Malaysiaruling-coalition National Front (Barisan Nasional) or BN,consisting of the following parties: Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia Partyor PGRM [LIM Keng Yaik]; Liberal Democratic Party (Parti LiberalDemokratik - Sabah) or LDP [LIEW Vui Keong]; Malaysian ChineseAssociation (Persatuan China Malaysia) or MCA [ONG Ka Ting];Malaysian Indian Congress (Kongresi India Malaysia) or MIC [S. SamyVELLU]; Parti Bersatu Pakyat Sabah or PBRS [Joseph KURUP]; PartiBersatu Sabah or PBS [Joseph PAIRIN Kitingan]; Parti PesakaBumiputra Bersatu or PBB [Patinggi Haji Abdul TAIB Mahmud]; PartiRakyat Sarawak or PRS [James MASING]; Sabah Progressive Party (PartiProgresif Sabah) or SAPP [YONG Teck Lee]; Sarawak United People'sParty (Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sarawak) or SUPP [George CHAN Hong Nam];United Malays National Organization or UMNO [ABDULLAH bin AhmadBadawi]; United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organization(Pertubuhan Pasko Momogun Kadazan Dusun Bersatu) or UPKO [BernardDOMPOK]; People's Progressive Party (Parti Progresif PendudukMalaysia) or PPP [M.Keyveas]; Sarawak Progressive Democratic Partyor SPDP [William MAWANI]; opposition parties: Democratic ActionParty (Parti Tindakan Demokratik) or DAP [KARPAL Singh]; IslamicParty of Malaysia (Parti Islam se Malaysia) or PAS [Abdul HADIAwang]; People's Justice Party (Parti Keadilan Rakyat) or PKR [WANAZIZAH Wan Ismael]; Sarawak National Party or SNAP [Edwin DUNDANG];opposition coalition Alternative Front (Barisan Alternatif) or BA -consists of PAS and PKR
Maldivespolitical parties were allowed to register in June 2005;the first entrants are: Adhaalath (Justice) Party or AP [AbdulMajeed Abdul BARI]; Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (Maldivian People'sParty) or DRP [Maumoon Abdul GAYOOM]; Islamic Democratic Party orIDP [Omar NASEER]; Maldivian Democratic Party or MDP [MohamedNASHEED]
MaliAlliance for Democracy or ADEMA [Diounconda TRAORE, partychairman]; Hope 2002 (a coalition of CNID, MPR, RDT, and RPM);National Congress for Democratic Initiative or CNID [Mountaga TALL,chairman]; Party for Democracy and Progress or PDP [Me IdrissaTRAORE]; Party for National Renewal or PARENA [Tiebile DRAME,secretary general]; Patriotic Movement for Renewal or MPR [ChoguelMAIGA]; Rally for Democracy and Labor or RDT; Rally for Mali or RPM[Ibrahim Boubacar KEITA, chairman]; Sudanese Union/AfricanDemocratic Rally or US/RDA [Mamadou Bamou TOURE, secretary general];Union for Democracy and Development or UDD [Moussa Balla COULIBALY];Union for Republic and Democracy or URD [Soumaila CISSE]
MaltaAlternativa Demokratika/Alliance for Social Justice or AD[Harry VASSALLO]; Malta Labor Party or MLP [Alfred SANT];Nationalist Party or PN [Lawrence GONZI]
Marshall Islandstraditionally there have been no formally organizedpolitical parties; what has existed more closely resembles factionsor 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 KeinAd Party [Michael KABUA] and United Democratic Party or UDP [LitokwaTOMEING]
MartiniqueMartinique Communist Party or PCM [Georges ERICHOT];Martinique Independence Movement or MIM [Alfred MARIE-JEANNE];Martinique Progressive Party or PPM [Pierre SUEDILE]; MartiniqueSocialist Party or PMS [Ernest WAN-AJOUHU]; Movement of Democratsand Ecologists for a Sovereign Martinique or Modemas [Garcin MALSA];Rally for the Republic or RPR [Michel CHARLONE]; SocialistRevolution Group or GRS [Philippe PIERRE-CHARLES]; Union for FrenchDemocracy or UDF [Jean MAREN]
MauritaniaAction for Change or AC (no longer active) [Messoud OuldBOULKHEIR]; Alliance for Justice and Democracy or AJD [Cisse AmadouCHEIKHOU]; National Union for Democracy and Development or UNDD[Tidjane KOITA]; Party for Liberty, Equality, and Justice or PLEJ[Ba Mamdou ALASSANE]; Party of Democratic Convergence or PCD [CheikhOuld HORMA]; Popular Front or FP [Ch'bih Ould CHEIKH MALAININE];Popular Progressive Alliance or APP [Messoud Ould BOULKHEIR];Progress Force Union or UFP (no longer active) [Mohamed OuldMAOULOUD]; 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 (formerly rulingDemocratic and Social Republican Party or PRDS) [Boullah OuldMOGUEYA]; Right Way or SAWAB [Cheikh Ould Sidi Ould HANANA]; Unionfor Democracy and Progress or UDP [Naha Mint MOUKNASS]; Union ofForces of Progress or UFP [Mohamed Ould MAOULOUD]note: the Party of Democratic Convergence was banned in October 2005because it was regarded as Islamist and therefore in breach ofMauritanian law
MauritiusAlliance Sociale or AS; Hizbullah [Cehl MohamedFAKEEMEEAH]; Mauritian Labor Party or MLP [Navinchandra RAMGOOLAM];Mauritian Militant Movement or MMM [Paul BERENGER] (in coalitionwith MSM); Mauritian Social Democrat Party or PMSD [CharlesXavier-Luc DUVAL]; Militant Socialist Movement or MSM [PravindJUGNAUTH] (the governing party); Rodrigues Movement or MR [Joseph(Nicholas) Von MALLY]; Rodrigues Peoples Organization or OPR [SergeCLAIR]
MayotteDemocratic Front or FD [Youssouf MOUSSA]; Mahoran PopularMovement or MPM [Ahmed MADI]; Federation of Mahorans or RPR (UMP)[Mansour KAMARDINE]; Force of the Rally and the Alliance forDemocracy or FRAP; Movement for Department Status Mayotte or MDM[Mouhoutar SALIM]; Renewed Communist Party of Mayotte or MRC [OmarSIMBA]; Socialist Party or PS (local branch of French PartiSocialiste) [Ibrahim ABUBACAR]; Union for French Democracy or UDF[Henri JEAN-BAPTISTE]
MexicoConvergence for Democracy or CD [Dante DELGADO Ranauro];Institutional Revolutionary Party (Institutional RevolutionaryParty) or PRI [leader NA]; Mexican Green Ecological Party or PVEM[Jorge Emilio GONZALEZ Martinez]; National Action Party (PartidoAccion Nacional) or PAN [Manuel ESPINO Barrientos]; New AllianceParty (Partido Nueva Alianza) or PNA [Miguel Angel JIMENEZ Godines];Party of the Democratic Revolution (Partido de la RevolucionDemocratica) or PRD [Leonel COTA Montano]; Workers Party or PT[Alberto ANAYA Gutierrez]
Micronesia, Federated States ofno formal parties
MoldovaBraghis Faction [Dumitru BRAGHIS]; Christian DemocraticPeople's Party or PPCD [Iurie ROSCA]; Communist Party of theRepublic of Moldova or PCRM [Vladimir VORONIN, first chairman];Democratic Moldova Bloc (comprised of the AMN, Democratic Party, andPSL); Democratic Party [Dumitru DIACOV]; Our Moldova Alliance or AMN[Serafim URECHEANU]; Social Liberal Party or PSL [Oleg SEREBRIAN]
MonacoNational and Democratic Union or UND [Guy MAGNAN]; Union forMonaco or UPM (including National Union for the Future of Monaco orUNAM)
