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Country
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Political parties and leaders
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Afghanistan
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Afghanistan Peoples' Treaty Party (Hizb-e-Wolesi Tarhun Afghanistan)
[Sayyed Amir TAHSEEN]; Afghanistan's Islamic Mission Organization
(Tanzim Daawat-e-Islami-e-Afghanistan) [Abdul Rasoul SAYYAF];
Afghanistan's Islamic Nation Party (Hezb-e-Umat-e-Islam-e-Afghanistan)
[Toran Noor Aqa Ahmad ZAI]; Afghanistan's National Islamic Party
(Hezb-e-Mili Islami-e-Afghanistan) [Rohullah LOUDIN]; Afghanistan's
Welfare Party (Hezb-e-Refah-e-Afghanistan) [Meer Asef ZAEEFI]; Afghan
Social Democratic Party (Hezb-e-Afghan Melat) [Anwarul Haq AHADI];
Afghan Society for the Call to the Koran and Sunna
(Hezb-e-Jamahat-ul-Dawat ilal Quran-wa-Sunat-e-Afghanistan) [Mawlawee
Samiullah NAJEEBEE]; Comprehensive Movement of Democracy and
Development of Afghanistan Party (Hizb-e-Nahzat Faragir Democracy wa
Taraqi-e-Afghanistan) [Sher Mohammad BAZGAR]; Democratic Party of
Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Democracy Afghanistan) [Tawos ARAB]; Democratic
Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Domcrat-e-Afghanistan) [Abdul Kabir
RANJBAR]; Elites People of Afghanistan Party
(Hezb-e-Nakhbagan-e-Mardom-e-Afghanistan) [Abdul Hamid JAWAD]; Freedom
and Democracy Movement of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Nahzat-e-Aazadee Wa
Democracy-e-Afghanistan) [Abdul Raqib Jawid KOHISTANEE]; Freedom Party
of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Azadee-e-Afghanistan) [Ilaj Abdul MALEK];
Freedom Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Isteqlal-e-Afghanistan) [Dr.
Ghulam Farooq NEJRABEE]; Hizullah-e-Afghanistan [Qari Ahmad ALI]; Human
Rights Protection and Development Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Ifazat
Az Uqooq-e-Bashar Wa Inkishaf-e-Afghanistan) [Baryalai NASRATI];
Islamic Justice Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Adalat-e-Islami
Afghanistan) [Mohammad Kabir MARZBAN]; Islamic Movement of Afghanistan
(Hezb-e Harakat-e-Islami-e-Afghanistan) [Mohammad Ali JAWID]; Islamic
Movement of Afghanistan Party (Hizb-e-Nahzat-e-Melli Islami
Afghanistan) [Mohammad Mukhtar MUFLEH]; Islamic Party of Afghanistan
(Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan) [Mohammad Khalid FAROOQI]; Islamic Party of
the Afghan Land (De Afghan Watan Islami Gond) [Mohammad Hassan
FEROZKHEL]; Islamic People's Movement of Afghanistan
(Hezb-e-Harakat-e-Islami Mardom-e-Afghanistan) [Ilhaj Said Hussain
ANWARY]; Islamic Society of Afghanistan (Hezb-e Jamihat-e-Islami)
[Ustad RABBANI]; Islamic Unity of the Nation of Afghanistan Party
(Hezb-e-Wahdat-e-Islami-e-Melat-e-Afghanistan) [Qurban Ali URFANI];
Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan
(Hezb-e-Wahdat-e-Islami-e-Afghanistan) [Mohammad Karim KHALILI];
Islamic Unity Party of the People of Afghanistan
(Hezb-e-Wahdat-e-Islami Mardom-e-Afghanistan) [Ustad Mohammad
MOHAQQEQ]; Labor and Progress of Afghanistan Party (Hezb-e-Kar Wa
Tawsiha-e-Afghanistan) [Zulfiqar OMID]; Muslim People of Afghanistan
Party (Hezb-e-Mardom-e-Mosalman-e-Afghanistan) [Besmellah JOYAN];
Muslim Unity Movement Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Tahreek
Wahdat-ul-Musimeen Afghanistan) [Wazir Mohammad WAHDAT]; National and
Islamic Sovereignty Movement Party of Afghanistan
(Hizb-e-Eqtedar-e-Melli wa Islami Afghanistan) [Ahmad Shah AHMADZAI];
National Congress Party of Afghanistan
(Hezb-e-Kangra-e-Mili-e-Afghanistan) [Abdul Latif PEDRAM]; National
Country Party (Hezb-e-Mili Heward) [Ghulam MOHAMMAD]; National
Development Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Taraqee Mili Afghanistan) [Dr.
Aref BAKTASH]; National Freedom Seekers Party (Hezb-e-Aazaadi Khwahan
Maihan) [Abdul Hadi DABEER]; National Independence Party of Afghanistan
(Hezb-e Esteqlal-e-Mili Afghanistan) [Taj Mohammad WARDAK]; National
Islamic Fighters Party of Afghanistan (De Afghanistan De Mili
Mubarizeeno Islami Gond) [Amanat NINGARHAREE]; National Islamic Front
of Afghanistan (Mahaz-e-Mili Islami Afghanistan) [Pir Sayed Ahmad
GAILANEE]; National Islamic Moderation Party of Afghanistan
(Hezb-e-Eatedal-e-Mili Islami-e-Afghanistan) [Qara Bik Eized YAAR];
National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Junbish Mili
Islami-e-Afghanistan) [Sayed NOORULLAH]; National Islamic Unity Party
of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Wahdat-e-Mili Islami-e-Afghanistan) [Mohammad
AKBAREE]; National Movement of Afghanistan (Nahzat-e-Mili Afghanistan)
[Ahmad Wali MASOOUD]; National Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Mili
Afghanistan) [Abdul Rashid ARYAN]; National Patch of Afghanistan Party
(Hezb-e Paiwand Mihahani Afghanistan) [Sayed Kamal SADAT]; National
Peace Islamic Party of Afghanistan (De Afghanistan De Solay Mili Islami
Gond) [Shah Mohammood Popal ZAI]; National Peace & Islamic Party of
the Tribes of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Sulh-e-Mili Islami
Aqwam-e-Afghanistan) [Abdul Qaher SHARIATEE]; National Peace &
Unity Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Sulh Wa Wahdat-e-Mili-e-Afghanistan)
[Abdul Qader IMAMI]; National Prosperity and Islamic Party of
Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Sahadat-e-Mili Islami-e-Afghanistan) [Mohammad
Osman SALEKZADA]; National Prosperity Party (Hezb-e-Refah-e-Mili
Afghanistan) [Mohammad Hassan JAHFAREE]; National Solidarity Movement
of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Nahzat-e-Hambastagee Mili-e-Afghanistan) [Pir
Sayed Eshaq GAILANEE]; National Solidarity Party of Afghanistan
(Hezb-e-Paiwand Mili Afghanistan) [Sayed Mansoor NADREEI]; National
Sovereignty Party (Hezb-e-Eqtedar-e-Mili) [Sayed Mustafa KAZEMI];
National Stability Party (Hezb-e-Subat-e-Mili Islami-e-Afghanistan)
[Mohammad Same KHAROTI]; National Stance Party (Hizb-e-Melli Dareez)
[Habibullah JANEBDAR]; National Tribal Unity Islamic Party of
Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Mili Wahdat-e-Aqwam-e-Islami-e-Afghanistan)
[Mohammad Shah KHOGYANI]; National United Front (Jumbah-e Mutahed-e
Milli) [Burhanuddin RABBANI] (a coalition); National Unity Movement
(Hezb-e-Tahreek Wahdat-e-Mili-e-Afghanistan) [Sultan Mohammad GHAZI];
National Unity Movement of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Harakat-e-Mili
Wahdat-e-Afghanistan) [Mohammad Nadir AATASH]; National Unity Party of
Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Wahdat-e-Mili Afghanistan) [Abdul Rashid JALILI];
New Afghanistan Party (Hezb-e-Afghanistan-e-Naween) [Mohammad Yunis
QANUNI]; Peace and National Welfare Activists Society (Hezb-e-Majmeh
Mili Faleen-Sulh-e-Afghanistan) [Shamsul Haq Noor SHAMS]; Peace
Movement (De Afghanistan De Solay Ghorzang Gond) [Shahnawaz TANAI];
People's Aspirations Party of Afghanistan
(Hezb-e-Aarman-e-Mardom-e-Afghanistan) [Ilhaj Saraj-u-din ZAFAREE];
People's Freedom Seekers Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Aazadee Khwahan
Mardom-e-Afghanistan) [Feda Mohammad EHSAS]; People's Liberal Freedom
Seekers Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Lebral-e-Aazadee
Khwa-e-Afghanistan) [Ajmal SUHAIL]; People's Message Party of
Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Resalat-e-Mardom-e-Afghanistan) [Noor Aqa WAINEE];
People's Movement of the National Unity of Afghanistan (De Afghanistan
De Mili Wahdat Wolesi Tahreek) [Abdul Hakim NOORZAI]; People's Party of
Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Mardom-e-Afghanistan) [Ahmad Shah ASAR]; People's
Prosperity Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Falah-e-Mardom-e-Afghanistan)
[Ustad Mohammad ZAREEF]; People's Sovereignty Movement of Afghanistan
(Nahzat-e-Hakemyat-e-Mardom-e-Afghanistan)
[Hayatullah SUBHANEE]; People's Uprising Party of Afghanistan
(Hezb-e-Rastakhaiz-e-Mardom-e-Afghanistan) [Sayed Zahir Qayed Omul
BELADI]; People's Welfare Party of Afghanistan
(Hezb-e-Refah-e-Mardom-e-Afghanistan) [Mia Gul WASIQ]; People's Welfare
Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Sahadat-e-Mardom-e-Afghanistan) [Mohammad
Zubair PAIROZ]; Progressive Democratic Party of Afghanistan
(Hezb-e-Taraqee Democrat Afghanistan) [Wali ARYA]; Republican Party
(Hezb-e-Jamhoree Khwahane-Afghanistan) [Sebghatullah SANJAR];
Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Hambastagee-e-Afghanistan)
[Abdul Khaleq NEMAT]; The Afghanistan's Mujahid Nation's Islamic Unity
Movement (Da Afghanistan Mujahid Woles Yaowaali Islami Tahreek)
[Saeedullah SAEED]; The People of Afghanistan's Democratic Movement
(Hezb-e-Junbish Democracy Mardom-e-Afghanistan) [Sharif NAZARI]; Tribes
Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e Hambastagee Mili
Aqwam-e-Afghanistan) [Mohammad Zarif NASERI]; Understanding and
Democracy Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Tafahum Wa
Democracy-e-Afghanistan) [Ahamad SHAHEEN]; United Afghanistan Party
(Hezb-e-Afghanistan-e-Wahid) [Mohammad Wasil RAHIMEE]; United Islamic
Party of Afghanistan (Hizb-e-Mutahed Islami Afghanistan) [Wahidullah
SABAWOON]; Young Afghanistan's Islamic Organization
(Hezb-e-Islami-e-Afghanistan-e-Jawan) [Sayed Jawad HUSSINEE]; Youth
Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (Hezb-e-Hambastagee Mili
Jawanan-e-Afghanistan) [Mohammad Jamil KARZAI]; note - includes only
political parties approved by the Ministry of Justice |
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Albania
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Agrarian Environmentalist Party or PAA [Lufter XHUVELI]; Christian
Democratic Party or PDK [Nard NDOKA]; Communist Party of Albania or
PKSH [Hysni MILLOSHI]; Democratic Alliance Party or AD [Neritan CEKA];
Democratic Party or PD [Sali BERISHA]; Legality Movement Party or PLL
[Ekrem SPAHIA]; Liberal Union Party or BLD [Arjan STAROVA]; Movement
for National Development or LZhK [Dashamir SHEHI]; National Front Party
(Balli Kombetar) or PBK [Adriatik ALIMADHI]; New Democratic Party or
PDR [Genc POLLO]; Party of National Unity or PUK [Idajet BEQIRI];
Republican Party or PR [Fatmir MEDIU]; Social Democracy Party of
Albania or PDSSh [Paskal MILO]; Social Democratic Party or PSD [Skender
GJINUSHI]; Socialist Movement for Integration or LSI [Ilir META];
Socialist Party or PS [Edi RAMA]; Union for Human Rights Party or PBDNj
[Vangjel DULE] |
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Algeria
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Ahd 54 [Ali Fauzi REBAINE]; Algerian National Front or FNA [Moussa
TOUATI]; National Democratic Rally (Rassemblement National
Democratique) or RND [Ahmed OUYAHIA]; Islamic Salvation Front or FIS
(outlawed April 1992) [Ali BELHADJ, Dr. Abassi MADANI, Rabeh KEBIR];
National Entente Movement or MEN [Ali BOUKHAZNA]; National Liberation
Front or FLN [Abdelaziz BELKHADEM, secretary general]; National Reform
Movement or Islah (formerly MRN) [Mohamed BOULAHIA]; National Renewal
Party or PRA [Mohamed BENSMAIL]; Rally for Culture and Democracy or RCD
[Said SADI]; Renaissance Movement or EnNahda Movement [Fatah RABEI];
Socialist Forces Front or FFS [Hocine Ait AHMED]; Social Liberal Party
or PSL [Ahmed KHELIL]; Society of Peace Movement or MSP [Boudjerra
SOLTANI]; Workers Party or PT [Louisa HANOUNE]
note: a law banning political parties based on religion was enacted in March 1997
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American Samoa
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Democratic Party [Oreta M. TOGAFAU]; Republican Party [Tautai A. F. FAALEVAO]
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Andorra
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Andorran Democratic Center Party (formerly Democratic Party or PD) and
Century 21 or CDA and S21 [Enric TARRADO]; Liberal Party of Andorra or
PLA [Albert PINTAT SANTOLARIA] (formerly Liberal Union or UL); Social
Democratic Party or PS [Jaume BARTUMEU CASSANY] (formerly part of
National Democratic Group or AND) |
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Angola
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Liberal Democratic Party or PLD [Analia de Victoria PEREIRA]; National
Front for the Liberation of Angola or FNLA [disputed between Ngola
KABANGU and Lucas NGONDA]; National Union for the Total Independence of
Angola or UNITA (largest opposition party) [Isaias SAMAKUVA]; Popular
Movement for the Liberation of Angola or MPLA (ruling party in power
since 1975) [Jose Eduardo DOS SANTOS]; Social Renewal Party or PRS
[Eduardo KUANGANA]
note: about a dozen minor parties
participated in the 1992 elections but only won a few seats; they and
more than 100 other smaller parties have little influence in the
National Assembly |
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Anguilla
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Anguilla United Movement or AUM [Hubert HUGHES]; The Anguilla United
Front or AUF [Osbourne FLEMING, Victor BANKS] (a coalition of the
Anguilla Democratic Party or ADP and the Anguilla National Alliance or
ANA); Anguilla Progressive Party or APP [Roy ROGERS]; Anguilla
Strategic Alternative or ANSA [Edison BAIRD] |
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Antigua and Barbuda
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Antigua Labor Party or ALP [Lester Bryant BIRD]; Barbudans for a Better
Barbuda [Ordrick SAMUEL]; Barbuda People's Movement or BPM [Thomas H.
