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The ruling party or governing party in a democratic
The ruling party or governing party in a democratic parliamentary
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or presidential system
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is the political party
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or coalition
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Formation
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holding a majority of elected positions in a parliament
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, in the case of parliamentary systems, or holding the executive branch, in presidential systems, that administers the affairs of state
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after an election.
In many democratic republic
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countries like the Philippines, the ruling party is the party of the elected president that is in charge of the executive branch
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of government. In parliamentary systems, the majority in the legislature
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also controls the executive
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branch of government, thus leaving no possibility of opposing parties concurrently occupying the executive and legislative branches of government. In other systems, such as in an American style presidential system
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, the party of the president
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does not necessarily also have a legislative majority.
A ''ruling party'' is also used to describe the party of one-party state
A one-party state, single-party state, one-party system, or single-party system is a type of sovereign state in which only one political party has the right to form the government, usually based on the existing constitution. All other parties ...
s, such as the Chinese Communist Party
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in the People's Republic of China
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. In his political manifesto '' The Green Book'', the late Libya
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n leader Muammar al-Gaddafi
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attacked the ability of the ruling party, using it as a basis for his opposition to partisan politics
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.
See also
*Dominant-party system
A dominant-party system, or one-party dominant system, is a political occurrence in which a single political party continuously dominates election results over running opposition groups or parties. Any ruling party staying in power for more th ...
*Multi-party system
In political science, a multi-party system is a political system in which multiple political parties across the political spectrum run for national elections, and all have the capacity to gain control of government offices, separately or in coal ...
*Non-partisan democracy
Nonpartisan democracy (also no-party democracy) is a system of representative government or organization such that universal and periodic elections take place without reference to political parties. Sometimes electioneering and even speaking a ...
*Party of power
The term "party of power" refers to a political party that has a close relationship with the executive branch of government such that the party appears to function as an extension of the executive rather than as an autonomous political organizatio ...
*The Establishment
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References
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