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 in 2007; parties are small and have
limited activity
Bulgaria
Agrarian National Union or ANU [Stefan LICHEV]; ATAKA
(Attack party) [Volen SIDEROV]; Blue Coalition [Ivan KOSTOV and
Martin DIMITROV] (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 [Boyko BORISSOV]; Coalition for
Bulgaria or CfB [Sergei STANISHEV] (coalition of parties dominated
by BSP); 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]; National
Movement for Stability and Progress or NDSV [Hristina HRISTOVA]
(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
All Mon Region Democracy Party or AMRDP; National Democratic
Force or NDF [KHIN MAUNG SWE]; National League for Democracy or NLD
[AUNG SHWE, AUNG SAN SUU KYI]; note - the party is defunct because
it did not register for the 2010 election; National Unity Party or
NUP [TUN YE]; Rakhine Nationalities Development Party or RNDP; Shan
Nationalities League for Democracy or SNLD [HKUN HTUN OO]; Union
Solidarity and Development Party or USDP [THEIN SEIN]; numerous
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 [Bonaventure
NIYOYANKANA]
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]; Nationalist Party or NP
[CHHIM SEAK LENG] (formerly the NRP); Sam Rangsi Party or SRP [SAM
RANGSI, also spelled SAM RAINSY]
Cameroon
Cameroon People's Democratic Movement or CPDM [Paul BIYA];
Cameroonian Democratic Union or UDC [Adamou Ndam NJOYA]; 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 and Independent
Cape Verdean Union or UCID [Antonio MONTEIRO]; Democratic Christian
Party or PDC [Manuel RODRIGUES]; Democratic Renovation Party or PRD
[Victor FIDALGO]; 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
People's Progressive Movement or PPM [Kurt TIBBETTS];
United Democratic Party or UDP [McKeeva BUSH]
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; National Unity Party or PUN [Jean-Paul
NGOUPANDE]; Patriotic Front for Progress or FPP [Abel GOUMBA];
People's Union for the Republic or UPR [Pierre Sammy MAKFOY]; 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
Broad Social Movement or MAS; Clean Chile Vote Happy or CLVF
(including Broad Social Movement, Country Force, and Regionalist
Party of Independents or PRI); Coalition for Change or CC (formerly
known as the Alliance for Chile (Alianza) or APC) (including
National Renewal or RN [Carlos LARRAIN Pena], Independent Democratic
Union or UDI [Juan Antonio COLOMA Correa], and Chile First [Vlado
MIROSEVIC]); Coalition of Parties for Democracy (Concertacion) or
CPD (including Christian Democratic Party or PDC [Ignacio WALKER],
Party for Democracy or PPD [Carolina TOHA Morales], Radical Social
Democratic Party or PRSD [Jose Antonio GOMEZ Urrutia], and Socialist
Party or PS [Osvaldo ANDRADE]); Partido Ecologista del Sur; Together
We Can Do More (including Communist Party or PC [Guillermo TEILLIER
del Valle], and Humanist Party or PH [Danilo MONTEVERDE])
China
Chinese Communist Party or CCP [HU Jintao]; eight registered
small parties controlled by CCP
Christmas Island
none
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
none
Colombia
Alternative Democratic Pole or PDA [Clara LOPEZ];
Conservative Party or PC [Fernando ARAUJO]; Green Party [Luis
GARZON]; Liberal Party or PL [Rafael PARDO]; National Integration
Party or PIN [Angel ALIRIO Moreno]; Radical Change or CR [German
VARGAS Lleras]; Social National Unity Party or U Party [Juan
Francisco LOZANO Ramirez]
note: Colombia has seven major political parties, and numerous
smaller movements
Comoros
Camp of the Autonomous Islands or CdIA (a coalition of
parties organized by the islands' presidents in opposition to the
Union President); Convention for the Renewal of the Comoros or CRC
[AZALI Assowmani]; 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
