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• n  a member of a right wing political party
• s  believing in or supporting tenets of the political right

• Livni rushed into talks with Israeli rightist leaders in hopes of salvaging her slight lead in the polling.
• Communist Carlo Farini advanced with clenched fists upon the rightist deputies.
• Indeed, even as leftist opponents sought to express indignation over the appearance of the rightist legislators sneaking a sweetheart raise to their leader, Sarkozy himself was .

• right-winger
• right-wing

News & Articles

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• Portuguese PM makes coalition partner his deputy, to end crisis
  By Axel Bugge LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's prime minister promoted the head of the junior coalition party to be his deputy on Saturday, hoping to end a political rift that threatened to bring down the government and endanger the country's bailout. The promotion of Paulo Portas, head of the rightist CDS-PP party, came after he resigned as foreign minister, raising fears his party would quit the ...
  July 6, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Poland's ruling party loses ground to main opposition: poll
  WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's ruling Civic Platform (PO) fell nine percentage points behind the rightist Law and Justice (PiS) in a poll published in Thursday, reflecting its growing unpopularity in the midst of a painful economic slowdown. The party of Prime Minister Donald Tusk was supported by 26 percent of Poles surveyed by Millward Brown for broadcaster TV, down six points from the previous ...
  July 4, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Hürriyet
  Unfortunately we have seen that the (Israeli) people have voted for these (rightist) parties and that makes me a bit sad,Erdogan told Reuters and two Turkish newspapers in an interview. "Unfortunately the election has painted a very dark...
• Narendra Modi in Press Trust of India
  You may raise demands for more industry, more roads, more jobs in your state. Go the rightist way to development,Modi said.
• Geert Wilders in Inter Press Service
  My allies are not Le Pen or Haider,Wilders told the Guardian in 2008. "I'm very afraid of being linked with the wrong rightist fascist groups"