Azerbaijan

Azadliq (Freedom) coalition (Popular Front Party, Liberal

Party, Citizens' Development Party); Azerbaijan Democratic Party or

ADP [Sardar JALALOGLU]; Azerbaijan Democratic Reforms Party (ADRP)

Youth Movement [Ramin HAJILI]; Azerbaijan Popular Front or APF, now

split in two [Ali KARIMLI, leader of "Reform" APF party; Mirmahmud

MIRALI-OGLU, leader of "Classic" APF party]; Azerbaijan Public Forum

[Eldar NAMAZOV]; Citizens' Development Party [Ali ALIYEV]; Civil

Solidarity Party or CSP [Sabir RUSTAMKHANLY]; Dalga Youth Movement

[Vafa JAFAROVA]; Green Party [Mais GULALIYEV and Tarana MAMMADOVA];

Hope (Umid) Party [Iqbal AGAZADE]; Ireli Youth Movement [Jeyhun

OSMANLI, Roya TALIBOVA, Farhad MAMMADOV, Elnara GARIBOVA, Elnur

MAMMADOV, Ziya ALIYEV]; Justice Party [Ilyas ISMAILOV]; Liberal

Party of Azerbaijan [Lala Shovkat HACIYEVA]; Magam Youth Movement

[Emin HUSEYNOV]; Motherland Party [Fazail AGAMALI]; Musavat

(Equality) [Isa GAMBAR, chairman]; Musavat Party Youth Movement

[Elnur MAMMADLI]; National Democratic Party or Grey Wolves

(Nationalist, Pan-Turkic) [Iskender HAMIDOV]; Open Society Party

[Rasul GULIYEV, in exile in the US]; Party for National Independence

of Azerbaijan or PNIA [Ayaz RUSTAMOV]; Popular Front Party Youth

Movement [Seymur KHAZIYEV]; Social Democratic Party of Azerbaijan or

SDP [Araz ALIZADE and Ayaz MUTALIBOV (in exile)]; Turkish

Nationalist Party [Vugar BAYTURAN]; United Azerbaijan Party [Karrar

ABILOV]; United Azerbaijan National Unity Party [Hajibaba AZIMOV];

United Party [Tahir KARIMLI]; Yeni (New) Azerbaijan Party [President

Ilham ALIYEV]; Yeni Azerbaijan Party Youth Movement [Ramil HASANOV];

Yox (No) Youth Movement [Ali ISMAYILOV]

note: opposition parties regularly factionalize and form new parties;

Bahamas, The

Free National Movement or FNM [Hubert INGRAHAM];

Progressive Liberal Party or PLP [Perry CHRISTIE]

Bahrain

political parties prohibited but political societies were

legalized per a July 2005 law

Bangladesh

Awami League or AL [Sheikh HASINA]; Bangladesh Communist

Party or BCP [Manjurul A. KHAN]; Bangladesh Nationalist Party or BNP

[Khaleda ZIA]; Islami Oikya Jote or IOJ [Mufti Fazlul Haq AMINI];

Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh or JIB [Matiur Rahman NIZAMI]; Jatiya

Party or JP (Ershad faction) [Hussain Mohammad ERSHAD]; Jatiya Party

(Manzur faction) [Naziur Rahman MANZUR]; Liberal Democratic Party or

LDP [Badrudozza CHOWDHURY and Oli AHMED]

Barbados

Barbados Labor Party or BLP [Mia MOTTLEY]; Democratic Labor

Party or DLP [David THOMPSON]; People's Empowerment Party or PEP

[David COMISSIONG]

Belarus

pro-government parties: Agrarian Party or AP [Mikhail

SHIMANSKY]; Communist Party of Belarus or KPB; Belarusian Patriotic

Movement (Belarusian Patriotic Party) or BPR [Nikolay ULAKHOVICH,

chairman]; Liberal Democratic Party [Sergey GAYDUKEVICH]; Republican

Party of Labor and Justice [Viktor SOKOLOV]; Social-Sports Party

[Vladimir ALEXANDROVICH]

opposition parties: Belarusian Christian Democracy Party

(unregistered) [Pavel SEVERINETS]; Belarusian Party of Communists or

PKB [Sergey KALYAKIN]; Belarusian Party of Labor (unregistered)