Labour Party or PCT; Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral
Development or MCDDI [Michel MAMPOUYA]; Movement for Solidarity and
Development or MSD; Pan-African Union for Social Development or
UPADS [Martin MBERI]; Rally for Democracy and the Republic or RDR
[Raymond Damasge NGOLLO]; Rally for Democracy and Social Progress or
RDPS [Jean-Pierre Thystere TCHICAYA, president]; Rally of the
Presidential Majority or RMP; 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
Accessibility Without Exclusion or PASE [Oscar Andres
LOPEZ Arias]; Citizen Action Party or PAC [Alberto CANAS Escalante];
Costa Rican Renovation Party or PRC [Gerardo Justo OROZCO Alvarez];
Democratic Force Party or PFD [Marco GONZALEZ Nunez]; Frente Amplio
[Jose MERINO del Rio]; Homeland First or PP (Patria Primero) [Juan
Jose VARGAS Fallas]; Libertarian Movement Party or PML [Otto GUEVARA
Guth]; National Democratic Alliance or ADN [Jose Miguel VILLALOBOS
Umana]; National Integration Party or PIN [Walter MUNOZ Cespedes];
National Liberation Party or PLN [Francisco Antonio PACHECO
Fernandez]; National Rescue Party or PRN [Fabio Enrique DELGADO
Hernandez]; National Union Party or PUN [Arturo ACOSTA Mora];
Patriotic Alliance [Mariano FIGUERES Olsen]; Patriotic Union or UP
[Jose Miguel CORRALES Bolanos]; Popular Vanguard [Trino BARRANTES
Araya]; Social Christian Unity Party or PUSC [Luis FISHMAN
Zonzinski]; Union for Change Party or UPC [Antonio ALVAREZ Desanti]
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
[Jadranka KOSOR]; 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 [Darinko
KOSOR]; 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]
Curacao
Frente Obrero Liberashon (Workers' Liberation Front) or FOL
[Anthony GODETT]; Movimentu Antiyas Nobo (New Antilles Movement) or
MAN [Charles COOPER]; Movementu Futuro Korsou or MFK [Gerrit
SCHOTTE]; Partido Antia Restruktura or PAR [Emily DE JONGH-ELHAGE];
People's National Party or PNP [Ersilia DE LANNOOY]; Pueblo Soberano
or PS [Herman WIELS]
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 CAKICI]; Cyprus
Socialist Party or KSP [Yusuf ALKIM]; Democratic Party or DP
[Serdaer 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 [Zdenka MARKOVA]; Christian Democratic
Union-Czechoslovak People's Party or KDU-CSL [Pavel BELOBRADEK];
Civic Democratic Party or ODS [Petr NECAS]; Communist Party of
Bohemia and Moravia or KSCM [Vojtech FILIP]; Czech Social Democratic
Party or CSSD [Bohuslav SOBOTKA (acting)]; Green Party [Ondrej
LISKA]; Public Affairs (VV) [Radek JOHN]; Tradice Odpovednost
Prosperita 09 or TOP 09 [Karel SCHWARZENBERG]; Union of
Freedom-Democratic Union or US-DEU [Jan CERNY]
Denmark
Christian Democrats [Bjarne Hartung KIRKEGAARD] (was
Christian People's Party); Conservative Party [Lars BARFOED]
(sometimes known as Conservative People's Party); Danish People's
Party [Pia KJAERSGAARD]; Liberal Alliance [Anders SAMUELSEN]
(formerly known as New Alliance); Liberal Party [Lars Loekke
RASMUSSEN]; Red-Green Unity List (Alliance) [collective leadership]
(bloc includes Left Socialist Party, Communist Party of Denmark,
Socialist Workers' Party); Social Democratic Party [Helle
THORNING-SCHMIDT]; Social Liberal Party [Margrethe VESTAGER];
Socialist People's Party [Villy SOEVNDAL]
Djibouti
Democratic National Party or PND [ADEN Robleh Awaleh];
Democratic Renewal Party or PRD [Abdillahi HAMARITEH]; Djibouti
Development Party or PDD [Mohamed Daoud CHEHEM]; Front pour la
Restauration de l'Unite Democratique or FRUD [Ali Mohamed DAOUD];
People's Progress Assembly or RPP [Ismail Omar GUELLEH] (governing
party); Peoples Social Democratic Party or PPSD [Moumin Bahdon
FARAH]; Republican Alliance for Democracy or ARD [Ahmed YOUSSOUF];
Union for a Presidential Majority or UMP [Mohamed Dileita DILEITA]
