Question

What are the characteristics of a political party?

Answer 1

Characteristics of a political party are:

• A political party has members who agree on some policies and programmes for the society with a view to promoting the common good.
• It seeks to implement the policies by winning popular support through elections.
• The presence of a leader, the party workers and supporters.
• It is a group of people who come together to contest elections and hold power in the government.