MongoliaCitizens' Will Republican Party or CWRP (also called CivilCourage Republican Party or CCRP) [Sanjaasurengiin OYUN]; DemocraticParty or DP [Tsakhiagiyn ELBEGDORJ]; Motherland-Mongolian NewSocialist Democratic Party or M-MNSDP [Badarchyn ERDENEBAT];Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party or MPRP [Miegombyn ENKHBOLD];Mongolian Republican Party or MRP [Bazarsadyn JARGALSAIKHAN];People's Party or PP [Lamjav GUNDALAI]note: DP and M-MNSDP formed Motherland-Democracy Coalition (MDC) in2003 and with CWRP contested June 2004 elections as single party;MDC's leadership dissolved coalition in December 2004
MontenegroAlbanian Alternative or AA; Bosniak Party or BS [RafetHUSOVIC]; Coalition for a European Montenegro (Democratic Party ofSocialists or DPS and Social Democratic Party or SDP) [MiloDJUKANOVIC]; Coalition SPP/NS/DSS; Democratic League-Party ofDemocratic Prosperity [Mehmet BARHDI]; Democratic Serbian Party ofMontenegro or DSS; Democratic Union of Albanians or DUA [FerhatDINOSA]; Liberal Party of Montenegro or LP [Miodrag ZIVKOVIC];Movement for Changes or PZP [Nebojsa MEDOJEVIC]; People's Party ofMontenegro or NS [Predrag POPOVIC]; Serbian People's Party ofMontenegro or SNS [Andrija MANDIC]; Social Democratic Party or SDP[Ranko KRIVOKAPIC]; Social Democratic Party of Montenegro or DPS[Milo DJUKANOVIC]; Socialist People's Party or SNP [PredragBULATOVIC]
MontserratMontserrat 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]
MoroccoAction Party or PA [Muhammad EL IDRISSI]; Alliance ofLiberties 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 andIndependence Party or PDI [Abdelwahed MAACH]; Democratic and SocialMovement 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 ofDemocratic Forces or FFD [Thami EL KHYARI]; Istiqlal Party(Independence Party) or PI [Abbas El FASSI]; Justice and DevelopmentParty or PJD [Saad Eddine OTHMANI]; 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 Rallyof Independents or RNI [Ahmed OSMAN]; National Union of PopularForces or UNFP [Abdellah IBRAHIM]; Parti Al Ahd or Al Ahd [Najib ELOUAZZANI, chairman]; Party of Progress and Socialism or PPS [IsmailALAOUI]; Party of Renewal and Equity or PRE [Chakir ACHABAR]; Partyof the Unified Socialist Left or GSU [Mohamed Ben Said AIT IDDER];Popular Movement or MP [Mohamed LAENSER]; Reform and DevelopmentParty or PRD [Abderrahmane EL KOUHEN]; Social Center Party or PSC[Lahcen MADIH]; Socialist Union of Popular Forces or USFP [MohammedEl-YAZGHI]
MozambiqueFront for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frente deLiberatacao de Mocambique) or FRELIMO [Armando Emilio GUEBUZA,president]; Mozambique National Resistance-Electoral Union(Resistencia Nacional Mocambicana-Uniao Eleitoral) or RENAMO-UE[Afonso DHLAKAMA, president]
NamibiaCongress of Democrats or COD [Ben ULENGA]; DemocraticTurnhalle Alliance of Namibia or DTA [Katuutire KAURA, president];Monitor Action Group or MAG [Jurie VILJOEN]; South West AfricaPeople's Organization or SWAPO [Sam Shafishuna NUJOMA]; UnitedDemocratic Front or UDF [Justus GAROEB]; Republican Party or RP[Henk MUDGE]; National Unity Democratic Organization or NUDO [KuaimaRIRUAKO]
Nauruloose multiparty system; Democratic Party [Kennan ADEANG];Nauru Party (informal); Nauru First (Naoero Amo) Party
NepalCommunist Party of Nepal/United Marxist-Leninist or CPN/UML[Madhav Kumar NEPAL, general secretary]; National Democratic Partyor NDP (also called Rastriya Prajantra Party or RPP) [PashupatiShumsher RANA, chairman]; Nepali Congress-Democratic [Sher BahadurDEUBA, president]; Nepali Congress or NC [Girija Prasad KOIRALA,party president, Sushil KOIRALA, vice president]; Nepal Sadbhavana(Goodwill) Party or NSP - Mandal [Bhadri Prasad MANDAL, partypresident]; Nepal Sadbhavana Party - Ananda Devi [Ananda DEVI,president]; Nepal Workers and Peasants Party or NWPP [Narayan ManBIJUKCHHE, party chairman]; People's Front Nepal (Rastriya JanaMorcha) [Amik SHERCHAN, chairman]; Rastriya Janashakti Party or RJP[Surya Bahadur THAPA, chairman]; note - split from RPP in March2005; Samyukta Janmorcha Nepal [leader NA]; note - merged withPeople's Front Nepal or PFN in 2002
NetherlandsChristian Democratic Appeal or CDA [Ernst HirschBALLIN]; Christian Union Party [Andre ROUVOET]; Democrats 66 or D66[Lousewies VAN DER LAAN]; Green Party [Femke HALSEMA]; Labor Partyor PvdA [Wouter BOS]; List Pim Fortuyn [Ton VAN DILLEN]; Party forFreedom [Geert WILDERS]; People's Party for Freedom and Democracy(Liberal) or VVD [Pieter WINSEMIUS]; Socialist Party [JanMARIJNISSEN]; plus a few minor parties
Netherlands AntillesBonaire: 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]; DemocraticParty of Curacao or DP [Errol HERNANDEZ]; E Mayoria [Aurelio PEDRO];Forsa Korsou [Nelson NAVARRO]; Liste Ni'un Paso Atras [NelsonPIERRE]; Movemiento Patriotiko Korsou [Reginald LAK]; New AntillesMovement or MAN [Charles COOPER]; Partido Akshon Pa Prosperidat ISeguridat [Sonja BERKEMEYER]; Partido Laboral Krusada Popular orPLKP [Errol COVA]; Party for the Restructured Antilles or PAR [Emilyde JONGH-ELHAGE]; People's National Party or PNP [Ersilia DELANNOOY]; Pidjin [Jasmin PINEDO]; Pueblo Soberano [Herman WIELS];Workers' Liberation Front or FOL [Anthony GODETT]Saba: Saba Labor Party [Akilah LEVENSTONE]; Windward IslandsPeople'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 [SarahWESCOTT-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 CaledoniaAlliance pour la Caledonie or APLC [Didier LE ROUX];Caledonian Union or UC; Federation des Comites de Coordination desIndependantistes or FCCI [Francois BURCK]; Front National or FN [GuyGEORGE]; Front Uni de Liberation Kanak or FULK [Ernest UNE]; KanakSocialist Front for National Liberation or FLNKS [leader NA](includes PALIKA, UNI, UC, and UPM); Parti de Liberation Kanak orPALIKA [Paul NEAOUTYINE and Elie POIGOUNE]; Rally for Caledonia inthe Republic (anti independent) or RPCR-UMP [Jacques LAFLEUR]; TheFuture Together or AE [Harold MARTIN]; Union Nationale pourl'Independance or UNI [Paul NEAOUTYINE]; note - may no longer exist,but Paul NEAOUTYINE has since become a president of Parti deLiberation Kanak or PALIKA; Union Progressiste Melanesienne or UPM[Victor TUTUGORO]
New ZealandACT New Zealand [Rodney HIDE]; Green Party [JeanetteFITZSIMONS]; Maori Party [Whatarangi WINIATA]; National Party or NP[Don BRASH]; New Zealand First Party or NZFP [Winston PETERS]; NewZealand Labor Party or NZLP [Helen CLARK]; Progressive Party [James(Jim) ANDERTON]; United Future or UF [Peter DUNNE]