FRANK]; Barbuda People's Movement for Change [Arthur NIBBS]; United
Progressive Party or UPP [Baldwin SPENCER] (a coalition of three
parties - Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement or ACLM, Progressive
Labor Movement or PLM, United National Democratic Party or UNDP) |
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Argentina
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Coalicion Civica (a broad coalition loosely affiliated with Elisa
CARRIO); Front for Victory or FV (a broad coalition, including elements
of the UCR and numerous provincial parties) [Cristina FERNANDEZ DE
KIRCHNER]; Interbloque Federal or IF (a broad coalition of
approximately 12 parties including PRO); Justicialist Front or FJ;
Justicialist Party or PJ (Peronist umbrella political organization);
Radical Civic Union or UCR [Gerardo MORALES]; Republican Proposal or
PRO (including Federal Recreate Movement or RECREAR [Ricardo LOPEZ
MURPHY] and Commitment for Change or CPC [Mauricio MACRI]); Socialist
Party or PS [Ruben GIUSTINIANI]; Union For All [Patricia BULLRICH];
several provincial parties |
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Armenia
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Armenian National Movement or ANM [Ararat ZURABYAN]; Armenian People's
Party [Tigran KARAPETYAN]; Armenian Ramkavar Azadagan Party Alliance or
HRAK (includes former Dashink Party, National Revival Party, and
Ramkavar Liberal Party); Armenian Revolutionary Federation ("Dashnak"
Party) or ARF [Hrant MARKARYAN]; Heritage Party [Raffi HOVHANNISYAN];
National Democratic Party [Shavarsh KOCHARIAN]; National Democratic
Union or NDU [Vazgen MANUKIAN]; National Unity Party [Artashes
GEGHAMYAN]; People's Party of Armenia [Stepan DEMIRCHYAN]; Prosperous
Armenia [Gagik TSAROUKYAN]; Republic Party [Aram SARKISYAN]; Republican
Party of Armenia or HHK [Serzh SARGSYAN]; Rule of Law Party (Orinats
Yerkir) [Artur BAGHDASARYAN]; Union of Constitutional Rights [Hrant
KHACHATURYAN]; United Labor Party [Gurgen ARSENYAN] |
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Aruba
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Aliansa/Aruban Social Movement or MSA [Robert WEVER]; Aruban Liberal
Organization or OLA [Glenbert CROES]; Aruban Patriotic Movement or MPA
[Monica ARENDS-KOCK]; Aruban Patriotic Party or PPA [Benny NISBET];
Aruban People's Party or AVP [Mike EMAN]; People's Electoral Movement
Party or MEP [Nelson O. ODUBER]; Real Democracy or PDR [Andin BIKKER];
RED [Rudy LAMPE]; Workers Political Platform or PTT [Gregorio WOLFF] |
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Australia
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Australian Democrats [Lyn ALLISON]; Australian Greens [Bob BROWN];
Australian Labor Party [Kevin RUDD]; Country Liberal Party [Jodeen
CARNEY]; Family First Party [Steve FIELDING]; Liberal Party [Brendan
NELSON]; The Nationals [Warren TRUSS] |
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Austria
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Alliance for the Future of Austria or BZOe [Peter WESTENTHALER];
Austrian People's Party or OeVP [Wilhelm MOLTERER]; Freedom Party of
Austria or FPOe [Heinz Christian STRACHE]; Social Democratic Party of
Austria or SPOe [Alfred GUSENBAUER]; The Greens [Alexander VAN DER
BELLEN] |
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Azerbaijan
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Azadliq (Freedom) coalition (Popular Front Party, Liberal Party,
Citizens' Development Party); Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP) [Sardar
JALALOGLU]; Azerbaijan Democratic Reforms Party (ADRP) Youth Movement
[Ramin HAJILI]; Azerbaijan Popular Front or APF, now split in two [Ali
KARIMLI, leader of "Reform" APF party; Mirmahmud MIRALI-OGLU, leader of
"Classic" APF party]; Azerbaijan Public Forum [Eldar NAMAZOV];
Citizens' Development Party [Ali ALIYEV]; Civil Solidarity Party or CSP
[Sabir RUSTAMKHANLY]; Dalga Youth Movement [Vafa JAFAROVA]; Green Party
[Mais GULALIYEV and Tarana MAMMADOVA]; Hope (Umid) Party [Iqbal
AGAZADE]; Ireli Youth Movement [Jeyhun OSMANLI, Roya TALIBOVA, Farhad
MAMMADOV, Elnara GARIBOVA, Elnur MAMMADOV, Ziya ALIYEV]; Justice Party
[Ilyas ISMAILOV]; Liberal Party of Azerbaijan [Lala Shovkat HACIYEVA];
Magam Youth Movement [Emin HUSEYNOV]; Motherland Party [Fazail
AGAMALI]; Musavat (Equality) [Isa GAMBAR, chairman]; Musavat Party
Youth Movement [Elnur MAMMADLI]; National Democratic Party or Grey
Wolves (Nationalist, Pan-Turkic) [Iskender HAMIDOV]; Open Society Party
[Rasul GULIYEV, in exile in the US]; Party for National Independence of
Azerbaijan or PNIA [Ayaz RUSTAMOV]; Popular Front Party Youth Movement
[Seymur KHAZIYEV]; Social Democratic Party of Azerbaijan or SDP [Araz
ALIZADE and Ayaz MUTALIBOV (in exile)]; Turkish Nationalist Party
[Vugar BAYTURAN]; United Azerbaijan Party [Karrar ABILOV]; United
Azerbaijan National Unity Party [Hajibaba AZIMOV]; United Party [Tahir
KARIMLI]; Yeni (New) Azerbaijan Party [President Ilham ALIYEV]; Yeni
Azerbaijan Party Youth Movement [Ramil HASANOV]; Yox (No) Youth
Movement [Ali ISMAYILOV]
note: opposition parties regularly factionalize and form new parties;
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Bahamas, The
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Free National Movement or FNM [Hubert INGRAHAM]; Progressive Liberal Party or PLP [Perry CHRISTIE]
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Bahrain
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political parties prohibited but political societies were legalized per a July 2005 law
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Bangladesh
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Awami League or AL [Sheikh HASINA]; Bangladesh Communist Party or BCP
[Saifuddin Ahmed MANIK]; Bangladesh Nationalist Party or BNP [Khaleda
ZIA]; Islami Oikya Jote or IOJ [Mufti Fazlul Haq AMINI];
Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh or JIB [Matiur Rahman NIZAMI]; Jatiya Party
or JP (Ershad faction) [Hussain Mohammad ERSHAD]; Jatiya Party (Manzur
faction) [Naziur Rahman MANZUR]; Liberal Democratic Party or LDP
[Badrudozza CHOWDHURY and Oli AHMED] |
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Barbados
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Barbados Labor Party or BLP [Mia MOTTLEY]; Democratic Labor Party or
DLP [David THOMPSON]; People's Empowerment Party or PEP [David
COMISSIONG] |
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Belarus
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pro-government parties:
Agrarian Party or AP [Mikhail SHIMANSKY]; Belarusian Communist Party or
KPB; Belarusian Patriotic Movement (Belarusian Patriotic Party) or BPR
[Nikolay ULAKHOVICH, chairman]; Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus
[Sergey GAYDUKEVICH]; Party of Labor and Justice [Viktor SOKOLOV];
Social-Sports Party [Vladimir ALEXANDROVICH]
opposition parties: Belarusian Christian
Democracy Party (unregistered) [Pavel SEVERINETS]; Belarusian Party of
Communists or PKB [Sergey KALYAKIN]; Belarusian Party of Labor
(unregistered) [Aleksandr BUKHVOSTOV, Leonid LEMESHONAK]; Belarusian
Popular Front or BPF [Vintsyuk VYACHORKA]; Belarusian Social-Democratic
Gramada [Stanislav SHUSHKEVICH]; Belarusian Social Democratic Party
Hramada (People's Assembly) or BSDPH [Aleksandr KOZULIN; Anatoliy
LEVKOVICH, acting]; Green Party [Oleg GROMYKO]; Party of Freedom and
Progress (unregistered) [Vladimir NOVOSYAD]; United Civic Party or UCP
[Anatoliy LEBEDKO]; Women's Party "Nadezhda" [Valentina MATUSEVICH,
chairperson]
other opposition includes: Christian
Conservative BPF [Zyanon PAZNIAK]; Ecological Party of Greens [Mikhail
KARTASH]; Party of Popular Accord [Sergey YERMAKK]; Republican Party
[Vladimir BELAZOR] |
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Belgium
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Flemish parties:
Christian Democratic and Flemish or CDV [Etienne SCHOUPPE]; Dedecker
List [Jean-Marie DEDECKER]; Flemish Liberals and Democrats or Open VLD
[Bart SOMERS]; Groen! [Mieke VOGELS] (formerly AGALEV, Flemish Greens);
New Flemish Alliance or N-VA [Bart DE WEVER]; Social Progressive
Alternative or SP.A [Caroline GENNEZ]; Spirit [Geert LAMBERT] (new
party now associated with SP.A); Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) or VB
[Bruno VALKENIERS]
Francophone parties: Ecolo (Francophone
Greens) [Jean-Michel JAVAUX, Isabelle DURANT, Claude BROUIR]; Humanist
and Democratic Center or CDH [Joelle MILQUET]; National Front or FN
[Michel BELACROIX]; Reform Movement or MR [Didier REYNDERS]; Socialist
Party or PS [Elio DI RUPO]; other minor parties |
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Belize
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National Alliance for Belizean Rights or NABR; National Reform Party or
NRP [Cornelius DUECK]; People's National Party or PNP [Wil MAHEIA];
People's United Party or PUP [Said MUSA]; United Democratic Party or
UDP [Dean BARROW]; Vision Inspired by the People or VIP [Paul MORGAN];
We the People Reform Movement or WTP [Hipolito BAUTISTA] |
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Benin
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Alliance for Dynamic Democracy or ADD; Alliance of Progress Forces or
AFP; African Movement for Democracy and Progress or MADEP [Sefou
FAGBOHOUN]; Benin Renaissance or RB [Rosine SOGLO]; Democratic Renewal
Party or PRD [Adrien HOUNGBEDJI]; Force Cowrie for an Emerging Benin or
FCBE; Impulse for Progress and Democracy or IPD [Theophile NATA]; Key
Force or FC [Lazare SÈHOUÉTO]; Movement for the People's Alternative or
MAP [Olivier CAPO-CHICHI]; Rally for Democracy and Progress or RDP
[Dominique HOUNGNINOU]; Social Democrat Party or PSD [Bruno AMOUSSOU];
Union for the Relief or UPR [Issa SALIFOU]; Union for Democracy and
National Solidarity or UDS [Sacca LAFIA]
note: approximately 20 additional minor parties
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Bermuda
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Progressive Labor Party or PLP [Ewart BROWN]; United Bermuda Party or UBP [Wayne FURBERT]
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Bhutan
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Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party (Druk Phuensum Tshogpa) or DPT [Jigme
THINLEY]; People's Democratic Party or PDP [Sangay NGEDUP] |
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Bolivia
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Free Bolivia Movement or MBL [Franz BARRIOS]; Movement Toward Socialism
or MAS [Juan Evo MORALES Ayma]; Movement Without Fear or MSM [Juan DEL
GRANADO]; National Revolutionary Movement or MNR [Mirta QUEVEDO];
National Unity [Samuel DORIA MEDINA Arana]; Poder Democratico Nacional
or PODEMOS [Jorge Fernando QUIROGA Ramirez]; Social Alliance [Rene
JOAQUINO] |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Alliance of Independent Social Democrats or SNSD [Milorad DODIK];
Bosnian Party or BOSS [Mirnes AJANOVIC]; Civic Democratic Party or GDS
[Ibrahim SPAHIC]; Croat Christian Democratic Union of Bosnia and
Herzegovina or HKDU [Marin TOPIC]; Croat Party of Rights or HSP [Zvonko
JURISIC]; Croat Peasants Party or HSS [Marko TADIC]; Croatian
Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina or HDZ-BH [Dragan COVIC];
Croatian Democratic Union 1990 or HDZ1990 [Bozo LJUBIC]; Croatian
Peoples Union [Milenko BRKIC]; Democratic National Union or DNZ [Rifet
DOLIC]; Democratic Peoples Alliance or DNS [Marko PAVIC]; Liberal
Democratic Party or LDS [Rasim KADIC]; New Croat Initiative or NHI
[Kresimir ZUBAK]; Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina or SBH [Haris
SILAJDZIC]; Party for Democratic Action or SDA [Sulejman TIHIC]; Party
of Democratic Progress or PDP [Mladen IVANIC]; Serb Democratic Party or
SDS [Mladen BOSIC]; Serb Radical Party of the Republika Srpska or
SRS-RS [Milanko MIHAJLICA]; Serb Radical Party-Dr. Vojislav Seselj or
SRS-VS [Radislav KANJERIC]; Social Democratic Party of BIH or SDP
[Zlatko LAGUMDZIJA]; Social Democratic Union or SDU [Sejfudin TOKIC];
Socialist Party of Republika Srpska or SPRS [Petar DJOKIC] |
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Botswana
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Botswana Alliance Movement or BAM [Ephraim Lepetu SETSHWAELO]; Botswana
Congress Party or BCP [Otlaadisa KOOSALETSE]; Botswana Democratic Party
or BDP [Festus G. MOGAE]; Botswana National Front or BNF [Otswoletse
MOUPO]; Botswana Peoples Party or BPP; MELS Movement of Botswana or
MELS; New Democratic Front or NDF
note: a number of minor parties joined
forces in 1999 to form the BAM but did not capture any parliamentary
seats - includes the United Action Party [Ephraim Lepetu SETSHWAELO];
the Independence Freedom Party or IFP [Motsamai MPHO]; the Botswana
Progressive Union [D. K. KWELE] |
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Brazil
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Brazilian Democratic Movement Party or PMDB [Federal Deputy Michel
TEMER]; Brazilian Labor Party or PTB [Roberto JEFFERSON]; Brazilian
Renewal Labor Party or PRTB [Jose Levy FIDELIX da Cruz]; Brazilian
Republican Party or PRB [Vitor Paulo Araujo DOS SANTOS]; Brazilian
Social Democracy Party or PSDB [Senator Sergio GUERRA]; Brazilian
Socialist Party or PSB [Governor Eduardo Henrique Accioly CAMPOS];
Christian Labor Party or PTC [Daniel TOURINHO]; Communist Party of
Brazil or PCdoB [Jose Renato RABELO]; Democratic Labor Party or PDT
[Carlos Roberto LUPI]; the Democrats or DEM (formerly Liberal Front
Party or PFL) [Federal Deputy Rodrigo MAIA]; Freedom and Socialism
Party or PSOL [Heloisa HELENA]; Green Party or PV [Jose Luiz de Franca
PENNA]; Humanist Party of Solidarity or PHS [Paulo Roberto MATOS];
Labor Party of Brazil or PTdoB [Luis Henrique de Oliveira RESENDE];
Liberal Front Party or PFL (now known as the Democrats or DEM);
National Mobilization Party or PMN [Oscar Noronha FILHO]; Party of the
Republic or PR [Sergio TAMER]; Popular Socialist Party or PPS [Federal
Deputy Fernando CORUJA]; Progressive Party or PP [Francisco DORNELLES];
Social Christian Party or PSC [Vitor Jorge Abdala NOSSEIS]; Workers'
Party or PT [Ricardo Jose Ribeiro BERZOINI] |
|
British Virgin Islands
|
Concerned Citizens Movement or CCM [Ethlyn SMITH]; National Democratic
Party or NDP [Orlando SMITH]; United Party or UP [Gregory MADURO];
Virgin Islands Party or VIP [Ralph T. O'NEAL] |
|
Brunei
|
National Development Party or NDP [YASSIN Affendi]
note:
Brunei National Solidarity Party or PPKB [Abdul LATIF bin Chuchu] and
People's Awareness Party or PAKAR [Awang Haji MAIDIN bin Haji Ahmad]
were deregistered; parties are small and have limited activity |
|
Bulgaria
|
ATAKA (Attack Coalition) (coalition of parties headed by the Attack
National Union); Attack National Union [Volen SIDEROV]; Bulgarian
Agrarian National Union-People's Union or BANU [Anastasia MOZER];
Bulgarian New Democracy [Borislav RALCHEV]; Bulgarian People's Union or
BPU (coalition of UFD, IMRO, and BANU); Bulgarian Socialist Party or
BSP [Sergei STANISHEV]; Citizens for the European Development of
Bulgaria or GERB [Boyko BORISOV]; Coalition for Bulgaria or CfB
(coalition of parties dominated by BSP) [Sergei STANISHEV]; Democrats
for a Strong Bulgaria or DSB [Ivan KOSTOV]; Internal Macedonian
Revolutionary Organization or IMRO [Krasimir KARAKACHANOV]; Movement
for Rights and Freedoms or MRF [Ahmed DOGAN]; National Movement for
Stability and Progress or NDSV [Simeon SAXE-COBURG-GOTHA]; New Time
[Emil KOSHLUKOV]; Union of Democratic Forces or UDF [Petar STOYANOV];
Union of Free Democrats or UFD [Stefan SOFIYANSKI]; United Democratic
Forces or UtDF (a coalition of center-right parties dominated by UDF) |
|
Burkina Faso
|
African Democratic Rally-Alliance for Democracy and Federation or
ADF-RDA [Gilbert OUEDRAOGO]; Citizen's Popular Rally or RPC [Antoine
QUARE]; Coalition of Democratic Forces of Burkina or CFD-B [Amadou
Diemdioda DICKO]; Congress for Democracy and Progress or CDP [Roch
Marc-Christian KABORE]; Movement for Tolerance and Progress or MTP
[Nayabtigungou Congo KABORE]; Party for African Independence or PAI
[Philippe OUEDRAOGO]; Party for Democracy and Progress/Socialist Party
or PDP/PS [Ali LANKOANDE]; Party for Democracy and Socialism or PDS
[Felix SOUBEIGA]; Party for National Rebirth or PAREN [Oumar
DJIGUIMDE]; Rally for the Development of Burkina or RDB [Antoine
KARGOUGOU]; Rally of Ecologists of Burkina Faso or RDEB [Ram OUEDRAGO];
Republican Party for Integration and Solidarity or PARIS [Cyril
GOUNGOUNGA]; Union for Democracy and Social Progress or UDPS [Fidele
HIEN]; Union for Rebirth - Sankarist Movement or UNIR-MS [Benewende
STANISLAS]; Union for the Republic or UPR [Toussaint Abel COULIBALY];
Union of Sankarist Parties or UPS [Ernest Nongma OUEDRAOGO] |
|
Burma
|
National League for Democracy or NLD [AUNG SHWE, AUNG SAN SUU KYI];
National Unity Party or NUP (pro-regime) [TUN YE]; Shan Nationalities
League for Democracy or SNLD [HKUN HTUN OO]; and other smaller parties |
|
Burundi
|
governing parties:
Burundi Democratic Front or FRODEBU [Leonce NGENDAKUMANA]; National
Council for the Defense of Democracy - Front for the Defense of
Democracy or CNDD-FDD [Jeremie NGENDAKUMANA]; Unity for National
Progress or UPRONA [Aloys RUBUKA]
note: a multiparty system was introduced
after 1998, included are: National Council for the Defense of Democracy
or CNDD [Leonard NYANGOMA]; National Resistance Movement for the
Rehabilitation of the Citizen or MRC-Rurenzangemero [Epitace
BANYAGANAKANDI]; Party for National Redress or PARENA [Jean-Baptiste
BAGAZA] |
|
Cambodia
|
Cambodian People's Party or CPP [CHEA SIM]; National United Front for
an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful, and Cooperative Cambodia or
FUNCINPEC [KEV PUT REAKSMEI]; Norodom Ranariddh Party or NRP [Norodom
RANARIDDH]; Sam Rangsi Party or SRP [SAM RANGSI] |
|
Cameroon
|
Cameroonian Democratic Union or UDC [Adamou Ndam NJOYA]; Cameroon
People's Democratic Movement or RDPC [Paul BIYA]; Movement for the
Defense of the Republic or MDR [Dakole DAISSALA]; Movement for the
Liberation and Development of Cameroon or MLDC [Marcel YONDO]; National
Union for Democracy and Progress or UNDP [Maigari BELLO BOUBA];
Progressive Movement or MP; Social Democratic Front or SDF [John FRU
NDI]; Union of Peoples of Cameroon or UPC [Augustin Frederic KODOCK] |
|
Canada
|
Bloc Quebecois [Gilles DUCEPPE]; Conservative Party of Canada [Stephen
HARPER] (a merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive
Conservative Party); Green Party [Elizabeth MAY]; Liberal Party
[Stephane DION]; New Democratic Party [Jack LAYTON] |
|
Cape Verde
|
African Party for Independence of Cape Verde or PAICV [Jose Maria
Pereira NEVES, chairman]; Democratic Alliance for Change or ADM [Dr.
