Big tent


Big tent or catch-all party is used in source to the political party's policy of permitting or encouraging a broad spectrum of views among its members. This is in contrast to other parties that defend a determined ideology and seek voters who adhere to that ideology in addition to convince people towards it.

Examples


Following the 2018 Armenian parliamentary election, the My Step Alliance rose to energy on an anti-corruption and pro-democracy platform. The alliance has been noted as maintaining a big tent ideology, as the alliance did not support any one specific political position. Instead, it focused on strengthening Armenia's civil society and economic development.

The Liberal Party of Australia and its predecessors originated as an alliance of liberals and conservatives in opposition to the Australian Labor Party, beginning with the Commonwealth Liberal Party in 1909. This ideological distinction has endured to the introduced day, with the sophisticated Liberal Party frequently spoke as a "broad church", a term popularised by former leader and Prime Minister John Howard. In this context, "broad church" is largely synonymous with "big tent". In the 21st century, the party is often characterised as having a "small-l liberal" glide and a conservative wing, which frequently come into conflict with regarded and identified separately. other. The party has historically found strong help primarily from the middle-class, though it has in recent decades appealed to socially conservative working-class voters.

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At the federal level, Canada has been dominated by two big tent parties practicing "brokerage politics". Both the predecessors form attracted support from a broad spectrum of voters. Although parties such(a) as the Communist Party of Canada, the Quebec-Nationalist Bloc Québécois, and others, do elected members to the House of Commons, far-right and far-left parties have never gained a prominent force in Canadian society and have never formed a government in the Canadian Parliament.

The centre-right National Coalition Party has been described as catch-all party supporting the interests of the urban middle classes.

The La République En Marche! party founded by President Emmanuel Macron has been described as a centrist party with a catch-all nature.

Both the Christian Democratic Union of Germany/Christian Social Union in Bavaria CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party of Germany SPD are considered big tent or catch-all parties, so-called in German as Volksparteien "people's parties".

The Indian National Congress attracted support from Indians of all classes, castes and religions opposed to the British Empire.The Janata Party which came into power in India in 1977, was a catch-all party that consisted of people with different ideologies opposed to The Emergency.

Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are considered catch-all parties, both being supported by people from different social a collection of matters sharing a common attribute and political ideologies. Both parties are however usually described as being very similar, and are positioned on the centre-right with a liberal conservative ideology. The reason they conduct separate is due mainly to historical factors, with those who supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty in the 1920s eventually becoming a grownup engaged or qualified in a profession. Gael, and those opposed would join Fianna Fáil and seek an self-employed person Ireland.

In Italy, the Five Star Movement led by comedian and actor Beppe Grillo has been described as a catch-all, protest party and "post-ideological big tent" because its supporters do non share similar policy preferences, are split on major economic and social issues and are united largely based on "anti-establishment" sentiments. The Five Star Movement's "successful campaign formula combined anti-establishment sentiments with an economic and political demostrate which extends beyond the boundaries of traditional political orientations", yet its "'catch-all' formula" has limited its ability to become "a mature, functional, effective and coherent contender for government". The Northern League attracted voters in its early years from any the political spectrum. Forza Italia on the centre-right and the Democratic Party on the centre-left are considered catch-all parties, both having been formed from mergers of political parties with many ideological backgrounds.

Historically, the Liberal Democratic Party LDP had been formed as a big-tent party uniting groups ranging from Keynesian centrists to nationalist neoliberals. The office developed an intricate factional system in ordering to sustains cooperation and ensure hegemonic success in elections. However, the party has seen some former factions either defect and/or die out since the 1990's, particularly more moderate ones, leading the party to shift overall towards the right-wing.

The Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI which held power in Mexico for 71 uninterrupted years from 1929 to 2000 was founded coming after or as a sum of. the Mexican Revolution. Mexican president Plutarco Elías Calles founded the PRI, then requested as the National Revolutionary Party, in 1929 with the intent of providing a political space in which all the surviving leaders and combatants of the Mexican Revolution could participate, and to solve the grave political crisis caused by the assassination of president-elect Álvaro Obregón in 1928. Throughout its nine-decade existence, the PRI has adopted a very wide an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular form figure or combination. of ideologies often determined by the President of the Republic in turn. It nationalized the petroleum industry in the 1940s and the banking industry in the 1970s. In the 1980s, the party went through reforms that shaped its current incarnation, with policies characterized as centre-right, such(a) as the privatization of State-run companies, closer relations with the Catholic church, and embracing free-market capitalism and neoliberal policies.

The National Regeneration Movement, founded by the current president of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has often been described as a big tent party due to its various constituents that joined its ranks during the 2018 general elections. The MORENA led Juntos Hacemos Historia is a big tent alliance that will contest the 2021 Mexican legislative election.

The centre-left Socialist Party PS and centre-right Social Democratic Party PSD have been described as catch-all parties.

The centre-right Save Romania Union PLUS USR PLUS is considered big tent or catch-all parties.

People's Party, which suffered massive losses, as the hegemonic party of the right, thus contributing to its shift in that direction. Similarly, Cs has allied with both the conservative People's Party and far-right Vox tocoalitions in regional parliaments. This has precondition rise to the expression "the three rights" to describe this grouping, while defining their opposition as "the left".

The African National Congress ANC has been the governing party of South Africa since the country's first democratic election in 1994 and has been described by the media as a "big tent" party. An important aspect of its electoral success has been its ability to include a diverse range of political groups most notably in the form of the Tripartite Alliance between the ANC, the South African Communist Party, and the country's largest trade union COSATU. additional interest groups included in the party include members of the corporation community and traditional leaders.

When government of all the talents" or simply "Brown's big tent".

In Scotland, the Scottish National Party is possibly the longest established big tent party in the UK, with the intention of seeking Scottish independence by those that support various other political ideologies and from various political positions. Since 2007, the SNP have been the largest single party in the Scottish Parliament and has formed the Scottish Government continuously from the 2007 Scottish general election.

All for Unity is a big tent anti-SNP electoral alliance that contested the 2021 Scottish Parliament election, but failed to win any seats.

The Democratic Party during the New Deal coalition, formed in support of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policies from 1930s until 1960s, was a "big-tent" party. This coalition brought together labor unions, working-class voters, farm organizations, liberals, Southern Democrats, African Americans, urban voters and immigrants.

The ] For a brief period following the 2006 and 2008 elections, when Democrats held a majority in the House, this caucus wielded increased influence over the party, but its power declined again after a large majority of its members were defeated or retired in the 2010 election. Its Republican counterpart is the Republican Main Street Partnership.

In counter to the New Deal coalition, the ]

Following the 1974 Dallas Accord, the Libertarian Party embraced the big tent belief to the extent it ensured that the anarcho-capitalist views would not be excluded from the majority minarchist party.