|
Country |
Political parties and leaders |
|
Macau
| there are no formal political parties, however, there are civic associations
that, for purposes of legislative voting, join together to form political blocs
|
| Macedonia,
The Former Yugoslav Republic of | Democratic Alternative or DA [Vasil
TUPURKOVSKI, president]; Democratic Union for Integration or DUI (also BDI) [Ali
AHMETI]; Democratic Party of Albanians or PDSH [Arben XHAFERI, president]; Internal
Macedonian Revolutionary Organization-Democratic Party for Macedonian National
Unity or VMRO-DPMNE [Ljubco GEORGIEVSKI, president]; Internal Macedonian Revolutionary
Organization-True Macedonian Reform Option or VMRO-VMRO [Boris ZMEJKOVSKI]; Internal
Macedonian Revolutionary Organization-Macedonian [Boris STOJMENOV]; Liberal Democratic
Party or LDP [Risto PENOV]; Liberal Party [Stojan ANDOV]; National Democratic
Party or PDK [Kastriot HAXHIREXHA]; Party for Democratic Prosperity or PPD [Abdurrahman
HALITI]; Social-Democratic Alliance of Macedonia or SDSM [Branko CRVENKOVSKI,
president]; Socialist Party of Macedonia or SP [Ljubisav IVANOV, president]; Together
for Macedonia coalition (including the SDSM and LDP) [Branko CRVENKOVSKI]; Union
of Romanies of Macedonia or SRM [leader NA] |
| Madagascar
| Association for the Rebirth of Madagascar or AREMA [leader vacant];
Economic Liberalism and Democratic Action for National Recovery or LEADER/Fanilo
[Herizo RAZAFIMAHALEO]; I Love Madagascar or TIM [leader NA]; National Union or
FP [leader NA]; Renewal of the Social Democratic Party or RPSD [Evariste MARSON]
|
| Malawi
| Alliance for Democracy or AFORD [Chakufwa CHIHANA]; Malawi Congress
Party or MCP [John TEMBO, president; Gwanda CHAKUAMBA, vice president]; Malawi
Democratic Party or MDP [Kampelo KALUA]; United Democratic Front or UDF [Bakili
MULUZI] - governing party |
| Malaysia
| ruling coalition parties: Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia Party or PGRM [LIM
Kheng Yaik]; Liberal Democratic Party (Parti Liberal Demokratik - Sabah) or LDP
[CHONG Kah Kiat]; Malaysian Chinese Association (Persatuan China Malaysia) or
MCA [LING Ong Ka Ting]; Malaysian Indian Congress (Kongresi India Malaysia) or
MIC [S. Samy VELLU]; Parti Bangsa Dayak Sarawak or PBDS [Leo MOGGIE]; Parti Bersatu
Sabah or PBS [Joseph PAIRIN Kitingan]; Parti Pesaka Bumiputra Bersatu or PBB [Patinggi
Haji Abdul TAIB Mahmud]; Sabah Progressive Party (Parti Progresif Sabah) or SAPP
[YONG Teck Lee]; Sarawak United People's Party (Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sarawak)
or SUPP [WONG Soon Kah]; United Malays National Organization or UMNO [ABDULLAH
Ahmad Badawi]; United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organization (Pertubuhan
Pasko Momogun Kadazan Dusun Bersatu) or UPKO [leader NA]; opposition parties:
Democratic Action Party (Parti Tindakan Demokratik) or DAP [KERK Kim Hock]; Islamic
Party of Malaysia (Parti Islam se Malaysia) or PAS [Abdul HADI Awang]; National
Justice Party (Parti Keadilan Nasional) or Keadilan [WAN AZIZAH Wan Ismael]; National
Front (Barisan Nasional) or BN (the ruling coalition dominated by the UMNO and
includes MCA, MIC, PGRM, PBDS, SUPP, PBB, PBS, LDP, SAPP, UPKO) [ABDULLAH Ahmad
Badawi] |
| Maldives
| although political parties are not banned, none exist |
| Mali
| Alliance for Democracy or ADEMA [Diounconda Traore KEITA, party chairman];
Block of Alternative for the Renewal of Africa or BARA [Yoro DIAKITE]; Democratic
and Social Convention or CDS [Mamadou Bakary SANGARE, chairman]; Hope 2002 [leader
NA]; Movement for the Independence, Renaissance and Integration of Africa or MIRIA
[Mohamed Lamine TRAORE, Mouhamedou DICKO]; National Congress for Democratic Initiative
or CNID [Mountaga TALL, chairman]; Party for Democracy and Progress or PDP [Me
Idrissa TRAORE]; Party for National Renewal or PARENA [Yoro DIAKITE, chairman;
Tiebile DRAME, secretary general]; Rally for Democracy and Labor or RDT [Ali GNANGADO];
Rally for Democracy and Progress or RDP [Almamy SYLLA, chairman]; Rally for Mali
or RPM [Ibrahim Bonbasor KEITA, chairman]; Sudanese Union/African Democratic Rally
or US/RDA [Mamadou Bamou TOURE, secretary general]; Union of Democratic Forces
for Progress or UFDP [Youssouf TOURE, secretary general]; Union for Democracy
and Development or UDD [Moussa Balla COULIBALY] |
|
Malta
| Alternativa Demokratika/Alliance for Social Justice or AD [Harry VASSALLO];
Malta Labor Party or MLP [Alfred SANT]; Nationalist Party or PN [Edward FENECH
ADAMI] |
| Man,
Isle of | Man Labor Party [leader NA]; Alliance for Progressive Government
[leader NA]; Man Nationalist Party [leader NA]
note: most members
sit as independents |
| 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
- Kabua Party [Imata KABUA] and United Democratic Party or UDP [Litokwa TOMEING]
|
| Martinique
| Martinique Communist Party or PCM [Pierre SUEDILLE]; Martinique Independence
Movement or MIM [Alfred MARIE-JEANNE]; Martinique Progressive Party or PPM [Camille
DARSIERES]; Martinique Socialist Party or PMS [Ernest WAN-AJOUHU]; Movement of
Democrats and Ecologists for a Sovereign Martinique or Modemas [Garcin MALSA];
Rally for the Republic or RPR [Michel CHARLONE]; Socialist Revolution Group or
GRS [Philippe PIERRE-CHARLES]; Union for French Democracy or UDF [Jean MAREN]
|
| Mauritania
| Action for Change or AC [Messoud Ould BOULKHEIR]; Alliance for Justice
and Democracy or AJD [Kebe ABDOULAYE]; Democratic and Social Republican Party
