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Joke Party
A frivolous party or a joke party is a political party which has been created for the purposes of entertainment or political satire. Such a party may or may not have a serious point behind its activities. Many countries have had a Pirate Party which could be considered frivolous. This is a list of frivolous political parties. Some more serious political parties, such as the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, may use the same tactics and humorous approaches to politics as their more frivolous counterparts but aim to address legitimate sociopolitical issues, something that some frivolous parties do not do. Australia * Deadly Serious Party (deregistered in 1988) * Imperial British Conservative Party (see also: Cecil G. Murgatroyd, defunct) * Party! Party! Party! (defunct)List of parties competing in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ideological or policy goals. Political parties have become a major part of the politics of almost every country, as modern party organizations developed and spread around the world over the last few centuries. Although List of countries without political parties, some countries have no political parties, this is extremely rare. Most countries have Multi-party system, several parties while others One-party state, only have one. Parties are important in the politics of autocracies as well as democracies, though usually Democracy, democracies have more political parties than autocracies. Autocracies often have a single party that Government, governs the country, and some political scientists consider competition between two or more parties to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lemon Party
The Lemon Party of Canada (') was a frivolous Canadian political party which has operated on a federal level, and provincially in Quebec. The party was registered on January 8, 1987 by then-leader Denis R. Patenaude, and deregistered on November 14, 1998 for failing to have at least ten candidates stand for election. The party was headed by "Pope Terence the First", whose existence is unconfirmed. According to Jean-Simon Poirier, Terence is "sort of a mystical, mythical person" who doesn't spend much time in Canada. "The interesting thing about him is he's never in the country. He's always touring around other countries," he said, adding that at present Terence was visiting southwestern Siberia. Their official agent is Mary-Gabrielle Blay II. Its 2004 national convention produced a platform of policies which were "Placed in small green plastic boxes and sold to industrial pig farms in Mexico", according to a large party spokeswoman. The subsequent electoral campaign, under the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party Of Donkeys
Party of Donkeys or Donkeys' Party (; Donkey is epitome of docile imbecility) was a fictitious political party in Iran. It was founded in 1963, when the New Iran Party vs. the People's Party rivalry was shaped. The party had members with green membership cards and held gatherings. The party was a critique of the lack of popularity of the corrupt two-party system of Iran during the reign of the Shah and in fact drew more members than the actual government created political parties. The Persian word for donkey is "khar" which translates in English to "idiot". A committee was established to vet membership whereby each member had to provide evidence of an act of idiocy that they had committed. No politicians or members of the Royal Court were allowed to join the Donkey's Party. "Donkeys of Iran and the World Unite! Create a world in which donkeys can live in comfort. Support the creation of a Bank of Hay. Oppose and end all donkey-like despotism In political science, despot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Best Party
The Best Party () was an Icelandic political party founded by Jón Gnarr on 16 November 2009. The party contested the 2010 city council election in Reykjavík and won a plurality on the Reykjavík City Council, receiving 34.7% of the vote, defeating the Independence Party which received 33.6%. It was an observer member of the International Pirate Party, but not associated with the Pirate Party Iceland. Gnarr announced that the party was to be dissolved after he stepped down as mayor after the upcoming local elections in May 2014. Many of the Best Party's members joined Bright Future, while Gnarr himself stopped political participation. The founder and chairman of the party was the former Mayor of Reykjavík Jón Gnarr. The party was founded several months after the Icelandic parliamentary election in 2009, and was closely related to the national Bright Future party, led by MP and Best Party Vice President Heiða Kristín Helgadóttir. The party's initial success is se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian Two Tailed Dog Party
The Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party ( , MKKP ) is a political party in Hungary. It was founded in Szeged in 2006, but did not register as an official political party until 2014. The party's main activity is street art, consisting of graffiti, stencils, and posters which parody Hungary's political elite. Because the party participated in the 2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, 2018 Hungarian legislative election, it is eligible to receive government funds, which it spends on the "Sándor Rózsa, Rózsa Sándor State Fund Wasting Public Program". Political activity Foundation, 2006 and 2010 elections All of the electoral candidates were called ''Nagy István'' ("Stephen Big", Hungarian equivalent of generic names such as the English ''John Smith'') during the 2006 national and local elections. The Two-Tailed Dog Party was not a registered political party until 2014, though it participated in the 2006 elections. The party platform promises eternal life, world peace, a one-d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts European legislation, following a proposal by the European Commission. The Parliament is composed of 720 members (MEPs), after the June 2024 European elections, from a previous 705 MEPs. It represents the second-largest democratic electorate in the world (after the Parliament of India), with an electorate of around 375 million eligible voters in 2024. Since 1979, the Parliament has been directly elected every five years by the citizens of the European Union through universal suffrage. Voter turnout in parliamentary elections decreased each time after 1979 until 2019, when voter turnout increased by eight percentage points, and rose above 50% for the first time since 1994. The voting age is 18 in all EU member states e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die PARTEI