(a coalition of parties including RPP, FRUD, PND, and PPSD); Union
for Democracy and Justice or UDJ
Dominica
Dominica Freedom Party or DFP [Charles SAVARIN]; Dominica
Labor Party or DLP [Roosevelt SKERRIT]; Dominica United Workers
Party or UWP [Earl WILLIAMS]
Dominican Republic
Dominican Liberation Party or PLD [Leonel
FERNANDEZ Reyna]; Dominican Revolutionary Party or PRD [Ramon
ALBURQUERQUE]; National Progressive Front [Vincent CASTILLO,
Pelegrin CASTILLO]; Social Christian Reformist Party or PRSC
[Enrique ANTUN]
Ecuador
Alianza PAIS movement [Rafael Vicente CORREA Delgado];
Christian Democratic Union or UDC [Luis ACOSTA Moreta]; Democratic
Left or ID [Dalton BACIGALUPO]; Ethical and Democratic Network or
RED [Martha ROLDOS]; Institutional Renewal and National Action Party
or PRIAN [Vicente TAIANO]; Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement -
New Country or MUPP-NP [Jorge GUAMAN Coronel]; Patriotic Society
Party or PSP [Lucio GUTIERREZ Borbua]; Popular Democratic Movement
or MPD [Luis VILLACIS]; Roldosist Party or PRE [Abdala BUCARAM
Pulley, director]; Social Christian Party or PSC [Pascual DEL
CIOPPO]; Socialist Party - Broad Front or PS-FA [Silvia SALGADO]
Egypt
Al-Geel; Democratic Peace Party; Nasserist Party [Ahmed
HASSAN]; National Democratic Party or NDP (governing party) [Mohamed
Hosni MUBARAK]; National Progressive Unionist Grouping or Tagammu
[Rifaat EL-SAID]; New Wafd Party or NWP [Sayed EL-BEDAWY]; Social
Justice Party [Mohamed Abdel Al HASAN]; Tomorrow Party [Ayman NOURI]
note: formation of political parties must be approved by the
government; only parties with representation in elected bodies are
listed
El Salvador
Christian Democratic Party or PDC [Rodolfo PARKER];
Democratic Convergence or CD [Oscar KATTAN] (formerly United
Democratic Center or CDU); Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front
or FMLN [Medardo GONZALEZ]; National Conciliation Party or PCN [Ciro
CRUZ ZEPEDA]; Nationalist Republican Alliance or ARENA [Alfredo
CRISTIANI]; Great Alliance for National Unity or GANA [Andres ROVIRA]
Equatorial Guinea
Convergence Party for Social Democracy or CPDS
[Placido MICO Abogo]; Democratic Party for Equatorial Guinea or PDGE
[Teodoro OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO] (ruling party); Electoral Coalition
or EC; Party for Progress of Equatorial Guinea or PPGE [Severo
MOTO]; Popular Action of Equatorial Guinea or APGE [Avelino
MOCACHE]; Popular Union or UP
Eritrea
People's Front for Democracy and Justice or PFDJ [ISAIAS
Afworki] (the only party recognized by the government); note - a
National Assembly committee drafted a law on political parties in
January 2001, but the full National Assembly has yet to debate or
vote on it
Estonia
Center Party of Estonia (Keskerakond) [Edgar SAVISAAR];
Estonian Greens (Rohelised) [Marek STRANDBERG]; Estonian People's
Union (Rahvaliit) [Juhan AARE]; Estonian Reform Party
(Reformierakond) [Andrus ANSIP]; Social Democratic Party [Sven
MIKSER]; Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica (Isamaa je Res Publica
Liit) [Mart LAAR]
Ethiopia
Afar National Democratic Party or ANDP [Mohammed KEDIR];
Arena Tigray; Argoba People's Democratic Organization or APDO;
Benishangul Gumuz People's Democratic Party or BGPDP [Mulualem
BESSE]; Coalition for Unity and Democratic Party or CUDP; Ethiopian
Federal Democatic Forum or FORUM (a UDJ-led 8-party alliance
established for the 2010 parliamentary elections); Ethiopian
People's Revolutionary Democratic Front or EPRDF; Gambella Peoples
Unity Democratic Movement or GPUDM [Umod UBONG]; Gurage
Nationalities' Democratic Movement or GNDM; Harari National League
or HNL [Murad ABDULHADI]; Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement or
OFDM [BULCHA Demeksa]; Oromo People's Congress or OPC [IMERERA