NicaraguaAlliance for the Republic or APRE [Miguel LOPEZ Baldizon];Central American Unionist Party or PUCA [Blanca ROJAS]; ChristianAlternative Party or AC [Orlando TARDENCILLA Espinoza]; ConservativeParty or PC [Mario Sebastian RAPPACCIOLI]; Independent Liberal Partyor PLI [Anibal MARTINEZ Nunez, Pedro REYES Vallejos]; IndependentLiberal Party for National Unity or PLIUN [Carlos GUERRA Gallardo];Liberal Constitutional Party or PLC [Jorge CASTILLO Quant]; LiberalSalvation Movement or MSL [Eliseo NUNEZ Hernandez]; New LiberalParty or PALI [Adolfo GARCIA Esquivel]; Nicaraguan Liberal Allianceor ALN [Eduardo MONTEALEGRE]; Nicaraguan Party of the Christian Pathor PCCN [Guillermo OSORNO Molina]; Nicaraguan Resistance Party orPRN [Salvador TALAVERA]; Sandinista National Liberation Front orFSLN [Daniel ORTEGA Saavedra]; Sandinista Renovation Movement or MRS[Dora Maria TELLEZ]; Unity Alliance or AU
NigerDemocratic and Social Convention-Rahama or CDS-Rahama[Mahamane OUSMANE]; National Movement for a DevelopingSociety-Nassara or MNSD-Nassara [Hama AMADOU]; Niger SocialDemocratic Party or PSDN; Nigerien Alliance for Democracy and SocialProgress-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 [IssifouMAHAMADOU]; 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]
NigeriaAlliance for Democracy or AD [Mojisoluwa AKINFENWA]; AllNigeria Peoples' Party or ANPP [Don ETIEBET]; All Progressives GrandAlliance or APGA [disputed leadership]; National Democratic Party orNDP [Aliyu Habu FARI]; Peoples Democratic Party or PDP [Dr. AhmaduALI]; Peoples Redemption Party or PRP [Abdulkadir Balarabe MUSA];Peoples Salvation Party or PSP [Lawal MAITURARE]; United NigeriaPeoples Party or UNPP [disputed leadership]
NiueAlliance of Independents or AI; Niue People's Action Party orNPP [Young VIVIAN]
Norfolk Islandnone
Northern Mariana IslandsCovenant Party [Benigno R. FITIAL];Democratic Party [Dr. Carlos S. CAMACHO]; Republican Party [Juan S.REYES]
NorwayCenter Party [Aslaug Marie HAGA]; Christian People's Party[Dagfinn HOYBRATEN]; Coastal Party [Roy WAAGE]; Conservative Party[Erna SOLBERG]; Labor Party [Jens STOLTENBERG]; Liberal Party [LarsSPONHEIM]; Progress Party [Siv JENSEN]; Red Electoral Alliance[Torstein DAHLE]; Socialist Left Party [Kristin HALVORSEN]
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PakistanAwami National Party or ANP [Asfandyar Wali KHAN];Balochistan National Party/Hayee Group or BNP/H [Dr. Hayee BALUCH];Baluch National Party/Awami or BNP/Awami [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]; JamiatUlema-i-Islam, Sami ul-HAQ faction or JUI/S [Sami ul-HAQ]; JamiatUlema-i-Pakistan or JUP [Shah Faridul HAQ]; Muttahida Majlis-e-AmalPakistan or MMA [Qazi Hussain AHMED]; Muttahida Qaumi Movement,Altaf faction or MQM/A [Altaf HUSSAIN]; Muttahida Quami Movement,Haqiqi faction or MQM/H [Afaq AHMAD]; National Alliance or NA[Ghulam Mustapha JATOI]; Pakhtun Khwa Milli Awami Party or PkMAP[Mahmood Khan ACHAKZAI]; Pakhtun Quami Party or PQP [Mohammed AfzalKHAN]; Pakistan Awami Tehrik or PAT [Tahir ul QADRI]; PakistanMuslim League, Functional Group or PML/F [Pir PAGARO]; PakistanMuslim League, Nawaz Sharif faction or PML/N [Nawaz SHARIF];Pakistan Muslim League or PML [Chaudhry Shujaat HUSSAIN]; note - asof May 2004, the PML/Q changed its name to PML and absorbed thePML/J, PML/Z, and NA; Pakistan National Party or PNP [HasilBIZENJO]; Pakistan People's Party or PPP [Aftab Ahmed Khan SHERPAO];Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians or PPPP [Benazir BHUTTO];Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf or PTI [Imran KHAN]; Tehrik-i-Islami[Allama Sajid NAQVI]note: political alliances in Pakistan can shift frequently
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PanamaDemocratic Change or CD [Ricardo MARTINELLI]; DemocraticRevolutionary Party or PRD [Hugo GUIRAUD]; National Liberal Party orPLN [Anibal GALINDO]; Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement orMOLIRENA [Jesus ROSAS]; Panamenista Party or PA (formerly theArnulfista Party) [Marco AMEGLIO]; Popular Party or PP (formerlyChristian Democratic Party or PDC) [Ricardo ARIAS Calderon];Solidarity Party or PS [Jose Raul MULINO]
Papua New GuineaChristian Democratic Party [Dr. Banare BUN];Melanesian Alliance Party or MAP [Sir Moi AVEL]; National AllianceParty or NA [Michael SOMARE]; National Party [Melcher PEP]; Papuaand Niugini Union Party or PANGU [Rabbie NAMALIU]; Papua New GuineaFirst Party [Cecilking DORUBA]; Papua New Guinea Labor Party [BobDANAYA]; Papua New Guinea Party or PNGP (was People's DemocraticMovement or PDM) [Sir Mekere MORAUTA]; People's Action Party or PAP[Moses MALADINA]; People's Labor Party or PLP [Ekis ROPENU];People's National Congress or PNC [Peter O'NEILL]; People's ProgressParty or PPP [Byron CHAN]; Pipol First Party [Luther WENGE]; UnitedParty [Bire KIMASOPA]; United Resources Party or URP [Tim NEVILLE](2005)
ParaguayAsociacion Nacional Republicana - Colorado Party or ANR[Herminio CACERES, interim president]; Movimiento Union Nacional deCiudadanos Eticos or UNACE [Enrique GONZALEZ Quintana, actingchairman]; Patria Querida (Beloved Fatherland Party) or PQ [PedroNicolas Maraa FADUL Niella]; Partido Encuentro Nacional or PEN [LuisTORALES Kennedy]; Partido Liberal Radical Autentico or PLRA [BlasLLANO]; Partido Pais Solidario or PPS [Carlos Alberto FILIZZOLAPallares]note: Nicanor DUARTE FRUTOS on leave as party leader of the ColoradoParty or ANR while serving as President of Paraguay; Lino CesarOVIEDO Silva, leader of UNACE, is currently serving a ten-yearprison term
PeruAlliance For Progress (Alianza Para El Progreso) [Cesar ACUNAPeralta]; Alliance For The Future (Alianza Por El Futuro) or AF - acoalition of pro-FUJIMORI parties including Cambio 90, NuevaMayoria, and Si Cumple [Martha CHAVEZ Cossio]; Centrist Front(Frente Del Centro) or FC - a coalition of Accion Popular, SomosPeru, and Coordinadora Nacional de Independientes [Valentin PANIAGUACorazoa]; Independent Moralizing Front (Frente IndependienteMoralizador) or FIM [Fernando OLIVERA Vega]; Nationalist PartyUniting Peru (Partido Nacionalista Uniendo al Peru) or UPP - acoalition of Union for Peru (UPP) and Peruvian Nationalist Party(PNP) [Ollanta HUMALA Tasso]; National Restoration (RestauracionNacional) or RN [Humberto LAY Sun]; National Unity (Unidad Nacional)or UN [Lourdes FLORES Nano]; Peru Possible (Peru Posible) or PP[David WAISMAN]; Peruvian Aprista Party (Partido Aprista Peruano) orPAP - also referred to by its original name Alianza PopularRevolucionaria Americana or APRA [Alan GARCIA]