or PRDS (ruling party) [President Maaouya Ould Sid Ahmed TAYA]; Mauritanian Party
for Renewal and Concorde or PMRC [Molaye El Hassen Ould JIYID]; National Union
for Democracy and Development or UNDD [Tidjane KOITA]; Party for Liberty, Equality
and Justice or PLEJ [Daouda M'BAGNIGA]; Popular Front or FP [Ch'bih Ould CHEIKH
MALAININE]; Popular Progress Alliance or APP [Mohamed El Hafed Ould ISMAEL]; Popular
Social and Democratic Union or UPSD [Mohamed Mahmoud Ould MAH]; Progress Force
Union or UFP [Mohamed Ould MAOULOUD]; Rally of Democratic Forces or RFD [Ahmed
Ould DADDAH]; Rally for Democracy and Unity or RDU [Ahmed Ould SIDI BABA]; Union
for Democracy and Progress or UDP [Naha Mint MOUKNASS]
note: the Action
for Change party was banned in January 2002; parties legalized by constitution
ratified 12 July 1991, however, politics continue to be tribally based |
| Mauritius
| Hizbullah [Cehl Mohamed FAKEEMEEAH]; Mauritian Labor Party or MLP [Navinchandra
RAMGOOLAM]; Mauritian Militant Movement or MMM [Paul BERENGER] - in coalition
with MSM; Mauritian Social Democrat Party or PMSD [Charles Xavier-Luc DUVAL];
Militant Socialist Movement or MSM [Pravind JUGNAUTH] - governing party; 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 RPR [Mansour KAMARDINE]; Movement
for Department Status Mayotte or MDM [Mouhoutar SALIM]; Socialist Party or PS
(local branch of French Parti Socialiste) [Ibrahim ABUBACAR]; Union for French
Democracy or UDF [Henri JEAN-BAPTISTE] |
| Mexico
| Convergence for Democracy or CD [Dante DELGADO Ranauro]; Institutional
Revolutionary Party or PRI [Dulce Maria SAURI Riancho]; Mexican Green Ecological
Party or PVEM [Jorge Emilio GONZALEZ Martinez]; National Action Party or PAN [Luis
Felipe BRAVO Mena]; Party of the Democratic Revolution or PRD [Amalia GARCIA Medina];
Party of the Nationalist Society or PSN [Gustavo RIOJAS Santana]; Social Alliance
Party or PAS [Guillermo CALDERON Dominguez]; Workers Party or PT [Alberto ANAYA
Gutierrez] |
| Micronesia,
Federated States of | no formal parties |
|
Moldova
| Braghis Alliance [Dumitru BRAGHIS]; Communist Party or PCM [Vladimir
VORONIN, first chairman]; Popular Christian Democratic Party or PPCD [Iurie ROSCA];
Social Democratic Union (composed of Braghis Alliance and the Democratic Party
of Moldova) [leader NA] |
| Monaco
| National and Democratic Union or UND [Jean-Louis CAMPORA]; Union for
Monaco or UPM (including National Union for the Future of Monaco or UNAM [leader
NA] |
| Mongolia
| Citizens' Will Party or CWP (also called Civil Will Party or Civil Courage
Party) [Sanjaasurengyn OYUN]; Democratic Party or DP [D. DORLIGJAN]; Mongolian
People's Revolutionary Party or MPRP [Nambaryn ENKHBAYAR]; Mongolian New Socialist
Democratic Party or MNSDP [B. ERDENEBAT]; Mongolian Republican Party or MRP [B.
JARGALSAIHAN]
note: the MPRP is the ruling party |
|
Montserrat
| National Progressive Party or NPP [Reuben T. MEADE]; 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 (interim)]; Democratic and Independence Party or PDI
[Abdelwahed MAACH]; Democratic and Social Movement or MDS [Mahmoud ARCHANE]; Democratic
Socialist Party or PSD [Aissa OUARDIGHI]; Democratic Union or UD [Bouazza IKKEN];
Environment and Development Party or PED [Ahmed EL ALAMI]; Front of Democratic
Forces or FFD [Thami EL KHYARI]; Istiqlal Party (Independence Party) or PI [Abbas
El FASSI]; Justice and Development Party (formerly the Constitutional and Democratic
Popular Movement) or PJD [Abdelkrim EL KHATIB]; Moroccan Liberal Party or PML
[Mohamed ZIANE]; National Democratic Party or PND [Abdallah KADIRI]; National
Ittihadi Congress Party or CNI [Abdelmajid BOUZOUBAA]; National Popular Movement
or MNP [Mahjoubi AHERDANE]; National Rally of Independents or RNI [Ahmed OSMAN];
National Union of Popular Forces or UNFP [Abdellah IBRAHIM]; Parti Al Ahd or Al
Ahd [Najib EL OUAZZANI, chairman]; 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
[Abderrahman EL-YOUSSOUFI] |
| Mozambique
| Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frente de Liberatacao de Mocambique)
or Frelimo [Joaquim Alberto CHISSANO, president]; Mozambique National Resistance-Electoral
Union (Resistencia Nacional Mocambicana-Uniao Eleitoral) or Renamo-UE [Afonso
DHLAKAMA, president] |
| Namibia
| Congress of Democrats or COD [Ben ULENGA]; Democratic Turnhalle Alliance
of Namibia or DTA [Katuutire KAURA, president]; Monitor Action Group or MAG [Kosie
PRETORIUS]; South West Africa People's Organization or SWAPO [Sam Shafishuna NUJOMA];
United Democratic Front or UDF [Justus GAROEB] |
|
Nauru
| loose multiparty system; Democratic Party [Kennan ADEANG]; Nauru Party
(informal) [leader NA]; Naoero Amo (Nauru First) Party [leader NA] |
| Nepal
| Communist Party of Nepal/United Marxist-Leninist or CPN/UML [Madhav
Kumar NEPAL, general secretary]; National Democratic Party or NDP (also called
Rastriya Prajantra Party or RPP) [Surya Bahadur THAPA, chairman]; National People's
Front (Rastriya Jana Morcha) [Chitra Bahadur, chairman]; Nepal Sadbhavana (Goodwill)
Party or NSP [Bhadri Prasad MANDAL, acting party president]; Nepal Workers and
Peasants Party or NWPP [Narayan Man BIJUKCHHE, party chairman]; Nepali Congress
or NC [Girija Prasad KOIRALA, party president; Sushil KOIRALA, general secretary];
Samyukta Janmorcha Nepal [Lila Mani POKHAREL, general secretary] |
| Netherlands
| Christian Democratic Appeal or CDA [Maxime Jacques Marcel VERHAGEN];
