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The Citizens Electoral Council of Australia (CEC) is a minor nationalist political party in Australia affiliated with the international LaRouche Movement, led by American political activist and conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche. It reported having 549 members in 2007. They have been described as "far right", "fascist" and "lunar right," as well as "ideologues on the economic Left." ==History== The original CEC was established by members of the Australian League of Rights, an extreme right-wing group led by Eric Butler, in the 1980s in Queensland.〔 Its purpose was to lobby for binding voter-initiated referenda.〔http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/em/elect01/subs/sub167.pdf〕 CEC candidate Trevor Perrett won the 1988 Barambah state by-election in Queensland, held after former Queensland Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen resigned from State Parliament in 1987. However, Perrett soon switched to the National Party. By 1989, the CEC leadership was under the influence of the Lyndon LaRouche movement.〔 By 1992, the LaRouche movement had taken full control, renaming the organisational newsletter and moving the headquarters from rural Queensland to a Melbourne suburb, with direct communications links to LaRouche's US headquarters established.〔 League of Rights publications now warn their readers to avoid the CEC, citing attacks on the British Royal Family for supposed drug connections and LaRouche's criminal convictions. They warn that the LaRouche movement is "strongly pro-republican" and that they have received reports that LaRouche's organisation is being used by the Zionists.〔 In 1996, then-Liberal Party MP Ken Aldred, often tied to the CEC, was disendorsed by the Liberal Party after using parliamentary privilege to make allegations of involvement in espionage and drug trafficking against a prominent Jewish lawyer and a senior foreign affairs official,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=APPROPRIATION BILL (No. 1) 1995–96: Second Reading )〕 using documents that were later found to be forged, supplied to him by the CEC.〔()〕 In the mid-2000s, the party found support from Muslim groups opposed to the detention of suspected terrorists by the United States at Guantanamo Bay detention camp.〔()〕 In 2004, the CEC received the largest contribution of any political party, $862,000 from a central Queensland cattle farmer and former CEC candidate named Ray Gillham.〔"Fed: Latham gone but the money flowed to ALP, ''AAP General News Wire.'' Sydney: 1 February 2005. pg. 1〕〔"Ex-defence chief shies from 'cult' petition" By Martin Daly ''The Age'' 16 June 2004〕 The CEC leader is National Secretary and National Treasurer Craig Isherwood of Melbourne, who has been a CEC election candidate three times. Other members of the Isherwood family are also prominent in the CEC; Noelene Isherwood is the party's National chairman. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Citizens Electoral Council」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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