PhilippinesKabalikat Ng Malayang Pilipino (Kampi) [Ronaldo PUNO];Laban Ng Demokratikong Pilipino (Struggle of Filipino Democrats) orLDP [Edgardo ANGARA]; Lakas Ng Edsa (National Union of ChristianDemocrats) or Lakas [Jose DE VENECIA]; Liberal Party or LP [FranklinDRILON/Eli QUINTO]; Nacionalista [Manuel VILLAR]; National People'sCoalition or NPC [Frisco SAN JUAN]; PDP-Laban [Aquilino PIMENTEL];People's Reform Party [Miriam Defensor SANTIAGO]; PROMDI [EmilioOSMENA]; Pwersa Ng Masang Pilipino (Party of the Philippine Masses)or PMP [Joseph ESTRADA]; Reporma [Renato DE VILLA]
Pitcairn Islandsnone
PolandCatholic-National Movement or RKN [Antoni MACIEREWICZ]; CivicPlatform or PO [Donald TUSK]; Conservative Peasants Party or SKL[Artur BALASZ]; Democratic Left Alliance or SLD [WojciechOLEJNICZAK]; Democratic Party or PD [Wladyslaw FRASYNIUK]; DomOjczysty (Fatherland Home); German Minority of Lower Silesia or MNSO[Henryk KROLL]; Law and Justice or PiS [Jaroslaw KACZYNSKI]; Leagueof Polish Families or LPR [Marek KOTLINOWSKI]; Peasant-DemocraticParty or PLD [Roman JAGIELINSKI]; Polish Accord or PP [JanLOPUSZANSKI]; Polish Peasant Party or PSL [Waldemar PAWLAK]; RuchPatriotyczny or RP [Jan OLSZEWSKI]; Samoobrona or SO [AndrzejLEPPER]; Social Democratic Party of Poland or SDPL [Marek BOROWSKI];Social Movement or RS [Krzysztof PIESIEWICZ]; Union of Labor or UP[Andrzej SPYCHALSKI]
PortugalGreen Ecologist Party or PEV [Heloisa APOLONIA]; PopularParty or PP [Jose Ribeiro e CASTRO]; Portuguese Communist Party orPCP [Jeronimo de SOUSA]; Portuguese Socialist Party or PS [JoseSOCRATES Carvalho Pinto de Sousa]; Social Democratic Party or PSD[Luis Marques MENDES]; The Left Bloc or BE [Franciso AnacletoLOUCA]; Unitarian Democratic Coalition or CDU (includes PEV and PCP)[Jeronimo de SOUSA]
Puerto RicoNational Democratic Party [Roberto PRATS]; NationalRepublican Party of Puerto Rico [Dr. Tiody FERRE]; New ProgressiveParty or PNP (pro-US statehood) [Pedro ROSSELLO]; Popular DemocraticParty or PPD (pro-commonwealth) [Anibal ACEVEDO-VILA]; Puerto RicanIndependence Party or PIP (pro-independence) [Ruben BERRIOS Martinez]
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ReunionCommunist Party of Reunion or PCR [Elie HOARAU]; Rally forthe Republic or RPR [Andre Maurice PIHOUEE]; Socialist Party or PS[Michel VERGOZ]; Union for French Democracy or UDF [Gilbert GERARD];Union for a Popular Movement or UMP
RomaniaConservative Party or PC [Dan VOICULESCU], formerly HumanistParty or PUR; Democratic Party or PD [Emil BOC]; Democratic Union ofHungarians in Romania or UDMR [Bela MARKO]; National Liberal Partyor PNL [Calin Popescu-TARICEANU]; Romania Mare Party (GreaterRomanian Party) or PRM [Corneliu Vadim TUDOR]; Social DemocraticParty or PSD [Mircea Dan GEOANA], formerly Party of Social Democracyin Romania or PDSR
RussiaA Just Russia or JR [Sergei MIRONOV] (formed from the mergerof three small political parties: Motherland Party (Rodina),Pensioner's Party, and Party of Life); Communist Party of theRussian Federation or CPRF [Gennadiy Andreyevich ZYUGANOV]; LiberalDemocratic Party of Russia or LDPR [Vladimir VolfovichZHIRINOVSKIY]; People's Party [Gennady RAIKOV]; Union of RightForces or SPS [Nikita BELYKH]; United Russia or UR [BorisVyacheslavovich GRYZLOV]; Yabloko Party [Grigoriy AlekseyevichYAVLINSKIY]
RwandaCentrist Democratic Party or PDC [Alfred MUKEZAMFURA];Democratic Popular Union of Rwanda or UDPR [Adrien RANGIRA];Democratic Republican Movement or MDR [Celestin KABANDA] (officiallybanned); Islamic Democratic Party or PDI [Andre BUMAYA]; LiberalParty or PL [Prosper HIGIRO]; Party for Democratic Renewal(officially banned); Rwandan Patriotic Front or RPF [Paul KAGAME];Social Democratic Party or PSD [Vincent BIRUTA]
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Saint Kitts and NevisConcerned Citizens Movement or CCM [VanceAMORY]; Nevis Reformation Party or NRP [Joseph PARRY]; People'sAction Movement or PAM [Lindsey GRANT]; Saint Kitts and Nevis LaborParty or SKNLP [Dr. Denzil DOUGLAS]
Saint LuciaNational Alliance or NA [George ODLUM]; Saint LuciaFreedom Party or SFP [Martinus FRANCOIS]; Saint Lucia Labor Party orSLP [Kenneth ANTHONY]; Sou Tout Apwe Fete Fini or STAFF [ChristopherHUNTE]; United Workers Party or UWP [Sir John COMPTON]
Saint Pierre and MiquelonLeft Radical Party or PRG; Rassemblementpour la Republique or RPR (now UMP); Socialist Party or PS; Unionpour la Democratie Francaise or UDF
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesNew Democratic Party or NDP [ArnhimEUSTACE]; Unity Labor Party or ULP [Ralph GONSALVES] (formed by thecoalition of Saint Vincent Labor Party or SVLP and the Movement forNational Unity or MNU)
SamoaHuman Rights Protection Party or HRPP [Sailele MalielegaoiTUILA'EPA]; Samoa Christian Party or TCP [Tuala Tiresa MALIETOA];Samoa Democratic United Party or SDUP [LE MAMEA Ropati]; Samoa Partyor SP [Su'a Rimoni Ah CHONG]; Samoa Progressive Political Party orSPPP [Toeolesulusulu SIUEVA]
San MarinoCommunist Refoundation or RC [Ivan FOSHI]; Ideas inMovement or IM [Alessandro ROSSI]; National Alliance or AN; NewSocialist Party; Party of Socialists and Democrats [Claudio FELICI];San Marino Christian Democratic Party or PDCS [Giovanni LONFERNINI];San Marino Popular Alliance of Democrats or APDS [RobertoGIORGETTI]; San Marino Socialist Party or PSS [Alberto CECCHETTI];Socialists for Reform or SR [Renzo GIARDI]; United Left
Sao Tome and PrincipeDemocratic Renovation Party [Armindo GRACA];Force for Change Democratic Movement or MDFM; Independent DemocraticAction or ADI [Carlos NEVES]; Movement for the Liberation of SaoTome and Principe-Social Democratic Party or MLSTP-PSD [Manuel PintoDa COSTA]; Party for Democratic Convergence or PCD [Aldo BANDEIRA];Ue-Kedadji coalition; other small parties
Saudi Arabianone
SenegalAfrican Party for Democracy and Socialism or And Jef (alsoknown as PADS/AJ) [Landing SAVANE, secretary general]; African Partyof Independence [Majhemout DIOP]; Alliance of Forces of Progress orAFP [Moustapha NIASSE]; Democratic and Patriotic Convention or CDP(also known as Garab-Gi) [Dr. Iba Der THIAM]; DemocraticLeague-Labor Party Movement or LD-MPT [Dr. Abdoulaye BATHILY]; Frontfor Socialism and Democracy or FSD [Cheikh Abdoulaye DIEYE]; GaindeCentrist Bloc or BGC [Jean-Paul DIAS]; Independence and Labor Partyor PIT [Amath DANSOKHO]; National Democratic Rally or RND [MadierDIOUF]; 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 DemocraticRenewal or URD [Djibo Leyti KA]; other small parties