[Aleksandr BUKHVOSTOV, Leonid LEMESHONAK]; Belarusian Popular Front

or BPF [Levon BARSHCHEVSKIY]; Belarusian Social-Democratic Gramada

[Stanislav SHUSHKEVICH]; Belarusian Social Democratic Party Hramada

(People's Assembly) or BSDPH [Anatoliy LEVKOVICH]; European

Coalition [Nikolay STATKEVICH]; Green Party [Oleg GROMYKO]; Party of

Freedom and Progress (unregistered) [Vladimir NOVOSYAD]; United

Civic Party or UCP [Anatoliy LEBEDKO]; Women's Party Hope (Nadezhda)

[Valentina MATUSEVICH, chairperson]

other opposition includes: Christian Conservative BPF [Zyanon

PAZNIAK]; Ecological Party of Greens [Mikhail KARTASH]; Party of

Popular Accord [Sergey YERMAKK]; Republican Party [Vladimir BELAZOR]

Belgium

Flemish parties: Christian Democratic and Flemish or CDV

[Marianne THYSSEN]; Dedecker List [Jean-Marie DEDECKER]; Flemish

Liberals and Democrats or Open VLD [Bart SOMERS]; Groen! [Mieke

VOGELS] (formerly AGALEV, Flemish Greens); New Flemish Alliance or

N-VA [Bart DE WEVER]; Social Liberal Party or SLP [Geert LAMBERT];

note - prior to 19 April 2008, known as Spirit; Social Progressive

Alternative or SP.A [Caroline GENNEZ]; Vlaams Belang (Flemish

Interest) or VB [Bruno VALKENIERS]

Francophone parties: Ecolo (Francophone Greens) [Jean-Michel JAVAUX,

Isabelle DURANT]; Humanist and Democratic Center or CDH [Joelle

MILQUET]; National Front or FN [Daniel HUYGENS]; Reform Movement or

MR [Didier REYNDERS]; Socialist Party or PS [Elio DI RUPO]; other

minor parties

Belize

National Alliance for Belizean Rights or NABR; National

Reform Party or NRP [Cornelius DUECK]; People's National Party or

PNP [Wil MAHEIA]; People's United Party or PUP [John BRICENO];

United Democratic Party or UDP [Dean BARROW]; Vision Inspired by the

People or VIP [Paul MORGAN]; We the People Reform Movement or WTP

[Hipolito BAUTISTA]

Benin

Alliance for Dynamic Democracy or ADD; Alliance of Progress

Forces or AFP; African Movement for Democracy and Progress or MADEP

[Sefou FAGBOHOUN]; Benin Renaissance or RB [Rosine SOGLO];

Democratic Renewal Party or PRD [Adrien HOUNGBEDJI]; Force Cowrie

for an Emerging Benin or FCBE; Impulse for Progress and Democracy or

IPD [Theophile NATA]; Key Force or FC [Lazare SEHOUETO]; Movement

for the People's Alternative or MAP [Olivier CAPO-CHICHI]; Rally for

Democracy and Progress or RDP [Dominique HOUNGNINOU]; Social

Democrat Party or PSD [Bruno AMOUSSOU]; Union for the Relief or UPR

[Issa SALIFOU]; Union for Democracy and National Solidarity or UDS

[Sacca LAFIA]

note: approximately 20 additional minor parties

Bermuda

Progressive Labor Party or PLP [Ewart BROWN]; United Bermuda

Party or UBP [Kim SWAN]

Bhutan

Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party (Druk Phuensum Tshogpa) or

DPT [Jigme THINLEY]; People's Democratic Party or PDP [Tshering

TOBGAY]

Bolivia

Free Bolivia Movement or MBL [Franz BARRIOS]; Movement

Toward Socialism or MAS [Juan Evo MORALES Ayma]; Movement Without

Fear or MSM [Juan DEL GRANADO]; National Revolutionary Movement or

MNR [Mirta QUEVEDO]; National Unity [Samuel DORIA MEDINA Arana];

Poder Democratico Nacional or PODEMOS [Jorge Fernando QUIROGA

Ramirez]; Social Alliance [Rene JOAQUINO]

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Alliance of Independent Social Democrats or

SNSD [Milorad DODIK]; Bosnian Party or BOSS [Mirnes AJANOVIC];

