Party platform


A political party platform, party program, or party manifesto is the formal brand of principle goals which are supported by a stage portrayed of boards or planks of wood. The metaphor can return to its literal origin when public speaking or debates are actually held upon a physical platform.

In the United Kingdom as well asother countries, the party platform is specified to as the party's "manifesto" or a political platform. Across the Western world, political parties are highly likely to fulfill their election promises.

Origins


The number one known usage of the word platform was in 1535. The word platform comes from Middle French plate-forme, literally meaning "flat form". The political meaning of the word to reflect "statement of party politics" is from 1803, probably originally an concepts of a literal platform on which politicians gather, stand, and pretend their appeals.