What Political Parties Would You Support In Other Countries

In My Humble Opinion
1

What political party would you most be aligned with in other countries than your own?

Australia: Liberal Party of Australia
Austria: Freedom Party of Austria
Belgium (Flemish): Christian Democratic and Flemish [1]
Belgium (Walloon): Humanist Democratic Centre [1]
Brazil: Democrats
Canada: Conservative Party of Canada
Chile: National Renewal
China, People’s Republic of: Democracy Party of China
China, Republic of: Kuomintang
Colombia: Social Party of National Unity
Czech Republic: Civic Democratic Party
Denmark: Danish People’s Party [2]
Finland: National Coalition Party
France: Union For A Popular Movement [3]
Germany: Christian Democratic Union
Greece: New Democracy
Hungary: Fidesz
India: Indian National Congress [4]
Iraq: Iraqi National Movement [5]
Ireland: Fine Gael
Israel: Kadima
Italy: The People of Freedom
Japan: Liberal Democratic Party
Korea, Republic of: Grand National Party
Mexico: National Action Party
Netherlands: Party for Freedom [6]
New Zealand: National Party
Norway: Conservative Party
Poland: Law and Justice
Portugal: Democratic and Social Centre-People’s Party
Romania: Democratic Liberal Party
Russia: United Russia [7]
South Africa: Democratic Alliance [8]
Spain: People’s Party
Sweden: Swedish Democrats [9]
Switzerland: Swiss People’s Party
Ukraine: Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defence Bloc
United Kingdom: Conservative and Unionist Party
United Kingdom (Northern Ireland): Ulster Unionist Party [10]
United States: Republican Party
United States (Puerto Rico): New Progressive Party

[1] I would if Belgian support Belgium’s sustained unity.
[2] They are not radically right-wing
[3] The National Front is closet racist and xenophobic
[4] The BJP condones persecution of Christian in India by Hindoo fanatics.
[5] No party in particular
[6] Party has a relatively sane response to the immigration although they may be overenthusiatic on that point.
[7] Putin’s a man I can respect and the other parties are Communist and ultranationalists.
[8] The Democratic Alliance is pretty much the only hope against the ANC who under Jacob Zuma are rapidly becoming the next Mugabe & Co with rampant corruption, AIDS denialism, and hostility to whites.
[9] Again they aren’t fanatical right-wingers contrary to what some may think
[10] Paisley is rather too anti-Catholic for my taste

2

Seriously? Are you thirteen, or a 150-year-old retired officer of the British East India Company?

3

UK: Tories
Ireland: Sinn Fein

4

Japan: Liberal Democratic Party

Ugh…

5

Is that supposed to mean Partido Popular? The name doesn’t have any diacritic marks and it doesn’t quite mean “People’s Party” (the back-translation of that to Spanish tends to sound like the people involved will call each other Comrade, which is several steps to their left), so I don’t see why can’t you write it in Spanish. Also, depending on your reasons to back them, you might be backing someone else as a function of your specific location. Not to mention that, depending on what your reasons would be to back the Republicans in the US… the closest Spanish force would be PSOE, not PP-and-the-like. Depending on your reasons. And if it’s because you want a party that “backs up Catholicism”, PP may be waaaaaay more socially liberal than what you have in mind.

6

Interesting combination!

BTW, to the OP, Ian Paisley stepped down a couple of years ago. The DUP is still the DUP though.

7

Mexico: PAN, no contest.

8

Wow, that’s pretty, erm, schizophrenic

Edit: What Ximenean said

9

I’m concerned that the Conservatives here in Canada may be too left wing for you** [del]Curtis[/del] Qin**.

Oh, and for me, I vote for the Democrats back in the US.

10

So far as I have seen, “People’s Party” is the common English translation, although I suppose that “Populist Party” might be slightly better.

I don’t know about Europe, but in the United States, most people know so little about international politics that few mistake it for a communist or socialist party. It’s just a foreign political party.

11

He just likes to see people fight.

12

Well its a bit to the left of our Republicans but still more than few Canadian Conservatives are pro-life, strong military, etc.

13

US - democrat
UK - undecided (they are all shit)
Northern Ireland - DUP

14

Perhaps not, but they are racists with their roots in neo-nazism.

15

Double ugh. There isn’t anyone I can support here.

16

I guess I’d be a US democrat. Germany would be a tougher call - probably SDP but depending how far to the left it was at the time (and how far to the right to CDU was) it might change.

There’s also the “Rent is too damn high” party, which gets a vote for the name alone. :slight_smile:

17

Curtis, you do no that the Reedom Party (Netherlands) really is only rightwing on immigration and crime fighting. They advocate social policies that are comparable to those of the Socialist Party.

18

UK–The Official Monster Raving Loony Party.

19

No. Indeed in one election the majority of their candidates were immigrants.

Considering that in the Netherlands, critics of Islam are murdered on the streets and since the social conservative party is one that advocates socialistic policies and another one that advocates Calvinistic theocracy they are pretty much the best.

20

I don’t understand the point of this exercise. Anyone who thinks he could be a supporter of the U.S. Republican Party as well as the Indian Congress Party (pro-abortion, pro-ethnic quotas, pro-centralized planning, pro-gun control) has got some weird perspective on politics.