SerbiaDemocratic Party of Serbia or DSS [Vojislav KOSTUNICA];Democratic Party or DS [Boris TADIC]; G17 Plus [Mladjan DINKIC isacting leader]; Serbian Radical Party or SRS [Vojislav SESELJ, butTomislav NIKOLIC is acting leader]; Socialist Party of Serbia or SPS[vacant, but Ivica DACIC is head of the SPS Main Board]; New Serbiaor NS [Velimir ILIC]; Serbian Renewal Movement or SPO [Vuk DRASKOVIC]
SeychellesDemocratic Party or DP [James MANCHAM, Daniel BELLE];Mouvement Seychellois pour la Democratie [Jacques HODOUL];Seychelles National Party or SNP [Wavel RAMKALAWAN] (formerly theUnited Opposition or UO); Seychelles People's Progressive Front orSPPF [France Albert RENE, James MICHEL] (the governing party)
Sierra LeoneAll People's Congress or APC [Ben KANU]; Peace andLiberation Party or PLP [Darlington MORRISON, interim chairman];Sierra Leone People's Party or SLPP [Sama BANYA]; numerous others
SingaporePeople's Action Party or PAP [LEE Hsien Loong]; SingaporeDemocratic Alliance or SDA [CHIAM See Tong]; Singapore DemocraticParty or SDP [CHEE Soon Juan]; Workers' Party or WP [Sylvia LIM SweeLian]note: SDA includes National Solidarity Party or NSP, SingaporeJustice Party or SJP, Singapore National Malay Organization or PKMS,Singapore People's Party or SPP
SlovakiaChristian Democratic Movement or KDH [Pavol HRUSOVSKY];Direction-Social Democracy or Smer-SD [Robert FICO]; Free Forum[Zuzana MARTINAKOVA]; Movement for Democracy or HZD [Jozef GRAPA];People's Party - Movement for a Democratic Slovakia or LS-HZDS[Vladimir MECIAR]; New Citizens Alliance or ANO [Pavol RUSKO]; Partyof the Hungarian Coalition or SMK [Bela BUGAR]; People's Union or LU[Gustav KRAJCI]; Slovak Communist Party or KSS [Vladimir DADO];Slovak Democratic and Christian Union or SDKU [Mikulas DZURINDA];Slovak National Party or SNS [Jan SLOTA]
SloveniaDemocratic Party of Retired (Persons) of Slovenia or DeSUS[Karl ERJAVEC]; Liberal Democratic Party or LDS [Jelko KACIN]; NewSlovenia or NSi [Andrej BAJUK]; Slovenian Democratic Party or SDS[Janez JANSA]; Slovene National Party or SNS [Zmago JELINCIC];Slovene People's Party or SLS [Janez PODOBNIK]; Slovene Youth Partyor SMS [Darko KRANJC]; Social Democrats or SD [Borut PAHOR]
Solomon IslandsAssociation of Independent Members or AIM [ThomasCHAN]; Christian Alliance Solomon Islands or CASI [Edward RONIA];LAFARI Party [John GARO]; National Party [Francis HILLY]; People'sAlliance Party or PAP [Sir Allan KEMAKEZA]; Social Credit Party orSOCRED [Manasseh Damukana SOGAVARE]; Solomon First Party [DavidQUAN]; Solomon Islands Democratic Party [Gabriel SURI]; SolomonIslands Labor Party or SILP [Joses TUHANUKU]; Solomon IslandsLiberal Party [Bartholomew ULUFA'ALU]; Solomon Islands Party forRural Advancement or SIPRA [Job D. TAUSINGA]; United Party [SirPeter KENILOREA]note: in general, Solomon Islands politics is characterized by fluidcoalitions
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South AfricaAfrican Christian Democratic Party or ACDP [KennethMESHOE, president]; African National Congress or ANC [Thabo MBEKI,president]; Democratic Alliance or DA [Anthony LEON] (formed fromthe merger of the Democratic Party or DP and the Freedom Alliance orFA); Inkatha Freedom Party or IFP [Mangosuthu BUTHELEZI, president];Pan-Africanist Congress or PAC [Stanley MOGOBA, president]; NewNational Party or NNP; United Democratic Movement or UDM [BantuHOLOMISA]
SpainBasque Nationalist Party or PNV [Josu Jon IMAZ]; CanarianCoalition or CC (a coalition of five parties) [Paulino RIVEROBaute]; Convergence and Union or CiU [Artur MAS i Gavarro] (acoalition of the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia or CDC [ArturMAS i Gavarro] and the Democratic Union of Catalonia or UDC [JosepAntoni DURAN y LLEIDA]); Entesa Catalonia de Progress (a Senatecoalition grouping four Catalan parties - PSC, ERC, ICV, EUA);Galician Nationalist Bloc or BNG [Anxo Manuel QUINTANA]; Party ofIndependents from Lanzarote or PIL [Dimas MARTIN Martin]; PopularParty or PP [Mariano RAJOY]; Republican Left of Catalonia or ERC[Joan Puigcercos BOIXASSA]; Spanish Socialist Workers Party or PSOE[Jose Luis RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO]; United Left or IU (a coalition ofparties including the PCE and other small parties) [GasparLLAMAZARES]
Sri LankaAll Ceylon Tamil Congress or ACTC [KUMARGURUPARAM]; CeylonWorkers 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 Frontor EPRLF [Suresh PREMACHANDRAN]; Janatha Vimukthi Perumuna or JVP[Somawansa AMARASINGHE]; Lanka Sama Samaja Party or LSSP; MahajanaEksath Peramuna (People's United Front) or MEP [D. GUNAWARDENE];National Heritage Party or JHU [Tilak KARUNARATNE]; National UnityAlliance or NUA [Ferial ASHRAFF]; People's Liberation Organizationof Tamil Eelam or PLOTE [D. SIDHARTHAN]; Sihala Urumaya or SU; SriLanka Freedom Party or SLFP [Chandrika Bandaranaike KUMARATUNGA];Sri Lanka Muslim Congress or SLMC [Rauff HAKEEM]; Sri LankaProgressive Front or SLPF [P. Nelson PERERA]; Tamil Eelam LiberationOrganization or TELO [SABARATNAM]; Tamil National Alliance or TNA[R. SAMPANTHAN]; Tamil United Liberation Front or TULF [V.ANANDASANGAREE]; United National Party or UNP [RanilWICKREMASINGHE]; Up-country People's Front or UPF [P.CHANDRASEKARAN]; several ethnic Tamil and Muslim parties,represented in either Parliament or provincial councils
Sudanpolitical parties in the Government of National Unity include:National Congress Party or NCP [Ibrahim Ahmed OMAR]; Sudan People'sLiberation Movement or SPLM [Salva Mayardit KIIR]; and elements ofthe National Democratic Alliance or NDA including factions of theDemocratic Union Party [Muhammad Uthman al-MIRGHANI] and Umma Party[SADIQ Siddiq al-Mahdi]
SurinameAlternative-1 or A-1 (a coalition of Amazone Party ofSuriname or APS [Kenneth VAN GENDEREN], Democrats of the 21stCentury or D-21 [Soewarto MOESTADJA], Nieuw Suriname or NS [RadjenNanan PANDAY], Political Wing of the FAL or PVF [Jiwan SITAL],Trefpunt 2000 or T-2000 [Arti JESSURUN]); General InteriorDevelopment Party or ABOP [Ronnie BRUNSWIJK]; National DemocraticParty or NDP [Desire BOUTERSE]; New Front for Democracy andDevelopment or NF (a coalition which includes A-Combination or A-Com[leader NA], Democratic Alternative 1991 or DA-91 which split fromthe A-1 before the elections of May 2005 and are an independent,business-oriented party [Winston JESSURUN], National Party Surinameor NPS [Ronald VENETIAAN], United Reform Party or VHP [Ram SARDJOE],Pertjaja Luhur or PL [Salam Paul SOMOHARDJO], Surinamese Labor Partyor SPA [Siegfried GILDS]); Party for Democracy and Development inUnity or DOE [Marten SCHALKWIJK]; People's Alliance for Progress orVVV (a coalition of Democratic National Platform 2000 or DNP-2000[Jules WIJDENBOSCH], Grassroots Party for Renewal and Democracy orBVD [Tjan GOBARDHAN], Party for National Unity and Solidarity of theHighest 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 [SheoradjPANDAY]
