parties in the Parliament:: Christian Democratic Movement
or KDH [Pavol HRUSOVSKY]; Direction-Social Democracy or Smer-SD
[Robert FICO]; Party of the Hungarian Coalition or SMK [Pal CSAKY];
People's Party - Movement for a Democratic Slovakia or LS-HZDS
[Vladimir MECIAR]; Slovak Democratic and Christian Union-Democratic
Party or SDKU-DS [Mikulas DZURINDA]; Slovak National Party or SNS
[Jan SLOTA]
selected parties outside the Parliament:: Agrarian Party of the
Provinces or ASV [Vladimir GOZORA]; Alliance of the New Citizen or
ANO [Pavol RUSKO]; Civic Conservative Party or OKS [Peter ZAJAC];
Free Forum [Zuzana MARTINAKOVA]; Mission 21 - New Christian
Democracy or MISIA 21 [Ivan SIMKO]; Movement for Democracy or HZD
[Jozef GRAPA]; Party of the Democratic Left or SDL [Ladislav
KOZMON]; Prosperita Slovenska or PS [Frantisek A. ZVRSKOVEC]; Slovak
Communist Party or KSS [Jozef HRDLICKA]; Slovak People's Party or
SLS [Jozef SASIK]; Union of the Workers of Slovakia or ZRS [Jan
LUPTAK]
Slovenia
Liberal Democracy of Slovenia or LDS [Katarina KRESAL]; New
Slovenia or NSi [Ljudmila NOVAK (acting)]; Slovenian Democratic
Party or SDS [Janez JANSA]; Democratic Party of Pensioners of
Slovenia or DeSUS [Karl ERJAVEC]; Slovene National Party or SNS
[Zmago JELINCIC]; Slovene People's Party or SLS [Bojan SROT];
Slovene Youth Party or SMS [Darko KRANJC]; Social Democrats or SD
[Borut PAHOR] (formerly ZLSD); ZARES [Gregor Golobic]
Solomon Islands
Association of Independent Members or AIM [Thomas
CHAN]; Christian Alliance Solomon Islands or CASI [Edward RONIA];
LAFARI Party [John GARO]; National Party [Francis HILLY]; People's
Alliance Party or PAP [Sir Allan KEMAKEZA]; Social Credit Party or
SOCRED [Manasseh Damukana SOGAVARE]; Solomon First Party [David
QUAN]; Solomon Islands Democratic Party [Gabriel SURI]; Solomon
Islands Labor Party or SILP [Joses TUHANUKU]; Solomon Islands
Liberal Party [Bartholomew ULUFA'ALU]; Solomon Islands Party for
Rural Advancement or SIPRA [Job D. TAUSINGA]; United Party [Sir
Peter KENILOREA]
note: in general, Solomon Islands politics is characterized by fluid
coalitions
Somalia
none
South Africa
African Christian Democratic Party or ACDP [Kenneth
MESHOE]; African National Congress or ANC [Jacob ZUMA]; Congress of
the People or COPE [Mosiuoa LEKOTA]; Democratic Alliance or DA
[Helen ZILLE]; Freedom Front Plus or FF+ [Pieter MULDER];
Independent Democrats or ID [Patricia DE LILLE]; Inkatha Freedom
Party or IFP [Mangosuthu BUTHELEZI]; Pan-Africanist Congress or PAC
[Motsoko PHEKO]; United Christian Democratic Party or UCDP [Lucas
MANGOPE]; United Democratic Movement or UDM [Bantu HOLOMISA]
Spain
Aragonese Party or CHA [Bizen FUSTER]; Basque Nationalist
Party or PNV or EAJ [Inigo URKULLU]; Basque Solidarity or EA [Begona
ERRAZTI]; Canarian Coalition or CC [Jose Torres STINGA] (a coalition
of five parties); Convergence and Union or CiU [Artur MAS i Gavarro]
(a coalition of the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia or CDC
[Artur MAS i Gavarro] and the Democratic Union of Catalonia or UDC
[Josep Antoni DURAN i LLEIDA]); Entesa Catalonia de Progress (a
Senate coalition grouping four Catalan parties - PSC, ERC, ICV,
EUA); Galician Nationalist Bloc or BNG [Anxo Manuel QUINTANA
Gonzalez]; Initiative for Catalonia Greens or ICV [Joan SAURA i
Laporta]; Navarra yes or Na Bai [Uxue BARKOS Berruezo] (a coalition
of four Navarran parties); Popular Party or PP [Mariano RAJOY Brey];
Republican Left of Catalonia or ERC [Joan RIDAO]; Spanish Socialist
Workers Party or PSOE [Jose Luis Rodriguez ZAPATERO]; United Left or
IU [Cayo LARA] (a coalition of parties including the Communist Party
of Spain or PCE and other small parties)
Sri Lanka
All Ceylon Tamil Congress or ACTC [G.PONNAMBALAM]; Ceylon
Workers Congress or CWC [Arumugam THONDAMAN]; Communist Party or CP
[D. GUNASEKERA]; Eelam People's Democratic Party or EPDP [Douglas
DEVANANDA]; Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front or EPRLF
[Suresh PREMACHANDRAN]; Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna or JVP [Somawansa
AMARASINGHE]; Lanka Sama Samaja Party or LSSP [Tissa VITHARANA];
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (People's United Front) or MEP [D.
