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Jamaica has two traditional parties from the old colonial era: the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People's National Party (PNP). The United Independents' Congress of Jamaica (UIC) became the first new (post colonial) registered political party on December 7, 2019.
The party is named after Jamaican National Hero, Marcus Garvey. On election ballots, the party campaign as MG/PPP (or MGPPP [1]) or simply PPP. The People's Political Party (PPP), founded in 1929 by Garvey, is Jamaica's first political party. [2] [3] In recent years, the Party has been spearheaded by the Rastafari attorney Ras Miguel
The People's Political Party (PPP) was Jamaica's first modern political party. It was formed in 1929 by Marcus Garvey. [1] The PPP set out a 14 point manifesto—the first of its kind in the island's electoral history. The points contained in the PPP's manifesto were far-reaching and perceptive as illustrated by a few of them, such as:
The People's National Party (PNP) is a social democratic [7] [8] [9] political party in Jamaica, founded in 1938 by Norman Washington Manley who served as party president until his death in 1969. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] It holds 14 of the 63 seats in the House of Representatives , [ 13 ] as 96 of the 227 local government divisions.
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA), through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa.
The Jamaican political conflict is a long-standing feud between right-wing and left-wing elements in the country, often exploding into violence. The Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) and the People's National Party (PNP) have fought for control of the island for years and the rivalry has encouraged urban warfare in Kingston.
The Federalists were the first American political party in 1787. They were businessmen and merchants who wanted a strong central government to protect industry.
The exact terms of what makes up Trumpism are contentious and are sufficiently complex to overwhelm any single framework of analysis; [1] it has been called an American political variant of the far-right, [2] [3] and the national-populist and neo-nationalist sentiment seen in multiple nations worldwide from the late 2010s [4] to the early 2020s.