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The Botswana Democratic Party (abbr. BDP, colloquially known as Domkrag) is a centre-right political party in Botswana. From the country's inaugural election in 1965 until the 2024 general election the party governed the country without interruption for 58 years. At the time of its defeat, the BDP was the longest continuous ruling party in the ...
The centre-right Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which had dominated the country's politics since independence in 1966, was decisively beaten by the centre-left opposition Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC). Large voter swings toward opposition parties led to the BDP falling to fourth place. [3] [4] [5]
The party chairman has called for the PKK to disarm. [8] The BDP had observer status in the Socialist International. [9] BDP supported Turkey's membership in the European Union, [10] same-sex marriages in Turkey, [11] an anti-discrimination law to protect LGBT people [10] and also wants the Government of Turkey to recognize the Armenian genocide.
Botswana was a dominant-party state with the Botswana Democratic Party in power for most of its history. [1] Opposition parties were widely considered to have little chance of gaining a parliamentary majority until the 2024 Botswana general election which saw the Umbrella for Democratic Change win a parliamentary majority.
The British Democratic Party (BDP), commonly known as the British Democrats, is a British far-right [5] political party. It was registered with the Electoral Commission in 2011, [1] and officially launched in 2013 at a Leicestershire village hall by a ten-member steering committee which included former members of several political parties including the British National Party (BNP), Democratic ...
The first significant movement for independence was led by the radical Bechuanaland People's Party. The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) was formed by Seretse Khama in 1962 as part of a negotiated independence process. [4] Botswana became self-governing in 1965, and it became an independent republic in 1966.
Botswana is a parliamentary republic with an executive presidency operating under a multi-party system. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first president to govern Botswana was Sir Seretse Khama . [ 4 ] The country has had 13 formal general elections since 1961, with one happening every five years.
The BDP also was the third-largest party in the Cantonal Council of neighbouring Glarus, with ten of the legislature's sixty seats. After the BDP lost four seats in the 2019 election (and, therefore, its status as an own parliamentary group), the remaining three parliamentarians decided to join a parliamentary group together with the CVP and ...