Eurico MONTEIRO] (a coalition of PCD, PTS, and UCID); Democratic
Christian Party or PDC [Manuel RODRIGUES]; Democratic Renovation Party
or PRD [Victor FIDALGO]; Democratic and Independent Cape Verdean Union
or UCID [Antonio MONTEIRO]; Movement for Democracy or MPD [Agostinho
LOPES]; Party for Democratic Convergence or PCD [Dr. Eurico MONTEIRO];
Party of Work and Solidarity or PTS [Isaias RODRIGUES]; Social
Democratic Party or PSD [Joao ALEM] |
|
Cayman Islands
|
United Democratic Party or UDP [McKeeva BUSH]; People's Progressive
Movement or PPM [Kurt TIBBETTS]; note - no national teams (loose
groupings of political organizations) were formed for the 2000
elections |
|
Central African Republic
|
Alliance for Democracy and Progress or ADP [Jacques MBOLIEDAS]; Central
African Democratic Assembly or RDC [Andre KOLINGBA]; Civic Forum or FC
[Gen. Timothee MALENDOMA]; Democratic Forum for Modernity or FODEM
[Charles MASSI]; Liberal Democratic Party or PLD [Nestor
KOMBO-NAGUEMON]; Movement for Democracy and Development or MDD [David
DACKO]; Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People or
MLPC [Ange-Felix PATASSE] (the party of deposed president); National
Convergence or KNK; Patriotic Front for Progress or FPP [Abel GOUMBA];
People's Union for the Republic or UPR [Pierre Sammy MAKFOY]; National
Unity Party or PUN [Jean-Paul NGOUPANDE]; Social Democratic Party or
PSD [Enoch LAKOUE] |
|
Chad
|
Federation Action for the Republic or FAR [Ngarledjy YORONGAR];
National Rally for Development and Progress or RNDP [Delwa Kassire
KOUMAKOYE]; National Union for Democracy and Renewal or UNDR [Saleh
KEBZABO]; Party for Liberty and Development or PLD [Ibni Oumar Mahamat
SALEH]; Patriotic Salvation Movement or MPS [Mahamat Saleh AHMAT,
chairman]; Rally for Democracy and Progress or RDP [Lol Mahamat CHOUA];
Union for Democracy and Republic or UDR [Jean ALINGUE]; Union for
Renewal and Democracy or URD [Gen. Wadal Abdelkader KAMOUGUE] |
|
Chile
|
Alliance for Chile (Alianza) or APC (including National Renewal or RN
[Carlos LARRAIN Pena] and Independent Democratic Union or UDI [Hernan
LARRAIN Fernandez]); Coalition of Parties for Democracy (Concertacion)
or CPD (including Christian Democratic Party or PDC [Soledad ALVEAR],
Socialist Party or PS [Camilo ESCALONA Medina], Party for Democracy or
PPD [Sergio BITAR Chacra], Radical Social Democratic Party or PRSD
[Jose Antonio GOMEZ Urrutia]); Communist Party or PC [Guillermo
TEILLIER]; Humanist Party [Marilen CABRERA Olmos] |
|
China
|
Chinese Communist Party or CCP [HU Jintao]; eight registered small parties controlled by CCP
|
|
Christmas Island
|
none
|
|
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
|
none
|
|
Colombia
|
Colombian Conservative Party or PC [Efrain Jose CEPEDA Sarabia];
Alternative Democratic Pole or PDA [Carlos GAVIRIA Diaz]; Liberal Party
or PL [Cesar GAVIRIA Trujillo]; Radical Change or CR [German VARGAS
Lleras]; Social National Unity Party or U Party [Carlos GARCIA Orjuela]
note: Colombia has 15 formally recognized
political parties, and numerous unofficial parties that did not meet
the vote threshold in the March 2006 legislative elections required for
recognition |
|
Comoros
|
Convention for the Renewal of the Comoros or CRC [AZALI Assowmani];
Camp of the Autonomous Islands or CdIA (a coalition of parties
organized by the islands' presidents in opposition to the Union
President); Front National pour la Justice or FNJ [Ahmed RACHID]
(Islamic party in opposition); Mouvement pour la Democratie et le
Progress or MDP-NGDC [Abbas DJOUSSOUF]; Parti Comorien pour la
Democratie et le Progress or PCDP [Ali MROUDJAE]; Rassemblement
National pour le Development or RND [Omar TAMOU, Abdoulhamid
AFFRAITANE] |
|
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
|
Christian Democrat Party or PDC [Jose ENDUNDO]; Congolese Rally for
Democracy or RCD [Azarias RUBERWA]; Convention of Christian Democrats
or CDC; Forces of Renewal or FR [Mbusa NYAMWISI]; Movement for the
Liberation of the Congo or MLC [Jean-Pierre BEMBA]; People's Party for
Reconstruction and Democracy or PPRD [Joseph KABILA]; Social Movement
for Renewal or MSR [Pierre LUMBI]; Unified Lumumbist Party or PALU
[Antoine GIZENGA]; Union for Democracy and Social Progress or UDPS
[Etienne TSHISEKEDI]; Union of Mobutuist Democrats or UDEMO [MOBUTU
Nzanga] |
|
Congo, Republic of the
|
Action Movement for Renewal or MAR; Congolese Movement for Democracy
and Integral Development or MCDDI [Michel MAMPOUYA]; Congolese Labour
Party or PCT; Movement for Solidarity and Development or MSD;
Pan-African Union for Social Development or UPADS [Martin MBERI]; Rally
for Democracy and Social Progress or RDPS [Jean-Pierre Thystere
TCHICAYA, president]; Rally for Democracy and the Republic or RDR
[Raymond Damasge NGOLLO]; Union for Democracy and Republic or UDR;
Union of Democratic Forces or UFD [Sebastian EBAO]; many less important
parties |
|
Cook Islands
|
Cook Islands Party or CIP [Henry PUNA]; Democratic Party or Demo [Dr. Terepai MAOATE]
|
|
Costa Rica
|
Authentic Member from Heredia [Jose SALAS]; Citizen Action Party or PAC
[Epsy CAMPBELL Barr]; Costa Rican Renovation Party or PRC [Gerardo
Justo OROZCO Alvarez]; Democratic Force Party or PFD [Marco NUNEZ
Gonzalez]; General Union Party or PUGEN [Carlos Alberto FERNANDEZ
Vega]; Homeland First or PP [Juan Jose VARGAS Fallas]; Independent
Worker Party or PIO [Jose Alberto CUBERO Carmona]; Libertarian Movement
Party or PML [Otto GUEVARA Guth]; National Christian Alliance Party or
ANC [Juan Carlos CHAVEZ Mora]; National Integration Party or PIN
[Walter MUNOZ Cespedes]; National Liberation Party or PLN [Francisco
Antonio PACHECO Fernandez]; National Patriotic Party or PPN [Daniel
Enrique REYNOLDS Vargas]; National Restoration Party or PRN [Fabio
Enrique DELGADO Hernandez]; National Union Party or PUN [Arturo ACOSTA
Mora]; Nationalist Democratic Alliance or ADN [Jose Miguel VILLALOBOS
Umana]; Patriotic Union or UP [Jose Miguel CORRALES Bolanos]; Social
Christian Unity Party or PUSC [Luis FISHMAN Zonzinski]; Union for
Change Party or UPC [Antonio ALVAREZ Desanti]; United Leftist Coalition
or IU [Humberto VARGAS Carbonel] |
|
Cote d'Ivoire
|
Citizen's Democratic Union or UDCY [Theodore MEL EG]; Democratic Party
of Cote d'Ivoire-African Democratic Rally or PDCI-RDA [Henri Konan
BEDIE]; Ivorian Popular Front or FPI [Pascale Affi N'GUESSAN]; Ivorian
Worker's Party or PIT [Francis WODIE]; Opposition Movement of the
Future or MFA [Innocent Augustin ANAKY]; Rally of the Republicans or
RDR [Alassane OUATTARA]; Union for Democracy and Peace in Cote d'Ivoire
or UDPCI [Toikeuse MABRI]; over 144 smaller registered parties |
|
Croatia
|
Croatian Democratic Congress of Slavonia and Baranja or HDSSB [Vladimir
SISLJAGIC]; Croatian Democratic Union or HDZ [Ivo SANADER]; Croatian
Party of the Right or HSP [Anto DJAPIC]; Croatian Peasant Party or HSS
[Josip FRISCIC]; Croatian Pensioner Party or HSU [Vladimir JORDAN];
Croatian People's Party or HNS [Vesna PUSIC]; Croatian Social Liberal
Party or HSLS [Djurdja ADLESIC]; Independent Democratic Serb Party or
SDSS [Vojislav STANIMIROVIC]; Istrian Democratic Assembly or IDS [Ivan
JAKOVCIC]; Social Democratic Party of Croatia or SDP [Zoran MILANOVIC] |
|
Cuba
|
Cuban Communist Party or PCC [Fidel CASTRO Ruz, first secretary]
|
|
Cyprus
|
area under government control:
Democratic Party or DIKO [Marios KAROYIAN]; Democratic Rally or DISY
[Nikos ANASTASIADHIS]; European Democracy or EURO.DI [Prodromos
PRODROMOU] (evolved from For Europe which merged with New Horizons);
European Party or EURO.KO [Demetris SYLLOURIS]; Fighting Democratic
Movement or ADIK [Dinos MIKHAILIDIS]; Green Party of Cyprus [George
PERDIKIS]; Movement for Social Democrats or EDEK [Yannakis OMIROU];
Political Movement of Hunters [Michalis PAFITANIS]; Progressive Party
of the Working People or AKEL (Communist Party) [Dimitris CHRISTOFIAS];
United Democrats or EDI [Michalis PAPAPETROU]
area administered by Turkish Cypriots:
Communal Liberation Party or TKP [Huseyin ANGOLEMLI]; Cyprus Socialist
Party or KSP [Kazim ONGEN]; Democratic Party or DP [Serder DENKTASH];
Freedom and Reform Party or OP [Turgay AVCI]; National Unity Party or
UBP [Tahsin ERTUGRULOGLU]; Nationalist Justice Party or MAP [Ata TEPE];
New Party or YP [Huseyin TURAN]; Our Party or BP [Okyay SADIKOGLU];
Patriotic Unity Movement or YBH [Oguz OZEN]; Peace and Democratic
Movement or BDH [Mustafa AKINCI]; Renewal Progress Party or YAP
[Ertugrul HASIPOGLU]; Republican Turkish Party or CTP [Ferdi Sabit
SOYER]; United Cyprus Party or BKP [Isset IZCAN] |
|
Czech Republic
|
Association of Independent Candidates-European Democrats or SNK-ED
[Helmut DOHNALEK]; Christian Democratic Union-Czechoslovak People's
Party or KDU-CSL [Jiri CUNEK]; Civic Democratic Party or ODS [Mirek
TOPOLANEK]; Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia or KSCM [Vojtech
FILIP]; Czech Social Democratic Party or CSSD [Jiri PAROUBEK]; Union of
Freedom-Democratic Union or US-DEU [Jan CERNY]; Green Party [Martin
BURSIK]; Independent Democrats (NEZDEM) [Vladimir ZELEZNY]; Party of
Open Society (SOS) [Pavel NOVACEK]; Path of Change [Jiri LOBKOWITZ] |
|
Denmark
|
Christian Democrats [Bodil KORNBEK] (was Christian People's Party);
Conservative Party [Bendt BENDTSEN] (sometimes known as Conservative
People's Party); Danish People's Party [Pia KJAERSGAARD]; Liberal Party
[Anders Fogh RASMUSSEN]; New Alliance [Naser KHADER]; Red-Green Unity
List (Alliance) [collective leadership] (bloc includes Left Socialist
Party, Communist Party of Denmark, Socialist Workers' Party); Social
Democratic Party [Helle THORNING-SCHMIDT]; Social Liberal Party
[Margrethe VESTAGER]; Socialist People's Party [Villy SOEVNDAL] |
|
Djibouti
|
Democratic National Party or PND [ADEN Robleh Awaleh]; Democratic
Renewal Party or PRD [Abdillahi HAMARITEH]; Djibouti Development Party
or PDD [Mohamed Daoud CHEHEM]; Front pour la Restauration de l'Unite
Democratique or FRUD [Ali Mohamed DAOUD]; People's Progress Assembly or
RPP [Ismail Omar GUELLEH] (governing party); Peoples Social Democratic
Party or PPSD [Moumin Bahdon FARAH]; Republican Alliance for Democracy
or ARD; Union for a Presidential Majority or UMP (a coalition of
parties including RPP, FRUD, PND, and PPSD); Union for Democracy and
Justice or UDJ |
|
Dominica
|
Dominica Freedom Party or DFP [Charles SAVARIN]; Dominica Labor Party
or DLP [Roosevelt SKERRIT]; Dominica United Workers Party or UWP [Earl
WILLIAMS] |
|
Dominican Republic
|
Dominican Liberation Party or PLD [Leonel FERNANDEZ Reyna]; Dominican
Revolutionary Party or PRD [Ramon ALBURQUERQUE]; National Progressive
Front [Vincent CASTILLO, Pelegrin CASTILLO]; Social Christian Reformist
Party or PRSC [Enrique ANTUN] |
|
Ecuador
|
Alianza PAIS Movement [Rafael Vicente CORREA Delgado]; Christian
Democratic Union or UDC [Diego ORDONEZ Guerrero]; Democratic Left or ID
[Andres PAEZ Benalcazar]; Ethical and Democratic Network or RED [Leon
ROLDOS]; Institutional Renewal and National Action Party or PRIAN
[Alvaro NOBOA]; Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement - New Country
or MUPP-NP [Jorge GUAMAN]; Patriotic Society Party or PSP [Lucio
GUTIERREZ Borbua]; Popular Democratic Movement or MPD [Ciro GUZMAN
Aldaz]; Roldosist Party or PRE [Abdala BUCARAM Ortiz, director]; Social
Christian Party or PSC [Pascual DEL CIOPPO]; Socialist Party - Broad
Front or PS-FA [Gustavo AYALA Cruz] |
|
Egypt
|
National Democratic Party or NDP (governing party) [Mohamed Hosni
MUBARAK]; National Progressive Unionist Grouping or Tagammu [Rifaat
EL-SAID]; New Wafd Party or NWP [Mahmoud ABAZA]; Tomorrow Party [Moussa
Mustafa MOUSSA]
note: formation of political parties must be
approved by the government; only parties with representation in elected
bodies are listed |
|
El Salvador
|
Christian Democratic Party or PDC [Rodolfo PARKER]; Democratic
Convergence or CD [Ruben ZAMORA] (formerly United Democratic Center or
CDU); Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front or FMLN [Medardo
GONZALEZ]; National Conciliation Party or PCN [Ciro CRUZ ZEPEDA];
National Republican Alliance or ARENA [Elias Antonio SACA Gonzalez];
Popular Social Christian Party or PPSC [Rene AGUILUZ]; Revolutionary
Democratic Front or FDR [Julio Cesar HERNANDEZ Carcamo] |
|
Equatorial Guinea
|
Convergence Party for Social Democracy or CPDS [Placido MICO Abogo];
Democratic Party for Equatorial Guinea or PDGE (ruling party) [Teodoro
OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO]; Party for Progress of Equatorial Guinea or PPGE
[Severo MOTO]; Popular Action of Equatorial Guinea or APGE [Avelino
MOCACHE]; Popular Union or UP |
|
Eritrea
|
People's Front for Democracy and Justice or PFDJ [ISAIAS Afworki] (the
only party recognized by the government); note - a National Assembly
committee drafted a law on political parties in January 2001, but the
full National Assembly has yet to debate or vote on it |
|
Estonia
|
Center Party of Estonia (Keskerakond) [Edgar SAVISAAR]; Estonian Greens
(Rohelised) [Marek STRANDBERG]; Estonian People's Union (Rahvaliit)
[Villu REILJAN]; Estonian Reform Party (Reformierakond) [Andrus ANSIP];
Estonian United Russian People's Party or EUVRP [Yevgeniy TOMBERG];
Social Democratic Party (formerly People's Party Moodukad or Moderates)
[Ivari PADAR]; Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica (Isamaa je Res
Publica Liit) [Mart LAAR] |
|
Ethiopia
|
Afar National Democratic Party or ANDP; Benishangul Gumuz People's
Democratic Unity Front or BGPDUF [Mulualem BESSE]; Coalition for Unity
and Democratic Party or CUDP [AYELE Chamisso] (awarded to AYELE 11
January 2008, but AYELE has virtually no support among former CUD MPs,
other CUD MPs must now be affiliated with their original CUD-precursor
parties); Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front or EPRDF
[MELES Zenawi] (an alliance of Amhara National Democratic Movement or
ANDM, Oromo People's Democratic Organization or OPDO, the South
Ethiopian People's Democratic Front or SEPDF, and Tigrayan Peoples'
Liberation Front or TPLF); Gurage Nationalities' Democratic Movement or
GNDM; Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement or OFDM [BULCHA Demeksa];
Omoro People's Congress or OPC [IMERERA Gudina]; Somali People's
Democratic Party or SPDP; United Ethiopian Democratic Forces or UEDF
[BEYENE Petros] |
|
European Union
|
Confederal Group of the European United Left-Nordic Green Left or
EUL/NGL [Francis WURTZ]; European People's Party-European Democrats or
EPP-ED [Joseph DAUL]; Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats
for Europe or ALDE [Graham R. WATSON]; Group of Greens/European Free
Alliance or Greens/EFA [Monica FRASSONI and Daniel Marc COHN-BENDIT];
Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty Group or ITS [Bruno GOLLNISCH];
Independence/Democracy Group or IND/DEM [Jens-Peter BONDE and Nigel
FARAGE]; Socialist Group in the European Parliament or PES [Martin
SCHULZ]; Union for Europe of the Nations Group or UEN [Brian CROWLEY
and Cristiana MUSCARDINI] |
|
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
|
none; all independents
|
|
Faroe Islands
|
Center Party [Jenis A. RANA]; Independence Party [Kari P. HOJGAARD];
People's Party [Jorgen NICLASEN]; Republican Party [Hogni HOYDAL];
Social Democratic Party [Joannes EIDESGAARD]; Union Party [Kaj Leo
JOHANNESEN] |
|
Fiji
|
Dodonu Ni Taukei Party or DNT [Fereti S. DEWA]; Fiji Democratic Party
or FDP [Filipe BOLE] (a merger of the Christian Democrat Alliance or
VLV [Poesci Waqalevu BUNE], Fijian Association Party or FAP, Fijian
Political Party or SVT (primarily Fijian) [Sitiveni RABUKA], and New
Labor Unity Party or NLUP [Ofa SWANN]); Fiji Labor Party or FLP
[Mahendra CHAUDHRY]; General Voters Party or GVP (became part of United
General Party); Girmit Heritage Party or GHP; Justice and Freedom Party
or AIM; Lio 'On Famor Rotuma Party or LFR; National Federation Party or
NFP (primarily Indian) [Pramond RAE]; Nationalist Vanua Takolavo Party
or NVTLP [Saula TELAWA]; Party of National Unity or PANU [Ponipate
LESAVUA]; Party of the Truth or POTT; United Fiji Party/Sogosogo
Duavata ni Lewenivanua or SDL [Laisenia QARASE]; United Peoples Party
or UPP [Millis Mick BEDDOES] |
|
Finland
|
Center Party or Kesk [Matti VANHANEN]; Christian Democrats or KD [Paivi
RASANEN]; Green Party or VIHR [Tarja CRONBERG]; Left Alliance or VAS
[Martti KORHONEN] (composed of People's Democratic League and
Democratic Alternative); National Coalition (conservative) Party or Kok
[Jyrki KATAINEN]; Social Democratic Party or SDP [Eero HEINALUOMA];
Swedish People's Party or SFP [Stefan WALLIN]; True Finns [Timo SOINI] |
|
France
|
Democratic Movement or MoDem [Francois BAYROU] (previously Union for
French Democracy or UDF); Democratic and Social European Rally or RDSE
[Pierre LAFFITTE] (mainly Radical Republican and Socialist Parties, and
PRG); French Communist Party or PCF [Marie-George BUFFET]; Greens
[Cecile DUFLOT]; Left Radical Party or PRG [Jean-Michel BAYLET]
(previously Radical Socialist Party or PRS and the Left Radical
Movement or MRG); Movement for France or MPF [Philippe DE VILLIERS];
National Front or FN [Jean-Marie LE PEN]; New Center or NC [Herve
MORIN]; Rally for France or RPF [Charles PASQUA]; Republican and
Citizen Movement or MRC [Jean Pierre CHEVENEMENT and Georges SARRE];
Socialist Party or PS [Francois HOLLANDE]; Union for a Popular Movement
or UMP [Patrick DEVEDJIAN, Jean-Claude GAUDIN, Jean-Pierre RAFFARIN,
Pierre MEHAIGNERIE]; Radical Party [Jean-Louis BORLOO] |
|
French Polynesia
|
Alliance for a New Democracy or ADN [Nicole BOUTEAU and Philip
SCHYLE](includes the parties The New Star and This Country is Yours);
Independent Front for the Liberation of Polynesia (Tavini Huiraatira)
[Oscar TEMARU]; New Fatherland Party (Ai'a Api) [Emile VERNAUDON]; Our
Home alliance; People's Rally for the Republic of Polynesia or RPR
(Tahoeraa Huiraatira) [Gaston FLOSSE]; Union for Democracy alliance or
UPD [Oscar TEMARU] |
|
Gabon
|
Circle of Liberal Reformers or CLR [General Jean Boniface ASSELE];
Congress for Democracy and Justice or CDJ [Jules Aristide Bourdes
OGOULIGUENDE]; Democratic and Republican Alliance or ADERE
[Divungui-di-Ndinge DIDJOB]; Gabonese Democratic Party or PDG (former
sole party) [Simplice Nguedet MANZELA]; Gabonese Party for Progress or
PGP [Benoit Mouity NZAMBA]; Gabonese Union for Democracy and
Development or UGDD [Zacherie MYBOTO]; National Rally of Woodcutters or
RNB; National Rally of Woodcutters-Rally for Gabon or RNB-RPG
(Bucherons) [Fr. Paul M'BA-ABESSOLE]; Party of Development and Social
Solidarity or PDS [Seraphin Ndoat REMBOGO]; People's Unity Party or PUP
[Louis Gaston MAYILA]; Social Democratic Party or PSD [Pierre Claver
MAGANGA-MOUSSAVOU]; Union for Democracy and Social Integration or UDIS;
Union of Gabonese Patriots or UPG [Pierre MAMBOUNDOU] |
|
Gambia, The
|
Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction or APRC (the
ruling party) [Yahya A. J. J. JAMMEH]; Gambia People's Democratic Party
or GPDP [Henry GOMEZ]; National Alliance for Democracy and Development
or NADD [Halifa SALLAH]; National Convention Party or NCP [Sheriff
DIBBA]; National Reconciliation Party or NRP [Hamat N. K. BAH];
People's Democratic Organization for Independence and Socialism or
PDOIS [Sidia JATTA]; United Democratic Party or UDP [Ousainou DARBOE] |
|
Georgia
|
Burjanadze-Democrats [Nino BURJANADZE]; Georgian People's Front [Nodar
NATADZE]; Georgian United Communist Party or UCPG [Panteleimon
GIORGADZE]; Georgia's Way Party [Salome ZOURABICHVILI]; Greens [Giorgi
GACHECHILADZE]; Industry Will Save Georgia (Industrialists) or IWSG
[Georgi TOPADZE]; Labor Party [Shalva NATELASHVILI]; National
Democratic Party or NDP [Bachuki KARDAVA]; National Movement Democratic
Front [Mikheil SAAKASHVILI] (bloc composed of National Movement and
Burjanadze-Democrats); National Movement [Mikheil SAAKASHVILI]; New
Rights [David GAMKRELIDZE]; Republican Party [David USUPASHVILI];
Rightist Opposition [David GAMKRELIDZE] (bloc composed of
Industrialists and New Right Party); Socialist Party or SPG [Irakli
MINDELI]; Traditionalists [Akaki ASATIANI]; Union of National
Forces-Conservatives [Koba DAVITASHVILI and Zviad DZIDZIGURI] |
|
Germany
|
Alliance '90/Greens [Claudia ROTH and Reinhard BUETIKOFER]; Christian
Democratic Union or CDU [Angela MERKEL]; Christian Social Union or CSU
[Erwin HUBER]; Free Democratic Party or FDP [Guido WESTERWELLE]; Left
Party or Die Linke [Lothar BISKY and Oskar LAFONTAINE]; Social
Democratic Party or SPD [Kurt BECK] |
|
Ghana
|
Convention People's Party or CPP [Ladi NYLANDER]; Democratic Freedom
Party or DFP [Alhaji Abudu Rahman ISSAKAH]; Every Ghanaian Living
Everywhere or EGLE; Great Consolidated Popular Party or GCPP [Dan
LARTEY]; National Democratic Congress or NDC [Dr. Kwabena ADJEI]; New
Patriotic Party or NPP [Peter MAC-MANU]; People's National Convention
or PNC [Alhaji Amed RAMADAN]; Reform Party [Kyeretwie OPUKU]; United
Renaissance Party or URP [Charles WAYO] |
|
Gibraltar
|
Gibraltar Liberal Party [Joseph GARCIA]; Gibraltar Social Democrats or
GSD [Peter CARUANA]; Gibraltar Socialist Labor Party or GSLP [Joseph
John BOSSANO] |
|
Greece
|
Coalition of the Left and Progress (Synaspismos) [Alekos ALAVANOS];
Communist Party of Greece or KKE [Aleka PAPARIGA]; New Democracy or ND
(conservative) [Konstandinos KARAMANLIS]; Panhellenic Socialist
Movement or PASOK [Yiorgos PAPANDREOU]; Popular Orthodox Rally or LAOS
[Yeoryios KARATZAFERIS] |
|
Greenland
|
Atassut Party (Solidarity) [Finn KARLSEN] (a conservative party
favoring continuing close relations with Denmark); Demokratiit [Per
BERTHELSEN]; Inuit Ataqatigiit or IA (Eskimo Brotherhood) [Josef
MOTZFELDT] (a leftist party favoring complete independence from Denmark
rather than home rule); Kattusseqatigiit (Candidate List) (an
independent right-of-center party with no official platform); Siumut
(Forward Party) [Hans ENOKSEN] (a social democratic party advocating
more distinct Greenlandic identity and greater autonomy from Denmark) |
|
Grenada
|
Grenada United Labor Party or GULP [Gloria Payne BANFIELD]; National
Democratic Congress or NDC [Tillman THOMAS]; New National Party or NNP
[Keith MITCHELL] |
|
Guam
|
Democratic Party [leader Michael PHILLIPS]; Republican Party [Philip J. FLORES] (controls the legislature)
|
|
Guatemala
|
Center of Social Action or CASA [Eduardo SUGER]; Democracy Front or
FRENTE [Alfonso CABRERA]; Democratic Union or UD [Manuel CONDE
Orellana]; Encounter for Guatemala or EG [Nineth MONTENGRO]; Grand
National Alliance or GANA [Alfredo VILLA]; Guatemalan National
Revolutionary Unity or URNG [Hector NUILA]; Guatemalan Republican Front
or FRG [Efrain RIOS Montt]; National Advancement Party or PAN [Ruben
Dario MORALES]; National Unity for Hope or UNE [Alvaro COLOM
Caballeros]; Patriot Party or PP [Ret. Gen. Otto PEREZ Molina];
Unionista Party or PU [Fritz GARCIA]; Unity of National Change or UCN
[Sidney SHAW] |
|
Guernsey
|
none; all independents
|
|
Guinea
|
National Union for Progress or UPN [Mamadou Bhoye BARRY]; Party for
Unity and Progress or PUP (the governing party) [Lansana CONTE];
People's Party of Guinea or PPG [Charles Pascal TOLNO]; Rally for the
Guinean People or RPG [Alpha CONDE]; Union of Democratic Forces of
Guinea or UFDG [Cellou Dalein DIALLO]; Union of Republican Forces or
UFR [Sidya TOURE]; Union for Progress of Guinea or UPG [Jean-Marie
DORE, secretary-general]; Union for Progress and Renewal or UPR
[Ousmane BAH] |
|
Guinea-Bissau
|
African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde or
PAIGC [Carlos GOMES Junior]; Party for Social Renewal or PRS [Kumba
YALA]; Democratic Social Front or FDS; Electoral Union or UE;
Guinea-Bissau Civic Forum/Social Democracy or FCGSD [Antonieta Rosa
GOMES]; Guinea-Bissau Democratic Party or PDG; Guinea-Bissau Socialist
Democratic Party or PDSG [Serifo BALDE]; Labor and Solidarity Party or
PST [Iancuba INDJAI]; Party for Democratic Convergence or PCD [Victor
MANDINGA]; Party for Renewal and Progress or PRP; Progress Party or PP
[Ibrahima SOW]; Union for Change or UM [Amine SAAD]; Union of Guinean
Patriots or UPG [Francisca VAZ]; United Platform or UP (coalition
formed by PCD, FDS, FLING, and RGB-MB); United Popular Alliance or APU;
United Social Democratic Party or PUSD |
|
Guyana
|
Alliance for Change or AFC [Raphael TROTMAN and Khemraj RAMJATTAN];
Guyana Action Party or GAP [Paul HARDY]; Justice for All Party [C.N.
