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Satirical political parties that actually won elections.

One can safely say that politics today is a place where various parties try to advocate their own ideologies and get elected to power by making their ideas universally accepted by the society. One would think that figuring out an ideology or agenda to enter into politics is a tough job, and making people follow you is even tougher, but it may not be that complicated.

There exist around the world, many satirical political parties that pursue simple agendas. In fact some of them were started as a joke but evolved into serious organisations, even winning elections in some cases.

Polish Beer Lovers Party
A good example of this is the Polish Beer Lovers Party which emerged in 1990. The party's stated agenda was to engage in political debate while drinking the best quality beer in pubs. The party saw surge in popularity and went on to win 16 seats in the lower house of the Polish parliament in 1991 elections. Later, the party split into Big Beer party and Little Beer party, and the Big Beer Party changed its name to Polish Economic Programme, taking on a more serious role in politics.

2 Pirate Party of Sweden.

The party started out as a prank in 2006 but soon found popular support as it raised many serious questions about privacy and the Internet. These questions had never been raised on political platforms before. As a result, people saw it as something new and different and the party won two seats in the European Parliament in 2009. Today the party stands for democratic Internet and Green liberalis.

3. The Official Monster Raving Loony Party

Founded in 1983, the party's tag line is "vote for insanity: you know it makes sense". The party's manifesto states that it wants to turn the whole country in a fun park, thereby creating eight million jobs, and introduce passport for pets ~ and the pets this has actually become a law. The party's candidates have been elected to various town councils around the UK. In 2015 elections, the party fielded 16 parliamentary candidates and 13 local candidates.

4. Die Partie

German for "The Party", this party was founded in 2004 by publisher of a satirical magazine named Titanic! The party's policy positions include things such as rebuilding the Berlin wall and turn what was former East Germany into a special economic zone, invade and capture the country of Liechtenstein and force it to become a democracy. The party is a satire on the far right and the far left wing parties. Its slogan is "the Party is always right." surprisingly, it won a seat in the European Parliament in 2014.

Source: Internet 

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