People's Multiparty Democracy

{{Short description|Communist political system}}

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{{Expand Spanish|Democracia popular multipartidista|date=January 2022}}

File:जनताको बहुदलीय जनवाद.pdfPeople's Multiparty Democracy ({{lang|ne|जनताको बहुदलिय जनबाद}}, abbreviated {{lang|ne|जबज}}) refers to the ideological line of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) (CPN-UML), Unified Socialist Party{{Cite web|url=https://www.setopati.com/politics/246963|title = यस्तो छ माधव नेपालको पार्टीको घोषणा पत्र (पूर्णपाठसहित)}}{{Cite web |url=https://myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/news/cpn-unified-socialist-too-to-follow-people-s-multi-party-democracy/?categoryId=81 |title=CPN (Unified Socialist), too, to follow 'people's multi-party democracy' |access-date=2021-08-24 |archive-date=2021-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210824135938/https://myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/news/cpn-unified-socialist-too-to-follow-people-s-multi-party-democracy/?categoryId=81 |url-status=live }} and the former Nepal Communist Party.{{cite web |title=खासमा के छ जनताको बहुदलीय जनवादमा ? |trans-title=What exactly is in the multi-party democracy of the people? |url=https://ratopati.com/story/34111 |website=RatoPati |access-date=4 May 2019 |language=ne |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217213330/http://ratopati.com/story/34111 |archive-date=17 February 2020 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=मदन – आश्रितका सपना |trans-title=Madan - the dream of the dependent |url=http://gorkhapatraonline.com/news/6878 |website=gorkhapatraonline.com |access-date=4 May 2019 |language=ne |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019004721/http://gorkhapatraonline.com/news/6878 |archive-date=19 October 2015 |url-status=dead}} It was proclaimed in 1993. The idea puts forth a representative democratic multi-party system. It is considered an extension of Marxism–Leninism by Madan Bhandari, the CPN-UML leader who developed it, and is based on the home-ground politics of Nepal.{{cite web |title=जनताको जनवाद र समाजवाद |trans-title=People's democracy and socialism |url=https://www.nayapatrikadaily.com/news-details/3736/2019-01-20 |website=Naya Patrika |access-date=4 May 2019 |language=ne |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115195449/https://www.nayapatrikadaily.com/news-details/3736/2019-01-20 |archive-date=15 November 2020 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=एमाले नेता घनश्याम भुसाल भन्छन् 'जबज अस्तित्वको विषय होइन' |trans-title=UML leader Ghanshyam Bhusal says 'Jabaj is not a matter of existence' |url=http://annapurnapost.com/news/87555 |website=annapurnapost.com |access-date=4 May 2019 |language=ne |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504151453/http://annapurnapost.com/news/87555 |archive-date=4 May 2019 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=जनताको बहुदलीय जनवाद र उठाइएका प्रश्न |trans-title=People's multi-party democracy and the questions raised |url=https://www.kantipurdaily.com/opinion/2013/08/07/373524.html |website=www.kantipurdaily.com |access-date=4 May 2019 |language=ne |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116031320/https://ekantipur.com/opinion/2013/08/07/373524.html |archive-date=16 November 2020 |url-status=live}}

During the merger of CPN(UML) and the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) into the Nepal Communist Party, the party line of the united party was provisionally defined as 'People's Democracy' as a compromise between the People's Multiparty Democracy line of the erstwhile CPN(UML) and the '21st Century Democracy' line of the erstwhile UCPN(M).{{cite web |title=प्रम ओलीको प्रश्न–जबज स्वीकार्ने कि पतन रोज्ने ? |trans-title=PM Oli's question: When to accept or choose to fall |url=http://himalkhabar.com/news/11401 |website=HimalKhabar |access-date=4 May 2019 |language=ne |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923174237/http://himalkhabar.com/news/11401 |archive-date=23 September 2019 |url-status=live}} The Nepal Communist Party was later dissolved due to a court ruling.

Similarly, multiple political parties are supported by the Chinese Communist Party, though in contrast to Nepal's current system of multi-party democracy, the eight minor Chinese parties exist only as satellite parties subservient to the main party, which is guaranteed control of government by the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, thus precluding any kind of free electoral system such as exists in Nepal.