GUNAWARDENE]; National Heritage Party or JHU [Ellawala METHANANDA];
National Unity Alliance or NUA [Ferial ASHRAFF]; People's Liberation
Organization of Tamil Eelam or PLOTE [D. SIDHARTHAN]; Sri Lanka
Freedom Party or SLFP [Mahinda RAJAPAKSA]; Sri Lanka Muslim Congress
or SLMC [Rauff HAKEEM]; Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization or TELO
[Selvam ADAIKALANATHAN]; Tamil National Alliance or TNA [R.
SAMPANTHAN]; Tamil United Liberation Front or TULF [V.
ANANDASANGAREE]; United National Party or UNP [Ranil
WICKREMASINGHE]; Up-country People's Front or UPF [P. CHANDRASEKARAN]
Sudan
National Congress Party or NCP [Umar Hassan al-BASHIR]; Sudan
People's Liberation Movement or SPLM [Salva KIIR]; and elements of
the National Democratic Alliance or NDA including factions of the
Democratic Union Party [Muhammad Uthman al-MIRGHANI] and Umma Party;
Popular Congress Party or PCP [Hassan al-TURABI]
Suriname
Alternative-1 or A-1 (a coalition of Amazone Party of
Suriname or APS [Kenneth VAN GENDEREN], Democrats of the 21st
Century or D-21 [Soewarto MOESTADJA], Nieuw Suriname or NS [Radjen
Nanan PANDAY], Political Wing of the FAL or PVF [Jiwan SITAL],
Trefpunt 2000 or T-2000 [Arti JESSURUN]); General Interior
Development Party or ABOP [Ronnie BRUNSWIJK]; National Democratic
Party or NDP [Desire BOUTERSE]; New Front for Democracy and
Development or NF (a coalition that includes A-Combination or A-Com,
Democratic Alternative 1991 or DA-91, an independent,
business-oriented party [Winston JESSURUN], National Party Suriname
or NPS [Ronald VENETIAAN], United Reform Party or VHP [Ramdien
SARDJOE], Pertjaja Luhur or PL [Salam Paul SOMOHARDJO], Surinamese
Labor Party or SPA [Siegfried GILDS]); Party for Democracy and
Development in Unity or DOE [Marten SCHALKWIJK]; People's Alliance
for Progress or VVV (a coalition of Democratic National Platform
2000 or DNP-2000 [Jules WIJDENBOSCH], Grassroots Party for Renewal
and Democracy or BVD [Tjan GOBARDHAN], Party for National Unity and
Solidarity of the Highest Order or KTPI [Willy SOEMITA], Party for
Progression, Justice, and Perseverance or PPRS [Renee KAIMAN],
Pendawalima or PL [Raymond SAPOEN]); Progressive Laborers and
Farmers Union or PALU [Jim HOK]; Progressive Political Party or PPP
[Surinder MUNGRA]; Seeka [Paul ABENA]; Union of Progressive
Surinamers or UPS [Sheoradj PANDAY]
Swaziland
the status of political parties, previously banned, is
unclear under the new (2006) Constitution and currently being
debated - the following are considered political associations;
African United Democratic Party or AUDP [Stanley MAUNDZISA,
president]; Imbokodvo National Movement or INM; Ngwane National
Liberatory Congress or NNLC [Obed DLAMINI, president]; People's
United Democratic Movement or PUDEMO [Mario MASUKU, president]
Sweden
Center Party [Maud OLOFSSON]; Christian Democratic Party
[Goran HAGGLUND]; Environment Party the Greens [no formal leader but
party spokespersons are Maria WETTERSTRAND and Peter ERIKSSON]; Left
Party or V (formerly Communist) [Lars OHLY]; Liberal People's Party
[Jan BJORKLUND]; Moderate Party (conservative) [Fredrik REINFELDT];
Social Democratic Party [Mona SAHLIN]
Switzerland
Green Party (Gruene Partei der Schweiz or Gruene, Parti
