Populist party

A third-party movement that sprang up in the 1890s and drew support especially from disgruntled farmers. The Populists were particularly known for advocating the unlimited coinage of silver. The party endorsed William Jennings Bryan , a champion of free silver, in the presidential election of 1896.

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Until a few weeks ago, the Left party looked doomed when one of its leading lights, Sahra Wagenknecht, went off and founded her own, more populist, party with eight other MPs.

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Sahra Wagenknecht, who this year set up a new anti-migrant far-left populist party, echoed the AfD's rhetoric.

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But the most extraordinary aspect of the Populist Party was its coalition.

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In 2010, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s populist party consolidated control over the Turkish constitutional court by expanding its membership from ten to seventeen and altering the process by which judges were selected.

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A former politician, Mr Stürzenberger once led a small right-wing populist party Die Freiheit, which was dissolved in 2016.

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populist populist shop steward

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