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A kartel is the Dutch term for an electoral alliance between two or more parties in Belgium.
In a system of proportional representation in which the country is divided in multiple electoral districts, such as Belgium the threshold to obtain one seat can be very high (5% of votes since 2003), which also favours larger parties. Therefore some parties pool their voters in order to gain more (or any) seats.
The SP.A-Spirit cartel between the Socialist Party - Different (SP.A) and the left-liberal Spirit (later FlemishProgressives, then Social-Liberal Party) is an example of such a cartel.
Kartel may refer to:
- Kartel, Iran, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
- Kartel, Maharashtra, a village in Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra state, India
- Kartel (electoral alliance), Dutch term for an electoral alliance between two or more parties in Belgium
- The Kartel, professional wrestling tag team made up of Terry Frazier and Sha Samuels
Usage examples of "kartel".
Harrison of Allis-Chalmers, Feldstein from General Foods, Meissner of the Bayer Kartel, von Alten of I.
Marx himself was too simpleminded a recluse and too full of the validity of his remoter generalizations, and the way in which the rapid integration of capital in Trusts and Kartels was confirming them, to be conscious of the void himself.