Word: sdp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...general election, for example, analliance between the Liberal Party and the SocialDemocratic Party (SDP) received 25 percent of thevote nationwide but only 23 seats in Parliament.The minority Labour party won more than 250 seatswith 27 percent of the vote...
...effort to free the hostages. Bonn's strategy: to negotiate the release of the German hostages with the help of Middle East governments linked to Hizballah, including Iran and Syria. The Chancellor carefully consulted leaders of the opposition Social Democratic Party, the major challenger to his center-right coalition. SDP Candidate Johannes Rau declared that the hostage crisis would not become a last-minute election issue...
...Social Democratic Party, even going so far as to warn that if the Christian Democrats triumphed in Bonn, the result could be war. Such heavy-handed maneuvering was bound to have an adverse effect: scores of West German voters switched their allegiance to the Christian Democrats and the SDP, the ruling party, lost...
Nonetheless, the SDP is still a young party and the middle ground is always a good place to occupy if everybody else is fleeing it like the plague. By the next election in 1987, the SDP will either have to woo enough moderate Laborites to become the opposition party...
...dance floor waiting for his opportunity to walz in the center, the Alliance Party in Britain has been prowling the periphery of British politics for two years, hoping to come between the standard Labour and Conservative Party couple. This week the Alliance--a fusion of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Liberal Party--may finally have gotten up the nerve...