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INTRODUCTION
- Some countries have only one political party while others have several.
- A political party is a group of p eople who come together to contest elections and hold power in the government.
- It is scarce for a country to have no political parties. Parties are important in the politics of autocracies as well as democracies , though usually, democracies have more political parties than autocracies.
- It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or policy goals.
- Political parties have become a significant part of the politics of almost every country, as modern party organizations developed and spread around the world over the last few centuries.
- Autocracies often have a single party that governs the country, and some political scientists consider competition between two or more parties essential to democracy.
