# What Political Parties Would You Support In Other Countries **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 25, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242 "2010-10-25T02:57:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242/1 "2010-10-25T02:57:25Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242/2 "2010-10-25T03:42:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Hindoo Seriously? Are you thirteen, or a 150-year-old retired officer of the British East India Company? ---
**Author:** ![\_mostly\_Harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/9d8465/32.png) [@\_mostly\_Harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_mostly_Harmless)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242/3 "2010-10-25T05:21:59Z")
UK: Tories Ireland: Sinn Fein ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242/4 "2010-10-25T12:58:34Z")
_Japan: Liberal Democratic Party_ Ugh… ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242/5 "2010-10-25T13:10:33Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Spain: People’s Party 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. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242/6 "2010-10-25T13:31:57Z")
> [@\_mostly\_Harmless](#): > > UK: Tories > Ireland: Sinn Fein Interesting combination! BTW, to the OP, Ian Paisley stepped down a couple of years ago. The DUP is still the DUP though. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242/7 "2010-10-25T14:24:56Z")
Mexico: PAN, no contest. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242/8 "2010-10-25T14:38:58Z")
> [@\_mostly\_Harmless](#): > > UK: Tories > Ireland: Sinn Fein Wow, that’s pretty, erm, schizophrenic Edit: What **Ximenean** said ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242/9 "2010-10-25T14:43:30Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242/10 "2010-10-25T14:46:48Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242/11 "2010-10-25T14:49:33Z")
> [@Ximenean](#): > > Interesting combination! He just likes to see people fight. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242/12 "2010-10-25T23:59:53Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > 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. Well its a bit to the left of our Republicans but still more than few Canadian Conservatives are pro-life, strong military, etc. ---
**Author:** ![kim\_jung\_il](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@kim\_jung\_il](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kim_jung_il)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242/13 "2010-10-26T15:38:19Z")
US - democrat UK - undecided (they are all shit) Northern Ireland - DUP ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242/14 "2010-10-27T11:39:13Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Sweden: Swedish Democrats [9] > [9] Again they aren’t fanatical right-wingers contrary to what some may think Perhaps not, but they are racists with their roots in neo-nazism. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242/15 "2010-10-27T11:53:15Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > _Japan: Liberal Democratic Party_ > > Ugh… Double ugh. There isn’t anyone I can support here. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242/16 "2010-10-27T12:32:45Z")
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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9f8e36/32.png) [@footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/footballisplayedwithyourfeet)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242/17 "2010-10-27T12:40:36Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242/18 "2010-10-27T15:02:50Z")
UK–The Official Monster Raving Loony Party. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242/19 "2010-10-27T22:05:53Z")
> [@Floater](#): > > Perhaps not, but they are racists with their roots in neo-nazism. No. Indeed in one election the majority of their candidates were immigrants. > [@footballisplayedwithyourfeet](#): > > **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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242/20 "2010-10-27T22:10:57Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-political-parties-would-you-support-in-other-countries/558242.md?page=2)