Soran University
Faculty of Law,Political Science and Management
Politics and International Relations Department

Why Political Parties are important in Democracy?

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Prepared by:Salm Ameen Kareem M .Bekhal

  Why Political Parties are important in Democracy?

Firstly,Political parties, are multi-party in each country of the modern world, and the concept
of modern political parties is not limited to academic definition, but includes both the vision
and objective of those parties in general and the purpose of their establishment in the first
place.
Secondly,The definition of the political party exists more than one definition of the political
party according to academic studies in political science, including that the political party is a
legal organization that seeks to reach the head of the ruling power in democratic systems and
exercise governance according to the political, social and economic party program, including
that the political party is a democratic organization that exercises the democratic process
within the party by electing its members to take leadership positions in the party and develop
strategic visions and objectives, and outside the party by participating in elections at different
levels, whether local or  Parliamentary or presidential, the political party generally connects the
group of citizens who adopt the same political vision as the party's vision and the system of
government and the various tools of the state.
Thirdly, The conditions for the establishment and work of political parties do not guarantee
the establishment of political parties in accordance with the systems of government and
constitutions, while some states guarantee the freedom to establish parties but not provide the
right climate for party work, and political parties need to work on the ground and achieve
representative democratic form several factors, the most important of which is the provision of
freedom of organization, assembly and expression of opinion in various peaceful forms and
through the legal media, and ensuring the principle of multiparty which means the possibility of
establishing more than one party with different intellectual orientations, with The absence of
discrimination of the state and its non-interference in favor of one party without the other.

Conclusion

The role of political parties since the political party works primarily as an intermediary between
the people and the system of government in the democratic systems of all kinds, the different
parties have key and important roles in that form of government, the most important of which
is to formulate the needs and problems of citizens and put forward proposals to solve them and
submit them to the various government agencies legally, and organize awareness and
education activities for voters about the political system and elections and propaganda for the
party's vision of the progress of the state, as well as the parties work to spread propaganda
among citizens for their ideas and nominate their representatives in  Elections.