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Political party or coalition holding a majority of elected positions
The
ruling party
or
governing party
in a
democratic
parliamentary
or
presidential system
is the
political party
or
coalition
holding a majority of elected positions in a
parliament
, in the case of parliamentary systems, or holding the executive branch, in presidential systems, that administers the affairs of
state
after an election.
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In many
democratic republic
countries like
the Philippines
, the ruling party is the party of the elected president that is in charge of the
executive branch
of government. In parliamentary systems, the majority in the
legislature
also controls the
executive
branch of government, thus leaving no possibility of opposing parties concurrently occupying the executive and legislative branches of government.
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In other systems, such as in an American style
presidential system
, the party of the
president
does not necessarily also have a legislative majority.
A
ruling party
is also used to describe the party of
one-party states
, such as the
Chinese Communist Party
in the
People's Republic of China
.
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