Ecologiste Suisse or Les Verts, Partito Ecologista Svizzero or I
Verdi, Partida Ecologica Svizra or La Verda) [Ueli LEUENBERGER];
Christian Democratic People's Party (Christlichdemokratische
Volkspartei der Schweiz or CVP, Parti Democrate-Chretien Suisse or
PDC, Partito Democratico-Cristiano Popolare Svizzero or PDC, Partida
Cristiandemocratica dalla Svizra or PCD) [Christophe DARBELLAY];
Radical Free Democratic Party (Freisinnig-Demokratische Partei der
Schweiz or FDP, Parti Radical-Democratique Suisse or PRD, Partitio
Liberal-Radicale Svizzero or PLR) [Fulvio PELLI]; Social Democratic
Party (Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz or SPS, Parti
Socialist Suisse or PSS, Partito Socialista Svizzero or PSS, Partida
Socialdemocratica de la Svizra or PSS) [Christian LEVRAT]; 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) [Toni BRUNNER]; and other minor
parties
Syria
legal parties: National Progressive Front or NPF [President
Bashar al-ASAD, Dr. Suleiman QADDAH] (includes Arab Socialist
Renaissance (Ba'th) Party [President Bashar al-ASAD]; Socialist
Unionist Democratic Party [Fadlallah Nasr Al-DIN]; Syrian Arab
Socialist Union or ASU [Safwan QUDSI]; Syrian Communist Party (two
branches) [Wissal Farha BAKDASH, Yusuf Rashid FAYSAL]; Syrian Social
Nationalist Party [Ali QANSU]; Unionist Socialist Party [Fayez
ISMAIL])
opposition parties not legally recognized: Arab Democratic Socialist
Union Party [Hasan Abdul AZIM]; Arab Socialist Movement; Democratic
Ba'th Party [Ibrahim MAHKOS]; National Democratic Front [Hasan Abdul
AZIM, spokesman] (includes five parties - Arab Democratic Socialist
Union Party [Hasan Abdul AZIM], Arab Socialist Movement, Democratic
Ba'th Party [Ibrahim MAHKOS], People's Democratic Party [Riad al
TURK], Revolutionary Workers' Party [Abdul Hafeez al HAFEZ]);
People's Democratic Party; Revolutionary Workers' Party [Abdul
Hafeez al HAFEZ]
Kurdish parties (considered illegal): Azadi Party [Kheirudin MURAD];
Future Party [Masha'l TAMMO]; Kurdish Democratic Alliance (includes
four parties); Kurdish Democratic Front (includes three parties);
Yekiti Party [Hasan SALEH, Fu'ad ALEYKO]
other parties: Nahda Party [Abdul Aziz al MISLET]; Syrian Democratic
Party [Mustafa QALAAJI]
Taiwan
Democratic Progressive Party or DPP [TSAI Ing-wen];
Kuomintang or KMT (Nationalist Party) [WU Po-hsiung], MA Ying-jeou
elected in July 2009, takes office on 12 September 2009;
Non-Partisan Solidarity Union or NPSU [LIN Pin-kuan]; People First
Party or PFP [James SOONG]
Tajikistan
Agrarian Party of Tajikistan or APT [Amir QARAQULOV];
Democratic Party or DPT [Mahmadruzi ISKANDAROV (imprisoned October
2005); Rahmatullo VALIYEV, deputy]; Islamic Revival Party [Muhiddin
KABIRI]; Party of Economic Reform or PER [Olimjon BOBOEV]; People's
Democratic Party of Tajikistan or PDPT [Emomali RAHMON]; Social
Democratic Party or SDPT [Rahmatullo ZOYIROV]; Socialist Party or
SPT [Mirhuseyn NARZIEV]; Tajik Communist Party or CPT [Shodi
SHABDOLOV]
Tanzania
Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Party of Democracy and
Development) or CHADEMA [Bob MAKANI]; Chama Cha Mapinduzi or CCM
(Revolutionary Party) [Jakaya Mrisho KIKWETE]; Civic United Front or
CUF [Ibrahim LIPUMBA]; Democratic Party [Christopher MTIKLA]