SHARMA]; People's National Congress/Reform or PNC/R [Robert Herman
Orlando CORBIN]; People's Progressive Party/Civic or PPP/C [Bharrat
JAGDEO]; Rise, Organize, and Rebuild or ROAR [Ravi DEV]; The United
Force or TUF [Manzoor NADIR]; The Unity Party [Joey JAGAN]; Vision
Guyana [Peter RAMSAROOP]; Working People's Alliance or WPA [Rupert
ROOPNARAINE] |
|
Haiti
|
Artibonite in Action or LAAA [Youri LATORTUE]; Assembly of Progressive
National Democrats or RDNP [Leslie MANIGAT]; Convention for Democratic
Unity or KID [Evans PAUL]; Cooperative Action to Build Haiti or KONBA
[Evans LESCOUFALIR]; Democratic Alliance or ALYANS [Evans PAUL]
(coalition composed of KID and PPRH); Effort and Solidarity to Create
an Alternative for the People or ESKAMP [Joseph JASME]; For Us All or
PONT [Jean-Marie CHERESTAL]; Front for Hope or L'ESPWA [Rene PREVAL]
(alliance of ESKAMP, PLB, and grass-roots organizations Grand-Anse
Resistance Committee, the Central Plateau Peasants' Group, and Kombit
Sudest); Haitian Christian Democratic Party or PDCH [Osner FEVRY and
Marie-Denise CLAUDE]; Haitian Democratic and Reform Movement or MODEREH
[Dany TOUSSAINT and Pierre Soncon PRINCE]; Heads Together or Tet-Ansanm
[Dr. Gerard BLOT]; Independent Movement for National Reconciliation or
MIRN [Luc FLEURINORD]; Justice for Peace and National Development or
JPDN [Rigaud DUPLAN]; Fanmi Lavalas or FL [Rudy HERIVEAUX]; Liberal
Party of Haiti or PLH [Gehy MICHEL]; Merging of Haitian Social
Democratic Parties or FUSION or FPSDH [Serge GILLES] (coalition of
Ayiti Capable, Haitian National Revolutionary Party, and National
Congress of Democratic Movements); Mobilization for Haiti's Development
or MPH [Samir MOURRA]; Mobilization for National Development or MDN
[Hubert de RONCERAY]; Movement for National Reconstruction or MRN [Jean
Henold BUTEAU]; Movement for the Installation of Democracy in Haiti or
MIDH [Marc BAZIN]; National Christian Union for the Reconstruction of
Haiti or UNCRH [Marie Claude GERMAIN]; National Front for the
Reconstruction of Haiti or FRN [Guy PHILIPPE]; New Christian Movement
for a New Haiti or MOCHRENA [Luc MESADIEU]; Open the Gate Party or PLB
[Anes LUBIN]; Popular Party for the Renewal of Haiti or PPRH [Claude
ROMAIN]; Struggling People's Organization or OPL [Edgard LEBLANC];
Union of Nationalist and Progressive Haitians or UNITE [Edouard
FRANCISQUE] |
|
Holy See (Vatican City)
|
none
|
|
Honduras
|
Christian Democratic Party or PDC [Felicito AVILA]; Democratic
Unification Party or PUD [Cesar HAM]; Liberal Party or PL [Patricia
RODAS]; National Innovation and Unity Party or PINU [Jorge AQUILAR
Paredes]; National Party of Honduras or PN [Porfirio LOBO] |
|
Hong Kong
|
Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood or ADPL [Frederick
FUNG Kin-kee]; Citizens Party [Alex CHAN Kai-chung]; Civic Party [KUAN
Hsin-chi]; Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong
Kong or DAB [TAM Yiu Cheng]; Democratic Party [Albert HO]; Frontier
Party [Emily LAU Wai-hing]; League of Social Democrats [Raymond WONG];
Liberal Party [James TIEN Pei-chun]
note: political blocs include: pro-democracy
- ADPL, Democratic Party, Frontier Party, League of Social Democrats;
pro-Beijing - DAB, Liberal Party, The Alliance (a group of five
generally pro-government and pro-business Legco members from functional
constituencies); there is no political party ordinance, so there are no
registered political parties; politically active groups register as
societies or companies |
|
Hungary
|
Alliance of Free Democrats or SzDSz [Janos KOKA]; Christian Democratic
People's Party or KDNP [Zsolt SEMJEN]; Hungarian Civic Alliance or
Fidesz [Viktor ORBAN, chairman]; Hungarian Democratic Forum or MDF
[Ibolya DAVID]; Hungarian Socialist Party or MSzP [Ferenc GYURCSANY] |
|
Iceland
|
Independence Party or IP [Geir H. HAARDE]; Left-Green Movement or LGM
[Steingrimur SIGFUSSON]; Liberal Party or LP [Gudjon KRISTJANSSON];
Progressive Party or PP [Gudni AGUSTSSON]; Social Democratic Alliance
or SDA [Ingibjorg Solrun GISLADOTTIR] (includes People's Alliance or
PA, Social Democratic Party or SDP, Women's List) |
|
India
|
Bahujan Samaj Party or BSP [MAYAWATI]; Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP
[Rajnath SINGH]; Biju Janata Dal or BJD [Naveen PATNAIK]; Communist
Party of India or CPI [Ardhendu Bhushan BARDHAN]; Communist Party of
India-Marxist or CPI-M [Prakash KARAT]; Dravida Munnetra Kazagham or
DMK [M. KARUNANIDHI]; Indian National Congress or INC [Sonia GANDHI];
Janata Dal (United) or JD(U) [Sharad YADEV]; Jharkhand Mukti Morcha or
JMM [Shibu SOREN]; Lok Jan Shakti Party or LJSP [Ram Vilas PASWAN];
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam or MDMK [VAIKU]; Nationalist
Congress Party or NCP [Sharad PAWAR]; Pattali Makkal Katchi or PMK [S.
RAMADOSS]; Rashtriya Janata Dal or RJD [Laloo Prasad YADAV]; Samajwadi
Party or SP [Mulayam Singh YADAV]; Shiromani Akali Dal or SAD [Prakash
Singh BADAL]; Shiv Sena or SS [Bal THACKERAY]; Telangana Rashtra
Samithi or TRS [K. Chandrasekhar RAO]; Telugu Desam Party or TDP
[Chandrababu NAIDU]; note - India has dozens of national and regional
political parties; only parties with four or more seats in the People's
Assembly are listed |
|
Indonesia
|
Crescent Moon and Star Party or PBB [MS KABAN]; Democratic Party or PD
[Hadi UTOMO]; Functional Groups Party or Golkar [Yusuf KALLA];
Indonesia Democratic Party-Struggle or PDI-P [MEGAWATI Sukarnoputri];
National Awakening Party or PKB; National Mandate Party or PAN
[Sutrisno BACHIR]; Prosperous Justice Party or PKS [Tifatul SEMBIRING];
United Development Party or PPP [Suryadharma ALI] |
|
Iran
|
formal political parties are a relatively new phenomenon in Iran and
most conservatives still prefer to work through political pressure
groups rather than parties, and often political parties or coalitions
are formed prior to elections and disbanded soon thereafter; a loose
pro-reform coalition called the 2nd Khordad Front, which includes
political parties as well as less formal groups and organizations,
achieved considerable success at elections to the sixth Majles in early
2000; groups in the coalition include: Islamic Iran Participation Front
(IIPF), Executives of Construction Party (Kargozaran), Solidarity
Party, Islamic Labor Party, Mardom Salari, Mojahedin of the Islamic
Revolution Organization (MIRO), and Militant Clerics Society
(Ruhaniyun); the coalition participated in the seventh Majles elections
in early 2004; following his defeat in the 2005 presidential elections,
former MCS Secretary General and sixth Majles Speaker Mehdi KARUBI
formed the National Trust Party; a new conservative group, Islamic Iran
Developers Coalition (Abadgaran), took a leading position in the new
Majles after winning a majority of the seats in February 2004;
following the 2004 Majles elections, traditional and hardline
conservatives have attempted to close ranks under the United Front of
Principlists; the IIPF has repeatedly complained that the overwhelming
majority of its candidates have been unfairly disqualified from the
2008 elections |
|
Iraq
|
Assyrian Democratic Movement [Yunadim KANNA]; Badr Organization [Hadi
al-AMIRI]; Constitutional Monarchy Movement or CMM [Sharif Ali Bin
al-HUSAYN]; Da'wa al-Islamiya Party [Ibrahim al-JA'FARI]; General
Conference of Iraqi People [Adnan al-DULAYMI]; Independent Iraqi
Alliance or IIA [Falah al-NAQIB]; Iraqi Communist Party [Hamid MAJEED];
Iraqi Front for National Dialogue [Salih al-MUTLAQ]; Iraqi Hizballah
[Karim Mahmud al-MUHAMMADAWI]; Iraqi Independent Democrats or IID
[Adnan PACHACHI, Mahdi al-HAFIZ]; Iraqi Islamic Party or IIP [Tariq
al-HASHIMI]; Iraqi National Accord or INA [Ayad ALLAWI]; Iraqi National
Congress or INC [Ahmad CHALABI]; Iraqi National Council for Dialogue or
INCD [Khalaf Ulayan al-Khalifawi al-DULAYMI]; Iraqi National Unity
Movement or INUM [Ahmad al-KUBAYSI]; Islamic Action Organization or IAO
[Ayatollah Muhammad al-MUDARRISI]; Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq or
ISCI [Abd al-Aziz al-HAKIM]; Jama'at al Fadilah or JAF [Muhammad Ali
al-YAQUBI]; Kurdistan Democratic Party or KDP [Masud BARZANI];
Kurdistan Islamic Union [Salah ad-Din Muhammad BAHA al-DIN]; National
Reconciliation and Liberation Party [Mishan al-JABBURI]; Patriotic
Union of Kurdistan or PUK [Jalal TALABANI]; Sadrist Trend [Muqtada
al-SADR] (not an organized political party, but it fields independent
candidates affiliated with Muqtada al-SADR); Sahawa al-Iraq [Ahmed
al-RISAWHI]
note: the Kurdistan Alliance, Iraqi National
List, Tawafuq Front, Iraqi Front for National Dialogue, and Unified
Iraqi Alliance were only electoral slates consisting of the
representatives from the various Iraqi political parties |
|
Ireland
|
Fianna Fail [Bertie AHERN]; Fine Gael [Enda KENNY]; Green Party [John
GORMLEY]; Labor Party [Eamon GILMORE]; Progressive Democrats [Mary
HARNEY, acting leader]; Sinn Fein [Gerry ADAMS]; Socialist Party [Joe
HIGGINS]; The Workers' Party [Sean GARLAND] |
|
Isle of Man
|
Alliance for Progressive Government; Liberal Vannin Party [Peter
KARRAN]; Man Labor Party; Man Nationalist Party (Mec Vannin) [Bernard
MOFFATT]
note: most members sit as independents
|
|
Israel
|
Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (HADASH) [Muhammad BARAKA]; GIL
(Pensioners) [Rafael "Rafi" EITAN]; Kadima [Ehud OLMERT]; Labor Party
[Ehud BARAK]; Likud [Binyamin NETANYAHU]; Meretz-YAHAD [Yossi BEILIN];
National Democratic Assembly (Balad) [Jamal ZAHALKA]; National Union
(NU)/National Religious Party (NRP) [Binyamin ELON]; SHAS [Eliyahu
YISHAI]; Torah and Shabbat Judaism [Yaakov LITZMAN]; United Arab List
[Ibrahim SARSOUR]; Yisrael Beiteinu [Avigdor LIEBERMAN] |
|
Italy
|
Center-Left Union Coalition [Romano PRODI]:
Ulivo Alliance (including Democrats of the Left or DS [Piero FASSINO]
(along with the DL merged into the Democratic Party or PD);
Daisy-Democracy is Freedom or DL [Francesco RUTELLI] (along with the DS
merged into the Democratic Party or PD)); Rose in the Fist (including
Italian Social Democrats or SDI [Enrico BOSELLI]; Italian Radical Party
[Emma BONINO]); Together with the Union (including Italian Communist
Party or PdCI [Oliviero DILIBERTO]; Green Federation [Alfonso PECORARO
SCANIO]; United Consumers); Communist Renewal or RC [Fausto
BERTINOTTI]; Italy of Values or IdV [Antonio DI PIETRO]; Union of
Democrats for Europe or UDEUR [Clemente MASTELLA]; Republican European
Movement or MRE [Luciana SBARBATI]
Center-Right Freedom House Coalition [Silvio BERLUSCONI]:
Forza Italia or FI [Silvio BERLUSCONI]; National Alliance or AN
[Gianfranco FINI]; Union of Christian Democrats and Centrist Democrats
or UDC [Pier Ferdinando CASINI]; Northern League or LEGA [Umberto
BOSSI]; Christian Democracy (Per la Autonomie) [Gianfranco ROTONDI]
other non-allied parties: New Italian
Socialist Party or New PSI [Gianni DE MICHELIS]; Italian Republican
Party or PRI [Giorgio LA MALFA]; Social Alternative [Alessandra
MUSSOLINI]; Social Movement-Tricolor Flame or MSI-Fiamma [Luca
ROMAGNOLI]; Social Idea Movement with Rauti or MIS [Pino RAUTI]; South
Tyrol People's Party or SVP (German speakers) [Elmar Pichler ROLLE];
Union of Valley Aosta Region or UV [Guido CESAL] |
|
Jamaica
|
Jamaica Labor Party or JLP [Bruce GOLDING]; People's National Party or
PNP [Portia SIMPSON-MILLER]; National Democratic Movement or NDM
[Michael WILLIAMS] |
|
Japan
|
Democratic Party of Japan or DPJ [Ichiro OZAWA]; Japan Communist Party
or JCP [Kazuo SHII]; Komeito [Akihiro OTA]; Liberal Democratic Party or
LDP [Yasuo FUKUDA]; Social Democratic Party or SDP [Mizuho FUKUSHIMA] |
|
Jersey
|
two declared parties: Centre Party; Jersey Democratic Alliance
note: all senators and deputies elected in 2005 were independents
|
|
Jordan
|
al-Ahd Party; Arab Islamic Democratic Movement [Yusuf ABU BAKR]; Arab
Land Party [Dr. Ayishah Salih HIJAZAYN]; Arab Socialist Ba'th Party
[Taysir al-HIMSI]; Ba'th Arab Progressive Party [Fu'ad DABBUR]; Freedom
Party; Future Party; Islamic Action Front or IAF [Zaki Sa'ed BANI
IRSHEID]; Islamic Center Party [Marwan al-FAURI]; Jordanian Arab Ansar
Party; Jordanian Arab New Dawn Party; Jordanian Arab Party; Jordanian
Citizens' Rights Movement; Jordanian Communist Party [Munir HAMARINAH];
Jordanian Communist Workers Party; Jordanian Democratic Left Party
[Musa MA'AYTEH]; Jordanian Democratic Popular Unity Party [Sa'id Dhiyab
Ali MUSTAFA]; Jordanian Generations Party [Muhammad KHALAYLEH];
Jordanian Green Party [Muhammad BATAYNEH]; Jordanian Labor Party [Dr.