Christian Union Party [Andre ROUVOET]; Democrats 66 or D66 [Boris DITTRICH]; Green
Party [Femke HALSEMA]; Labor Party or PvdA [Wouter BOS]; List Pim Fortuyn [Mat
HERBEN]; People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (Liberal) or VVD [Gerrit ZALM];
Socialist Party [Jan MARIJNISSEN]; a host of minor parties |
|
Netherlands
Antilles | Antillean Restructuring Party or PAR [Miguel POURIER];
C 93 [Stanley BROWN]; Democratic Party of Bonaire or PDB [Jopi ABRAHAM]; Democratic
Party of Curacao or DP [Errol HERNANDEZ]; Democratic Party of Sint Eustatius or
DP-St. E [Julian WOODLEY]; Democratic Party of Sint Maarten or DP-St. M [Sarah
WESCOTT-WILLIAMS]; Foundation Energetic Management Anti-Narcotics or FAME [Eric
LODEWIJKS]; Labor Party People's Crusade or PLKP [Errol COVA]; National People's
Party or PNP [Susanne F. C. CAMELIA-ROMER]; New Antilles Movement or MAN [Kenneth
GIJSBERTHA]; Patriotic Union of Bonaire or UPB [Ramon BOOI]; Patriotic Movement
of Sint Maarten or SPA [Vance JAMES, Jr.]; People's Party or PAPU [Richard Hodi];
Pro Curacao Party or PPK [Winston LOURENS]; Saba Democratic Labor Movement [Steve
HASSELL]; Saba Unity Party [Carmen SIMMONDS]; St. Eustatius Alliance or SEA [Kenneth
VAN PUTTEN]; Serious Alternative People's Party or Sapp [Julian ROLLOCKS]; Social
Action Cause or KAS [Benny DEMEI]; Windward Islands People's Movement or WIPM
[Will JOHNSTON]; Workers' Liberation Front or FOL [Anthony GODETT, Rignald LAK,
Editha WRIGHT]
note: political parties are indigenous to each island
|
| New
Caledonia | Alliance pour la Caledonie or APLC [Didier LE ROUX]; 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 [leader NA] (includes PALIKA,
UNI, UC, and UPM); Parti de Liberation Kanak or PALIKA [Paul NEAOUTYINE and Elie
POIGOUNE]; Rally for Caledonia in the Republic (anti independent) or RPCR [Jacques
LAFLEUR]; 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 [Richard PREBBLE]; Alliance (a coalition
of the New Labor Party, Democratic Party, New Zealand Liberal Party, and Mana
Motuhake) [James (Jim) ANDERTON]; Green Party [Jeanette FITZSIMONS and Rod DONALD];
National Party or NP [Don BRASH]; New Zealand First Party or NZFP [Winston PETERS];
New Zealand Labor Party or NZLP [Helen CLARK]; United Future or UF [Peter DUNNE]
|
| Nicaragua
| Conservative Party of Nicaragua or PCN [Dr. Fernando AGUERO Rocha];
Independent Liberal Party or PLI [Virgilio GODOY]; Liberal Alliance (ruling alliance
including Liberal Constitutional Party or PLC, New Liberal Party or PALI, Independent
Liberal Party for National Unity or PLIUN, and Central American Unionist Party
or PUCA) [leader NA]; National Conservative Party or PC [Pedro SOLARZANO, Noel
VIDAURRE]; National Project or PRONAL [Benjamin LANZAS]; Nicaraguan Party of the
Christian Path or PCCN [Guillermo OSORNO, Roberto RODRIGUEZ]; Nicaraguan Resistance
Party or PRN [Salvador TALAVERA]; Sandinista National Liberation Front or FSLN
[Daniel ORTEGA Saavedra]; Sandinista Renovation Movement or MRS [Sergio RAMIREZ];
Unity Alliance or AU [Alejandro SERRANO]; Union Nacional Opositora 96 or UNO-96
[Alfredo CESAR Aguirre] |
| Niger
| Democratic Rally of the People-Jama'a or RDP-Jama'a [Hamid ALGABID];
Democratic and Social Convention-Rahama or CDS-Rahama [Mahamane OUSMANE]; National
Movement for a Developing Society-Nassara or MNSD-Nassara [Mamadou TANDJA, chairman];
Nigerien Alliance for Democracy and Social Progress-Zaman Lahiya or ANDPS-Zaman
Lahiya [Moumouni Adamou DJERMAKOYE]; Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism-Tarayya
or PNDS-Tarayya [Mahamadou ISSOUFOU]; Union of Democratic Patriots and Progressives-Chamoua
or UPDP-Chamoua [Professor Andre' SALIFOU, chairman] |
|
Nigeria
| Alliance for Democracy or AD [Alhaji Adamu ABDULKADIR]; All Nigeria
Peoples' Party or ANPP [Don ETIEBET]; All Progressives Grand Alliance or APGA
[Chekwas OKORIE]; National Democratic Party or NDP [Aliyu Habu FARI]; Peoples
Democratic Party or PDP [Audu OGBEH]; Peoples Redemption Party or PRP [Abdulkadir
Balarabe MUSA]; Peoples Salvation Party or PSP [Lawal MAITURARE]; United Nigeria
Peoples Party or UNPP [Saleh JAMBO] |
| Niue
| Niue People's Action Party or NPP [Young VIVIAN]; Alliance of Independents
or AI [leader NA] |
| Norfolk
Island | none |
| Northern
Mariana Islands | Democratic Party [Dr. Carlos S. CAMACHO]; Republican
Party [Benigno R. FITIAL] |
| Norway
| Center Party [Aslaug Marie HAGA]; Christian People's Party [Valgerd
Svarstad HAUGLAND]; Coastal Party [Steinar BASTESEN]; Conservative Party [Jan
PETERSEN]; Labor Party [Jens STOLTENBERG]; Liberal Party [Lars SPONHEIM]; Progress
Party [Carl I. HAGEN]; Socialist Left Party [Kristin HALVORSEN] |
| Oman
| none |
| Pakistan
| Awami National Party or ANP [Wali KHAN]; Balochistan National Movement/Hayee
Group or BNM/H [Dr. Hayee BALUCH]; Baluch National Party or BNP [Sardar Akhtar
MENGAL]; Baluch National Party/Awami or BNP/Awami [Moheem Kahn BALOCH]; Jamhoori
Watan Party or JWP [Akbar Khan BUGTI]; Jamiat-al-Hadith or JAH [Sajid MIR]; 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-i-Islami or JI [Qazi Hussain
AHMED]; Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan, Noorani faction or JUP/NO [Shah Ahmad NOORANI];
Millat Party or MP [Farooq LEGHARI]; Mutahida Qaumi Movement, Altaf faction or
MQM/A [Altaf HUSSAIN]; Muhajir Quami Movement, Haqiqi faction or MQM/H [Afaq AHMAD];
Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal Pakistan or MMA [leader NA]; National Alliance or NA [Farooq
Ahmad Khan LEGHARI]; National People's Party or NPP [Ghulam Mustapha JATOI]; Pakhtun
Khwa Milli Awami Party or PkMAP [Mahmood Khan ACHAKZAI]; Pakhtun Quami Party or
PQP [Mohammed Afzal KHAN]; Pakistan Awami Tehrik or PAT [Tahir ul QADRI]; Pakistan
Democratic Party or PDP [Nawabadzada KHAN]; Pakistan Muslim League, Functional
Group or PML/F [Pir PAGARO]; Pakistan Muslim League, Junejo faction or PML/J [Hamid
Nasir CHATTHA]; Pakistan Muslim League, Nawaz Sharif faction or PML/N [Nawaz SHARIF];
Pakistan Muslim League, Quaid-l-Azam faction or PML/Q [Chaudhry Shujjat HUSSEIN];
Pakistan Muslim League, Zia-ul-HAQ or PML/Z [Ejaz ul-Haq]; Pakistan National Party
or PNP [Hasil BIZENJO]; Pakistan People's Party or PPP [Benazir BHUTTO]; Pakistan
People's Party/Sherpao or PPP/S [Aftab Ahmed Khan SHERPAO]; Pakistan People's
Party/Shaheed Bhutto or PPP/SB [Ghinva BHUTTO]; Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians
or PPPP [Amin FAHIM]; Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf or PTI [Imran KHAN]; Tehrik-i-Islami
[Allama Sajid NAQVI]; Tehrik-i-Insaaf or PTI [Imran KHAN]
note: political
alliances in Pakistan can shift frequently |
| Palau
| none |
| Panama
| Arnulfista Party or PA [Mireya Elisa MOSCOSO Rodriguez]; Civic Renewal
Party or PRC [Serguei DE LA ROSA]; Democratic Change [Ricardo MARTINELLI]; Democratic
Revolutionary Party or PRD [Martin TORRIJOS]; National Liberal Party or PLN [Raul
ARANGO Gasteazopo]; National Renovation Movement or MORENA [Pedro VALLARINO Cox];
Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement or MOLIRENA [Ramon MORALES]; Popular Party
or PP (formerly Christian Democratic Party or PDC) [Ruben AROSEMENA]; Solidarity
Party or PS [Samuel LEWIS Galindo] |
| Papua
New Guinea | Melanesian Alliance Party or MAP [Bernard NAROKOBI];
National Alliance or NA [Michael SOMARE, party leader; George MANOA, party president];
National Front Party [leader NA]; National Party or NP [leader NA]; Papua New
Guinea Revival Party [John PUNDARI]; Papua New Guinea United Party or Pangu Pati
[Pate WAMP, party leader; Chris HAIVETA, parliamentary leader]; People's Action
Party or PAP [Ted DIRO]; People's Democratic Movement or PDM [Sir Mekere MORAUTA];
People's Labor Party or PLP [Peter YAMA]; People's National Congress or PNC [Bill
SKATE]; People's Progress Party or PPP [Michael NALI]; People's Unity Party or
PUP [leader NA]; United Party or UP [Rimbiuk PATO]
note: 43 political
parties registered to participate in the June 2002 elections |
|
Paraguay
| Asociacion Nacional Republicana - Colorado Party or ANR [Nicanor DUARTE
FRUTOS]; Movimiento Patria Querida or MPQ [Pedro Nicolas Maraa FADUL Niella];
Movimiento Union Nacional de Colorados Eticos or UNACE [Lino Cesar OVIEDO Silva];
Partido Encuentro Nacional or PEN [Diego ABENTE Brun]; Partido Liberal Radical
Autentico or PLRA [Julio Cesar FRANCO]; Partido Pais Solidario or PPS [Carlos
Alberto FILIZZOLA Pallares] |
| Peru
| Peruvian Aprista Party or PAP [Alan GARCIA]; Independent Moralizing
Front or FIM [Fernando OLIVERA Vega]; National Unity (Unidad Nacional) or UN [Lourdes
FLORES Nano]; Peru Posible or PP [Luis SOLARI]; Popular Action or AP [Javier DIAZ
Orihuela]; Solucion Popular [Carlos BOLANA]; Somos Peru or SP [Alberto ANDRADE];
Union for Peru or UPP [Roger GUERRA Garcia] |
| Philippines
| Laban Ng Demokratikong Pilipino (Struggle of Filipino Democrats) or
LDP [Edgardo ANGARA, president, Agapito AQUINO, secretary general]; Lakas Ng Edsa
(National Union of Christian Democrats) or Lakas [Jose DE VENECIA, president];
Liberal Party or LP [Florencio ABAD, president; Franklin DRILON, chairman]; National
People's Coalition or NPC [Eduardo COJUANGCO, chairman emeritus; Frisco SAN JUAN,
president; Faustino DY, chairman]; PDP-Laban [Aquilino PIMENTEL, chairman; Jejomar
BINAY, president]; PMP [Horacio MORALES, president]; Aksyon Demokratiko Party
[Raul ROCO, president]; Reporma [Renato DE VILLA, chairman]; PROMDI [Emilio OSMENA,
president] |
| Pitcairn
Islands | none |
| Poland
| Catholic-National Movement or RKN [Antoni MACIEREWICZ]; Citizens Platform
or PO [Donald TUSK]; Conservative Peasants Party or SKL-RNP [Artur BALAZS]; Democratic
Left Alliance or SLD [Leszek MILLER]; Freedom Union or UW [Wladyslaw FRASYNIUK];
German Minority of Lower Silesia or MNSO [Henryk KROLL]; Law and Justice or PiS
[Jaroslaw KACZYNSKI]; League of Polish Families or LPR [Marek KOTLINOWSKI]; Movement
for the Reconstruction of Poland or ROP [Jan OLSZEWSKI]; Peasant-Democratic Party
or PLD [Roman JAGIELINSKI]; Polish Accord or PP [Jan LOPUSZANSKI]; Polish Peasant
Bloc or PBL [Wojciech MOJZESOWICZ]; Polish Peasant Party or PSL [Jaroslaw KALINOWSKI];
Samoobrona [Andrzej LEPPER]; Social Movement or RS [Krzysztof PIESIEWICZ]; Union
of Labor or UP [Marek POL] |
| Portugal
| The Greens or PEV [no leader]; Popular Party or PP [Paulo PORTAS]; Portuguese
Communist Party/The Greens or PCP/PEV [Carlos CARVALHAS]; Portuguese Socialist
Party or PS [Eduardo Ferro RODRIGUES]; Social Democratic Party or PSD [Jose Manuel
DURAO BARROSO]; United Democratic Coalition or CDU [Carlos CARVALHAS]; The Left
Bloc [no leader] |
| Puerto
Rico | National Democratic Party [Celeste BENITEZ]; National Republican
Party of Puerto Rico [Luis FERRE]; New Progressive Party or PNP (pro-US statehood)
[Carlos PESQUERA]; Popular Democratic Party or PPD (pro-commonwealth) [Sila M.