Bosnian Patriotic Party of BPS [Sefer HALILOVIC]; Civic Democratic

Party or GDS [Ibrahim SPAHIC]; Croat Christian Democratic Union of

Bosnia and Herzegovina or HKDU [Marin TOPIC]; Croat Party of Rights

or HSP [Zvonko JURISIC]; Croat Peasants Party or HSS [Marko TADIC];

Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina or HDZ-BH

[Dragan COVIC]; Croatian Democratic Union 1990 or HDZ1990 [Bozo

LJUBIC]; Croatian Peoples Union [Milenko BRKIC]; Democratic National

Union or DNZ [Rifet DOLIC]; Democratic Party of DP [Dragan CAVIC];

Democratic Peoples Alliance or DNS [Marko PAVIC]; Liberal Democratic

Party or LDS [Rasim KADIC]; Nasa Stranka or NS [Bojan BAJIC]; New

Croat Initiative or NHI [Kresimir ZUBAK]; Party for Bosnia and

Herzegovina or SBiH [Haris SILAJDZIC]; Party for Democratic Action

or SDA [Sulejman TIHIC]; Party for Work and Progress or RzB [Mladen

IVANKOVIC-LIJANOVIC]; Party of Democratic Progress or PDP [Mladen

IVANIC]; Serb Democratic Party or SDS [Mladen BOSIC]; Serb Radical

Party of the Republika Srpska or SRS-RS [Milanko MIHAJLICA]; Serb

Radical Party-Dr. Vojislav Seselj or SRS-VS [Radislav KANJERIC];

Social Democratic Party of BIH or SDP [Zlatko LAGUMDZIJA]; Social

Democratic Union or SDU [Sejfudin TOKIC]; Socialist Party of

Republika Srpska or SPRS [Petar DJOKIC]

Botswana

Botswana Alliance Movement or BAM [Ephraim Lepetu

SETSHWAELO]; Botswana Congress Party or BCP [Gilson SALESHANDO];

Botswana Democratic Party or BDP [Daniel KWELAGOBE]; Botswana

National Front or BNF [Otswoletse MOUPO]; Botswana Peoples Party or

BPP [Bernard BALIKANI]; MELS Movement of Botswana or MELS [Themba

JOINA]; New Democratic Front or NDF [Dick BAYFORD]

note: a number of minor parties joined forces in 1999 to form the

BAM but did not capture any parliamentary seats - includes the

United Action Party [Ephraim Lepetu SETSHWAELO]; the Independence

Freedom Party or IFP [Motsamai MPHO]; the Botswana Progressive Union

[D. K. KWELE]

Brazil

Brazilian Democratic Movement Party or PMDB [Federal Deputy

Michel TEMER]; Brazilian Labor Party or PTB [Roberto JEFFERSON];

Brazilian Renewal Labor Party or PRTB [Jose Levy FIDELIX da Cruz];

Brazilian Republican Party or PRB [Vitor Paulo Araujo DOS SANTOS];

Brazilian Social Democracy Party or PSDB [Senator Sergio GUERRA];

Brazilian Socialist Party or PSB [Governor Eduardo Henrique Accioly

CAMPOS]; Christian Labor Party or PTC [Daniel TOURINHO]; Communist

Party of Brazil or PCdoB [Jose Renato RABELO]; Democratic Labor

Party or PDT [Carlos Roberto LUPI]; the Democrats or DEM (formerly

Liberal Front Party or PFL) [Federal Deputy Rodrigo MAIA]; Freedom

and Socialism Party or PSOL [Heloisa HELENA]; Green Party or PV

[Jose Luiz de Franca PENNA]; Humanist Party of Solidarity or PHS

[Paulo Roberto MATOS]; Labor Party of Brazil or PTdoB [Luis Henrique

de Oliveira RESENDE]; Liberal Front Party or PFL (now known as the

Democrats or DEM); National Mobilization Party or PMN [Oscar Noronha

FILHO]; Party of the Republic or PR [Sergio TAMER]; Popular

Socialist Party or PPS [Federal Deputy Fernando CORUJA]; Progressive

Party or PP [Francisco DORNELLES]; Social Christian Party or PSC

[Vitor Jorge Abdala NOSSEIS]; Workers' Party or PT [Ricardo Jose

Ribeiro BERZOINI]

British Virgin Islands

Concerned Citizens Movement or CCM [Ethlyn

SMITH]; National Democratic Party or NDP [Orlando SMITH]; United

Party or UP [Gregory MADURO]; Virgin Islands Party or VIP [Ralph T.