Swazilandpolitical parties are banned by the government under anemergency decree that will be revoked when the new constitutiontakes effect (January 2006)- the following are considered politicalassociations; Imbokodvo National Movement or INM; Ngwane NationalLiberatory Congress or NNLC [Obed DLAMINI, president]; People'sUnited Democratic Movement or PUDEMO [Mario MASUKU, president]
SwedenCenter Party [Maud OLOFSSON]; Christian Democratic Party[Goran HAGGLUND]; Environment Party the Greens [no formal leader butparty spokespersons are Maria WETTERSTRAND and Peter ERIKSSON]; LeftParty or V (formerly Communist) [Lars OHLY]; Moderate Party(conservative) [Fredrik REINFELDT]; People's Party [LarsLEIJONBORG]; Social Democratic Party [Goran PERSSON]
SwitzerlandGreen Party (Grune Partei der Schweiz or Grune, PartiEcologiste Suisse or Les Verts, Partito Ecologista Svizzero or IVerdi, Partida Ecologica Svizra or La Verda) [Ruth GENNER];Christian Democratic People's Party (ChristichdemokratischeVolkspartei der Schweiz or CVP, Parti Democrate-Chretien Suisse orPDC, Partito Democratico-Cristiano Popolare Svizzero or PDC, PartidaCristiandemocratica dalla Svizra or PCD) [Doris LEUTHARD,president]; Radical Free Democratic Party (Freisinnig-DemokratischePartei der Schweiz or FDP, Parti Radical-Democratique Suisse or PRD,Partitio Liberal-Radicale Svizzero or PLR) [MarianneKLEINER-SCHLAEPFER, president]; Social Democratic Party(Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz or SPS, Parti SocialistSuisse or PSS, Partito Socialista Svizzero or PSS, PartidaSocialdemocratica de la Svizra or PSS) [Hans-Juerg FEHR, president];Swiss People's Party (Schweizerische Volkspartei or SVP, UnionDemocratique du Centre or UDC, Unione Democratica de Centro or UDC,Uniun Democratica dal Center or UDC) [Ueli MAURER, president]; andother minor parties
SyriaArab Socialist Unionist Movement [Ahmed al-AHMED]; NationalProgressive Front or NPF (includes Arab Socialist Renaissance(Ba'th) Party; the governing party) [President Bashar al-ASAD,secretary general]; Socialist Unionist Democratic Party [FadlallalNasr Al-DIN]; Syrian Arab Socialist Party or ASP [Safwan QUDSI];Syrian Communist Party (two branches) [Wissal Farha BAKDASH, YuusufRashid FAYSAL]; Syrian Social National Party [Jubran URAYJI];Unionist Socialist Party [Fayez ISMAIL]
TaiwanDemocratic Progressive Party or DPP [YU Shyi-kun]; Kuomintangor KMT (Nationalist Party) [MA Ying-jeou]; People First Party or PFP[James SOONG (SOONG Chu-yu)]; Taiwan Solidarity Union or TSU [SUChin-chiang]; other minor parties including the Chinese New Party orNP
TajikistanAgrarian Party of Tajikistan or APT [Amir KARAKULOV];Democratic Party or DPT [Mahmadruzi ISKANDAROV]; Islamic RevivalParty [Said Abdullo NURI]; Party of Economic Reform or PER [OlimjonBOBOYEV]; People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan or PDPT [EmomaliRAHMONOV]; Social Democratic Party or SDPT [Rahmatullo ZOYIROV];Socialist Party or SPT [Abdualim GHAFFOROV]; Tajik Communist Partyor CPT [Shodi SHABDOLOV]
TanzaniaChama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Party of Democracy andDevelopment) or CHADEMA [Bob MAKANI]; Chama Cha Mapinduzi or CCM(Revolutionary Party) [Jakaya Mrisho KIKWETE]; Civic United Front orCUF [Ibrahim LIPUMBA]; Democratic Party [Christopher MTIKLA](unregistered); Tanzania Labor Party or TLP [Augustine LyatongaMREME]; United Democratic Party or UDP [John CHEYO]
ThailandDemocrat Party or DP (Prachathipat Party) [ABHISITWetchachiwa]; People's Party or PP (Mahachon Party) [ANEKLaothamatas]; Thai Nation Party or TNP (Chat Thai Party) [BARNHARNSILPA-ARCHA]; Thai Rak Thai Party or TRT [CHATURON Chaisang]
TogoJuvento [Monsilia DJATO]; Movement of the Believers of Peaceand Equality or MOCEP; Rally for the Support for Development andDemocracy or RSDD [Harry OLYMPIO]; Rally of the Togolese People orRPT [Faure GNASSINGBE]; Union for Democracy and Social Progress orUDPS [Gagou KOKOU]
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TongaPeople's Democratic Party [Tesina FUKO]
Trinidad and TobagoNational Alliance for Reconstruction or NAR[Lennox SANKERSINGH]; People's National Movement or PNM [PatrickMANNING]; Team Unity or TU [Ramesh MAHARAJ]; United NationalCongress or UNC [Basdeo PANDAY]; Democratic Action Committee or DAC[Hochoy CHARLES], note - only active in Tobago
TunisiaAl-Tajdid Movement [Ali HALOUANI]; Constitutional DemocraticRally Party (Rassemblement Constitutionnel Democratique) or RCD[President Zine El Abidine BEN ALI (official ruling party)]; LiberalSocial Party or PSL [Mounir BEJI]; Movement of Socialist Democratsor MDS [Ismail BOULAHYA]; Popular Unity Party or PUP [MohamedBOUCHIHA]; Progressive Democratic Party [Nejib CHEBBI]; UnionistDemocratic Union or UDU [Ahmed INOUBLI]
TurkeyAnavatan Partisi (once was Motherland Party) or ANAVATAN[Erkan MUMCU]; Democratic Left Party or DSP [Mehmet Zeki SEZER];Democratic People's Party or DEHAP [Tuncer BAKIRHAN]; Felicity Party(sometimes translated as Contentment Party) or SP [NecmettinERBAKAN]; Justice and Development Party or AKP [Recep TayyipERDOGAN]; Liberal Democratic Party or LDP; Nationalist Action Partyor MHP [Devlet BAHCELI]; People's Rise Party (Halkin YukselisiPartisi) or HYP [Yasr Nuri OZTURK]; Republican People's Party or CHP[Deniz BAYKAL]; Social Democratic People's Party or SHP [MuratKARAYALCIN]; True Path Party (sometimes translated as Correct WayParty) or DYP [Mehmet AGAR]note: the parties listed above are some of the more significant ofthe 49 parties that Turkey had on 1 December 2004
TurkmenistanDemocratic Party of Turkmenistan or DPT [SaparmuratNIYAZOV]note: formal opposition parties are outlawed; unofficial, smallopposition movements exist underground or in foreign countries; thetwo most prominent opposition groups-in-exile have been NationalDemocratic Movement of Turkmenistan (NDMT) and the United DemocraticParty of Turkmenistan (UDPT); NDMT was led by former ForeignMinister Boris SHIKHMURADOV until his arrest and imprisonment in thewake of the 25 November 2002 assassination attempt on PresidentNIYAZOV; UDPT is led by former Foreign Minister Abdy KULIEV and isbased out of Moscow