CALDERON]; Puerto Rican Independence Party or PIP (pro-independence) [Ruben BERRIOS
Martinez] |
| Qatar
| none |
| Reunion
| Communist Party of Reunion or PCR [Paul VERGES]; Rally for the Republic
or RPR [Andre Maurice PIHOUEE]; Socialist Party or PS [Jean-Claude FRUTEAU]; Union
for French Democracy or UDF [Gilbert GERARD] |
| Romania
| Democratic Party or PD [Traian BASESCU]; Democratic Union of Hungarians
in Romania or UDMR [Bela MARKO]; National Liberal Party or PNL [Theodor STOLOJAN];
Romania Mare Party (Greater Romanian Party) or PRM [Corneliu Vadim TUDOR]; Social
Democratic Party or PSD [Adrian NASTASE], formerly known as the Party of Social
Democracy in Romania or PDSR |
| Russia
| Communist Party of the Russian Federation or KPRF [Gennadiy Andreyevich
ZYUGANOV]; Liberal Democratic Party of Russia or LDPR [Vladimir Volfovich ZHIRINOVSKIY];
Motherland Bloc (Rodina) [Sergey GLAZYEV and Dmitriy ROGOZIN]; People's Party
[Gennadiy RAYKOV]; Union of Rightist Forces or SPS [Anatoliy Borisovich CHUBAYS,
Yegor Timurovich GAYDAR, Irina Mutsuovna KHAKAMADA, Boris Yefimovich NEMTSOV];
United Russia [Boris Vyacheslavovich GRYZLOV]; Yabloko Party [Grigoriy Alekseyevich
YAVLINSKIY] |
| Rwanda
| Centrist Democratic Party or PDC [Jean-Nipomuscene NAYINZIRA]; Democratic
Socialist Party or PSD [J. Damascene NTAWUKURIRYAYO]; Democratic Popular Union
of Rwanda or UDPR [leader NA]; Democratic Republican Movement or MDR [Celestin
KABANDA]; Islamic Democratic Party or PDI [Andre BUMAYA]; Liberal Party or PL
[Pie MUGABO]; Party for Democratic Renewal (officially banned) [Pasteur BIZIMUNGU
and Charles NTAKARUTINKA]; Rwanda Patriotic Front or FPR [Maj. Gen. Paul KAGAME];
Rwandan Socialist Party or PSR [leader NA] |
| 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
[Lindsey 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 [Dr. Morella JOSEPH] |
| Saint
Pierre and Miquelon | PRG [leader NA]; Rassemblement pour la Republique
or RPR (now UMP) [leader NA]; Socialist Party or PS [leader NA]; Union pour la
Democratie Francaise or UDF [leader NA] |
| Saint
Vincent and the Grenadines | National Reform Party or NRP [Joel MIGUEL];
New Democratic Party or NDP [Arnhim EUSTACE]; People's Progressive Movement or
PPM [Ken BOYEA]; Progressive Labor Party or PLP [leader NA]; United People's Movement
or UPM [Adrian SAUNDERS]; 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
| Christian Democratic Party [leader NA]; Human Rights Protection Party
or HRPP [Sailele Malielegaoi TUILA'EPA, chairman]; Samoa All People's Party or
SAPP [Matatumua MAIMOANA]; Samoan National Development Party or SNDP [LE MAMEA
Ropati, chairman] (opposition); Samoa National Party [FETU Tiatia, party secretary];
Samoan Progressive Conservative Party [LEOTA Ituau Ale]; Samoan United Independents
Party or SUIP [Dr. Saleimoa VAAI] |
| San
Marino | Communist Refoundation or RC [Ivan FOSHI]; Ideas in Movement
or IM [Alessandro ROSSI]; National Alliance or AN [leader NA]; Party of Democrats
or PD [Claudio FELICI]; San Marino Christian Democratic Party or PDCS [Giovanni
LONFERNINI]; San Marino Popular Alliance of Democrats or APDS [Roberto GIORGETTI];
San Marino Socialist Party or PSS [Alberto CECCHETTI]; Socialists for Reform or
SR [Renzo GIARDI] |
| Sao
Tome and Principe | Democratic Renovation Party [Armindo GRACA]; Force
for Change Democratic Movement [leader NA]; Independent Democratic Action or ADI
[Carlos NEVES]; Movement for the Liberation of Sao Tome and Principe-Social Democratic
Party or MLSTP-PSD [Manuel Pinto Da COSTA]; Party for Democratic Convergence or
PCD [Aldo BANDEIRA]; Ue-Kedadji coalition [leader NA]; other small parties |
| Saudi
Arabia | none allowed |
| Senegal
| African Party for Democracy and Socialism or And Jef (also known as
PADS/AJ) [Landing SAVANE, secretary general]; African Party of Independence [Majhemout
DIOP]; Alliance of Forces of Progress or AFP [Moustapha NIASSE]; Democratic and
Patriotic Convention or CDP (also known as Garab-Gi) [Dr. Iba Der THIAM]; Democratic
League-Labor Party Movement or LD-MPT [Dr. Abdoulaye BATHILY]; Front for Socialism
and Democracy or FSD [Cheikh Abdoulaye DIEYE]; Gainde Centrist Bloc or BGC [Jean-Paul
DIAS]; Independence and Labor Party or PIT [Amath DANSOKHO]; National Democratic
Rally or RND [Madier DIOUF]; Senegalese Democratic Party or PDS [Abdoulaye WADE];
Socialist Party or PS [Ousmane Tanor DIENG]; SOPI Coalition (a coalition led by
the PDS) [Abdoulaye WADE]; Union for Democratic Renewal or URD [Djibo Leyti KA];
other small parties |
| Serbia
and Montenegro | Democratic Opposition of Serbia or DOS (a coalition
of many small parties including DSS) [leader NA]; Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians
or SVM [Jozsef KASZA]; Democratic League of Kosovo or LDK [Dr. Ibrahim RUGOVA,
president]; Democratic List for European Montenegro or DLECG [Milo DJUKANOVIC,
Ranko KRIVOKAPIC]; Democratic Party or DS [collective interim leadership led by
Cedomir JOVANOVIC]; Democratic Party of Serbia or DSS [Vojislav KOSTUNICA]; Democratic
Party of Socialists of Montenegro or DPS [Milo DJUKANOVIC]; Party of Serb Unity
or SSJ [Borislav PELEVIC]; Serbian Radical Party or SRS [Tomislav NIKOLIC]; Serbian
Socialist Party or SPS (former Communist Party and party of Slobodan MILOSEVIC)
[Zoran ANDJELKOVIC, general secretary]; Social Democratic Party or SDP [Rasim
LJAJIC]; Together for Changes or ZP [leader NA] |
|
Seychelles
| Democratic Party or DP [James MANCHAM, Daniel BELLE]; Mouvement Seychellois
pour la Democratie [Jacques HODOUL]; Seychelles National Party or SNP (formerly