O'NEAL]

Brunei

National Development Party or NDP [YASSIN Affendi]

note: Brunei National Solidarity Party or PPKB [Abdul LATIF bin

Chuchu] and People's Awareness Party or PAKAR [Awang Haji MAIDIN bin

Haji Ahmad] were deregistered; parties are small and have limited

activity

Bulgaria

ATAKA (Attack Coalition) (coalition of parties headed by

the Attack National Union); Attack National Union [Volen SIDEROV];

Agrarian National Union or ANU [Stefan LICHEV]; Blue Coalition (a

coalition of center-right parties dominated by UDF and DSB);

Bulgarian New Democracy [Borislav RALCHEV]; Bulgarian Socialist

Party or BSP [Sergei STANISHEV]; Citizens for the European

Development of Bulgaria or GERB [Tsvetan TSVETANOV]; Coalition for

Bulgaria or CfB (coalition of parties dominated by BSP) [Sergei

STANISHEV]; Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria or DSB [Ivan KOSTOV];

Gergyovden [Petar STOYANOVICH]; Internal Macedonian Revolutionary

Organization or IMRO [Krasimir KARAKACHANOV]; Liberal Initiative for

Democratic European Development or LIDER [Khristo KOVACHKI];

Movement for Rights and Freedoms or MRF [Ahmed DOGAN]; Movement

Forward (LIDER, IMRO, ANU, Gergyovden); National Movement for

Stability and Progress or NDSV [Simeon SAXE-COBURG-GOTHA] (formerly

National Movement Simeon II or NMS2); New Time [Emil KOSHLUKOV];

Order, Law, Justice or RZS [Yane YANEV]; Union of Democratic Forces

or UDF [Martin DIMITROV]; Union of Free Democrats or UFD [Stefan

SOFIYANSKI]; United Agrarians [Anastasia MOZER]

Burkina Faso

African Democratic Rally-Alliance for Democracy and

Federation or ADF-RDA [Gilbert OUEDRAOGO]; Citizen's Popular Rally

or RPC [Antoine QUARE]; Coalition of Democratic Forces of Burkina or

CFD-B [Amadou Diemdioda DICKO]; Congress for Democracy and Progress

or CDP [Roch Marc-Christian KABORE]; Democratic and Popular Rally or

RDP [Nana THIBAUT]; Movement for Tolerance and Progress or MTP

[Nayabtigungou Congo KABORE]; Party for African Independence or PAI

[Soumane TOURE]; Party for Democracy and Progress-Socialist Party or

PDP-PS [Ali LANKOANDE]; Party for Democracy and Socialism or PDS

[Felix SOUBEIGA]; Party for National Rebirth or PAREN [Jeanne

TRAORE]; Rally for the Development of Burkina or RDB [Antoine

KARGOUGOU]; Rally of Ecologists of Burkina Faso or RDEB [Ram

OUEDRAGO]; Republican Party for Integration and Solidarity or PARIS;

Union for Democracy and Social Progress or UDPS [Fidele HIEN]; Union

for Rebirth - Sankarist Movement or UNIR-MS [Benewende STANISLAS];

Union for the Republic or UPR [Toussaint Abel COULIBALY]; Union of

Sankarist Parties or UPS [Ernest Nongma OUEDRAOGO]

Burma

National League for Democracy or NLD [AUNG SHWE, AUNG SAN SUU

KYI]; National Unity Party or NUP (pro-regime) [TUN YE]; Shan

Nationalities League for Democracy or SNLD [HKUN HTUN OO]; and

numerous other smaller parties

Burundi

governing parties: Burundi Democratic Front or FRODEBU

[Leonce NGENDAKUMANA]; National Council for the Defense of Democracy

- Front for the Defense of Democracy or CNDD-FDD [Jeremie

NGENDAKUMANA]; Unity for National Progress or UPRONA [Aloys RUBUKA]

note: a multiparty system was introduced after 1998, included are:

National Council for the Defense of Democracy or CNDD [Leonard

NYANGOMA]; National Resistance Movement for the Rehabilitation of

the Citizen or MRC-Rurenzangemero [Epitace BANYAGANAKANDI]; Party

for National Redress or PARENA [Jean-Baptiste BAGAZA]