(''Party for Labour, Rule of Law, Animal Protection, Promotion of Elites and Grassroots Democratic Initiative''), or Die PARTEI (''The PARTY''), is a German political party. It was founded in 2004 by the editors of the German satirical magazine ''Titanic (magazine), Titanic''. It is led by Martin Sonneborn. In the 2014 European Parliament election in Germany, 2014 European Parliament election, the party won a seat, marking the first time that a List of frivolous political parties, satirical party has won a seat to the European Parliament. With the 2019 European Parliament election in Germany, 2019 European Parliament election, the party gained a second seat, held by Nico Semsrott. The party kept these two seats at the 2024 European Parliament election in Germany, 2024 European Parliament election. Name Partei für Arbeit, Rechtsstaat, Tierschutz, Elitenförderung und basisdemokratische Initiative ("Party for Labour, Rule of Law, Animal Protection, Promotion of Elites and Grassro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anarchist Pogo Party Of Germany
The Anarchistic Pogo Party of Germany (German: ''Anarchistische Pogo-Partei Deutschlands'', or 'APPD') is the self-declared party of the ''Pöbel'' (mob) and " social parasites". It was created in 1981 by two punks in Hannover and took part in the 1998 election to the Bundestag with the promise to pay the voters with free beer. The official communication organ is the paper ''Armes Deutschland'' ("Poor Germany"), formerly ''Asoziale Rundschau'' ("Asocial Review"). The name refers to the punk dance, the Pogo. The party took part in the 2005 German federal election with their chancellor candidate Wolfgang Wendland, who is also the lead singer of the German punk-band " Die Kassierer" ("The Cashiers"). The party has also been barred from elections for formal reasons. Aims * Right to unemployment with full salary * Youth pension instead of retirement pension * Abolishment of compulsory education * Creation of centers for physical love, so-called ''Mitfickzentralen'' (literally "fuc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hin Stuttligi Flokkurin
Parliamentary elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 20 January 2004. Candidates Hin Stuttligi Flokkurin ( English: ''The Funny Party''), the joke political party founded in 2004 by Johan Dalsgaard, got 747 votes in the Faroese parliament election in 2004. The party is based upon political satire. Dalsgaard was mainly inspired by Jacob Haugaard, who pulled a similar prank in the Danish parliament. Johan Dalsgaard was not the only candidate on the list. Rubek Lilaa was the candidate for Eysturoyar Valdømi. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Royalist Party Of Estonia
Independent Royalist Party of Estonia () was a frivolous political party in Estonia in the 1990s. It is now defunct. The party, widely considered a humorous expression of protest, was successful in the 1992 Estonian parliamentary elections, with 32,638 votes, gaining eight seats in the parliament ('' Riigikogu''). Its most prominent members were known humorists Priit Aimla, Kirill Teiter and Ralf Parve, and the party was led by Kalle Kulbok. The party's official programme called for establishing Estonia as a monarchy, as modeled by Sweden and Norway. In practice, the party's main achievement was consistent ridicule of laws its members found ridiculous, for example, getting rid of the proposed hour of prayer in the parliament by repeatedly performing a stylized "Neopagan" rite, complete with tambourine. The party also performed an "eating strike", as opposed to the simultaneous hunger strikes by some pro-Russian politicians. List of members who served in Riigikogu * Prii ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Of Conscientiously Work-Shy Elements
The Union of Conscientiously Work-Shy Elements () was an unusually successful frivolous political party in Denmark. It was founded in Aarhus in 1979 by a comedian, Jacob Haugaard (born 1952), and a few friends. Haugaard stood as an independent candidate in Aarhus County in each parliamentary election, until September 1994 when he was very unexpectedly elected to the Folketing with 23,253 personal votes, thereby winning a constituency seat (a locally based seat in parliament). He made the following promises in the 1994 election: * Tail winds on all cycle paths * Better weather * Better Christmas presents * Less sex in school staff rooms (withdrawn during the campaign – he said it had been brought to his attention that sex in the staff room was a long-established privilege for teachers and as such could not be abolished) * More whales in the fjord of Randers * The right to impotence * More Renaissance furniture in IKEA * 8 hours of spare time, 8 hours of rest, 8 hours of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friends Of Beer Party
Friends of Beer Party (, abbreviated ') was a political party in the Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south .... Originally intended as a humorous commentary on the large number of new political parties, the party decided to run in the elections after receiving public attention. The party reached its peak in 1992 when it received 1.3%, but still failed to reach the threshold. In 1997 party cooperated with the Free Democrats – Liberal National Social Party (SD–LSNS). The party merged with the Czech Social Democratic Party (''ČSSD'') in 1998, and former members of the party created a Friends of Beer Club within ČSSD. The SPP now continues its activities as the Friends of Beer Association. References 1990 establishments in Czechoslovakia 1998 disesta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