Turks and Caicos IslandsPeople's Democratic Movement or PDM [DerekH. TAYLOR]; Progressive National Party or PNP [Michael Eugene MISICK]
Tuvaluthere are no political parties but members of Parliamentusually align themselves in informal groupings
UgandaConservative Party or CP [Ken LUKYAMUZI]; Democratic Party orDP [Kizito SSEBAANA]; Forum for Democratic Change or FDC [KizzaBESIGYE]; Justice Forum or JEEMA [Muhammad Kibirige MAYANJA];National Democrats Forum [Chapaa KARUHANGA]; National ResistanceMovement or NRM [Yoweri MUSEVENI]; Ugandan People's Congress or UPC[Miria OBOTE]note: a national referendum in July 2005 opened the way for Uganda'stransition to a multi-party political system
UkraineCommunist Party of Ukraine or CPU [Petro SYMONENKO];Fatherland Party (Batkivshchyna) [Yuliya TYMOSHENKO]; Lytyvn-ledPeople's Bloc group [Ihor SHAROV]; Our Ukraine [Viktor YUSHCHENKO];Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs [Anatoliy KINAKH];People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh) [Borys TARASYUK]; People's Party[Volodymyr LYTVYN]; People's Trust group [Anton KISSE]; PORA! (It'sTime!) party [Vladyslav KASKIV]; Progressive Socialist Party[Natalya VITRENKO]; Reforms and Order Party [Viktor PYNZENYK]; Partyof Regions [Viktor YANUKOVYCH]; Republican Party [Yuriy BOYKO];Social Democratic Party (United) or SDPU(o) [Viktor MEDVEDCHUK];Socialist Party of Ukraine or SPU [Oleksandr MOROZ, chairman];Ukrainian People's Party [Yuriy KOSTENKO]; United Ukraine [BohdanHUBSKYY]; Vidrodzhennya (Revival) [Anton KISSE]
United Arab Emiratesnone
United KingdomConservative and Unionist Party [David CAMERON];Democratic Unionist Party (Northern Ireland) [Rev. Ian PAISLEY];Labor Party [Anthony (Tony) BLAIR]; Liberal Democrats [Sir MenziesCAMPBELL]; Party of Wales (Plaid Cymru) [Dafydd IWAN]; ScottishNational Party or SNP [Alex SALMOND]; Sinn Fein (Northern Ireland)[Gerry ADAMS]; Social Democratic and Labor Party or SDLP (NorthernIreland) [Mark DURKAN]; Ulster Unionist Party (Northern Ireland)[Sir Reg EMPEY]
United StatesDemocratic Party [Howard DEAN]; Green Party;Libertarian Party [Steve DAMERELL]; Republican Party [Ken MEHLMAN]
UruguayColorado Party [Julio Maria SANGUINETTI]; Independent Party(Partido Independiente) [Pablo MIERES]; Movement of PopularParticipation or MPP [Jose MUJICA]; National Party or Blanco [JorgeLARRANAGA]; New Sector/Space Coalition (Nuevo Espacio) [RafaelMICHELINI]; Progressive Encounter/Broad Front Coalition (EncuentroProgresista/Frente Amplio) or EP-FA [Tabare VAZQUEZ]; SocialistParty of Uruguay or Socialists [Reinaldo GARGANO]; UruguayanAssembly or Asamblea Uruguay [Danilo ASTORI]
UzbekistanAdolat (Justice) Social Democratic Party [DiloromTOSHMUHAMMADOVA, chairman]; Democratic National Rebirth Party (MillyTiklanish) or MTP [Xurshid DOSTMUHAMMADOV, chief]; LiberalDemocratic Party of Uzbekistan or LDPU [Adham SHODMONOV, chairman];People's Democratic Party or NDP (formerly Communist Party)[Asliddin RUSTAMOV, first secretary]; Self-Sacrificers Party orFidokorlar National Democratic Party [Ahtam TURSUNOV, chief]; note -Fatherland Progress Party merged with Self-Sacrificers Party
VanuatuJon Frum Movement [Song KEASPAI]; Melanesian ProgressiveParty or MPP [Barak SOPE]; National United Party or NUP [Hem LINI];Union of Moderate Parties or UMP [Serge VOHOR]; Vanua'aku Pati (OurLand Party) or VP [Edward NATAPEI]; Vanuatu Greens Party or VGP[Moana CARCASSES]; Vanuatu Republican Party or VRP [Maxime CarlotKORMAN]
VenezuelaChristian Democrats or COPEI [Eduardo FERNANDEZ];Democratic Action or AD [Jesus MENDEZ Quijada]; Fatherland for Allor PPT [Jose ALBORNOZ]; Fifth Republic Movement or MVR [HugoCHAVEZ]; Justice First [Julio BORGES]; Movement Toward Socialism orMAS [Hector MUJICA]; Venezuela Project or PV [Henrique SALAS Romer];We Can or PODEMOS [Ismael GARCIA]
Vietnamonly party - Communist Party of Vietnam or CPV [Nong DucMANH]
Virgin IslandsDemocratic Party [Arturo WATLINGTON]; IndependentCitizens' Movement or ICM [Usie RICHARDS]; Republican Party [GarySPRAUVE]
Wallis and FutunaLua Kae Tahi (Giscardians); Mouvement des Radicauxde Gauche or MRG; Rally for the Republic or RPR (UMP) [ClovisLOGOLOGOFOLAU]; Socialist Party or PS; Taumu'a Lelei [Soane MuniUHILA]; Union Populaire Locale or UPL [Falakiko GATA]; Union Pour laDemocratie Francaise or UDF
Yementhere are more than 12 political parties active in Yemen, someof 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]; Nasserite Unionist Party[Abdal Malik al-MAKHLAFI]; National Arab Socialist Ba'th Party [Dr.Qasim SALAM]; Yemeni Socialist Party or YSP [Ali Salih MUQBIL]
ZambiaAgenda for Zambia or AZ [Inonge MBIKUSITA-LEWANIKA]; Forumfor Democracy and Development or FDD [Christon TEMBO]; HeritageParty or HP [Godfrey MIYANDA]; Liberal Progressive Front or LPF[Roger CHONGWE, president]; Movement for Multiparty Democracy or MMD[Levy MWANAWASA, acting president]; National Leadership forDevelopment or NLD [Yobert SHAMAPANDE]; National Party or NP [Dr.Sam CHIPUNGU]; Patriotic Front or PF [Michael SATA]; SocialDemocratic Party or SDP [Gwendoline KONIE]; United NationalIndependence Party or UNIP [Francis NKHOMA, president]; United Partyfor National Development or UPND [Anderson MAZOKA]; ZambianRepublican Party or ZRP [Benjamin MWILA]
ZimbabweAfrican National Party or ANP; Movement for DemocraticChange or MDC [Morgan TSVANGIRAI]; Peace Action is Freedom for Allor PAFA; United Parties [Abel MUZOREWA]; United People's Party[Daniel SHUMBA]; Zimbabwe African National Union-Ndonga orZANU-Ndonga [Wilson KUMBULA]; Zimbabwe African NationalUnion-Patriotic Front or ZANU-PF [Robert Gabriel MUGABE]; ZimbabweAfrican Peoples Union or ZAPU [Agrippa MADLELA]; Zimbabwe Youth inAlliance or ZIYA
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Afghanistan31,056,997 (July 2006 est.)
Akrotirino indigenous inhabitantsnote: approximately 1,300 military personnel are on the base; thereare another 5,000 British citizens who are families of militarypersonnel or civilian staff on both Akrotiri and Dhekelia; Cypruscitizens work on the base, but do not live there
Albania3,581,655 (July 2006 est.)
Algeria32,930,091 (July 2006 est.)
American Samoa57,794 (July 2006 est.)
Andorra71,201 (July 2006 est.)
Angola12,127,071 (July 2006 est.)
Anguilla13,477 (July 2006 est.)