Cambodia

Cambodian People's Party or CPP [CHEA SIM]; Human Rights

Party or HRP [KHEM SOKHA, also spelled KEM SOKHA]; National United

Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful, and Cooperative

Cambodia or FUNCINPEC [KEV PUT REAKSMEI]; Norodom Ranariddh Party or

NRP [CHHIM SEAK LENG]; Sam Rangsi Party or SRP [SAM RANGSI, also

spelled SAM RAINSY]

Cameroon

Cameroonian Democratic Union or UDC [Adamou Ndam NJOYA];

Cameroon People's Democratic Movement or CPDM [Paul BIYA]; Movement

for the Defense of the Republic or MDR [Dakole DAISSALA]; Movement

for the Liberation and Development of Cameroon or MLDC [Marcel

YONDO]; National Union for Democracy and Progress or UNDP [Maigari

BELLO BOUBA]; Progressive Movement or MP; Social Democratic Front or

SDF [John FRU NDI]; Union of Peoples of Cameroon or UPC [Augustin

Frederic KODOCK]

Canada

Bloc Quebecois [Gilles DUCEPPE]; Conservative Party of Canada

[Stephen HARPER] (a merger of the Canadian Alliance and the

Progressive Conservative Party); Green Party [Elizabeth MAY];

Liberal Party [Michael IGNATIEFF]; New Democratic Party [Jack LAYTON]

Cape Verde

African Party for Independence of Cape Verde or PAICV

[Jose Maria Pereira NEVES, chairman]; Democratic Christian Party or

PDC [Manuel RODRIGUES]; Democratic Renovation Party or PRD [Victor

FIDALGO]; Democratic and Independent Cape Verdean Union or UCID

[Antonio MONTEIRO]; Movement for Democracy or MPD [Jorge SANTOS];

Party for Democratic Convergence or PCD [Dr. Eurico MONTEIRO]; Party

of Work and Solidarity or PTS [Isaias RODRIGUES]; Social Democratic

Party or PSD [Joao ALEM]

Cayman Islands

United Democratic Party or UDP [McKeeva BUSH];

People's Progressive Movement or PPM [Kurt TIBBETTS]

Central African Republic

Alliance for Democracy and Progress or ADP

[Jacques MBOLIEDAS]; Central African Democratic Rally or RDC [Andre

KOLINGBA]; Civic Forum or FC [Gen. Timothee MALENDOMA]; Democratic

Forum for Modernity or FODEM [Charles MASSI]; Liberal Democratic

Party or PLD [Nestor KOMBO-NAGUEMON]; Londo Association or LONDO;

Movement for Democracy and Development or MDD [David DACKO];

Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People or MLPC

[Ange-Felix PATASSE] (the party of deposed president); National

Convergence or KNK; Patriotic Front for Progress or FPP [Abel

GOUMBA]; People's Union for the Republic or UPR [Pierre Sammy

MAKFOY]; National Unity Party or PUN [Jean-Paul NGOUPANDE]; Social

Democratic Party or PSD [Enoch LAKOUE]

Chad

Federation Action for the Republic or FAR [Ngarledjy YORONGAR];

National Rally for Development and Progress or RNDP [Delwa Kassire

KOUMAKOYE]; National Union for Democracy and Renewal or UNDR [Saleh

KEBZABO]; Party for Liberty and Development or PLD [Ibni Oumar

Mahamat SALEH]; Patriotic Salvation Movement or MPS [Mahamat Saleh

AHMAT, chairman]; Rally for Democracy and Progress or RDP [Lol

Mahamat CHOUA]; Union for Renewal and Democracy or URD [Gen. Wadal

Abdelkader KAMOUGUE]

Chile

Alliance for Chile (Alianza) or APC (including National

Renewal or RN [Carlos LARRAIN Pena] and Independent Democratic Union

or UDI [Juan Antonio COLOMA Correa]); Coalition of Parties for

Democracy (Concertacion) or CPD (including Christian Democratic

Party or PDC [Juan Carlos LATORRE Carmona], Socialist Party or PS

[Camilo ESCALONA Medina], Party for Democracy or PPD [Pepe AUTH

Stewart], and Radical Social Democratic Party or PRSD [Jose Antonio

GOMEZ Urrutia]); Communist Party or PC [Guillermo TEILLIER del

Valle]; Humanist Party [Marilen CABRERA Olmos]

