The president’s role in a political party is to set the legislative agenda, support the party platform, and serve as a __ for the party.

The president of a political party acts as party leadership.  

The leadership of the party takes care of directives and makes political decisions that imply in the positioning of the party in relation to the economic and institutional issues of the country.

The leader also exerts a power of influence over the other party politicians.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts