Give the function of political parties
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➡️Parties contest elections.
➡️Parties put forward different policies and programmes and the voters choose them. A party reduces a vast multitude of opinions into a few basic positions which it supports.
➡️Parties play a decisive role in making laws for a country. Formally laws are debated and passed in the legislature. But since most of the members belong to a party, they go by the direction of the party leadership, irrespective of their personal opinions.
➡️Parties form and run governments.
➡️Those parties that lose in the elections play the role of opposition to the parties in power, by voicing different views and criticising for its wrong policies.
➡️Parties provide people access to government machinery and welfare schemes implemented by governments.
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A political party is an organized group of people who have the same ideology, or who otherwise have the same political positions, and who field candidates for elections, in an attempt to get them elected and thereby implement the party's agenda.