the United Opposition or UO) [Wavel RAMKALAWAN]; Seychelles People's Progressive
Front or SPPF [France Albert RENE, James MICHEL] - the governing party |
| Sierra
Leone | All People's Congress or APC [Alhaji Sat KOROMA, interim chairman];
Citizens United for Peace and Progress or CUPP [Alfred Musa CONTEH, interim chairman];
Coalition for Progress Party or CPP [Jeridine WILLIAM-SARHO, interim leader];
Democratic Center Party or DCP [Adu Aiah KOROMA]; Democratic Labor Party or DLP
[George E. L. PALMER]; Democratic Party or DP [Henry BALO, acting chairman]; National
Alliance Democratic Party or NADP [Mohamed Yahya SILLAH, chairman]; National Democratic
Alliance or NDA [Amadu M. B. JALLOH]; National People's Party or NPP [Andrew TURAY];
National Republican Party or NRP [Stephen Sahr MAMBU]; National Unity Movement
or NUM [Sam LEIGH, interim chairman]; National Unity Party or NUP [John BENJAMINE,
interim leader]; Peace and Liberation Party or PLP [Darlington MORRISON, interim
chairman]; People's Democratic Alliance or PDA [Cpl. (Ret.) Abdul Rahman KAMARA,
interim chairman]; People's Democratic Party or PDP [Osman KAMARA]; People's National
Convention or PNC [Edward John KARGBO]; People's Progressive Party or PPP [Abass
Chernok BUNDU, chairman]; Revolutionary United Front Party or RUFP [Foday Saybana
SANKOH, chairman]; Social Democratic Party or SDP [Andrew Victor LUNGAY]; Sierra
Leone People's Party or SLPP [Ahmad Tejan KABBAH, chairman]; United National People's
Party or UNPP [John KAREFA-SMART in exile, Raymond KAMARA, acting leader]; Young
People's Party or YPP [Cornelius DEVEAUS, interim chairman] |
|
Singapore
| governing party: People's Action Party or PAP [GOH Chok Tong]; opposition
parties: Democratic Progressive Party or DPP [leader NA]; National Solidarity
Party or NSP [Steve CHIA]; Singapore Democratic Alliance or SDA [CHIAM See Tong]
(includes SPP, PKMS, NSP, SJP); Singapore Democratic Party or SDP [CHEE Soon Juan];
Singapore Justice Party or SJP [leader NA]; Singapore National Malay Organization
or PKMS [Muhammad ALI Aman]; Singapore People's Party or SPP [CHIAM See Tong];
Workers' Party or WP [LOW Thia Kiang] |
| Slovakia
| Christian Democratic Movement or KDH [Pavol HRUSOVSKY]; Democratic Party
or DS [Ludovit KANIK]; Direction (Smer) [Robert FICO]; Movement for a Democratic
Slovakia-People's Party or HZDS-LS [Vladimir MECIAR]; New Citizens Alliance or
ANO [Pavol RUSKO]; Party of the Hungarian Coalition or SMK [Bela BUGAR]; Slovak
Communist Party or KSS [Jozef SEVC]; Slovak Democratic and Christian Union or
SDKU [Mikulas DZURINDA]; Slovak National Party or SNS [Jan SLOTA] |
| Slovenia
| Democratic Party of Retired (Persons) of Slovenia or DeSUS [Anton ROUS];
Liberal Democratic or LDS [Anton ROP]; New Slovenia or NSi [Andrej BAJUK]; Slovene
National Party or SNS [Zmago JELINCIC]; Slovene People's Party or SLS [Franc BUT];
Slovene Youth Party or SMS [Dominic CERNJAK]; Social Democratic Party of Slovenia
or SDS [Janez JANSA]; United List of Social Democrats or ZLSD [Borut PAHOR] |
| Solomon
Islands | Association of Independents [Snyder RINI]; People's Alliance
Party or PAP [Allan KEMAKEZA]; People's Progressive Party or PPP [Mannaseh Damukana
SOGAVARE]; Solomon Islands Alliance for Change Coalition or SIACC [Bartholomew
ULUFA'ALU]; Solomon Islands Labor Party or SILP [Joses TUHANUKU]
note:
in general, Solomon Islands politics is characterized by fluid coalitions |
| Somalia
| none |
| South
Africa | African Christian Democratic Party or ACDP [Kenneth MESHOE,
president]; African National Congress or ANC [Thabo MBEKI, president]; Democratic
Alliance (formed from the merger of the Democratic Party or DP and the New National
Party or NNP; note - NNP split from DP in 2001) [Anthony LEON]; Freedom Front
or FF [Dr. Pieter MULDER, president]; Inkatha Freedom Party or IFP [Mangosuthu
BUTHELEZI, president]; New National Party or NNP [Marthinus VAN SCHALKWYK]; Pan-Africanist
Congress or PAC [Stanley MOGOBA, president]; United Democratic Movement or UDM
[Bantu HOLOMISA] |
| Spain
| Basque Nationalist Party or PNV [Xabier ARZALLUS Antia]; Canarian Coalition
or CC (a coalition of five parties) [Paulino RIVERO]; Convergence and Union or
CiU [Jordi PUJOL i Soley, secretary general] (a coalition of the Democratic Convergence
of Catalonia or CDC [Jordi PUJOL i Soley] and the Democratic Union of Catalonia
or UDC [Josep Antoni DURAN y LLEIDA]); Galician Nationalist Bloc or BNG [Xose
Manuel BEIRAS]; Party of Independents from Lanzarote or PIL [Dimas MARTIN Martin];
Popular Party or PP [Mariano RAJOY]; Spanish Socialist Workers Party or PSOE [Jose
Luis RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO]; United Left or IU (a coalition of parties including
the PCE and other small parties) [Gaspar LLAMAZARES] |
|
Sri
Lanka | All Ceylon Tamil Congress or ACTC [KUMARGURUPARAM]; Ceylon
Workers Congress or CWC [Arumugam THONDAMAN]; Communist Party or CP [D. GUNASEKERA];
Democratic United National (Lalith) Front or DUNLF [Shrimani ATULATHMUDALI]; Eelam
People's Democratic Party or EPDP [Douglas DEVANANDA]; Eelam People's Revolutionary
Liberation Front or EPRLF [Suresh PREMACHANDRAN]; Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna or
JVP [Tilvan SILVA]; National Unity Alliance or NUA [Ferial ASHRAFF]; People's
Alliance or PA [Chandrika Bandaranaike KUMARATUNGA]; People's Liberation Organization
of Tamil Eelam or PLOTE [leader NA]; Sihala Urumaya or SU [Tilak KARUNARATNE];
Sri Lanka Freedom Party or SLFP [Chandrika Bandaranaike KUMARATUNGA]; Sri Lanka
Muslim Congress or SLMC [Rauff HAKEEM]; Sri Lanka Progressive Front or SLPF [P.
