The freedom to form, declare membership in, or campaign for candidates from a political party is considered a measurement of a state's adherence to liberal democracy as a political value. Regulation of parties may run from a crackdown on or repression of all opposition parties, a norm for authoritarian governments, to the repression of certain parties which hold or promote ideals which run counter to the general ideology of the state's incumbents (or possess membership by-laws which are legally unenforceable).
Will parties that hold a counter belief to the general beliefs of the state's incumbents be repressed?
to the repression of certain parties which hold or promote ideals which run counter to the general ideology of the state's incumbents