Political Platform

Definition: Political Platform

Political Platform

Noun

1. A document stating the aims and principles of a political party; "their candidate simply ignored the party platform"; "they won the election even though they offered no positive program".

Specialty Definition: Political platform

A political platform is a list of the principles which a political party supports in order to appeal to the general public for the purpose of having said party's candidates voted into office. This often takes the form of a list of support for, or opposition to, controversial topics.

Non-Fiction Usage: Political Platform

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Macedonia	A few organizations were denied registration, including the DPA--one of the leading ethnic-Albanian parties--which was denied registration under that name because the court assessed that its political platform was contrary to the Constitution. (references)
Economic History	Burundi	A Transitional Constitutional Act, promulgated on June 6, 1998, legitimizes the authority of the president and establishes the political platform for the transitional regime. (references)
Political Economy	Burundi	In 1998 the Buyoya regime reached a political agreement with the opposition-dominated National Assembly, which adopted a Transitional Constitutional Act and a transitional political platform. (references)
Political Rights	Burundi	The Transitional Political Platform endorses in general terms the restoration of democracy and correction of the ethnic imbalance within the army and the judicial system. (references)
	Burundi	The National Assembly adopted the Transitional Constitutional Act and a Transitional Political Platform. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Anagrams: Political Platform

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