multiparty
Adjective
Meaning
(politics) Involving several different political parties.
Synonym: multipartite
Having multiple parties (involved persons).
a multiparty telephone call
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Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.
1991: Move to a multiparty state Growing opposition to UNIP's monopoly on power led to the rise in 1990 of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD).
After pressure for the new parties the referendum was canceled in favour of direct multiparty election.
Another factor that Mr Ruto has to take into account is that since return of the multiparty system in 1992, the Kikuyu have never voted in any significant number for a presidential candidate from outside the community.
Despite anti-government demonstrations after the untimely death of an opposition leader, the first multiparty National Assembly elections in almost 30 years took place in September–October 1990, with the PDG garnering a large majority.
Even outside the spectrum of sovereign powers many multiparty democratic systems give foreign powers the capacity to influence political discourse through shills and pseudo sock-puppets.