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Question
What are the major characteristics of political parties?
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Solution
The political party acts as a link between the government and the people.
- Achieving power through elections.
- Every political party pursues a specific ideology.
- Political parties prepare their party’s agenda on the basis of party ideology.
- The political party that gets a majority in the election forms the government. The parties that do not get a majority act as opposition parties.
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