian churches, or in a proverbial sense "all that is noble, and good, and Christ-like." According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.3 billion Christians around the world, up from about 600 million in 1910. Today, about 37% of all Christians live in the Americas, about 26% live in Europe, 24% live in sub-Saharan Africa, ...
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2023 East Timorese Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Timor-Leste on 21 May 2023. The governing coalition going into the election was a four-party government of Fretilin, the People's Liberation Party (Timor-Leste), People's Liberation Party (PLP), Kmanek Haburas Unidade Nasional Timor Oan (KHUNTO) and the Democratic Party (Timor-Leste), Democratic Party (PD), whilst the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT) was in opposition but held the presidency. Background Initially, after the 2018 East Timorese parliamentary election, the VIII Constitutional Government was drawn from and supported by a coalition known as the Alliance for Change and Progress (AMP), which was made up of the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT), the People's Liberation Party (Timor-Leste), People's Liberation Party (PLP) and Kmanek Haburas Unidade Nasional Timor Oan (KHUNTO). Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, Prime Minister Mari Bin Amude Alkatiri, Marí Bin Amude Alkatiri of Fretilin had to ...
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Socialist Party Of Timor
The Socialist Party of Timor (, PST) is a Marxist–Leninist political party in Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor). History The Socialist Party of Timor was founded in February 1997, whilst East Timor was still under Indonesian occupation (though it claims it was founded earlier on 20 December 1990). It is a splinter party of the Fretilin and was established by Avelino Maria da Silva Coelho, Pedro Martires da Costa and Antonio Maher Lopes. Labour and student groups based in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta and other Indonesian cities where East Timorese studied and worked formed the basis of PST's members. The party's first national congress was held from 10 to 11 February 2000 in Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste. Organisation The party is represented in many communities and focuses its work on the traditional FRETILIN areas, such as Soibada and Aileu. Its members are mostly young people, but also some old members of the left wings of FALINTIL and FRETILIN. Some cooperative f ...
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Social Democratic Party (East Timor)
The Social Democratic Party (''Partido Social Democrata'') is an East Timorese party founded on 20 September 2000. Despite its name, the party, like its Portuguese model, is usually categorised as centre-right in the political spectrum (conservative, Christian democratic). It describes itself as being in the middle between left and right (centrist). The aim of the party's founders was to offer voters a moderate alternative to Fretilin and UDT. In 2002, the party had 8,000 members. Since then, the PSD has lost its importance. The PSD did not contest the 2023 parliamentary elections in Timor-Leste. The PSD was one of five parties in the Alliance of the Parliamentary Majority (AMP) coalition in Timor-Leste's national parliament, which formed the government between 2007 and 2012. General When the party was founded at the headquarters of the National Council of Maubere Resistance (CNRT), Xanana Gusmão was the speaker, which is why the party was said to be close to the first pres ...
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Timorese Social Democratic Action Center
The ''Centro Acção Social-Democrata Timorense'' (), abbreviated as Centro ASDT or CASDT is a political party in East Timor, Timor-Leste. Founded by its late first party president Gil da Costa A.N. Alves, he was the former Secretary General of the ''Timorese Social Democratic Association, Associação Social-Democrata Timorense (ASDT)'' party. The party motto is “Justiça, Unidade, Solidaridade” ( ). History Centro ASDT was officially recognized as a political party on 2 September 2015 by the ''Tribunal de Recurso de Timor-Leste'' (). The party's first National Congress took place on 19 December 2015 in the hall of the ''Comissão Nacional de Eleições'' (). In the previous presidential election in 2017, Centro ASDT supported the Fretilin presidential candidate, Francisco Guterres, Francisco "Lú-Olo" Guterres, who eventually won. Centro ASDT officially contested the parliamentary elections in July 2017. However, the vote obtained by the Centro ASDT party was only 0.41%, ...
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2018 East Timorese Parliamentary Election
file:Eleisaun Parlamentar 2018.jpg, thumbnail, Election call for the early parliamentary elections 2018 Early parliamentary elections were held in Timor-Leste on 12 May 2018 after the National Parliament (Timor-Leste), National Parliament was dissolved by President Francisco Guterres on 26 January 2018. The Alliance for Change and Progress (AMP), a coalition of three opposition parties, won an absolute majority of 34 of the 65 seats in Parliament. Voter turnout was 81 percent, five percentage points higher than the previous year. 784,286 people were eligible to vote. Background In the 2017 East Timorese parliamentary election, 2017 parliamentary elections there was no clear winner, with the Fretilin party of Mari Alkatiri holding only one more seat than the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction led by Xanana Gusmão. After the Kmanek Haburas Unidade Nasional Timor Oan (KHUNTO) backed out at short notice, Alkatiri formed a minority government with the Democratic Party (Ti ...
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2012 East Timorese Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Timor-Leste on 7 July 2012.Election Profile
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The stated that it would withdraw its 1,300 troops if the elections passed off peacefully. The National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction, led by Prime Minister , won the election with 30 seats, three seats short of a majority in

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Centre-left Politics
Centre-left politics is the range of left-wing political ideologies that lean closer to the political centre. Ideologies commonly associated with it include social democracy, social liberalism, progressivism, and green politics. Ideas commonly supported by the centre-left include welfare capitalism, social justice, liberal internationalism, and multiculturalism. Economically, the centre-left supports a mixed economy in a democratic capitalist system, often including economic interventionism, progressive taxation, and the right to unionize. Centre-left politics are contrasted with far-left politics that reject capitalism or advocate revolution. The centre-left developed with the rest of the left–right political spectrum in 18th and 19th century France, where the centre-left included those who supported transfer of powers from the French monarchy, monarchy to parliament or endorsed Moderate Republicans (France, 1848–1870), moderate republicanism. Early progressivism and left ...
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2007 East Timorese Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Timor-Leste on 30 June 2007."National Provisional Results from the 30 June 2007 Parliamentary Elections"
, Comissão Nacional de Eleições Timor-Leste, 9 July 2007.
The new composition of Timor-Leste's was determined by the country's population. 529,198 voters were entitled to vote, 708 polling stations were ready. As a result, 65 MPs sat in the new parliament for the next five years. Although a narrow