Political Parties and the Election in Gazelle

This chapter will look at the Gazelle Open electorate in the 2007 election, with a focus on political parties. The significance of political parties flows from the Organic Law on the Integrity of Political Parties and Candidates (OLIPPAC) which was enacted in 2001, with the primary objective of stre...

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1. Verfasser:	Elly B. Kinkin
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Behavioral sciences Democracy Economic disciplines Economics Electorate Employment Government Human behavior International agreements International alliances International cooperation International politics International relations Labor economics Leadership Leadership qualities Occupations Organizational behavior Political candidates Political elections Political organizations Political parties Political processes Political regimes Political science Political systems Politicians Politics Preferential voting Representative democracy Runoff elections Voter registration Voting
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Zusammenfassung:	This chapter will look at the Gazelle Open electorate in the 2007 election, with a focus on political parties. The significance of political parties flows from the Organic Law on the Integrity of Political Parties and Candidates (OLIPPAC) which was enacted in 2001, with the primary objective of strengthening the political party system on the eve of the 2002 election. The OLIPPAC was later replaced with a revised version, which came into force on 15 October 2003. The changes brought about by the OLIPPAC and the replacing of first-past-the-post voting by limited preferential voting (LPV) will be discussed together, as