(unregistered); Tanzania Labor Party or TLP [Augustine Lyatonga
MREME]; United Democratic Party or UDP [John CHEYO]
Thailand
Chat Thai Phattana Party or CP (Thai Nation Development
Party) [CHUMPON Silpa-archa]; Democrat Party or DP (Prachathipat
Party) [ABHISIT Wetchachiwa, also spelled ABHISIT Vejjajiva];
Motherland Party (Phuea Phaendin Party) [CHANCHAI Chairungrueang];
Phuea Thai Party (For Thais Party) or PTP [CHAVALIT Yongchaiyudh];
Phumchai (Bhumjai) Thai Party or PCT (Thai Pride) [CHAVARAT
Charnvirakul]; Royalist People's Party (Pracharaj) [SANOH
Thienthong]; Ruam Jai Thai Party (Thai Unity Party) [WANNARAT
Channukul]
Timor-Leste
Democratic Party or PD [Fernando de ARAUJO]; National
Congress for Timorese Reconstruction or CNRT [Xanana GUSMAO];
National Democratic Union of Timorese Resistance or UNDERTIM
[Cornelio DA Conceicao GAMA]; National Unity Party or PUN [Fernanda
BORGES]; People's Party of Timor or PPT [Jacob XAVIER];
Revolutionary Front of Independent Timor-Leste or FRETILIN [Mari
ALKATIRI]; Social Democratic Association of Timor or ASDT [Francisco
Xavier do AMARAL]; Social Democratic Party or PSD [Zacarias Albano
da COSTA]; Sons of the Mountain Warriors or KOTA [Manuel TILMAN]
(also known as Association of Timorese Heroes)
Togo
Action Committee for Renewal or CAR [Yawovi AGBOYIBO];
Democratic Convention of African Peoples or CDPA; Democratic Party
for Renewal or PDR; Juvento [Monsilia DJATO]; Movement of the
Believers of Peace and Equality or MOCEP; Pan-African Patriotic
Convergence or CPP; Rally for the Support for Development and
Democracy or RSDD [Harry OLYMPIO]; Rally of the Togolese People or
RPT [Faure GNASSINGBE]; Socialist Pact for Renewal or PSR; Union for
Democracy and Social Progress or UDPS [Gagou KOKOU]; Union of Forces
for a Change or UFC [Gilchrist OLYMPIO]
Tokelau
none
Tonga
Tonga Human Rights and Democracy Movement or THRDM [Uliti
UATA]; People's Democratic Party or PDP [Tesina FUKO]
Trinidad and Tobago
Congress of the People [Winston DOOKERAN];
Democratic Action Congress or DAC [Hochoy CHARLES] (only active in
Tobago); Democratic National Alliance or DNA [Gerald YETMING]
(coalition of NAR, DDPT, MND); Movement for National Development or
MND [Garvin NICHOLAS]; National Alliance for Reconstruction or NAR
[Dr. Carson CHARLES]; People's National Movement or PNM [Patrick
MANNING]; United National Congress or UNC [Basdeo PANDAY]
Tunisia
Al-Tajdid Movement [Ahmed IBRAHIM]; Constitutional
Democratic Rally Party (Rassemblement Constitutionnel Democratique)
or RCD (official ruling party) [President Zine El Abidine BEN ALI];
Democratic Forum for Labor and Liberties or FDTL [Mustapha Ben
JAFAAR]; Green Party for Progress or PVP [Mongi KHAMASSI]; Liberal
Social Party or PSL [Mondher THABET]; Movement of Socialist
Democrats or MDS [Ismail BOULAHYA]; Popular Unity Party or PUP
[Mohamed BOUCHIHA]; Progressive Democratic Party [Maya JERIBI];
Unionist Democratic Union or UDU [Ahmed INOUBLI]; note - the
Islamist party, Al Nahda (Renaissance), is outlawed
Turkey
Anavatan Partisi (Motherland Party) or Anavatan [Erkan
MUMCU]; note - True Path Party or DYP has merged with the Motherland
Party; Democratic Party or DP [Husamettin CINDORUK]; Democratic Left