Antarcticano indigenous inhabitants, but there are both permanentand summer-only staffed research stationsnote: 26 nations, all signatory to the Antarctic Treaty, operatethrough their National Antarctic Program a number of seasonal-only(summer) and year-round research stations on the continent and itsnearby islands south of 60 degrees south latitude (the regioncovered by the Antarctic Treaty); these stations' population ofpersons doing and supporting science or engaged in the managementand protection of the Antarctic region varies from approximately4,000 in summer to 1,000 in winter; in addition, approximately 1,000personnel, including ship's crew and scientists doing onboardresearch, are present in the waters of the treaty region; peaksummer (December-February) population - 3,822 total; Argentina 417,Australia 213, Brazil 40, Bulgaria 15, Chile 224, China 70, Ecuador22, Finland 20, France 123, Germany 78, India 65, Italy 112, Japan150, South Korea 60, NZ 85, Norway 44, Peru 28, Poland 40, Russia429, South Africa 80, Spain 28, Sweden 20, Ukraine 24, UK 205, US1,170, Uruguay 60 (2005-2006); winter (June-August) stationpopulation - 1,028 total; Argentina 176, Australia 62, Brazil 12,Chile 88, China 29, France 37, Germany 9, India 25, Italy 2, Japan40, South Korea 15, NZ 10, Norway 7, Poland 12, Russia 148, SouthAfrica 10, Ukraine 12, UK 37, US 288, Uruguay 9 (2005); researchstations operated within the Antarctic Treaty area (south of 60degrees south latitude) by members of the Council of Managers ofNational Antarctic Programs (COMNAP): year-round stations - 37total; Argentina 6, Australia 3, Brazil 1, Chile 3, China 2, France1, Germany 1, India 1, Japan 1, South Korea 1, NZ 1, Norway 1,Poland 1, Russia 5, South Africa 1, Ukraine 1, UK 2, US 3, Uruguay1, Italy and France jointly 1 (2005); seasonal-only (summer)stations - 15 total; Australia 1, Bulgaria 1, Chile 1, Ecuador 1,Finland 1, Germany 1, Italy 1, Japan 1, Norway 1, Peru 1, Russia 1,Spain 2, Sweden 1, UK 1 (2005-2006); in addition, during the australsummer some nations have numerous occupied locations such as tentcamps, summer-long temporary facilities, and mobile traverses insupport of research
Antigua and Barbuda69,108 (July 2006 est.)
Argentina39,921,833 (July 2006 est.)
Armenia2,976,372 (July 2006 est.)
Aruba71,891 (July 2006 est.)
Ashmore and Cartier Islands no indigenous inhabitants note: Indonesian fishermen are allowed access to the lagoon and fresh water at Ashmore Reef's West Island (July 2006 est.)
Australia20,264,082 (July 2006 est.)
Austria8,192,880 (July 2006 est.)
Azerbaijan7,961,619 (July 2006 est.)
Bahamas, The303,770note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account theeffects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lowerlife expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lowerpopulation and growth rates, and changes in the distribution ofpopulation by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July2006 est.)
Bahrain698,585note: includes 235,108 non-nationals (July 2006 est.)
Baker Islanduninhabitednote: American civilians evacuated in 1942 after Japanese air andnaval attacks during World War II; occupied by US military duringWorld War II, but abandoned after the war; public entry is byspecial-use permit from US Fish and Wildlife Service only andgenerally restricted to scientists and educators; a cemetery andremnants of structures from early settlement are located near themiddle of the west coast; visited annually by US Fish and WildlifeService (2005 est.)
Bangladesh147,365,352 (July 2006 est.)
Barbados279,912 (July 2006 est.)
Bassas da Indiauninhabited (July 2006 est.)
Belarus10,293,011 (July 2006 est.)
Belgium10,379,067 (July 2006 est.)
Belize287,730 (July 2006 est.)
Benin7,862,944note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account theeffects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lowerlife expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lowerpopulation and growth rates, and changes in the distribution ofpopulation by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July2006 est.)
Bermuda65,773 (July 2006 est.)
Bhutan 2,279,723 note: other estimates range as low as 810,000 (July 2006 est.)
Bolivia8,989,046 (July 2006 est.)
Bosnia and Herzegovina4,498,976 (July 2006 est.)
Botswana1,639,833note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account theeffects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lowerlife expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lowerpopulation and growth rates, and changes in the distribution ofpopulation by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July2006 est.)
Bouvet Islanduninhabited (July 2006 est.)
Brazil188,078,227note: Brazil conducted a census in August 2000, which reported apopulation of 169,799,170; that figure was about 3.3% lower thanprojections by the US Census Bureau, and is close to the impliedunderenumeration of 4.6% for the 1991 census; estimates for thiscountry explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortalitydue to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infantmortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, andchanges in the distribution of population by age and sex than wouldotherwise be expected (July 2006 est.)
British Indian Ocean Territoryno indigenous inhabitantsnote: approximately 1,200 former agricultural workers resident inthe Chagos Archipelago, often referred to as Chagossians or Ilois,were relocated to Mauritius and the Seychelles in the 1960s and1970s; in November 2000 they were granted the right of return by aBritish High Court ruling, though no timetable has been set; inNovember 2004, there were approximately 4,000 UK and US militarypersonnel and civilian contractors living on the island of DiegoGarcia (July 2006 est.)
British Virgin Islands23,098 (July 2006 est.)
Brunei379,444 (July 2006 est.)
Bulgaria7,385,367 (July 2006 est.)
Burkina Faso13,902,972note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account theeffects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lowerlife expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lowerpopulation and growth rates, and changes in the distribution ofpopulation by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July2006 est.)
Burma47,382,633note: estimates for this country take into account the effects ofexcess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower lifeexpectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lowerpopulation growth rates, and changes in the distribution ofpopulation by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July2006 est.)
Burundi8,090,068note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account theeffects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lowerlife expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lowerpopulation and growth rates, and changes in the distribution ofpopulation by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July2006 est.)
Cambodia13,881,427note: estimates for this country take into account the effects ofexcess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower lifeexpectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lowerpopulation growth rates, and changes in the distribution ofpopulation by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July2006 est.)
Cameroon17,340,702note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account theeffects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lowerlife expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lowerpopulation and growth rates, and changes in the distribution ofpopulation by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July2006 est.)
Canada33,098,932 (July 2006 est.)
Cape Verde420,979 (July 2006 est.)
Cayman Islands45,436note: most of the population lives on Grand Cayman (July 2006 est.)
Central African Republic4,303,356note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account theeffects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lowerlife expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lowerpopulation and growth rates, and changes in the distribution ofpopulation by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July2006 est.)
Chad9,944,201 (July 2006 est.)
Chile16,134,219 (July 2006 est.)
China1,313,973,713 (July 2006 est.)
Christmas Island1,493 (July 2006 est.)
Clipperton Islanduninhabited (July 2006 est.)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands574 (July 2006 est.)
Colombia43,593,035 (July 2006 est.)
Comoros690,948 (July 2006 est.)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the62,660,551note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account theeffects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lowerlife expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lowerpopulation and growth rates, and changes in the distribution ofpopulation by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July2006 est.)
Congo, Republic of the3,702,314note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account theeffects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lowerlife expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lowerpopulation and growth rates, and changes in the distribution ofpopulation by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July2006 est.)
Cook Islands21,388 (July 2006 est.)
Coral Sea Islandsno indigenous inhabitantsnote: there is a staff of three to four at the meteorologicalstation (2005 est.)
Costa Rica4,075,261 (July 2006 est.)
Cote d'Ivoire17,654,843note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account theeffects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lowerlife expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lowerpopulation and growth rates, and changes in the distribution ofpopulation by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July2006 est.)
Croatia4,494,749 (July 2006 est.)
Cuba11,382,820 (July 2006 est.)
Cyprus784,301 (July 2006 est.)
Czech Republic10,235,455 (July 2006 est.)
Denmark5,450,661 (July 2006 est.)
Dhekeliano indigenous personnelnote: approximately 2,200 military personnel are on the base; thereare another 5,000 British citizens who are families of militarypersonnel or civilian staff on both the bases of Akrotiri andDhekelia; Cyprus citizens work on the base, but do not live there
Djibouti486,530 (July 2006 est.)
Dominica68,910 (July 2006 est.)
Dominican Republic9,183,984 (July 2006 est.)
East Timor 1,062,777 note: other estimates range as low as 800,000 (July 2006 est.)
Ecuador13,547,510 (July 2006 est.)
Egypt78,887,007 (July 2006 est.)
El Salvador6,822,378 (July 2006 est.)
Equatorial Guinea540,109 (July 2006 est.)
Eritrea4,786,994 (July 2006 est.)
Estonia1,324,333 (July 2006 est.)
Ethiopia74,777,981note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account theeffects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lowerlife expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lowerpopulation and growth rates, and changes in the distribution ofpopulation by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July2006 est.)
Europa Islandno indigenous inhabitantsnote: there is a small French military garrison and a fewmeteorologists; visited by scientists (July 2006 est.)