Political Parties Disestablished in 1999 - McGillicuddy Serious Party, Black Unity and Freedom Party, Democratic Left, Mekhora, Hatzeirim (Paperback)

Chapters: Mcgillicuddy Serious Party, Black Unity and Freedom Party, Democratic Left, Mekhora, Hatzeirim, Pensioner and Citizen Initiated Referendum Alliance, One Australia Party, Australia's Indigenous Peoples Party. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The McGillicuddy Serious Party (McGSP) operated as a satirical political party in New Zealand politics during the late 20th century. For many years, from 1984 to 1999, McGillicuddy Serious provided "colour" to New Zealand politics to ensure that citizens not take the political process too seriously. The party's logo, the head of a medieval court jester, indicated McGillicuddy Serious's status as a joke party. The party stood candidates in the 1984, 1987, 1990, 1993, 1996 and 1999 General Elections; the 1986, 1989, 1992, 1995, 1998 Local Body elections; along with various local-body and parliamentary by-elections and even some university student-association elections. The McGSP gained its highest ever total of votes in New Zealand's last first-past-the-post (FPP) election in 1993, when it stood candidates in 62 out of 99 electorates and received 11,714 votes: or 0.61% of all votes cast. The McGillicuddy Serious Party formed in 1984 in Hamilton as the political arm of Clan McGillicuddy (established in 1978). Members of the Clan had previously stood as candidates in the 1983 local-body elections in the Waikato, but the McGSP came together in time to contest the 1984 General Election. The party had a strong Scottish theme, with the kilt considered one of the party's symbols. Initially many candidates were students at the University of Waikato. Candidates also included a number of street-performers and comedic musical groups, such as The Big Muffin Serious Band. After discovering that he had some (rather...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=589405