Party or DSP [Masum TURKER]; Democratic Society Party or DTP [Ahmet
TURK]; Felicity Party or SP [Numan KURTULMUS] (sometimes translated
as Contentment Party); Freedom and Solidarity Party or ODP [Hayri
KOZANOGLU]; Grand Unity Party or BBP; note - Mushin YAZICIOGLU,
former leader of the Grand Unity Party was killed in an March 2009
helicopter crash; Justice and Development Party or AKP [Recep Tayyip
ERDOGAN]; Nationalist Movement Party or MHP [Devlet BAHCELI]
(sometimes translated as Nationalist Action Party); People's Rise
Party (Halkin Yukselisi Partisi) or HYP [Yasar Nuri OZTURK];
Republican People's Party or CHP [Deniz BAYKAL]; Social Democratic
People's Party or SHP [Ugur CILASUN (acting)]; Young Party or GP
[Cem Cengiz UZAN]
note: the parties listed above are some of the more significant of
the 49 parties that Turkey had as of 31 January 2009
Turkmenistan
Democratic Party of Turkmenistan or DPT [Gurbanguly
BERDIMUHAMEDOW]
note: formal opposition parties are outlawed; unofficial, small
opposition movements exist abroad; the three most prominent
opposition groups-in-exile are the National Democratic Movement of
Turkmenistan (NDMT), the Republican Party of Turkmenistan, and the
Watan (Fatherland) Party; the NDMT was led by former Foreign
Minister Boris SHIKHMURADOV until his arrest and imprisonment in the
wake of the 25 November 2002 attack on President NYYAZOW's motorcade
Turks and Caicos Islands
People's Democratic Movement or PDM [Floyd
SEYMOUR]; Progressive National Party or PNP [Michael Eugene MISICK]
Tuvalu
there are no political parties but members of parliament
usually align themselves in informal groupings
Uganda
Conservative Party or CP [Ken LUKYAMUZI]; Democratic Party or
DP [Kizito SSEBAANA]; Forum for Democratic Change or FDC [Kizza
BESIGYE]; Justice Forum or JEEMA [Muhammad Kibirige MAYANJA];
National Resistance Movement or NRM [Yoweri MUSEVENI]; Peoples
Progressive Party or PPP [Bidandi SSALI]; Ugandan People's Congress
or UPC [Miria OBOTE]
note: a national referendum in July 2005 opened the way for Uganda's
transition to a multi-party political system
Ukraine
Christian Democratic Union [Volodymyr STRETOVYCH]; Communist
Party of Ukraine or CPU [Petro SYMONENKO]; European Party of Ukraine
[Mykola KATERYNCHUK]; Fatherland Party (Batkivshchyna) [Yuliya
TYMOSHENKO]; Forward Ukraine! [Viktor MUSIYAKA]; Labor Party of
Ukraine [Mykola SYROTA]; Our Ukraine [Viktor YUSHCHENKO]; Party of
Industrialists and Entrepreneurs [Anatoliy KINAKH]; Party of the
Defenders of the Fatherland [Yuriy Karmazin]; People's Movement of
Ukraine (Rukh) [Borys TARASYUK]; People's Party [Volodymyr LYTVYN];
Peoples' Self-Defense [Yuriy LUTSENKO]; PORA! (It's Time!) party
[Vladyslav KASKIV]; Progressive Socialist Party [Natalya VITRENKO];
Reforms and Order Party [Viktor PYNZENYK]; Party of Regions [Viktor
YANUKOVYCH]; Sobor [Anatoliy MATVIYENKO]; Social Democratic Party
[Yevhen KORNICHUK]; Social Democratic Party (United) or SDPU(o)
[Yuriy ZAHORODNIY]; Socialist Party of Ukraine or SPU [Oleksandr
MOROZ]; Ukrainian People's Party [Yuriy KOSTENKO]; United Center
[Ihor Krill]; Viche [Inna BOHOSLOVSKA]
United Arab Emirates
none; political parties are not allowed
United Kingdom
Conservative [David CAMERON]; Democratic Unionist
