This has led parties with small (and sometimes fundamental) ideological differences to come together as a loose federation of parties to stake claim for power.

Eventually, an uneasy agreement was reached for a federation of regional parties, with strong support for building upwards from the bottom.

This name change also reflected a change in the Comintern's role: it increasingly became a federation of national Communist parties.

He gave his support to a motion, subsequently adopted, advocating that the IU should continue as a federation of independent parties.

The Bloc was formed in 1998 as a result of the federation of several parties in a coalition formed for the 1995 regional elections.

Socialist International, a federation of political parties dedicated to social democracy and democratic socialism founded in 1923.

I believe that, if the European political parties have one problem, it is that, in reality, they are still federations, associations, of national political parties.

They are not just federations of national parties.

The UFC was founded by Olympio as a federation of parties on February 1, 1992.

However, Swiss parties are legally federations of cantonal parties.