Question

Political parties play a major role in democracy Give four points to justify this statement.​

Answer 1

Answer:

(i) Parties contest elections. In most democracies, elections are fought mainly among the candidates put up by political parties. In some countries, such as the USA, members and supporters of a party choose its candidates.

(ii) Parties put forward different policies and programmes and the voters choose from them.In a democracy, a large number of similar views have to be grouped together to provide a direction in which policies can be formulated by the governments.

(iii)Parties play a decisive role in making laws for a country.

(iv)Parties form and run governments. The big policy decisions are taken by political executive that comes from the political parties. Parties recruit leaders, trains them and then make them ministers to run the government in the way they want.