Party or DUP (Northern Ireland) [Peter ROBINSON]; Labor Party
[Gordon BROWN]; Liberal Democrats (Lib Dems) [Nick CLEGG]; Party of
Wales (Plaid Cymru) [Ieuan Wyn JONES]; Scottish National Party or
SNP [Alex SALMOND]; Sinn Fein (Northern Ireland) [Gerry ADAMS];
Social Democratic and Labor Party or SDLP (Northern Ireland) [Mark
DURKAN]; Ulster Unionist Party (Northern Ireland) [Sir Reg EMPEY]
United States
Democratic Party [Timothy KAINE]; Green Party;
Libertarian Party [William (Bill) REDPATH]; Republican Party
[Michael STEELE]
Uruguay
Broad Front (Frente Amplio) - formerly known as the
Progressive Encounter/Broad Front Coalition or EP-FA [Jorge
BROVETTO] (a broad governing coalition that includes Movement of the
Popular Participation or MPP [Jose MUJICA], New Space Party (Nuevo
Espacio) [Rafael MICHELINI], Progressive Alliance (Alianza
Progresista) [Rodolfo NIN NOVOA], Socialist Party [Eduardo
FERNANDEZ], the Communist Party [Marina ARISMENDI], Uruguayan
Assembly (Asamblea Uruguay) [Danilo ASTORI], and Vertiente
Artiguista [Mariano ARANA]); Colorado Party (Foro Batllista) [Julio
Maria SANGUINETTI]; National Party or Blanco [Luis Alberto LACALLE
and Jorge LARRANAGA]
Uzbekistan
Adolat (Justice) Social Democratic Party [Dilorom
TOSHMUHAMEDOVA]; Democratic National Rebirth Party (Milliy
Tiklanish) or MTP [Hurshid DOSMUHAMMEDOV]; Fidokorlar National
Democratic Party (Self-Sacrificers) [Ahtam TURSUNOV]; Liberal
Democratic Party of Uzbekistan or LDPU [Adham SHADMANOV; People's
Democratic Party or NDP (formerly Communist Party) [Asliddin
RUSTAMOV]
Vanuatu
Greens Confederation or GC [Moana CARCASSES]; Jon Frum
Movement or JF [Song KEASPAI]; Melanesian Progressive Party or MPP
[Barak SOPE]; Nagriamel movement or NAG [Havo MOLI]; Namangi Aute or
NA [Paul TELUKLUK]; National United Party or NUP [Ham LINI];
People's Action Party or PAP [Peter VUTA]; People's Progressive
Party or PPP [Sato KILMAN]; Shepherds Alliance Party [leader NA];
Union of Moderate Parties or UMP [Serge VOHOR]; Vanuatu Family First
Party or VFFP [Eta RORI]; Vanuatu Labor Party or VLP [Joshua
KALSAKAU]; Vanuatu National Party or VNP [Issac HAMARILIU];
Vanua'aku Pati (Our Land Party) or VP [Edward NATAPEI]; Vanuatu
Republican Party or VRP [Maxime Carlot KORMAN]; Vanuatu Republican
Farmers Party or VPRFP [Jean RAVOU]
Venezuela
A New Time or UNT [Manuel ROSALES]; Christian Democrats or
COPEI [Cesar PEREZ Vivas]; Communist Party of Venezuela or PCV
[Jeronimo CARRERA]; Democratic Action or AD [Henry RAMOS Allup];
Fatherland for All or PPT [Jose ALBORNOZ]; Justice First [Julio
BORGES]; Movement Toward Socialism or MAS [Hector MUJICA]; United
Socialist Party of Venezuela or PSUV [Hugo CHAVEZ]; Venezuela
Project or PV [Henrique SALAS Romer]; We Can or PODEMOS [Ismael
GARCIA]
Vietnam
Communist Party of Vietnam or CPV [Nong Duc MANH]; other
parties proscribed
Virgin Islands
Democratic Party [Arturo WATLINGTON]; Independent
Citizens' Movement or ICM [Usie RICHARDS]; Republican Party [Gary
SPRAUVE]
Wallis and Futuna
Lua Kae Tahi (Giscardians); Mouvement des Radicaux
de Gauche or MRG; Rally for the Republic or RPR (UMP) [Clovis
LOGOLOGOFOLAU]; Socialist Party or PS; Taumu'a Lelei [Soane Muni
UHILA]; Union Populaire Locale or UPL [Falakiko GATA]; Union Pour la