China

Chinese Communist Party or CCP [HU Jintao]; eight registered

small parties controlled by CCP

Christmas Island

none

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

none

Colombia

Colombian Conservative Party or PC [Efrain Jose CEPEDA

Sarabia]; Alternative Democratic Pole or PDA [Carlos GAVIRIA Diaz];

Liberal Party or PL [Cesar GAVIRIA Trujillo]; Radical Change or CR

[German VARGAS Lleras]; Social National Unity Party or U Party

[Carlos FERRO Solanilla]

note: Colombia has 15 formally recognized political parties, and

numerous unofficial parties that did not meet the vote threshold in

the March 2006 legislative elections required for recognition

Comoros

Convention for the Renewal of the Comoros or CRC [AZALI

Assowmani]; Camp of the Autonomous Islands or CdIA (a coalition of

parties organized by the islands' presidents in opposition to the

Union President); Front National pour la Justice or FNJ [Ahmed

RACHID] (Islamic party in opposition); Mouvement pour la Democratie

et le Progress or MDP-NGDC [Abbas DJOUSSOUF]; Parti Comorien pour la

Democratie et le Progress or PCDP [Ali MROUDJAE]; Rassemblement

National pour le Development or RND [Omar TAMOU, Abdoulhamid

AFFRAITANE]

Congo, Democratic Republic of the

Christian Democrat Party or PDC

[Jose ENDUNDO]; Congolese Rally for Democracy or RCD [Azarias

RUBERWA]; Convention of Christian Democrats or CDC; Forces of

Renewal or FR [Mbusa NYAMWISI]; Movement for the Liberation of the

Congo or MLC [Jean-Pierre BEMBA]; People's Party for Reconstruction

and Democracy or PPRD [Joseph KABILA]; Social Movement for Renewal

or MSR [Pierre LUMBI]; Unified Lumumbist Party or PALU [Antoine

GIZENGA]; Union for Democracy and Social Progress or UDPS [Etienne

TSHISEKEDI]; Union of Mobutuist Democrats or UDEMO [MOBUTU Nzanga]

Congo, Republic of the

Action Movement for Renewal or MAR; Congolese

Movement for Democracy and Integral Development or MCDDI [Michel

MAMPOUYA]; Congolese Labour Party or PCT; Movement for Solidarity

and Development or MSD; Pan-African Union for Social Development or

UPADS [Martin MBERI]; Rally of the Presidential Majority or RMP;

Rally for Democracy and Social Progress or RDPS [Jean-Pierre

Thystere TCHICAYA, president]; Rally for Democracy and the Republic

or RDR [Raymond Damasge NGOLLO]; Union for Democracy and Republic or

UDR; United Democratic Forces or FDU [Sebastian EBAO]; many less

important parties

Cook Islands

Cook Islands Party or CIP [Henry PUNA]; Democratic

Party or Demo [Dr. Terepai MAOATE]

Costa Rica

Authentic Member from Heredia [Jose SALAS]; Citizen

Action Party or PAC [Epsy CAMPBELL Barr]; Costa Rican Renovation

Party or PRC [Gerardo Justo OROZCO Alvarez]; Democratic Force Party

or PFD [Marco NUNEZ Gonzalez]; General Union Party or PUGEN [Carlos

Alberto FERNANDEZ Vega]; Homeland First or PP [Juan Jose VARGAS

Fallas]; Independent Worker Party or PIO [Jose Alberto CUBERO

Carmona]; Libertarian Movement Party or PML [Otto GUEVARA Guth];

National Christian Alliance Party or ANC [Juan Carlos CHAVEZ Mora];

National Integration Party or PIN [Walter MUNOZ Cespedes]; National

Liberation Party or PLN [Francisco Antonio PACHECO Fernandez];

National Patriotic Party or PPN [Daniel Enrique REYNOLDS Vargas];

National Restoration Party or PRN [Fabio Enrique DELGADO Hernandez];

National Union Party or PUN [Arturo ACOSTA Mora]; Nationalist

Democratic Alliance or ADN [Jose Miguel VILLALOBOS Umana]; Patriotic

Union or UP [Jose Miguel CORRALES Bolanos]; Social Christian Unity

Party or PUSC [Luis FISHMAN Zonzinski]; Union for Change Party or

UPC [Antonio ALVAREZ Desanti]; United Leftist Coalition or IU

[Humberto VARGAS Carbonel]

