Rainbow Coalition

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Rainbow Coalition may refer to any of the following groups:

• The ruling Kenyan political party National Rainbow Coalition
• The second coalition of the Government of the 27th Dáil in Ireland. It consisted of Fine Gael, Labour and Democratic Left and was formed after the previous coalition of Fianna Fáil and Labour fell apart.
• The rainbow coalition of the Finnish government between 1995 to 2003, when a coalition of the Left Alliance (far-left), the Social Democrats (centre-left), the Greens, the Swedish People's Party (liberal) and the National Coalition (conservative).
• The Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition in Israel.
• The Rainbow Coalition (Melvin King) was a social, racial and economic justice organization formed by in 1983 by Boston-area politician Melvin King. It soon became a model for the Jesse Jackson's National Rainbow Coalition, which later merged with PUSH to become the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.
• An alliance announced June 7, 1969, in the Black Panther newspaper, made up of the Panthers, the Young Patriots Organization (a street gang of white youths that had turned political) and the Young Lords Organization, whom they characterized as Puerto Rican revolutionaries. [1]
• The Liberal-Socialist-Green Belgian government formed in 1999 under the premiership of Guy Verhofstadt. It was the first government to exclude Catholic parties since 1958.