Mazin Sulayman Jiryis HANNA]; Jordanian Peace Party; Jordanian People's
Committees Movement; Jordanian People's Democratic Party (Hashd) [Ahmad
YUSUF]; Jordanian Rafah Party; Jordanian Renaissance Party; Mission
Party; Nation Party [Ahmad al-HANANDEH]; National Action Party (Haqq)
[Tariq al-KAYYALI]; National Constitutional Party [Abdul Hadi MAJALI];
National Popular Democratic Movement [Mahmud al-NUWAYHI]; Progressive
Party [Fawwaz al-ZUBI] |
|
Kazakhstan
|
Adilet (Justice) [Maksut NARIKBAYEV, Zeynulla ALSHIMBAYEV, Bakhytbek
AKHMETZHAN, Yerkin ONGARBAYEV, Tolegan SYDYKOV] (formerly Democratic
Party of Kazakhstan); Agrarian and Industrial Union of Workers Block or
AIST (Agrarian Party and Civic Party); Ak Zhol Party (Bright Path)
[Alikhan BAIMENOV]; Auyl (Village) [Gani KALIYEV]; Communist Party of
Kazakhstan or KPK [Serikbolsyn ABDILDIN]; Communist People's Party of
Kazakhstan [Vladislav KOSAREV]; National Social Democratic Party
(NSDP)[Zharmakhan TUYAKBAY]; Nur-Otan [Bakhytzhan ZHUMAGULOV] (the
Agrarian, Asar, and Civic parties merged with Otan); Patriots' Party
[Gani KASYMOV]; Rukhaniyat (Spirituality) [Altynshash ZHAGANOVA] |
|
Kenya
|
Forum for the Restoration of Democracy-Kenya or FORD-Kenya [Musikari
KOMBO]; Forum for the Restoration of Democracy-People or FORD-People
[Simeon NYACHAE]; Kenya African National Union or KANU [Uhuru
KENYATTA]; National Rainbow Coalition-Kenya or NARC-Kenya [Raphael
TUJU]; Orange Democratic Movement or ODM [Raila ODINGA]; Orange
Democratic Movement-Kenya or ODM-K [Kalonzo MUSYOKA]; Party of National
Unity or PNU [Mwai KIBAKI] |
|
Kiribati
|
Boutokaan Te Koaua Party or BTK [Taberannang TIMEON]; Maneaban Te Mauri
Party or MTM [Teburoro TITO]; Maurin Kiribati Pati or MKP; National
Progressive Party or NPP [Dr. Harry TONG]
note: there is no tradition of formally
organized political parties in Kiribati; they more closely resemble
factions or interest groups because they have no party headquarters,
formal platforms, or party structures |
|
Korea, North
|
major party - Korean Workers' Party or KWP [KIM Jong Il]; minor parties
- Chondoist Chongu Party [RYU Mi Yong] (under KWP control), Social
Democratic Party [KIM Yong Dae] (under KWP control) |
|
Korea, South
|
Creative Korea Party or CKP [MOON Kook-hyun]; Democratic Labor Party or
DLP [CHUN Young-se]; Grand National Party or GNP [KANG Jae-sup];
Liberty Forward Party or LFP [SIM Dae-pyung]; United Democratic Party
or UDP [SOHN Hak-kyu] |
|
Kosovo
|
Albanian Christian Democratic Party of Kosovo or PShDK [Mark KRASNIQI];
Alliance for the Future of Kosovo or AAK [Ramush HARADINAJ]; Alliance
of Independent Social Democrats of Kososvo and Metohija or SDSKIM
[Slavisa PETKOVIC]; Autonomous Liberal Party of SLS [Slobodan
PETROVIC]; Bosniak Vakat Coalition [Dzezair MURATI]; Citizens'
Initiative of Gora or GIG [Murselj HALILI]; Council of Independent
Social Democrats of Kosovo or SNSDKIM [Ljubisa ZIVIC]; Democratic
League of Dardania or LDD [Nexhat DACI]; Democratic League of Kosovo or
LDK [Fatmir SEJDIU]; Democratic Party of Ashkali of Kosovo or PDAK
[Sabit RAHMANI]; Democratic Party of Kosovo or PDK [Hashim THACI];
Kosovo Democratic Turkish Party of KDTP [Mahir YAGCILAR]; New
Democratic Initiative of Kosovo or IRDK [Xhevdet NEZIRAJ]; New
Democratic Party or ND [Branislav GRBIC]; New Kosovo Alliance or AKR
[Behxhet PACOLLI]; Popular Movement of Kosovo or LPK [Emrush XHEMAJLI];
Reform Party Ora; Serb National Party or SNS [Mihailo SCEPANOVIC];
Serbian Kosovo and Metohija Party or SKMS [Dragisa MIRIC]; United Roma
Party of Kosovo or PREBK [Haxhi Zylfi MERXHA]; Democratic Action Party
or SDA [Numan BALIC]; Serbian List for Kosovo and Metohija [Oliver
IVANOVIC]; Serbian National Council of Northern Kosovo and Metohija or
SNV [Milan IVANOVIC]; Democratic Party of Bosniaks [Dzezair MURAIT];
Democratic Party Vatan [Sadik IDRIZI]; Gorani Citizens Initiative
[Mursel HALJILJI]; Serbian People Party [Mihailo SCEPANOVIC]; Serbian
Democratic Party of Kosovo and Metohija [Slavisa PETKOVIC]; Serb
Liberal Party [Slobodan PETROVIC]; Independent League of
Social-Democrats of Kosovo and Metohija [Ljubisa ZIVIC] |
|
Kuwait
|
none; formation of political parties is in practice illegal, but is not forbidden by law
|
|
Kyrgyzstan
|
Ak Jol [Avtandil ARABAYEV, Elmira IBRAIMOVA, Vladimir NIFADYEV,
co-chairs]; Ar-Namys (Dignity) Party [Emil ALIYEV]; Asaba (Banner
National Revival Party) [Azimbek BEKNAZAROV]; Ata-Meken (Fatherland)
[Omurbek TEKEBAYEV]; Democratic Movement of Kyrgyzstan or DDK [Viktor
TCHETRNOMORETS]; Erkindik (Freedom) Party [Topchubek TURGUNALIYEV];
Moya Strana (My Country Party of Action) [Medet SADYRKULOV]; Party of
Communists of Kyrgyzstan or KCP [Ishak MASALIYEV]; Party of Justice and
Progress [Muratbek IMANALIEV]; Party of Peasants [Esengul ISAKOV];
Republican Party of Labor and Unity [Tabaldy OROZALIYEV]; Sanjira (Tree
of Life) [Ednan KARABAYEV]; Social Democratic Party [Almaz ATAMBAYEV];
Union of Democratic Forces [Kubatbek BAIBOLOV] |
|
Laos
|
Lao People's Revolutionary Party or LPRP [CHOUMMALI Saignason]; other parties proscribed
|
|
Latvia
|
First Party of Latvia/Latvia's Way or LPP/LC [Ainars SLESERS, Ivars
GODMANIS]; For Human Rights in a United Latvia or PCTVL [Jakovs
PLINERS]; For the Fatherland and Freedom/Latvian National Independence
Movement or TB/LNNK [Roberts ZILE, Maris GRINBLATS]; Harmony Center or
SC [Janis URBANOVICS, Nils USAKOVS]; Latvian Social Democratic Workers
Party (Social Democrats) or LSDSP [Juris BOJARS]; Latvian Socialist
Party or LSP [Alfreds RUBIKS]; New Democrats or JD [Maris GULBIS]; New
Era Party or JL [Einars REPSE, Krisjanis KARINS]; People's Party or TP
[Aigars KALVITIS]; The Union of Latvian Greens and Farmers Party or ZZS
[Augusts BRIGMANIS] |
|
Lebanon
|
14 March Coalition:
Democratic Gathering Bloc [Walid JUNBLATT, leader of Progressive
Socialist Party]; Democratic Left [Ilyas ATALLAH]; Democratic Renewal
Movement [Nassib LAHUD]; Future Movement Bloc [Sa'ad HARIRI]; Kataeb
Party [Amine GEMAYEL]; Lebanese Forces [Samir JA'JA]; Tripoli
Independent Bloc
Change and Reform Alliance Bloc: Free Patriotic Movement [Michel AWN]; Metn Bloc [Michel MURR]; Popular Bloc [Elias SKAFF]; Tashnaq
Hizballah and Amal Alliance:
Development and Resistance Bloc [Nabih BERRI, leader of Amal Movement];
Hizballah Party [Hassan NASRALLAH]; Loyalty to the Resistance [Mohammad
RA'AD]; Nasserite Popular Movement [Ussama SAAD]; Syrian Ba'th Party
[Sayez SHUKR]; Syrian Social Nationalist Party [Ali QANSO] |
|
Lesotho
|
Alliance of Congress Parties or ACP; All Basotho Convention or ABC
[Thomas THABANE]; Basotholand African Congress or BAC [Khauhelo
RALITAPOLE]; Basotho Congress Party or BCP [Ntsukunyane MPHANYA];
Basotho National Party or BNP [Maj. Gen. Justin Metsing LEKHANYA];
Kopanang Basotho Party or KPB [Pheelo MOSALA]; Lesotho Congress for
Democracy or LCD (the governing party) [Pakalitha MOSISILI]; Lesotho
Education Party or LEP [Thabo PITSO]; Lesotho Workers Party or LWP
[Macaefa BILLY]; Marematlou Freedom Party or MFP [Vincent MALEBO];
National Independent Party or NIP [Anthony MANYELI]; New Lesotho
Freedom Party or NLFP [Manapo MAJARA]; Popular Front for Democracy or
PFD [Lekhetho RAKUOANE]; Sefate Democratic Union or SDU [Bofihla
NKUEBE]; Social Democratic Party of SDP [Masitise SELESO] |
|
Liberia
|
Alliance for Peace and Democracy or APD [Togba-na TIPOTEH]; Coalition
for the Transformation of Liberia or COTOL [H. Varney SHERMAN];
Congress for Democratic Change or CDC [George WEAH]; Liberty Party or
LP [Charles BRUMSKINE]; National Patriotic Party or NPP [Roland
MASSAQUOI]; Unity Party or UP [Ellen JOHNSON SIRLEAF] |
|
Libya
|
none
|
|
Liechtenstein
|
Patriotic Union or VU [Adolf HEEB] (was Fatherland Union); Progressive
Citizens' Party or FBP [Marcus VOGT]; The Free List or FL [Claudia
HEEB-FLECK and Egon MATT] |
|
Lithuania
|
Civil Democracy Party or PDP [Viktor MUNTIANAS]; Electoral Action of
Lithuanian Poles [Valdemar TOMASZEVSKI]; National Farmer's Union or VLS
[Kazimiera PRUNSKIENE]; Homeland Union/Conservative Party or TS
[Andrius KUBILIUS]; Labor Party or DP [Viktor USPASKICH]; Liberal and
Center Union [Arturas ZUOKAS]; Liberal Democrats/Order and Justice
Party or TT [Rolandas PAKSAS]; Liberal Movement or LLS [Petras
AUSTREVICIUS]; Social Democratic Party or LSDP [Gediminas KIRKILAS];
Social Liberal/New Union [Arturas PAULAUSKAS]; Young Lithuania and New
Nationalists [Stanislovas BUSKEVICIUS] |
|
Luxembourg
|
Alternative Democratic Reform Party or ADR [Robert MENLEN]; Christian
Social People's Party or CSV [Francois BILTGEN] (also known as
Christian Social Party or PCS); Democratic Party or DP [Claude MEISCH];
Green Party [Francois BAUSCH]; Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party or
LSAP [Alex BODRY]; dei Lenk/la Gauche (the Left); other minor parties |
|
Macau
|
Civil Service Union [Jose Maria Pereira COUTINHO]; Development Union
[KWAN Tsui-hang]; Macau Development Alliance [Angela LEONG On-kei];
Macau United Citizens' Association [CHAN Meng-kam]; New Democratic
Macau Association [Antonio NG Kuok-cheong]; United Forces
note: there is no political party ordinance,
so there are no registered political parties; politically active groups
register as societies or companies |
|
Macedonia
|
Democratic Alliance [Pavle TRAJANOV]; Democratic League of Bosniaks
[Rafet MUMINOVIC]; Democratic Party of Albanians or PDSh/DPA [Menduh
THACI]; Democratic Party of Serbs [Ivan STOILJKOVIC]; Democratic Party
of Turks [Kenan HASIPI]; Democratic Renewal of Macedonia [Liljana
POPOVSKA]; Democratic Union of Albanians or BDSh [BardYL MAHMUTI];
Democratic Union of Vlachs for Macedonia [Mitko KOSTOV]; Democratic
Union for Integration or BDI/DUI [Ali AHMETI]; Internal Macedonian
Revolutionary Organization-Democratic Party for Macedonian National
Unity or VMRO-DPMNE [Nikola GRUEVSKI]; Internal Macedonian
Revolutionary Organization-People's Party or VMRO-Narodna [Gjorgji
TRENDAFILOV]; League for Democracy [Gjorgi MARJANOVIC]; Liberal
Democratic Party or LDP [Jovan MANSIEVSKI]; Liberal Party [Stojan
ANDOV]; National Alternative [Harun ALIU]; National Democratic Union or
BDK [Hysni SHAQIR]; New Social Democratic Party or NSDP [Tito
PETKOVSKI]; Party for Democratic Prosperity or PPD/PDP [Abduljhadi
VEJSELI]; Party for European Future or PEI [Fijat CANOSKI]; Party of
Free Democrats or PSD [Ljubco JORDANOVSKI]; Social Democratic Alliance
of Macedonia or SDSM [Radmila SEKERINSKA]; Socialist Party of Macedonia
or SP [Ljubisav IVANOV-ZINGO]; Union of Romas or SR [Shaban SALIU];
United Party for Emancipation or OPE [Nezdet MUSTAFA] |
|
Madagascar
|
Association for the Rebirth of Madagascar or AREMA [Pierrot
RAJAONARIVELO]; Democratic Party for Union in Madagascar or PSDUM [Jean
LAHINIRIKO]; Economic Liberalism and Democratic Action for National
Recovery or LEADER/Fanilo [Herizo RAZAFIMAHALEO]; Fihaonana Party or FP
[Guy-Willy RAZANAMASY]; I Love Madagascar or TIM [Marc RAVALOMANANA];
Renewal of the Social Democratic Party or RPSD [Evariste MARSON] |
|
Malawi
|
Alliance for Democracy or AFORD; Congress for National Unity or CONU;
Democratic Progressive Party or DPP [Bingu wa MUTHARIKA]; Malawi
Congress Party or MCP [John TEMBO]; Malawi Democratic Party or MDP
[Kampelo KALUA]; Malawi Forum for Unity and Development or MAFUNDE
[George MNESA]; Mgwirizano Coalition or MC [Gwandaguluwe CHAKUAMBA]
(coalition of MAFUNDE, MDP, MGODE, NUP, PETRA, PPM, RP); Movement for
Genuine Democratic Change or MGODE [Sam Kandodo BANDA]; National
Democratic Alliance or NDA [Brown MPINGANJIRA]; National Unity Party or
NUP [Harry CHIUME]; People's Progressive Movement or PPM [Aleke BANDA];
People's Transformation Movement or PETRA [Kamuzu CHIBAMBO]; Republican
Party or RP [Gwandaguluwe CHAKUAMBA]; United Democratic Front or UDF
[Bakili MULUZI] |
|
Malaysia
|
National Front (Barisan Nasional) or BN (ruling coalition) consists of
the following parties: Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia Party or PGRM [KOH Tsu
Koon - acting]; Liberal Democratic Party (Parti Liberal Demokratik -
Sabah) or LDP [LIEW Vui Keong]; Malaysian Chinese Association
(Persatuan China Malaysia) or MCA [ONG Ka Ting]; Malaysian Indian
Congress (Kongres India Malaysia) or MIC [S. Samy VELLU]; Parti Bersatu
Rakyat Sabah or PBRS [Joseph KURUP]; Parti Bersatu Sabah or PBS [Joseph
PAIRIN Kitingan]; Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu or PBB [Abdul TAIB
Mahmud]; Parti Rakyat Sarawak or PRS [James MASING]; Sabah Progressive
Party (Parti Progresif Sabah) or SAPP [YONG Teck Lee]; Sarawak United
People's Party (Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sarawak) or SUPP [George CHAN Hong
Nam]; United Malays National Organization or UMNO [ABDULLAH bin Ahmad
Badawi]; United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organization
(Pertubuhan Pasko Momogun Kadazan Dusun Bersatu) or UPKO [Bernard
DOMPOK]; People's Progressive Party (Parti Progresif Penduduk Malaysia)
or PPP [M.Kayveas]; Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party or SPDP
[William MAWAN]); opposition parties: Democratic Action Party (Parti
Tindakan Demokratik) or DAP [KARPAL Singh]; Islamic Party of Malaysia
(Parti Islam se Malaysia) or PAS [Abdul HADI Awang]; People's Justice
Party (Parti Keadilan Rakyat) or PKR [WAN AZIZAH Wan Ismael]; Sarawak
National Party or SNAP [Edwin DUNDANG] |
|
Maldives
|
Adhaalath (Justice) Party or AP [Abdul Majeed Abdul BARI]; Dhivehi
Rayyithunge Party (Maldivian People's Party) or DRP [Maumoon Abdul
GAYOOM]; Islamic Democratic Party or IDP [Omar NASEER]; Maldivian
Democratic Party or MDP [Mohamed NASHEED]; note - political parties
were allowed to register in June 2005 |
|
Mali
|
Alliance for Democratic Change (political group comprised mainly of
Tuareg from Mali's northern region); African Solidarity for Democracy
and Independence or SADI [Oumar MARIKO, secretary general]; Alliance
for Democracy and Progress or ADP (a coalition of political parties
including ADEMA and URD formed in December 2006 to support the
presidential candidacy of Amadou TOURE); Alliance for Democracy or
ADEMA [Diounconda TRAORE]; Convergence 2007 [Soumeylou Boubeye MAIGA];
Front for Democracy and the Republic or FDR (a coalition of political
parties including RPM and PARENA formed to oppose the presidential
candidacy of Amadou TOURE); National Congress for Democratic Initiative
or CNID [Mountaga TALL]; Party for Democracy and Progress or PDP [Me
Idrissa TRAORE]; Party for National Renewal or PARENA [Tiebile DRAME];
Patriotic Movement for Renewal or MPR [Choguel MAIGA]; Rally for
Democracy and Labor or RDT; Rally for Mali or RPM [Ibrahim Boubacar
KEITA]; Sudanese Union/African Democratic Rally or US/RDA [Mamadou
Bamou TOURE]; Union for Democracy and Development or UDD [Moussa Balla
COULIBALY]; Union for Republic and Democracy or URD [Soumaila CISSE] |
|
Malta
|
Alternativa Demokratika/Alliance for Social Justice or AD [Harry
VASSALLO]; Malta Labor Party or MLP [Alfred SANT]; Nationalist Party or
PN [Lawrence GONZI] |
|
Marshall Islands
|
traditionally there have been no formally organized political parties;
what has existed more closely resembles factions or interest groups
because they do not have party headquarters, formal platforms, or party
structures; the following two "groupings" have competed in legislative
balloting in recent years - Aelon Kein Ad Party [Michael KABUA] and
United Democratic Party or UDP [Litokwa TOMEING] |
|
Mauritania
|
Alternative or El-Badil; Centrist Reformists (independent moderate
Islamists); Coalition for Forces for Democratic Change or CFCD
(coalition of political parties including APP, Centrist Reformists
