Unity party

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The unity party (also known as the “state party”) is the only party in a country that unites all of a country's conformist political currents. A distinction must be made between whether this party is based on political ideals in order to unite and overcome certain current opposites (classes, ethnicities, etc.), or whether the party is in an authoritarian regime from the (also involuntary) merger before independent parties emerged as a state party such as B. the SED of the GDR.

Unity parties often claim to represent the will and interests of the entire people, and derive their claim to sole power from this. The need for “national unity” is also often given as a reason for the existence of a one-party state .

Linguistically, it is an oxymoron , as the term party is derived from the Latin pars (= part, direction ), which contradicts the existence of a single, uniform and representative example .

Such parties have existed in numerous socialist states in the past . In many African states, too, unitary parties emerged after independence, most of which have since switched to a multi-party system , at least de jure . In some of the countries concerned - such as Cape Verde , Benin and Senegal - this transition is considered successful, while in others the former Unity Party continues to de facto dominate political events.

A distinction must be made between one-party and military regimes , even if the boundaries between these two forms of autocratic systems are often blurred. Military leaders like Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire created the right unity party “from above”, while in some one-party states like Malawi or Rwanda the military served to suppress possible oppositional movements.

Currently ruling unity parties

The following list shows countries in which a single party has come to power:

Former unity parties


Parties with similar names

See also

swell

  1. ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education
  2. ↑ http://www.bpb.de/nachhaben/lexika/18236/sozialistische-einheitspartei-deutschlands-sed
  3. ↑ Caboverdeinfo.de: Interview: Hüseyin Aydin on Cape Verde
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tu-dresden.de
  5. ↑ http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/de/frankreich_3/label-france_746/label-france_747/label-france-nr.61_749/das-dossier-afrika-in-bewegung_751/rechtsstaat-in-afrika_1073.html
  6. ↑ see also http://www.abipur.de/haushaben/neu/detail/stat/107091670.html , archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 3, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politik-blicken.de