Definitions

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  • adjective Of, relating to, or involving more than two political parties.

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  • adjective politics Involving several different political parties.
  • adjective Having multiple parties (involved persons).

Etymologies

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From multi- +‎ party.

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Examples

  • Our CC makes it crystal-clear to CPNM and the people at large that there can be no genuine democracy in any country without the capture of state power by the proletariat and that the so-called multiparty democracy cannot bring any basic change in the lives of the people.

    Latest Press release of Com Azad spokesperson of CPI Maoist on Nepal Developments Abhay N 2006

  • If one slips into the quagmire of the so-called multiparty democratic republic, one cannot escape from upholding these so-called independent institutions.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Abhay N 2006

  • Our CC makes it crystal-clear to CPNM and the people at large that there can be no genuine democracy in any country without the capture of state power by the proletariat and that the so-called multiparty democracy cannot bring any basic change in the lives of the people.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Abhay N 2006

  • IFP would call a multiparty meeting to discuss the deployment of troops.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • "Such thinking is totally foreign to the idea of multiparty democracy and there is a necessary distinction between the state and the ruling party", the report said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • But at least 10 days will be needed to recall the multiparty negotiating council to amend the new constitution before it goes to

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • After a few tense adjournments and with only the Conservative Party reserving its position, the conference agreed to call the multiparty forum as a matter of national urgency, not later than

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • "The settler colonial regime is engaged in an effort to market the preservation of white priviledges through a so-called multiparty conference."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • An agenda committee appointed at the conclusion of the multiparty planning conference in Kempton Park on Saturday meets this week to start addressing a range of issues which need to be settled before constitutional talks can begin in what is provisionally being called the multiparty forum (MPF).

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • So-called multiparty talks on broader issues such as agricultural subsidies, meat imports and

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2010

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