Democratie Francaise or UDF
Yemen
General People's Congress or GPC [Abdul-Kader BAJAMMAL];
Islamic Reform Grouping or Islah [Mohammed Abdullah AL-YADOUMI
(acting)]; Nasserite Unionist Party [Abdal Malik al-MAKHLAFI];
National Arab Socialist Ba'th Party [Dr. Qasim SALAM]; Yemeni
Socialist Party or YSP [Ali Salih MUQBIL]; note - there are at least
seven more active political parties
Zambia
Forum for Democracy and Development or FDD [Edith NAWAKWI];
Heritage Party or HP [Godfrey MIYANDA]; Movement for Multiparty
Democracy or MMD [vacant]; Patriotic Front or PF [Michael SATA];
Party of Unity for Democracy and Development or PUDD [Dan PULE];
Reform Party [Nevers MUMBA]; United Democratic Alliance or UDA (a
coalition of RP, ZADECO, PUDD, and ZRP); United Liberal Party or ULP
[Sakwiba SIKOTA]; United National Independence Party or UNIP
[Tilyenji KAUNDA]; United Party for National Development or UPND
[Hakainde HICHILEMA]; Zambia Democratic Congress or ZADECO [Langton
SICHONE]; Zambian Republican Party or ZRP [Benjamin MWILA]
Zimbabwe
African National Party or ANP [Egypt DZINEMUNHENZVA];
Movement for Democratic Change or MDC [Morgan TSVANGIRAI]; Movement
for Democratic Change - Mutambara or MDC-M [splinter faction under
Arthur MUTAMBARA]; Peace Action is Freedom for All or PAFA; United
Parties [Abel MUZOREWA]; United People's Party or UPP [Daniel
SHUMBA]; Zimbabwe African National Union-Ndonga or ZANU-Ndonga
[Wilson KUMBULA]; Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front or
ZANU-PF [Robert Gabriel MUGABE]; Zimbabwe African Peoples Union or
ZAPU [Agrippa MADLELA]; Zimbabwe Youth in Alliance or ZIYA
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Field Listing :: Population
This entry gives an estimate from the US Bureau of the Census based
on statistics from population censuses, vital statistics
registration systems, or sample surveys pertaining to the recent
past and on assumptions about future trends. The total population
presents one overall measure of the potential impact of the country
on the world and within its region. Note: Starting with the 1993
Factbook, demographic estimates for some countries (mostly African)
have explicitly taken into account the effects of the growing impact
of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. These countries are currently: The
Bahamas, Benin, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi,
Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of
the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gabon,
Ghana, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique,
Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania,
Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Country Comparison to the World
Country
Population
Afghanistan
28.396 million (July 2009 est.)
note: this is a significantly revised figure; the previous estimate
of 33,609,937 was extrapolated from the last Afghan census held in
1979, which was never completed because of the Soviet invasion; a
new Afghan census is scheduled to take place in 2010
Akrotiri
approximately 15,700 live on the Sovereign Base Areas of
Akrotiri and Dhekelia including 7,700 Cypriots, 3,600 Service and
UK-based contract personnel, and 4,400 dependents
Albania
3,639,453 (July 2009 est.)