{"id":76,"count":1,"description":"In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do not feel that any major party addresses. Other independent politicians are associated with a political party and may be former members of it, but choose not to stand under its label. A third category of independents are those who may belong to or support a political party but believe they should not formally represent it and thus be subject to its policies. Finally, some independent candidates may form a political party for the purposes of running for public office.\nIndependents have rarely been elected to the federal Parliament of Australia, although they are more commonly elected to state parliaments. A large number of independents are former members of one of Australia's main parties, the Australian Labor Party, the Liberal Party of...","link":"https:\/\/www.visualbeatz.de\/?tag=independent","name":"Independent","slug":"independent","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visualbeatz.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tags\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visualbeatz.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visualbeatz.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visualbeatz.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts&tags=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}