(independent moderate Islamists), HATEM-PMUC, PUDS, RD, RFD, UFP);
Democratic and Social Republican Party or PRDS; Democratic Renewal or
RD; Mauritanian Party for Unity and Change or HATEM-PMUC; Mithaq
(coalition of independents and parties associated with the former
regime including Alternative or El-Badil, PRDR, UDP, RDU); National
Rally for Freedom, Democracy and Equality or RNDLE; Popular Front or FP
[Ch'bih Ould CHEIKH MALAININE]; Popular Progressive Alliance or APP
[Messoud Ould BOULKHEIR]; Rally of Democratic Forces or RFD [Ahmed Ould
DADDAH]; Rally for Democracy and Unity or RDU [Ahmed Ould SIDI BABA];
Republican Party for Democracy and Renewal or PRDR [Boullah Ould
MOGUEYA] (formerly ruling Democratic and Social Republican Party or
PRDS); Socialist and Democratic Unity Party or PUDS; Union for
Democracy and Progress or UDP [Naha Mint MOUKNASS]; Union of Democratic
Centre or UCD; Union of the Forces for Progress or UFP |
|
Mauritius
|
Alliance Sociale or AS [Navinchandra RAMGOOLAM] (governing coalition -
includes MLD, MMSM, MR, MSD, PMXD); Mauritian Labor Party or MLP
[Navinchandra RAMGOOLAM]; Mauritian Militant Movement or MMM [Paul
BERENGER]; Mauritian Socialist Militant Movement or MMSM [Madan
DOLLOO]; Militant Socialist Movement or MSM [Nando BODHA]; Mouvement
Republicain or MR [Jayarama VALAYDEN]; Parti Mauricien Xavier Duval or
PMXD [Xavier Luc DUVAL]; Rodrigues Movement or MR [Joseph (Nicholas)
Von MALLY]; Rodrigues Peoples Organization or OPR [Serge CLAIR] |
|
Mayotte
|
Democratic Front or FD [Youssouf MOUSSA]; Mahoran Popular Movement or
MPM [Ahmed MADI]; Federation of Mahorans or UMP-RPR [Mansour
KAMARDINE]; Force of the Rally and the Alliance for Democracy or FRAP;
Movement for Department Status Mayotte or MDM [Mouhoutar SALIM];
Renewed Communist Party of Mayotte or MRC [Omar SIMBA]; Socialist Party
or PS [Ibrahim ABUBACAR] (local branch of French Parti Socialiste);
Union for French Democracy or UDF [Henri JEAN-BAPTISTE] |
|
Mexico
|
Convergence for Democracy or CD [Luis MALDONADO Venegas]; Institutional
Revolutionary Party or PRI [Beatriz PAREDES]; Labor Party or PT
[Alberto ANAYA Gutierrez]; Mexican Green Ecological Party or PVEM
[Jorge Emilio GONZALEZ Martinez]; National Action Party (Partido Accion
Nacional) or PAN [German MARTINEZ Cazares]; New Alliance Party (Partido
Nueva Alianza) or PNA [Jorge Antonio KAHWAGI Macari]; Party of the
Democratic Revolution (Partido de la Revolucion Democratica) or PRD
[Leonel COTA Montano]; Social Democratic and Peasant Alternative Party
(Partido Alternativa Socialdemocrata y Campesina) or Alternativa
[Alberto BEGNE Guerra] |
|
Micronesia, Federated States of
|
no formal parties
|
|
Moldova
|
Christian Democratic People's Party or PPCD [Iurie ROSCA]; Communist
Party of the Republic of Moldova or PCRM [Vladimir VORONIN]; Democratic
Party or PD [Dumitru DIACOV]; Liberal Democratic Party or PLDM [Vladmir
FILAT]; National Liberal Party or PNL [Vitalia PAVLICENKO]; Our Moldova
Alliance or AMN [Serafim URECHEAN]; Party for Social Democracy or PDSM
[Dumitru BRAGHIS]; Social Liberal Party or PSL [Oleg SEREBRIAN] |
|
Monaco
|
Union for Monaco or UPM (including National Union for the Future of
Monaco or UNAM); Rally and Issues for Monaco or REM; Monaco Together |
|
Mongolia
|
Citizens Will Party [Sanjaasurengiin OYUN] (also called Civil Will);
Democratic Party or DP [Tsakhiagiyn ELBEGDORJ]; Motherland-Mongolian
New Socialist Democratic Party or M-MNSDP [Badarchyn ERDENEBAT];
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party or MPRP [Sanji BAYAR]; Mongolian
Republican Party or MRP [Bazarsadyn JARGALSAIKHAN]; People's Party or
PP [Lamjav GUNDALAI]
note: DP and Motherland Party formed
Motherland-Democracy Coalition (MDC) in 2003 and with cooperation from
Civil Will and Republican parties contested June 2004 elections as
single party; coalition was dissolved in December 2004 |
|
Montenegro
|
Albanian Alternative or AA [Vesel SINISHTAJ]; Coalition for European
Montenegro or DPS-SDP (bloc) [Milo DUKANOVIC] (includes Democratic
Party of Socialists or DPS [Milo DUKANOVIC] and Social Democratic Party
of SDP [Ranko KRIVOKAPIC]); Coalition SNP-NS-DSS (bloc) (includes
Socialist People's Party or SNP [Srdjan MILIC], People's Party of
Montenegro or NS [Predrag POPOVIC], and Democratic Serbian Party of
Montenegro or DSS [Ranko KADIC]); Democratic League-Party of Democratic
Prosperity or SPP [Mehmet BARHDI]; Democratic Union of Albanians or DUA
[Ferhat DINOSA]; Liberals and the Bosniak Party (bloc) [Miodrag
ZIVKOVIC] (includes Liberal Party of Montenegro or LP [Miodrag
ZIVKOVIC] and Bosniak Party or BS [Rafet HUSOVIC]); Movement for
Changes or PZP [Nebojsa MEDOJEVIC]; Serbian List (bloc) [Andrija
MANDIC] (includes Party of Serb Radicals or SSR [Dusko SEKULIC],
People's Socialist Party or NSS [Emilo LABUDOVIC], and Serbian People's
Party of Montenegro or SNS [Andrija MANDIC]) |
|
Montserrat
|
Montserrat Democratic Party or MDP [Lowell LEWIS]; Movement for Change
and Prosperity or MCAP [Roselyn CASSELL-SEALY]; New People's Liberation
Movement or NPLM [John A. OSBORNE] |
|
Morocco
|
Action Party or PA [Muhammad EL IDRISSI]; Alliance of Liberties or ADL
[Ali BELHAJ]; Annahj Addimocrati or Annahj [Abdellah EL HARIF]; Avant
Garde Social Democratic Party or PADS [Ahmed BENJELLOUN]; Citizen
Forces or FC [Abderrahman LAHJOUJI]; Citizen's Initiatives for
Development [Mohamed BENHAMOU]; Constitutional Union or UC [Mohamed
ABIED]; Democratic and Independence Party or PDI [Abdelwahed MAACH];
Democratic and Social Movement or MDS [Mahmoud ARCHANE]; Democratic
Forces Front or FFD; Democratic Socialist Party or PSD [Aissa
OUARDIGHI]; Democratic Society Party or PSD [Zhor CHEKKAFI]; Democratic
Union or UD [Bouazza IKKEN]; Environment and Development Party or PED
[Ahmed EL ALAMI]; Front of Democratic Forces or FFD [Thami EL KHYARI];
Independence Party (Istiqlal) or PI [Abbas el FASSI]; Justice and
Development Party or PJD [Saad Eddine El OTHMANI]; Labor Party
[Abdelkrim BENATIK]; Moroccan Liberal Party or PML [Mohamed ZIANE];
National Democratic Party or PND [Abdallah KADIRI]; National Ittihadi
Congress Party or CNI [Abdelmajid BOUZOUBAA]; National Rally of
Independents or RNI [Mustapha El MANSOURI]; National Union of Popular
Forces or UNFP [Abdellah IBRAHIM]; Parti Al Ahd or Al Ahd [Najib EL
OUAZZANI]; Party of Progress and Socialism or PPS [Ismail ALAOUI];
Party of Renewal and Equity or PRE [Chakir ACHABAR]; Party of the
Unified Socialist Left or GSU [Mohamed Ben Said AIT IDDER]; Popular
Movement or MP [Mohamed LAENSER]; Reform and Development Party or PRD
[Abderrahmane EL KOUHEN]; Social Center Party or PSC [Lahcen MADIH];
Socialist Union of Popular Forces or USFP |
|
Mozambique
|
Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frente de Liberatacao de
Mocambique) or FRELIMO [Armando Emilio GUEBUZA]; Mozambique National
Resistance-Electoral Union (Resistencia Nacional Mocambicana-Uniao
Eleitoral) or RENAMO-UE [Afonso DHLAKAMA] |
|
Namibia
|
Congress of Democrats or COD [Ben ULENGA]; Democratic Turnhalle
Alliance of Namibia or DTA [Katuutire KAURA]; Monitor Action Group or
MAG [Jurie VILJOEN]; National Democratic Movement for Change or NamDMC;
National Unity Democratic Organization or NUDO [Kuaima RIRUAKO]; Rally
for Democracy and Progress or RDP [Hidipo HAMUTENYA]; Republican Party
or RP [Henk MUDGE]; South West Africa National Union or SWANU [Rihupisa
KANDANDO]; South West Africa People's Organization or SWAPO
[Hifikepunye POHAMBA]; United Democratic Front or UDF [Justus GAROEB] |
|
Nauru
|
Democratic Party [Kennan ADEANG]; Nauru Party (informal); Nauru First (Naoero Amo) Party; note - loose multiparty system
|
|
Nepal
|
Communist Party of Nepal/United Marxist-Leninist or CPN/UML [Madhav
Kumar NEPAL]; National Democratic Party or NDP [Pashupati Shumsher
RANA] (also called Rastriya Prajantra Party or RPP); Nepali Congress
Party or NCP [Girija Prasad KOIRALA]; Nepal Sadbhavana (Goodwill) Party
or NSP - Mandal [Bhadri Prasad MANDAL]; Nepal Sadbhavana Party - Ananda
Devi [Ananda DEVI]; Nepal Workers and Peasants Party or NWPP [Narayan
Man BIJUKCHHE]; People's Front Nepal (Amik Sherchan Group); People's
Front Nepal (Chitra Bahadur Ale Group); People's Front Nepal (Chitra
Bahadur K.C. Group); Rastriya Janashakti Party or RJP [Surya Bahadur
THAPA] (split from RPP in March 2005); Samyukta Janmorcha Nepal (merged
with People's Front Nepal or PFN in 2002); United Leftist Front or UFL
[C.P. MAINALI] |
|
Netherlands
|
Christian Democratic Appeal or CDA [Jan Peter BALKENENDE]; Christian
Union Party [Andre ROUVOET]; Democrats 66 or D66 [Alexander PECHTOLD];
Green Left Party [Femke HALSEMA]; Labor Party or PvdA [Wouter BOS];
Party for Freedom or PVV [Geert WILDERS]; Party for the Animals or PvdD
[Marianne THIEME]; People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (Liberal)
or VVD [Mark RUTTE]; Reformed Political Party of SGP [Bas VAN DER
VLIES]; Socialist Party [Jan MARIJNISSEN]; plus a few minor parties |
|
Netherlands Antilles
|
Bonaire: Democratic Party of Bonaire or PDB [Jopi ABRAHAM]; Patriotic Union of Bonaire or UPB [Ramonsito BOOI]
Curacao:
Ban Vota [Norbert GEORGE]; C-93 [Stanley BROWN]; Democratic Party of
Curacao or DP [Errol HERNANDEZ]; E Mayoria [Aurelio PEDRO]; Forsa
Korsou [Nelson NAVARRO]; Liste Ni'un Paso Atras [Nelson PIERRE];
Movemiento Patriotiko Korsou [Reginald LAK]; New Antilles Movement or
MAN [Charles COOPER]; Partido Akshon Pa Prosperidat I Seguridat [Sonja
BERKEMEYER]; Partido Laboral Krusada Popular or PLKP [Errol COVA];
Party for the Restructured Antilles or PAR [Emily de JONGH-ELHAGE];
People's National Party or PNP [Ersilia DE LANNOOY]; Pidjin [Jasmin
PINEDO]; Pueblo Soberano [Herman WIELS]; Workers' Liberation Front or
FOL [Anthony GODETT]
Saba: Saba Labor Party [Akilah LEVENSTONE]; Windward Islands People's Movement or WIPM [Ray HASSELL]
Sint Eustatius:
Democratic Party of Sint Eustatius or DP-St. E [Julian WOODLEY];
Progressive Labor Party [Clyde VAN PUTTEN]; St. Eustatius Alliance
[Ingrid HOUTMAN-WHITFIELD]
Sint Maarten: Democratic Party of Sint
Maarten or DP-St. M [Sarah WESCOTT-WILLIAMS]; Freedom Slate of National
Democratic Party [Theophilus PRIEST]; National Alliance or NA [William
MARLIN]; People's Progressive Alliance or PPA [Gracita ARRINDELL]; St.
Maarten People's Party [Johan LEONARD]; United People's Labor Party
[Bienvenido RICHARDSON]
note: political parties are indigenous to each island
|
|
New Caledonia
|
Alliance pour la Caledonie or APLC [Didier LE ROUX]; Caledonian Union
or UC; Federation des Comites de Coordination des Independantistes or
FCCI [Francois BURCK]; Front National or FN [Guy GEORGE]; Front Uni de
Liberation Kanak or FULK [Ernest UNE]; Kanak Socialist Front for
National Liberation or FLNKS (includes PALIKA, UNI, UC, and UPM); Parti
de Liberation Kanak or PALIKA [Paul NEAOUTYINE and Elie POIGOUNE];
Rally for Caledonia in the Republic (anti independence) or RPCR-UMP
[Jacques LAFLEUR]; The Future Together or AE [Harold MARTIN]; Union
Nationale pour l'Independance or UNI [Paul NEAOUTYINE]; note - may no
longer exist, but Paul NEAOUTYINE has since become a president of Parti
de Liberation Kanak or PALIKA; Union Progressiste Melanesienne or UPM
[Victor TUTUGORO] |
|
New Zealand
|
ACT New Zealand [Rodney HIDE]; Green Party [Jeanette FITZSIMONS]; Maori
Party [Whatarangi WINIATA]; National Party or NP [John KEY]; New
Zealand First Party or NZFP [Winston PETERS]; New Zealand Labor Party
or NZLP [Helen CLARK]; Progressive Party [James (Jim) ANDERTON]; United
Future or UF [Peter DUNNE] |
|
Nicaragua
|
Conservative Party or PC [Azalia AVILES Salmeron]; Liberal
Constitutionalist Party or PLC [Jorge CASTILLO Quant]; Nicaraguan
Liberal Alliance or ALN [Eduardo MONTEALEGRE]; Sandinista National
Liberation Front or FSLN [Daniel ORTEGA Saavedra]; Sandinista
Renovation Movement or MRS [Enrique SAENZ Navarrete] |
|
Niger
|
Democratic and Social Convention-Rahama or CDS-Rahama [Mahamane
OUSMANE]; National Movement for a Developing Society-Nassara or
MNSD-Nassara [Hama AMADOU]; Niger Social Democratic Party or PSDN;
Nigerien Alliance for Democracy and Social Progress-Zaman Lahiya or
ANDP-Zaman Lahiya [Moumouni DJERMAKOYE]; Nigerien Party for Autonomy or
PNA-Alouma'a [Sanousi JACKOU]; Nigerien Party for Democracy and
Socialism or PNDS-Tarrayya [Issifou MAHAMADOU]; Nigerien Progressive
Party or PPN-RDA [Abdoulaye DIORI]; Rally for Democracy and Progress or
RDP-jama'a [Hamid ALGABID]; Social and Democratic Rally or RSD-Gaskiyya
[Cheiffou AMADOU] |
|
Nigeria
|
Accord Party [Ikra Aliyu BILBIS]; Action Congress or AC [Hassan ZUMI];
Alliance for Democracy or AD [Mojisoluwa AKINFENWA]; All Nigeria
Peoples' Party or ANPP [Edwin UME-EZEOKE]; All Progressives Grand
Alliance or APGA [Victor C. UMEH]; Democratic People's Party or DPP
[Jeremiah USENI]; Fresh Democratic Party [Chris OKOTIE]; Labor Party
[Dan NWANYANWU]; Movement for the Restoration and Defense of Democracy
or MRDD [Mohammed Gambo JIMETA]; National Democratic Party or NDP
[Aliyu Habu FARI]; Peoples Democratic Party or PDP [vacant]; Peoples
Progressive Alliance [Clement EBRI]; Peoples Redemption Party or PRP
[Abdulkadir Balarabe MUSA]; Peoples Salvation Party or PSP [Lawal
MAITURARE]; United Nigeria Peoples Party or UNPP [Mallam Selah JAMBO] |
|
Niue
|
Alliance of Independents or AI; Niue People's Action Party or NPP [Young VIVIAN]
|
|
Norfolk Island
|
none
|
|
Northern Mariana Islands
|
Covenant Party [Benigno R. FITIAL]; Democratic Party [Dr. Carlos S. CAMACHO]; Republican Party [Juan S. REYES]
|
|
Norway
|
Center Party [Aslaug Marie HAGA]; Christian People's Party [Dagfinn
HOYBRATEN]; Conservative Party [Erna SOLBERG]; Labor Party [Jens
STOLTENBERG]; Liberal Party [Lars SPONHEIM]; Progress Party [Siv
JENSEN]; Socialist Left Party [Kristin HALVORSEN] |
|
Oman
|
none
|
|
Pakistan
|
Awami National Party or ANP [Asfandyar Wali KHAN]; Balochistan National
Party/Hayee Group or BNP/H [Dr. Hayee BALUCH]; Baluch National
Party/Awami or BNP/A [Moheem Khan BALOCH]; Baluch National Party-Mengal
or BNP/M [Sardar Ataullah MENGAL]; Jamhoori Watan Party or JWP;
Jamiat-al-Hadith or JAH [Sajid MIR]; Jamiat-i-Islami or JI [Qazi
Hussain AHMED]; Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, Fazlur Rehman faction or JUI/F
[Fazlur REHMAN]; Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, Sami ul-HAQ faction or JUI/S
[Sami ul-HAQ]; Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan or JUP [Shah Faridul HAQ];
Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal or MMA [Qazi Hussain AHMED]; Muttahida Qaumi
Movement, or MQM [Altaf HUSSAIN]; National Alliance or NA [Ghulam
Mustapha JATOI] (merged with PML); Pakhtun Khwa Milli Awami Party or
PkMAP [Mahmood Khan ACHAKZAI]; Pakistan Awami Tehrik or PAT [Tahir ul
QADRI]; Pakistan Muslim League, Functional Group or PML/F [Pir PAGARO];
Pakistan Muslim League, Nawaz Sharif faction or PML/N [Nawaz SHARIF];
Pakistan Muslim League or PML [Chaudhry Shujaat HUSSAIN]; Pakistan
Peoples Party or PPP/S [Aftab Ahmed Khan SHERPAO]; Pakistan Peoples
Party Parliamentarians or PPPP [Bilawal Bhutto ZARDARI, chairman; Asif
Ali ZARDARI, co-chairman]; Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf or PTI [Imran
KHAN]; Tehrik-i-Islami [Allama Sajid NAQVI]
note: political alliances in Pakistan can shift frequently
|
|
Palau
|
none
|
|
Panama
|
Democratic Change or CD [Ricardo MARTINELLI]; Democratic Revolutionary
Party or PRD [Hugo GUIRAUD]; Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement or
MOLIRENA [Gisela CHUNG]; Panamenista Party or PA [Juan Carlos VARELA]
(formerly the Arnulfista Party); Patriotic Union Party or PU
(combination of the Liberal National Party or PLN and the Solidarity
