What are the functions of a Political Party?
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Parties perform a series of functions:
- Parties contest elections.
- Parties put forward different policies and programs and the voters choose from them.
- Parties play a decisive role in making laws for a country.
- Parties form and run governments .
- The big policy decisions are taken by a political executive that comes from the political parties. Parties recruit leaders, train them and then make them ministers to run the government in the way they want.
- Those parties that lose in the elections play the role of opposition t o the parties in power, by voicing different views and criticizing the government for its failures or wrong policies.
- Parties shape public opinion.
- Parties provide people access to government machinery and welfare schemes implemented by governments.
Mention any 3 points.