Nelson PERERA]; Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization or TELO [SABARATNAM]; Tamil
National Alliance or TNA [Nadarajah RAVIRAJ]; Tamil United Liberation Front or
TULF [R. SAMPATHAN]; United National Party or UNP [Ranil WICKREMASINGHE]; Upcountry
People's Front or UPF [P. CHANDRASEKARAN]; several ethnic Tamil and Muslim parties,
represented in either Parliament or provincial councils |
|
Sudan
| the government allows political "associations" under a 1998 law revised
in 2000; to obtain government approval parties must accept the constitution and
refrain from advocating or using violence against the regime; approved parties
include the National Congress Party or NCP [Ibrahim Ahmed UMAR], Popular National
Congress or PNC [Hassan al-TURABI], and over 20 minor, pro-government parties
|
| Suriname
| Democratic Alternative '91 or DA '91 (a coalition of the Alternative
Forum or AF and Party for Brotherhood and Unity in Politics or BEP, formed in
January 1991) [Winston JESSURUN]; Democratic National Platform 2000 or DNP 2000
(coalition of two parties, Democratic Party and Democrats of the 21st Century)
[Jules WIJDENBOSCH]; Independent Progressive Democratic Alternative or OPDA [Joginder
RAMKHILAWAN]; Millennium Combination or MC (a coalition of three parties, Democratic
Alternative, Party for National Unity and Solidarity, and National Democratic
Party) [leader NA]; National Democratic Party or NDP [Desire BOUTERSE]; Naya Kadam
or NK [leader NA]; Party for Renewal and Democracy or BVD [Tjan GOBARDHAN]; Party
of National Unity and Solidarity or KTPI [Willy SOEMITA]; Pertjaja Luhur [Paul
SOMOHARDJO]; Progressive Workers' and Farm Laborers' Union or PALU [Ir Iwan KROLIS];
The New Front or NF (a coalition of four parties Suriname National Party or NPS,
Progressive Reform Party or VHP, Suriname Labor Party or SPA, and Pertjaja Luhur)
[Runaldo Ronald VENETIAAN]; The Progressive Development Alliance (a combination
of three parties, Renewed Progressive Party or HPP, Party of the Federation of
Land Workers or PVF, and Suriname Progressive People's Party or PSV) [Harry KISOENSINGH]
|
| Swaziland
| political parties are banned by the constitution - the following are
considered political associations; Imbokodvo National Movement or INM [leader
NA]; Ngwane National Liberatory Congress or NNLC [Obed DLAMINI, president]; People's
United Democratic Movement or PUDEMO [Mario MASUKU, president]; Swaziland National
Front or SWANAFRO [Elmond SHONGWE, president] |
|
Sweden
| Center Party [Maud OLOFSSON]; Christian Democratic Party [Alf SVENSSON];
Green Party [no formal leader but party spokespersons are Maria WETTERSTRAND and
Peter ERIKSSON]; Left Party or VP (formerly Communist) [Ulla HOFFMAN (acting)];
Liberal People's Party [Lars LEIJONBORG]; Moderate Party (conservative) [Fredrik
REINFELDT]; Social Democratic Party [Goran PERSSON] |
|
Switzerland
| Christian Democratic People's Party (Christichdemokratische Volkspartei
der Schweiz or CVP, Parti Democrate-Chretien Suisse or PDC, Partito Democratico-Cristiano
Popolare Svizzero or PDC, Partida Cristiandemocratica dalla Svizra or PCD) [Philipp
STAEHELIN, president]; Green Party (Grune Partei der Schweiz or Grune, Parti Ecologiste
Suisse or Les Verts, Partito Ecologista Svizzero or I Verdi, Partida Ecologica
Svizra or La Verda) [Ruth GENNER and Patrice MUGNY, co-presidents]; Radical Free
Democratic Party (Freisinnig-Demokratische Partei der Schweiz or FDP, Parti Radical-Democratique
Suisse or PRD, Partitio Liberal-Radicale Svizzero or PLR) [Christiane LANGENBERGER,
president]; 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) [Christiane BRUNNER, president]; 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, president]; and other minor parties |
|
Syria
| National Progressive Front or NPF (includes Arab Socialist Renaissance
(Ba'th) Party (governing party) [President Bashar al-ASAD, secretary general],
Socialist Unionist Democratic Party [Ahmad al ASAD], Syrian Communist Party [leader
NA], Unionist Socialist Party [leader NA], Arab Socialist Party [Abd al-Ghani
QANNUT], and Arab Socialist Unionist Movement [Sami SUFAN]) [President Bashar
al-ASAD, chairman]; Syrian Arab Socialist Party or ASP [Safwan QUDSI]; Syrian
Communist Party or SCP [Yusuf FAYSAL]; Syrian Social National Party [Jubran URAYJI]
|
| Taiwan
| Democratic Progressive Party or DPP [CHEN Shui-bian, chairman]; Kuomintang
or KMT (Nationalist Party) [LIEN Chan, chairman]; People First Party or PFP [James
SOONG (SOONG Chu-yu), chairman]; Taiwan Solidarity Union or TSU [HUANG Chu-wen,
chairman]; other minor parties including the Chinese New Party or CNP |
| Tajikistan
| Democratic Party or DPT [Mahmadruzi ISKANDAROV, chairman]; Islamic Revival
Party [Said Abdullo NURI, chairman]; People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan or
PDPT [Emomali RAHMONOV]; Social Democratic Party or SDPT [Rahmatullo ZOIROV];
Socialist Party or SPT [Sherali KENJAYEV]; 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) [Benjamin
William MKAPA]; Civic United Front or CUF [Ibrahim LIPUMBA]; Democratic Party
(unregistered) [Christopher MTIKLA]; Tanzania Labor Party or TLP [Augustine Lyatonga
MREMA]; United Democratic Party or UDP [John CHEYO] |
|
Thailand
| Democratic Party or DP (Prachathipat Party) [BANTADTAN Banyat]; National
Development Party or NDP (Chat Phattana) [KORN Dabbaransi]; Thai Nation Party
or TNP (Chat Thai Party) [BANHAN Sinlapa-acha]; Thai Rak Thai Party or TRT [THAKSIN
Chinnawat] |
| Togo
| Juvento [Monsilia DJATO]; Movement of the Believers of Peace and Equality
or MOCEP [leader NA]; Rally for the Support for Development and Democracy or RSDD
[Hanay OLYMPIO]; Rally of the Togolese People or RPT [President Gnassingbe EYADEMA];
Union for Democracy and Social Progress or UDPS [Gagou KOKOU]
note:
Rally of the Togolese People or RPT, led by President EYADEMA, was the only party
until the formation of multiple parties was legalized 12 April 1991 |
| Tokelau
| none |
| Tonga
| there are no political parties |
| Trinidad
and Tobago | National Alliance for Reconstruction or NAR [Hochoy CHARLES];
People's Empowerment Party or PEP [leader NA]; People's National Movement or PNM
[Patrick MANNING]; Team Unity or TUN [Ramesh MAHARAJ]; United National Congress
or UNC [Basdeo PANDAY] |
| Tunisia
| Al-Tajdid Movement [Adel CHAOUCH]; Constitutional Democratic Rally Party
(Rassemblement Constitutionnel Democratique) or RCD [President Zine El Abidine
BEN ALI (official ruling party)]; Liberal Social Party or PSL [Mounir BEJI]; Movement
of Democratic Socialists or MDS [Khamis CHAMMARI]; Popular Unity Party or PUP
[Mohamed Belhaj AMOR]; Unionist Democratic Union or UDU [Abderrahmane TLILI] |
| Turkey
| Democratic Left Party or DSP [Bulent ECEVIT]; Justice and Development
Party or AKP [Recep Tayip ERDOGAN]; Motherland Party or ANAP [Ahmet Mesut YILMAZ];
Nationalist Action Party or MHP [Devlet BAHCELI]; Republican People's Party or
CHP [Deniz BAYKAL]; True Path Party (sometimes translated as Correct Way Party)
or DYP [Tansu CILLER]; Young Party or GP [Cem UZAN] |
|
Turkmenistan
| Democratic Party of Turkmenistan or DPT [Saparmurat NIYAZOV]
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 Gundogar and Erkin; Gundogar was led by former Foreign Minister Boris
SHIKHUMRADOV until his arrest and imprisonment in the wake of the 25 November
2002 assassination attempt on President NIYAZOV; Erkin is led by former Foreign
Minister Abdy KULIEV and is based out of Moscow |
|
Turks
and Caicos Islands | People's Democratic Movement or PDM [Derek H.