Party or PS)[Jose Raul MULINO and Anibal GALINDO]; Popular Party or PP
[Rene ORILLAC] (formerly Christian Democratic Party or PDC) |
|
Papua New Guinea
|
National Alliance Party or NA [Michael SOMARE]; Papua and Niugini Union
Party or PANGU PATI [Andrew KUMBAKOR]; Papua New Guinea Party or PNGP
[Sir Mekere MORAUTA]; People's Democratic Movement or PDM [Michael
OGIO]; People's Action Party or PAP [Gabriel KAPRIS]; United Resources
Party or URP [William DUMA] (2007) |
|
Paraguay
|
Asociacion Nacional Republicana - Colorado Party or ANR [Jose Alberto
ALDERETE]; Movimiento Union Nacional de Ciudadanos Eticos or UNACE
[Enrique GONZALEZ Quintana]; Patria Querida (Beloved Fatherland Party)
or PQ [Pedro Nicolas Maraa FADUL Niella]; Partido Encuentro Nacional or
PEN [Emilio CAMACHO Paredes]; Partido Liberal Radical Autentico or PLRA
[Blas LLANO]; Partido Pais Solidario or PPS [Carlos Alberto FILIZZOLA
Pallares] |
|
Peru
|
Alliance For Progress (Alianza Para El Progreso) [Cesar ACUNA Peralta];
Alliance For The Future (Alianza Por El Futuro) or AF (a coalition of
pro-FUJIMORI parties including Cambio 90, Nueva Mayoria, and Si
Cumple); Centrist Front (Frente Del Centro) or FC (a coalition of
Accion Popular, Somos Peru, and Coordinadora Nacional de
Independientes); Independent Moralizing Front (Frente Independiente
Moralizador) or FIM; National Renovation Party (Partido Renovacion
Nacional) [Rafael REY]; National Restoration (Restauracion Nacional) or
RN [Humberto LAY Sun]; National Unity (Unidad Nacional) or UN (a
coalition of Partido Popular Cristiano and Partido Solidaridad
Nacional) [Lourdes FLORES Nano]; Peru Possible (Peru Posible) or PP
[Alejandro TOLEDO Manrique]; Peruvian Aprista Party (Partido Aprista
Peruano) or PAP [Alan GARCIA] (also referred to by its original name
Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana or APRA); Peruvian Nationalist
Party (Partido Nacionalista Peruano) or PNP [Ollanta HUMALA Tasso];
Union for Peru (Union por el Peru) or UPP [Aldo ESTRADA Choque] |
|
Philippines
|
Genuine Opposition or GO (coalition of oppositon parties formed to
contest the 2007 elections); Kabalikat Ng Malayang Pilipino or Kampi
[Ronaldo PUNO]; Laban Ng Demokratikong Pilipino (Struggle of Filipino
Democrats) or LDP [Edgardo ANGARA]; Lakas Ng Edsa (National Union of
Christian Democrats) or Lakas [Jose DE VENECIA]; Liberal Party or LP
[Manuel ROXAS]; Nacionalista [Manuel VILLAR]; National People's
Coalition or NPC [Frisco SAN JUAN]; PDP-Laban [Aquilino PIMENTEL];
People's Reform Party [Miriam Defensor SANTIAGO]; PROMDI [Emilio
OSMENA]; Pwersa Ng Masang Pilipino (Party of the Philippine Masses) or
PMP [Joseph ESTRADA]; Reporma [Renato DE VILLA] |
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Pitcairn Islands
|
none
|
|
Poland
|
Civic Platform or PO [Donald TUSK]; Democratic Left Alliance or SLD
[Wojciech OLEJNICZAK]; Democratic Party or PD [Janusz ONYSZKIEWICZ];
German Minority of Lower Silesia or MNSO [Henryk KROLL]; Law and
Justice or PiS [Jaroslaw KACZYNSKI]; League of Polish Families or LPR
[Sylwester CHRUSZCZ]; Left and Democrats (LiD) (a coalition formed by
the SLD, PD, SDPL, and UP) [Wojciech OLEJNICZAK]; Polish People's Party
or PSL [Waldemar PAWLAK]; Samoobrona or SO [Andrzej LEPPER]; Social
Democratic Party of Poland or SDPL [Marek BOROWSKI]; Union of Labor or
UP [Andrzej SPYCHALSKI] |
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Portugal
|
Democratic and Social Center/Popular Party or CDS/PP [Paulo PORTAS];
Green Ecologist Party (The Greens) or PEV [leadership commission
elected by members]; Portuguese Communist Party or PCP [Jeronimo DE
SOUSA]; Portuguese Socialist Party or PS [Jose SOCRATES Carvalho Pinto
de Sousa]; Social Democratic Party or PSD [Luis Filipe MENEZES]; The
Left Bloc or BE [Franciso Anacleto LOUCA]; Unitarian Democratic
Coalition or CDU [Jeronimo DE SOUSA] (includes PCP and PEV) |
|
Puerto Rico
|
National Democratic Party [Roberto PRATS]; National Republican Party of
Puerto Rico [Dr. Tiody FERRE]; New Progressive Party or PNP [Pedro
ROSSELLO] (pro-US statehood); Popular Democratic Party or PPD [Anibal
ACEVEDO-VILA] (pro-commonwealth); Puerto Rican Independence Party or
PIP [Ruben BERRIOS Martinez] (pro-independence) |
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Qatar
|
none
|
|
Romania
|
Conservative Party or PC [Daniela POPA] (formerly Humanist Party or
PUR); Democratic Liberal Party or PDL [Emil BOC]; Democratic Union of
Hungarians in Romania or UDMR [Bela MARKO]; National Liberal Party or
PNL [Calin POPESCU-TARICEANU]; Romania Mare Party (Greater Romania
Party) or PRM [Corneliu Vadim TUDOR]; Social Democratic Party or PSD
[Mircea Dan GEOANA] (formerly Party of Social Democracy in Romania or
PDSR) |
|
Russia
|
Agrarian Party [Vladimir PLOTNIKOV]; A Just Russia or JR [Sergey
MIRONOV] (formed from the merger of three small political parties:
Rodina (Motherland), Pensioners Party, and Party of Life); Civic Force
[Mikhail BARSHCHEVSKIY]; Communist Party of the Russian Federation or
CPRF [Gennadiy Andreyevich ZYUGANOV]; Democratic Party [Andrey
BOGDANOV]; Green Party [Anatoliy PANFILOV]; Liberal Democratic Party of
Russia or LDPR [Vladimir Volfovich ZHIRINOVSKIY]; Party of Russia's
Rebirth [Gennadiy SELEZNEV]; Patriots of Russia [Gennadiy SEMIGIN];
Peace and Unity Party [Sazhi UMALATOVA]; People's Union [Sergey
BABURIN]; Social Justice Party [Arkadiy GAYDAMAK]; Union of Right
Forces or SPS [Nikita BELYKH]; United Russia or UR [Boris
Vyacheslavovich GRYZLOV]; Yabloko Party [Grigoriy Alekseyevich
YAVLINSKIY] |
|
Rwanda
|
Centrist Democratic Party or PDC [Alfred MUKEZAMFURA]; Democratic
Popular Union of Rwanda or UDPR [Adrien RANGIRA]; Democratic Republican
Movement or MDR [Celestin KABANDA] (officially banned); Islamic
Democratic Party or PDI [Andre BUMAYA]; Liberal Party or PL [Protais
MITALI]; Party for Democratic Renewal (officially banned); Rwandan
Patriotic Front or RPF [Paul KAGAME]; Social Democratic Party or PSD
[Vincent BIRUTA] |
|
Saint Barthelemy
|
Action-Equilibre-Transparence [Maxime DESOUCHES]; Ensemble pour
Saint-Barthelemy [Benoit CHAUVIN]; Saint-Barth d'Abord! or SBA [Bruno
MAGRAS]; Tous Unis pour Saint-Barthelemy [Karine MIOT-RICHARD] |
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Saint Helena
|
none
|
|
Saint Kitts and Nevis
|
Concerned Citizens Movement or CCM [Vance AMORY]; Nevis Reformation
Party or NRP [Joseph PARRY]; People's Action Movement or PAM [Lindsay
GRANT]; Saint Kitts and Nevis Labor Party or SKNLP [Dr. Denzil DOUGLAS]
|
|
Saint Lucia
|
National Alliance or NA [George ODLUM]; Saint Lucia Freedom Party or
SFP [Martinus FRANCOIS]; Saint Lucia Labor Party or SLP [Kenneth
ANTHONY]; Sou Tout Apwe Fete Fini or STAFF [Christopher HUNTE]; United
Workers Party or UWP [Sir John COMPTON] |
|
Saint Martin
|
Union Pour le Progres or UPP [Louis Constant FLEMING]; Rassemblement
Responsabilite Reussite or RRR [Alain RICHARDSON]; Reussir Saint-Martin
[Jean-Luc HAMLET] |
|
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
|
Archipelago Tomorrow or AD affiliated with UDF/RPR list; Cap sur
l'Avenir affiliated with PRG; Left Radical Party or PRG; Rassemblement
pour la Republique or RPR (now UMP); Saint Pierre and Miquelon
2000/Avenir Miquelon or SPM 2000/AM; Socialist Party or PS; Union pour
la Democratie Francaise or UDF |
|
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
|
New Democratic Party or NDP [Arnhim EUSTACE]; Unity Labor Party or ULP
[Ralph GONSALVES] (formed by the coalition of Saint Vincent Labor Party
or SVLP and the Movement for National Unity or MNU) |
|
Samoa
|
Human Rights Protection Party or HRPP [Sailele Malielegaoi TUILA'EPA];
Samoa Christian Party or TCP [Tuala Tiresa MALIETOA]; Samoa Democratic
United Party or SDUP [LE MAMEA Ropati]; Samoa Party or SP [Su'a Rimoni
Ah CHONG]; Samoa Progressive Political Party or SPPP [Toeolesulusulu
SIUEVA] |
|
San Marino
|
Communist Refoundation or RC [Ivan FOSHI]; Ideas in Movement or IM
[Alessandro ROSSI]; National Alliance or AN [Glauco SANSOVINI]; New
Socialist Party [Augusto CASALI]; Party of Socialists and Democrats
[Claudio FELICI]; San Marino Christian Democratic Party or PDCS [Pier
Marino MENICUCCI]; San Marino Popular Alliance of Democrats or AP
[Roberto GIORGETTI]; San Marino Socialist Party or PSS [Alberto
CECCHETTI]; Socialists for Reform or SR [Renzo GIARDI]; United Left |
|
Sao Tome and Principe
|
Force for Change Democratic Movement or MDFM [Tome Soares da VERA
CRUZ]; Independent Democratic Action or ADI [[Patrice TROVOADA];
Movement for the Liberation of Sao Tome and Principe-Social Democratic
Party or MLSTP-PSD [Rafael BRANCO]; New Way Movement or NR; Party for
Democratic Convergence or PCD [Delfim NEVES]; Ue-Kedadji coalition;
other small parties |
|
Saudi Arabia
|
none
|
|
Senegal
|
African Party of Independence [Majhemout DIOP]; And-Jef/African Party
for Democracy and Socialism or (AJ/PADS) [Landing SAVANE]; Alliance of
Forces of Progress or AFP [Moustapha NIASSE]; Democratic League-Labor
Party Movement or LD-MPT [Dr. Abdoulaye BATHILY]; Front for Socialism
and Democracy/Benno Jubel or FSD/BJ [Cheikh Abdoulaye Bamba DIEYE];
Gainde Centrist Bloc or BGC [Jean-Paul DIAS]; Independence and Labor
Party or PIT [Amath DANSOKHO]; Jef-Jel [Talla SYLLA]; National
Democratic Rally or RND [Madior DIOUF]; People's Labor Party or PTP
[Elhadji DIOUF]; Reform Party or PR [Abdourahim AGNE]; Senegalese
Democratic Party or PDS [Abdoulaye WADE]; Socialist Party or PS
[Ousmane Tanor DIENG]; SOPI Coalition [Abdoulaye WADE] (a coalition led
by the PDS); Union for Democratic Renewal or URD [Djibo Leyti KA] |
|
Serbia
|
Coalition for Sandzak or KZS [Sulejman UGLJANIN]; Democratic Party of
Albanians or PDSh [Ragmi MUSTAFA]; Democratic Party of Serbia or DSS
[Vojislav KOSTUNICA]; Democratic Party or DS [Boris TADIC]; Democratic
Union of the Valley or BDL [Skender DESTANI]; Force of Serbia Movement
or PSS [Bogoljub KARIC]; G17 Plus [Mladjan DINKIC]; League of Vojvodina
Hungarians or SVM [Istvan PASTOR]; Liberal Democratic Party or LDP
[Cedomir JOVANOVIC]; Movement for Democratic Progress of LPD [Jonuz
MUSLIU]; New Serbia or NS [Velimir ILIC]; Party of Democratic Action or
PVD [Riza HALIMI]; Roma Party or RP [Srdjan SAJN]; Serbian Radical
Party or SRS [Vojislav SESELJ (currently on trial at The Hague), but
Tomislav NIKOLIC is acting leader]; Socialist Party of Serbia or SPS
[Ivica DACIC]; Union of Roma of Serbia or URS [Rajko DJURIC] |
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Seychelles
|
Democratic Party or DP [James MANCHAM, Paul CHOW]; Seychelles National
Party or SNP [Wavel RAMKALAWAN] (formerly the United Opposition or UO);
Seychelles People's Progressive Front or SPPF [France Albert RENE,
James MICHEL] (the governing party) |
|
Sierra Leone
|
All People's Congress or APC [Ernest Bai KOROMA]; Peace and Liberation
Party or PLP [Darlington MORRISON]; People's Movement for Democratic
Change or PMDC [Charles MARGAI]; Sierra Leone People's Party or SLPP
[Solomon BEREWA]; numerous others |
|
Singapore
|
People's Action Party or PAP [LEE Hsien Loong]; Singapore Democratic
Alliance or SDA [CHIAM See Tong]; Singapore Democratic Party or SDP
[CHEE Soon Juan]; Workers' Party or WP [Sylvia LIM Swee Lian]
note: SDA includes Singapore Justice Party or SJP, Singapore National Malay Organization or PKMS, Singapore People's Party or SPP
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|
Slovakia
|
Parties in the Parliament: Christian Democratic Movement or KDH [Pavol
HRUSOVSKY]; Direction-Social Democracy or Smer-SD [Robert FICO]; Party
of the Hungarian Coalition or SMK [Pal CSAKY]; People's Party -
Movement for a Democratic Slovakia or LS-HZDS [Vladimir MECIAR]; Slovak
Democratic and Christian Union or SDKU-DS [Mikulas DZURINDA]; Slovak
National Party or SNS [Jan SLOTA]; Parties outside the Parliament:
Agrarian Party of the Provinces or ASV [Jozef VASKEBA]; Civic
Conservative Party or OKS [Peter TATAR]; Free Forum [Zuzana
MARTINAKOVA]; Hope or NADEJ [Alexandra NOVOTNA]; Left-wing Bloc or LB
[Jozef KALMAN]; Mission 21 - New Christian Democracy or MISIA 21 [Ivan
SIMKO]; Movement for Democracy or HZD [Jozef GRAPA]; New Citizens
Alliance or ANO [Pavol RUSKO]; Party of the Democratic Left or SDL
[Ladislav KOZMON]; Prosperita Slovenska or PS [Frantisek A. ZVRSKOVEC];
Slovak Communist Party or KSS [Vladimir DADO]; Slovak National
Coalition or SLNKO [Vitazoslav MORIC]; Slovak People's Party or SLS
[Jozef SASIK]; Union of the Workers of Slovakia or ZRS [Jan LUPTAK] |
|
Slovenia
|
Liberal Democracy of Slovenia or LDS [Katarina KRESAL]; New Slovenia or
NSi [Andrej BAJUK]; Slovenian Democratic Party or SDS [Janez JANSA];
Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia or DeSUS [Karl ERJAVEC];
Slovene National Party or SNS [Zmago JELINCIC]; Slovene People's Party
or SLS [Janez PODOBNIK]; Slovene Youth Party or SMS [Darko KRANJC];
Social Democrats or SD [Borut PAHOR] (formerly ZLSD); ZARES [Gregor
Golobic] |
|
Solomon Islands
|
Association of Independent Members or AIM [Thomas CHAN]; Christian
Alliance Solomon Islands or CASI [Edward RONIA]; LAFARI Party [John
GARO]; National Party [Francis HILLY]; People's Alliance Party or PAP
[Sir Allan KEMAKEZA]; Social Credit Party or SOCRED [Manasseh Damukana
SOGAVARE]; Solomon First Party [David QUAN]; Solomon Islands Democratic
Party [Gabriel SURI]; Solomon Islands Labor Party or SILP [Joses
TUHANUKU]; Solomon Islands Liberal Party [Bartholomew ULUFA'ALU];
Solomon Islands Party for Rural Advancement or SIPRA [Job D. TAUSINGA];
United Party [Sir Peter KENILOREA]
note: in general, Solomon Islands politics is characterized by fluid coalitions
|
|
Somalia
|
none
|
|
South Africa
|
African Christian Democratic Party or ACDP [Kenneth MESHOE]; African
National Congress or ANC [Jacob ZUMA]; Democratic Alliance or DA [Helen
ZILLE]; Freedom Front Plus or FF+ [Pieter MULDER]; Inkatha Freedom
Party or IFP [Mangosuthu BUTHELEZI]; New National Party or NNP;
Pan-Africanist Congress or PAC [Motsoko PHEKO]; United Democratic
Movement or UDM [Bantu HOLOMISA] |
|
Spain
|
Aragonese Party or CHA [Bizen FUSTER]; Basque Nationalist Party or PNV
[Inigo URKULLU]; Basque Solidarity or EA [Begona ERRAZTI]; Canarian
Coalition or CC [Jose Torres STINGA] (a coalition of five parties);
Convergence and Union or CiU [Artur MAS i Gavarro] (a coalition of the
Democratic Convergence of Catalonia or CDC [Artur MAS i Gavarro] and
the Democratic Union of Catalonia or UDC [Josep Antoni DURAN i
LLEIDA]); Entesa Catalonia de Progress (a Senate coalition grouping
four Catalan parties - PSC, ERC, ICV, EUA); Galician Nationalist Bloc
or BNG [Anxo Manuel QUINTANA Gonzalez]; Initiative for Catalonia Greens
or ICV [Joan SAURA i Laporta]; Navarra yes or Na Bai [Uxue BARKOS
Berruezo] (a coalition of four Navarran parties); Popular Party or PP
[Mariano RAJOY Brey]; Republican Left of Catalonia or ERC [Josep-Lluis
CAROD-ROVIRA]; Spanish Socialist Workers Party or PSOE [Jose Luis
RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO]; United Left or IU [Gaspar LLAMAZARES Trigo] (a
coalition of parties including the PCE and other small parties) |
|
Sri Lanka
|
All Ceylon Tamil Congress or ACTC [G.PONNAMBALAM]; Ceylon Workers
Congress or CWC [Arumugam THONDAMAN]; Communist Party or CP [D.
GUNASEKERA]; Eelam People's Democratic Party or EPDP [Douglas
DEVANANDA]; Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front or EPRLF
[Suresh PREMACHANDRAN]; Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna or JVP [Somawansa
AMARASINGHE]; Lanka Sama Samaja Party or LSSP [Tissa VITHARANA];
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (People's United Front) or MEP [D.
