Moreover, these parties were mostly formed in opposition to the Castro regime and the views such parties represent vary from social democracy to socialist to liberal.
These voters supported the more secular Socialist and Liberal parties in the 2007 elections, switched to the Islamists in 2011, and now seem to be returning home.
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They persuaded small-business owners and professionals to shift their allegiance from the liberal and socialist parties, which had commanded their votes in 2007, to the Islamists, in November 2011.
The victory was delivered not only by ND's party machine, but by the hundreds of thousands of liberal and socialist voters who gritted their teeth and voted for the conservatives to stop Syriza.
But other aspects of Mormonism have liberal, even socialist, elements.
At heart, the constitutional referendum involves a choice as to whether or not Bolivia should graft on to an imperfect Western liberal democracy a socialist model that owes rather more to the corporatism of Spanish colonial rule (but with Amerindians, rather than conquistadors, in charge) than to Marx.
It depicts Liberal statesman David Lloyd George trying to defraud John Bull with a Socialist horse, painted to look like a Liberal budget, with the caption 'The fraud exposed!'
So he simply appointed three trusted public personalities to head a far-left Progressive Unionist Party, a Socialist Labour Party and a centrist Liberal Party.
He is sitting on a report prepared by Jacques Attali, a Socialist grandee, which advocates a liberal shake-up of such highly regulated sectors as taxis, pharmacies and shops.
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The referendum committee organising the vote is made up of the Dialectic Society, Politics Society, Labour Club, Scottish Nationalist Association, Liberal Democrats, International Socialist Group, Conservative and Unionist Party and the Feminist Society.
He envisioned a space for civil society and although he considered himself a liberal he eschewed the more socialist tendencies that defined many revolutionaries of his day.
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These were the days of what seemed, on the surface, a battle between the pro-business Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Socialist Party.
The mainstream liberal does not consider herself a socialist and accepts private property (though often as a construct of government rules rather than as a human right).
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Blair does not hold out the socialist promise of equality of condition, but the liberal promise of equality of opportunity.
The FARC, on the other hand, is a violent leftist group whose forty year asymmetric war against the Colombian government fascinates Chavez, an enemy of liberal democracy and a promoter of authoritarian socialist regimes.
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One is that Mr Blair is enough of a liberal to have grabbed the very role that Grimond mapped out for his own lot as the non-socialist alternative to the Conservatives.
"As Qiao Shi noted, the codes are to provide a more comprehensive legal framework for the 'establishment of a socialist market economic structure, and a sustainable and more efficient economic growth, '" says Wu Zuguang, a liberal playwright in Beijing.
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