Cote d'Ivoire

Citizen's Democratic Union or UDCY [Theodore MEL EG];

Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire or PDCI [Henri Konan BEDIE];

Ivorian Popular Front or FPI [Pascale Affi N'GUESSAN]; Ivorian

Worker's Party or PIT [Francis WODIE]; Opposition Movement of the

Future or MFA [Innocent Augustin ANAKY]; Rally of the Republicans or

RDR [Alassane OUATTARA]; Union for Democracy and Peace in Cote

d'Ivoire or UDPCI [Toikeuse MABRI]; over 144 smaller registered

parties

Croatia

Croatian Democratic Congress of Slavonia and Baranja or

HDSSB [Vladimir SISLJAGIC]; Croatian Democratic Union or HDZ [Ivo

SANADER]; Croatian Party of the Right or HSP [Anto DJAPIC]; Croatian

Peasant Party or HSS [Josip FRISCIC]; Croatian Pensioner Party or

HSU [Silvano HRELJA]; Croatian People's Party or HNS [Radimir

CACIC]; Croatian Social Liberal Party or HSLS [Djurdja ADLESIC];

Independent Democratic Serb Party or SDSS [Vojislav STANIMIROVIC];

Istrian Democratic Assembly or IDS [Ivan JAKOVCIC]; Social

Democratic Party of Croatia or SDP [Zoran MILANOVIC]

Cuba

Cuban Communist Party or PCC [Fidel CASTRO Ruz, first secretary]

Cyprus

area under government control: Democratic Party or DIKO

[Marios KAROYIAN]; Democratic Rally or DISY [Nikos ANASTASIADES];

European Party or EURO.KO [Demetris SYLLOURIS]; Fighting Democratic

Movement or ADIK [Dinos MIKHAILIDES]; Green Party of Cyprus [George

PERDIKIS]; Movement for Social Democrats or EDEK [Yiannakis OMIROU];

Progressive Party of the Working People or AKEL (Communist Party)

[Andros KYPRIANOU]; United Democrats or EDI [Michalis PAPAPETROU]

area administered by Turkish Cypriots: Centrist Party or HP [Rasit

PERTEV]; Communal Democracy Party or TDP [Mehmet CAKICIL]; Cyprus

Socialist Party or KSP [Yusuf ALKIM]; Democratic Party or DP [Serder

DENKTASH]; Freedom and Reform Party or ORP [Turgay AVCI]; National

Unity Party or UBP [Dervis EROGLU]; Nationalist Justice Party or MAP

[Ata TEPE]; New Cyprus Party or YKP [Murat KANATLI]; Politics for

the People Party or HIS [Ahmet YONLUER]; Republican Turkish Party or

CTP [Ferdi Sabit SOYER]; United Cyprus Party or BKP [Izzet IZCAN]

Czech Republic

Association of Independent Candidates-European

Democrats or SNK-ED [Helmut DOHNALEK]; Christian Democratic

Union-Czechoslovak People's Party or KDU-CSL [Jiri CUNEK]; Civic

Democratic Party or ODS [Mirek TOPOLANEK]; Communist Party of

Bohemia and Moravia or KSCM [Vojtech FILIP]; Czech Social Democratic

Party or CSSD [Jiri PAROUBEK]; Free Citizens' Party or SSO [Petr

MACH]; Green Party [Martin BURSIK]; Independent Democrats (NEZDEM)

[Vladimir ZELEZNY]; Party of Open Society (SOS) [Pavel NOVACEK];

Path of Change [Jiri LOBKOWITZ]; Union of Freedom-Democratic Union

or US-DEU [Jan CERNY]

Denmark

Christian Democrats [Bjarne Hartung KIRKEGAARD] (was

Christian People's Party); Conservative Party [Lene ESPERSEN]

(sometimes known as Conservative People's Party); Danish People's

Party [Pia KJAERSGAARD]; Liberal Party [Anders Fogh RASMUSSEN];

Liberal Alliance [Naser KHADER](formerly known as New Alliance);

Red-Green Unity List (Alliance) [collective leadership] (bloc

includes Left Socialist Party, Communist Party of Denmark, Socialist

Workers' Party); Social Democratic Party [Helle THORNING-SCHMIDT];

Social Liberal Party [Margrethe VESTAGER]; Socialist People's Party

[Villy SOEVNDAL]