GUNAWARDENE]; National Heritage Party or JHU [Ellawala METHANANDA];
National Unity Alliance or NUA [Ferial ASHRAFF]; People's Liberation
Organization of Tamil Eelam or PLOTE [D. SIDHARTHAN]; Sri Lanka Freedom
Party or SLFP [Mahinda RAJAPAKSA]; Sri Lanka Muslim Congress or SLMC
[Rauff HAKEEM]; Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization or TELO [Selvam
ADAIKALANATHAN]; Tamil National Alliance or TNA [R. SAMPANTHAN]; Tamil
United Liberation Front or TULF [V. ANANDASANGAREE]; United National
Party or UNP [Ranil WICKREMASINGHE]; Up-country People's Front or UPF
[P. CHANDRASEKARAN] |
|
Sudan
|
National Congress Party or NCP [Umar Hassan al-BASHIR]; Sudan People's
Liberation Movement or SPLM [Salva Mayardit KIIR]; and elements of the
National Democratic Alliance or NDA including factions of the
Democratic Union Party [Muhammad Uthman al-MIRGHANI] and Umma Party
[SADIQ Siddiq al-Mahdi]; note - all political parties listed above in
the Government of National Unity |
|
Suriname
|
Alternative-1 or A-1 (a coalition of Amazone Party of Suriname or APS
[Kenneth VAN GENDEREN], Democrats of the 21st Century or D-21 [Soewarto
MOESTADJA], Nieuw Suriname or NS [Radjen Nanan PANDAY], Political Wing
of the FAL or PVF [Jiwan SITAL], Trefpunt 2000 or T-2000 [Arti
JESSURUN]); General Interior Development Party or ABOP [Ronnie
BRUNSWIJK]; National Democratic Party or NDP [Desire BOUTERSE]; New
Front for Democracy and Development or NF (a coalition that includes
A-Combination or A-Com, Democratic Alternative 1991 or DA-91, an
independent, business-oriented party [Winston JESSURUN], National Party
Suriname or NPS [Ronald VENETIAAN], United Reform Party or VHP [Ramdien
SARDJOE], Pertjaja Luhur or PL [Salam Paul SOMOHARDJO], Surinamese
Labor Party or SPA [Siegfried GILDS]); Party for Democracy and
Development in Unity or DOE [Marten SCHALKWIJK]; People's Alliance for
Progress or VVV (a coalition of Democratic National Platform 2000 or
DNP-2000 [Jules WIJDENBOSCH], Grassroots Party for Renewal and
Democracy or BVD [Tjan GOBARDHAN], Party for National Unity and
Solidarity of the Highest Order or KTPI [Willy SOEMITA], Party for
Progression, Justice, and Perseverance or PPRS [Renee KAIMAN],
Pendawalima or PL [Raymond SAPOEN]); Progressive Laborers and Farmers
Union or PALU [Jim HOK]; Progressive Political Party or PPP [Surinder
MUNGRA]; Seeka [Paul ABENA]; Union of Progressive Surinamers or UPS
[Sheoradj PANDAY] |
|
Swaziland
|
the status of political parties, previously banned, is unclear under
the new (2006) Constitution and currently being debated - the following
are considered political associations; African United Democratic Party
or AUDP [Stanley MAUNDZISA, president]; Imbokodvo National Movement or
INM; Ngwane National Liberatory Congress or NNLC [Obed DLAMINI,
president]; People's United Democratic Movement or PUDEMO [Mario
MASUKU, president] |
|
Sweden
|
Center Party [Maud OLOFSSON]; Christian Democratic Party [Goran
HAGGLUND]; Environment Party the Greens [no formal leader but party
spokespersons are Maria WETTERSTRAND and Peter ERIKSSON]; Left Party or
V (formerly Communist) [Lars OHLY]; Liberal People's Party [Jan
BJORKLUND]; Moderate Party (conservative) [Fredrik REINFELDT]; Social
Democratic Party [Mona SAHLIN] |
|
Switzerland
|
Green Party (Gruene Partei der Schweiz or Gruene, Parti Ecologiste
Suisse or Les Verts, Partito Ecologista Svizzero or I Verdi, Partida
Ecologica Svizra or La Verda) [Ruth GENNER]; Christian Democratic
People's Party (Christlichdemokratische Volkspartei der Schweiz or CVP,
Parti Democrate-Chretien Suisse or PDC, Partito Democratico-Cristiano
Popolare Svizzero or PDC, Partida Cristiandemocratica dalla Svizra or
PCD) [Christophe DARBELLAY]; Radical Free Democratic Party
(Freisinnig-Demokratische Partei der Schweiz or FDP, Parti
Radical-Democratique Suisse or PRD, Partitio Liberal-Radicale Svizzero
or PLR) [Fulvio PELLI]; Social Democratic Party (Sozialdemokratische
Partei der Schweiz or SPS, Parti Socialist Suisse or PSS, Partito
Socialista Svizzero or PSS, Partida Socialdemocratica de la Svizra or
PSS) [Hans-Juerg FEHR]; Swiss People's Party (Schweizerische
Volkspartei or SVP, Union Democratique du Centre or UDC, Unione
Democratica de Centro or UDC, Uniun Democratica dal Center or UDC)
[Ueli MAURER]; and other minor parties |
|
Syria
|
legal parties:
National Progressive Front or NPF [President Bashar al-ASAD, Dr.
Suleiman QADDAH] (includes Arab Socialist Renaissance (Ba'th) Party
[President Bashar al-ASAD]; Socialist Unionist Democratic Party
[Fadlallah Nasr Al-DIN]; Syrian Arab Socialist Union or ASU [Safwan
QUDSI]; Syrian Communist Party (two branches) [Wissal Farha BAKDASH,
Yusuf Rashid FAYSAL]; Syrian Social Nationalist Party [Ali QANSU];
Unionist Socialist Party [Fayez ISMAIL])
opposition parties not legally recognized::
Arab Democratic Socialist Union Party [Hasan Abdul AZIM]; Arab
Socialist Movement; Democratic Ba'th Party [Ibrahim MAHKOS]; People's
Democratic Party [Riad al TURK]; Revolutionary Workers' Party [Abdul
Hafeez al HAFEZ]
Kurdish parties (considered illegal):
Kurdish Democratic Front [Abdul Hamid DARWISH] (includes four parties);
Kurdish Coordination [Abdul Hakim BASHAR] (includes Azadi Party
[Kheirudin MURAD], Future Party [Masha'l TAMMO], Yekity Party [Hasam
SALE])
other parties: Nahda Party [Abdul Aziz al MISLET]; Syrian Democratic Party [Mustafa QALAAJI]
|
|
Taiwan
|
Democratic Progressive Party or DPP [Frank HSIEH or HSIEH Chang-ting]
(acting); Kuomintang or KMT (Nationalist Party) [WU Po-hsiung];
Non-Partisan Solidarity Union or NPSU [CHANG Po-ya]; People First Party
or PFP [James SOONG] |
|
Tajikistan
|
Agrarian Party of Tajikistan or APT [Amir KARAKULOV]; Democratic Party
or DPT [Mahmadruzi ISKANDAROV (imprisoned October 2005); Rahmatullo
VALIYEV, deputy]; Islamic Revival Party [Muhiddin KABIRI]; Party of
Economic Reform or PER [Olimzon BOBOYEV]; People's Democratic Party of
Tajikistan or PDPT [Emomali RAHMON]; Social Democratic Party or SDPT
[Rahmatullo ZOYIROV]; Socialist Party or SPT [Mirhuseyn NARZIYEV];
Tajik Communist Party or CPT [Shodi SHABDOLOV] |
|
Tanzania
|
Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Party of Democracy and Development)
or CHADEMA [Bob MAKANI]; Chama Cha Mapinduzi or CCM (Revolutionary
Party) [Jakaya Mrisho KIKWETE]; Civic United Front or CUF [Ibrahim
LIPUMBA]; Democratic Party [Christopher MTIKLA] (unregistered);
Tanzania Labor Party or TLP [Augustine Lyatonga MREME]; United
Democratic Party or UDP [John CHEYO] |
|
Thailand
|
Democrat Party or DP (Prachathipat Party) [ABHISIT Wetchachiwa]
(ABHISIT Vejjajiva); Matchima Thippatai (Middle Way Party) [ANONGWAN
Therpsuthin]; Motherland Party (Peua Pandin Party) [SUWIT Khunkitti];
People Power Party (Palang Prachachon Party) or PPP [SAMAK Sunthorawet]
(SAMAK Sundaravej); Royalist People's Party (Pracharaj) [SANOH
Thienthong]; Ruam Jai Thai Party (Thai Unity Party) [CHETTA
Thanacharo]; Thai Nation Party or TNP (Chat Thai Party) [BARNHARN
SILPA-ARCHA] |
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Timor-Leste
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Democratic Party or PD [Fernando de ARAUJO]; National Congress for
Timorese Reconstruction or CNRT [Xanana GUSMAO]; National Democratic
Union of Timorese Resistance or UNDERTIM [Cornelio DA Conceicao GAMA];
National Unity Party or PUN [Fernanda BORGES]; People's Party of Timor
or PPT [Jacob XAVIER]; Revolutionary Front of Independent Timor-Leste
or FRETILIN [Mari ALKATIRI]; Social Democratic Association of Timor or
ASDT [Francisco Xavier do AMARAL]; Social Democratic Party or PSD
[Mario CARRASCALAO]; Sons of the Mountain Warriors or KOTA [Manuel
TILMAN] (also known as Association of Timorese Heroes) |
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Togo
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Action Committee for Renewal or CAR [Yawovi AGBOYIBO]; Democratic
Convention of African Peoples or CDPA; Democratic Party for Renewal or
PDR; Juvento [Monsilia DJATO]; Movement of the Believers of Peace and
Equality or MOCEP; Pan-African Patriotic Convergence or CPP; Rally for
the Support for Development and Democracy or RSDD [Harry OLYMPIO];
Rally of the Togolese People or RPT [Faure GNASSINGBE]; Socialist Pact
for Renewal or PSR; Union for Democracy and Social Progress or UDPS
[Gagou KOKOU]; Union of Forces for a Change or UFC [Gilchrist OLYMPIO] |
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Tokelau
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none
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Tonga
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People's Democratic Party [Tesina FUKO]
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Trinidad and Tobago
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Congress of the People [Winston DOOKERAN]; Democratic Action Congress
or DAC [Hochoy CHARLES] (only active in Tobago); Democratic National
Alliance or DNA [Gerald YETMING] (coalition of NAR, DDPT, MND);
Movement for National Development or MND [Garvin NICHOLAS]; National
Alliance for Reconstruction or NAR [Dr. Carson CHARLES]; People's
National Movement or PNM [Patrick MANNING]; United National Congress or
UNC [Basdeo PANDAY] |
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Tunisia
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Al-Tajdid Movement [Ahmed IBRAHIM]; Constitutional Democratic Rally
Party (Rassemblement Constitutionnel Democratique) or RCD (official
ruling party) [President Zine El Abidine BEN ALI]; Democratic Forum for
Labor and Liberties or FDTL [Mustapha Ben JAFAAR]; Green Party for
Progress or PVP [Mongi KHAMASSI]; Liberal Social Party or PSL [Mondher
THABET]; Movement of Socialist Democrats or MDS [Ismail BOULAHYA];
Popular Unity Party or PUP [Mohamed BOUCHIHA]; Progressive Democratic
Party [Maya JERIBI]; Unionist Democratic Union or UDU [Ahmed INOUBLI] |
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Turkey
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Anavatan Partisi (Motherland Party) or Anavatan [Erkan MUMCU];
Democratic Left Party or DSP [Mehmet Zeki SEZER]; Democratic Society
Party or DTP [Nurettin DEMIRTAS]; Felicity Party or SP [Recai KUTAN]
(sometimes translated as Contentment Party); Justice and Development
Party or AKP [Recep Tayyip ERDOGAN]; Nationalist Action Party or MHP
[Devlet BAHCELI] (sometimes translated as Nationalist Movement Party);
People's Rise Party (Halkin Yukselisi Partisi) or HYP [Yasar Nuri
OZTURK]; Republican People's Party or CHP [Deniz BAYKAL]; Social
Democratic People's Party or SHP [Murat KARAYALCIN]; True Path Party or
DYP [Mehmet AGAR] (sometimes translated as Correct Way Party); Young
Party or GP [Cem Cengiz UZAN]
note: the parties listed above are some of the more significant of the 49 parties that Turkey had on 1 December 2004
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Turkmenistan
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Democratic Party of Turkmenistan or DPT
note:
formal opposition parties are outlawed; unofficial, small opposition
movements exist underground or in foreign countries; the two most
prominent opposition groups-in-exile have been National Democratic
Movement of Turkmenistan (NDMT) and the United Democratic Party of
Turkmenistan (UDPT); NDMT was led by former Foreign Minister Boris
SHIKHMURADOV until his arrest and imprisonment in the wake of the 25
November 2002 attack on President NYYAZOW's motorcade |
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Turks and Caicos Islands
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People's Democratic Movement or PDM [Floyd SEYMOUR]; Progressive National Party or PNP [Michael Eugene MISICK]
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Tuvalu
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there are no political parties but members of Parliament usually align themselves in informal groupings
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Uganda
|
Conservative Party or CP [Ken LUKYAMUZI]; Democratic Party or DP
[Kizito SSEBAANA]; Forum for Democratic Change or FDC [Kizza BESIGYE];
Justice Forum or JEEMA [Muhammad Kibirige MAYANJA]; National Resistance
Movement or NRM [Yoweri MUSEVENI]; Peoples Progressive Party or PPP
[Bidandi SSALI]; Ugandan People's Congress or UPC [Miria OBOTE]
note: a national referendum in July 2005 opened the way for Uganda's transition to a multi-party political system
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Ukraine
|
Christian Democratic Union [Volodymyr STRETOVYCH]; Communist Party of
Ukraine or CPU [Petro SYMONENKO]; European Party of Ukraine [Mykola
KATERYNCHUK]; Fatherland Party (Batkivshchyna) [Yuliya TYMOSHENKO];
Forward Ukraine! [Viktor MUSIYAKA]; Labor Party of Ukraine [Mykola
SYROTA]; People's Union Our Ukraine [Vyacheslav KYRYLENKO]; Party of
Industrialists and Entrepreneurs [Anatoliy KINAKH]; Party of the
Defenders of the Fatherland [Yuriy Karmazin]; People's Movement of
Ukraine (Rukh) [Borys TARASYUK]; People's Party [Volodymyr LYTVYN];
PORA! (It's Time!) party [Vladyslav KASKIV]; Progressive Socialist
Party [Natalya VITRENKO]; Reforms and Order Party [Viktor PYNZENYK];
Party of Regions [Viktor YANUKOVYCH]; Republican Party [Yuriy BOYKO];
Sobor [Anatoliy MATVIYENKO]; Social Democratic Party [Yevhen
KORNICHUK]; Social Democratic Party (United) or SDPU(o) [Yuriy
ZAHORODNIY]; Socialist Party of Ukraine or SPU [Oleksandr MOROZ];
Ukrainian People's Party [Yuriy KOSTENKO]; Viche [Inna BOHOSLOVSKA] |
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United Arab Emirates
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none
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United Kingdom
|
Conservative [David CAMERON]; Democratic Unionist Party (Northern
Ireland) [Rev. Ian PAISLEY]; Labor Party [Gordon BROWN]; Liberal
Democrats [Nick CLEGG]; Party of Wales (Plaid Cymru) [Ieuan Wyn JONES];
Scottish National Party or SNP [Alex SALMOND]; Sinn Fein (Northern
Ireland) [Gerry ADAMS]; Social Democratic and Labor Party or SDLP
(Northern Ireland) [Mark DURKAN]; Ulster Unionist Party (Northern
Ireland) [Sir Reg EMPEY] |
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United States
|
Democratic Party [Howard DEAN]; Green Party; Libertarian Party [William
(Bill) REDPATH]; Republican Party [Robert M. (Mike) DUNCAN] |
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Uruguay
|
Broad Front (Frente Amplio) - formerly known as the Progressive
Encounter/Broad Front Coalition or EP-FA [Jorge BROVETTO] (a broad
governing coalition that includes Movement of the Popular Participation
or MPP [Jose MUJICA], New Space Party (Nuevo Espacio) [Rafael
MICHELINI], Progressive Alliance (Alianza Progresista) [Rodolfo NIN
NOVOA], Socialist Party [Eduardo FERNANDEZ], the Communist Party
[Marina ARISMENDI], Uruguayan Assembly (Asamblea Uruguay) [Danilo
ASTORI], and Vertiente Artiguista [Mariano ARANA]); Colorado Party
(Foro Batllista) [Julio Maria SANGUINETTI]; National Party or Blanco
[Luis Alberto LACALLE and Jorge LARRANAGA] |
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Uzbekistan
|
Adolat (Justice) Social Democratic Party [Dilorom TASHMUHAMMEDOVA];
Democratic National Rebirth Party (Milly Tiklanish) or MTP [Hurshid
DOSMUHAMMEDOV]; Fidokorlar National Democratic Party (Self-Sacrificers)
[Ahtam TURSUNOV]; Liberal Democratic Party of Uzbekistan or LDPU [Adham
SHADMANOV; People's Democratic Party or NDP (formerly Communist Party)
[Asliddin RUSTAMOV] |
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Vanuatu
|
Jon Frum Movement [Song KEASPAI]; Melanesian Progressive Party or MPP
[Barak SOPE]; National United Party or NUP [Hem LINI]; Union of
Moderate Parties or UMP [Serge VOHOR]; Vanua'aku Pati (Our Land Party)
or VP [Edward NATAPEI]; Vanuatu Greens Party or VGP [Moana CARCASSES];
Vanuatu Republican Party or VRP [Maxime Carlot KORMAN] |
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Venezuela
|
A New Time or UNT [Manuel ROSALES]; Christian Democrats or COPEI [Cesar
PEREZ Vivas]; Communist Party of Venezuela or PCV [Jeronimo CARRERA];
Democratic Action or AD [Henry RAMOS Allup]; Fatherland for All or PPT
[Jose ALBORNOZ]; Justice First [Julio BORGES]; Movement Toward
Socialism or MAS [Hector MUJICA]; United Socialist Party of Venezuela
or PSUV [Hugo CHAVEZ]; Venezuela Project or PV [Henrique SALAS Romer];
We Can or PODEMOS [Ismael GARCIA] |
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Vietnam
|
Communist Party of Vietnam or CPV [Nong Duc MANH]; other parties proscribed
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Virgin Islands
|
Democratic Party [Arturo WATLINGTON]; Independent Citizens' Movement or ICM [Usie RICHARDS]; Republican Party [Gary SPRAUVE]
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Wallis and Futuna
|
Lua Kae Tahi (Giscardians); Mouvement des Radicaux de Gauche or MRG;
Rally for the Republic or RPR (UMP) [Clovis LOGOLOGOFOLAU]; Socialist
Party or PS; Taumu'a Lelei [Soane Muni UHILA]; Union Populaire Locale
or UPL [Falakiko GATA]; Union Pour la Democratie Francaise or UDF |
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Yemen
|
General People's Congress or GPC [Abdul-Kader BAJAMMAL]; Islamic Reform
Grouping or Islah [Mohammed Abdullah AL-YADOUMI (acting)]; Nasserite
Unionist Party [Abdal Malik al-MAKHLAFI]; National Arab Socialist Ba'th
Party [Dr. Qasim SALAM]; Yemeni Socialist Party or YSP [Ali Salih
MUQBIL]; note - there are at least seven more active political parties |
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Zambia
|
All Peoples Congress Party [Winright NGONDO]; Forum for Democracy and
Development or FDD [Edith NAWAKWI]; Heritage Party or HP [Godfrey
MIYANDA]; Liberal Progressive Front or LPF [Roger CHONGWE]; Movement
for Multiparty Democracy or MMD [Levy MWANAWASA]; National Democratic
Focus or NDF; Patriotic Front or PF [Michael SATA]; Party of Unity for
Democracy and Development or PUDD [Dan PULE]; Reform Party [Nevers
MUMBA]; United Democratic Alliance or UDA; United Liberal Party or ULP
[Sakwiba SIKOTA]; United National Independence Party or UNIP [Tilyenji
KAUNDA]; United Party for National Development or UPND [Hakainde
HICHILEMA]; Zambia Democratic Congress or ZADECO [Langton SICHONE];
Zambian Republican Party or ZRP [Benjamin MWILA] |
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Zimbabwe
|
African National Party or ANP [Egypt DZINEMUNHENZVA]; Movement for
Democratic Change or MDC [Morgan TSVANGIRAI, anti-Senate faction;
Arthur MUTAMBARA, pro-Senate faction]; Peace Action is Freedom for All
or PAFA; United Parties [Abel MUZOREWA]; United People's Party or UPP
[Daniel SHUMBA]; Zimbabwe African National Union-Ndonga or ZANU-Ndonga
[Wilson KUMBULA]; Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front or
ZANU-PF [Robert Gabriel MUGABE]; Zimbabwe African Peoples Union or ZAPU
[Agrippa MADLELA]; Zimbabwe Youth in Alliance or ZIYA
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