TAYLOR]; Progressive National Party or PNP [Washington MISICK]; United Democratic
Party or UDP [Wendal SWANN] |
| Tuvalu
| there are no political parties but members of Parliament usually align
themselves in informal groupings |
| Uganda
| only one political organization, the Movement (formerly the NRM)[President
MUSEVENI, chairman] is allowed to operate unfettered; note - the president maintains
that the Movement is not a political party, but a mass organization, which claims
the loyalty of all Ugandans
note: the constitution requires the suspension
of political parties while the Movement organization is in governance; of the
political parties that exist but are prohibited from sponsoring candidates, the
most important are the Ugandan People's Congress or UPC [Milton OBOTE]; Democratic
Party or DP [Paul SSEMOGERERE]; Conservative Party or CP [Ken LUKYAMUZI]; Justice
Forum [Muhammad Kibirige MAYANJA]; and National Democrats Forum [Chapaa KARUHANGA]
|
| Ukraine
| Agrarian Party [Kateryna VASHCHUK]; Communist Party of Ukraine or CPU
[Petro SYMONENKO]; Democratic Initiatives [Stepan HAVRYSH]; European Choice [Volodymyr
STASYUK]; Our Ukraine [Viktor YUSHCHENKO]; People's Choice [Mykola HAPOCHKA];
People's Democratic Party or PDP [Valeriy PUSTOVOYTENKO, chairman]; People's Power
[Bohdan HUBSKYY]; Regions of Ukraine [Viktor YANUKOVYCH]; Socialist Party of Ukraine
or SPU [Oleksandr MOROZ, chairman]; United Social Democratic Party [Leonid KRAVCHUK];
Working Ukraine-Industrialists and Entrepreneurs [Ihor SHAROV]; Yuliya Tymoshenko
Bloc [Yuliya TYMOSHENKO]
note: and numerous smaller parties |
| United
Arab Emirates | none |
| United
Kingdom | Conservative and Unionist Party [Michael HOWARD]; Democratic
Unionist Party (Northern Ireland) [Rev. Ian PAISLEY]; Labor Party [Anthony (Tony)
BLAIR]; Liberal Democrats [Charles KENNEDY]; Party of Wales (Plaid Cymru) [Ieuan
Wyn Jones]; Scottish National Party or SNP [John SWINNEY]; Sinn Fein (Northern
Ireland) [Gerry ADAMS]; Social Democratic and Labor Party or SDLP (Northern Ireland)
[Mark DURKAN]; Ulster Unionist Party (Northern Ireland) [David TRIMBLE] |
| United
States | Democratic Party [Terence McAULIFFE]; Green Party [leader
NA]; Libertarian Party [Steve DASBACH]; Republican Party [Governor Marc RACICOT]
|
| Uruguay
| Colorado Party [Jorge BATLLE Ibanez]; National Party or Blanco [Luis
Alberto LACALLE Herrera]; New Sector/Space Coalition or Nuevo Espacio [Rafael
MICHELINI]; Progressive Encounter/Broad Front Coalition or Encuentro Progresista/Frente
Amplio [Tabare VAZQUEZ] |
| Uzbekistan
| Adolat (Justice) Social Democratic Party [Anwar JURABAYEV, first secretary];
Democratic National Rebirth Party (Milly Tiklanish) or MTP [Aziz KAYUMOV, chairman];
People's Democratic Party or NDP (formerly Communist Party) [Abdulkhafiz JALALOV,
first secretary]; Self-Sacrificers Party or Fidokorlar National Democratic Party
[Ahtam TURSUNOV, first secretary]; note - Fatherland Progress Party merged with
Self-Sacrificers Party |
| Vanuatu
| Jon Frum Movement [Song KEASPAI]; Melanesian Progressive Party or MPP
[Barak SOPE]; National United Party or NUP [Dinh Van THAN]; Union of Moderate
Parties or UMP [Serge VOHOR]; Vanuaaku Party (Our Land Party) or VP [Edward NATAPEI];
Vanuatu Republican Party or VRP [Maxime Carlot KORMAN] |
|
Venezuela
| Democratic Action or AD [Claudio FERMIN]; Fifth Republic Movement or
MVR [Garcia PONCE]; Homeland for All or PPT [Jose ALBORNIZ]; Justice First [Julio
BORGES]; Movement Toward Socialism or MAS [Hector MUJICA]; National Convergence
or Convergencia [Juan Jose CALDERA]; Radical Cause or La Causa R [Antonio HERRERA];
Social Christian Party or COPEI [Oswaldo ALVAREZ Paz]; Venezuela Project or PV
[Henrique SALAS Romer] |
| Vietnam
| only party - Communist Party of Vietnam or CPV [Nong Duc MANH, general
secretary] |
| Virgin
Islands | Democratic Party [Arturo WATLINGTON]; Independent Citizens'
Movement or ICM [Usie RICHARDS]; Republican Party [Gary SPRAUVE] |
| Wallis
and Futuna | Lua Kae Tahi (Giscardians) [leader NA]; Mouvement des
Radicaux de Gauche or MRG [leader NA]; Rally for the Republic or RPR [Clovis LOGOLOGOFOLAU];
Taumu'a Lelei [Soane Muni UHILA]; Union Populaire Locale or UPL [Falakiko GATA];
Union Pour la Democratie Francaise or UDF [leader NA] |
|
Yemen
| there are over 12 political parties active in Yemen, some of the more
prominent are: General People's Congress or GPC [President Ali Abdallah SALIH];
Islamic Reform Grouping or Islah [Shaykh Abdallah bin Husayn al-AHMAR]; National
Arab Socialist Baath Party [Dr. Qassim SALAAM]; Nasserite Unionist Party [Abdel
Malik al-MAKHLAFI]; Yemeni Socialist Party or YSP [Ali Salih MUQBIL]
note:
President SALIH's General People's Congress or GPC won a landslide victory in
the April 1997 legislative election and no longer governs in coalition with Shaykh
Abdallah bin Husayn al-AHMAR's Islamic Reform Grouping or Islah - the two parties
had been in coalition since the end of the civil war in 1994; the YSP, a loyal
opposition party, boycotted the April 1997 legislative election, but announced
that it would participate in Yemen's first local elections, held in February 2001;
these local elections aim to decentralize political power and are a key element
of the government's political reform program |
| Zambia
| Agenda for Zambia or AZ [Inonge MBIKUSITA-LEWANIKA]; Forum for Democracy
and Development or FDD [Christon TEMBO]; Heritage Party or HP [Godfrey MIYANDA];
Liberal Progressive Front or LPF [Roger CHONGWE, president]; Movement for Multiparty
Democracy or MMD [Levy MWANAWASA, acting president]; National Leadership for Development
or NLD [Yobert SHAMAPANDE]; National Party or NP [Dr. Sam CHIPUNGU]; Patriotic
Front or PF [Michael SATA]; Zambian Republican Party or ZRP [Benjamin MWILA];
Social Democratic Party or SDP [Gwendoline KONIE]; United National Independence
Party or UNIP [Francis NKHOMA, president]; United Party for National Development
or UPND [Anderson MAZOKA] |
| Zimbabwe
| Movement for Democratic Change or MDC [Morgan TSVANGIRAI]; National
Alliance for Good Governance or NAGG [Shakespeare MAYA]; United Parties [Abel
MUZOREWA]; 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] |