Gudina]; Somali Democratic Alliance Forces or SODAF; Somali People's
Democratic Party or SPDP; United Ethiopian Democratic Forces or UEDF
[BEYENE Petros]; Unity for Democracy and Justice or UDJ [Birtukan
MEDEKSA, currently imprisoned]
European Union
Confederal Group of the European United Left-Nordic
Green Left or GUE/NGL [Lothar BISKY]; Europe of Freedom and
Democracy Group or EFD [Nigel FARAGE and Francesco SPERONI];
European Conservatives and Reformists Group or ECR [Michael
KAMINSKI]; Group of Greens/European Free Alliance or Greens/EFA
[Rebecca HARMS and Daniel COHN-BENDIT]; Group of the Alliance of
Liberals and Democrats for Europe or ALDE [Guy VERHOFSTADT]; Group
of the European People's Party or EPP [Joseph DAUL]; Group of the
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European
Parliament or S&D [Martin SCHULZ]
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
none; all independents
Faroe Islands
Center Party [Jenis av RANA]; Independence Party [Kari
P. HOJGAARD]; People's Party [Jorgen NICLASEN]; Republican Party
[Hogni HOYDAL]; Social Democratic Party [Joannes EIDESGAARD]; Union
Party [Kaj Leo JOHANNESEN]
Fiji
Dodonu Ni Taukei Party or DNT [Fereti S. DEWA]; Fiji Democratic
Party or FDP [Filipe BOLE] (a merger of the Christian Democrat
Alliance or VLV [Poesci Waqalevu BUNE], Fijian Association Party or
FAP, Fijian Political Party or SVT [Sitiveni RABUKA] (primarily
Fijian), and New Labor Unity Party or NLUP [Ofa SWANN]); Fiji Labor
Party or FLP [Mahendra CHAUDHRY]; General Voters Party or GVP
(became part of United General Party); Girmit Heritage Party or GHP;
Justice and Freedom Party or AIM; Lio 'On Famor Rotuma Party or LFR;
National Federation Party or NFP [Pramond RAE] (primarily Indian);
Nationalist Vanua Takolavo Party or NVTLP [Saula TELAWA]; Party of
National Unity or PANU [Ponipate LESAVUA]; Party of the Truth or
POTT; United Fiji Party/Sogosogo Duavata ni Lewenivanua or SDL
[Laisenia QARASE]; United Peoples Party or UPP [Millis Mick BEDDOES]
Finland
Center Party or Kesk [Mari KIVINIEMI]; Christian Democrats
or KD [Paivi RASANEN]; Green Party or VIHR [Anni SINNEMAKI]; Left
Alliance or VAS [Paavo ARHINMAKI]; National Coalition Party or Kok
[Jyrki KATAINEN]; Social Democratic Party or SDP [Jutta URPILAINEN];
Swedish People's Party or SFP [Stefan WALLIN]; True Finns [Timo
SOINI]
France
Democratic Movement or MoDem [Francois BAYROU] (previously
Union for French Democracy or UDF); French Communist Party or PCF
[Pierre LAURENT]; Greens [Cecile DUFLOT]; Left Party or PG [Jean-Luc
MELENCHON]; Left Radical Party or PRG [Jean-Michel BAYLET]
(previously Radical Socialist Party or PRS and the Left Radical
Movement or MRG); Movement for France or MPF [Philippe DE VILLIERS];
National Front or FN [Jean-Marie LE PEN]; New Anticapitalist Party
or NPA [Olivier BESANCENOT]; New Center or NC [Herve MORIN]; Radical
Party [Jean-Louis BORLOO]; Rally for France or RPF [Charles PASQUA];
Republican and Citizen Movement or MRC [Jean Pierre CHEVENEMENT];
Socialist Party or PS [Martine AUBRY]; Union for a Popular Movement
or UMP [Jean-Francois COPE]; Worker's Struggle or LO [Nathalie
ARTHAUD]
French Polynesia
Alliance for a New Democracy or ADN(includes the
parties The New Star and This Country is Yours); New Fatherland
Party (Ai'a Api); Our Home alliance; People's Servant Party (Tavini
Huiraatira); Popular Rally (Tahoeraa Huiraatira); Union for
Democracy alliance or UPD
Gabon
Circle of Liberal Reformers or CLR [General Jean Boniface
ASSELE]; Congress for Democracy and Justice or CDJ [Jules Aristide
Bourdes OGOULIGUENDE]; Democratic and Republican Alliance or ADERE
[Divungui-di-Ndinge DIDJOB]; Gabonese Democratic Party or PDG
[Simplice Nguedet MANZELA] (former sole party); Gabonese Party for
Progress or PGP [Benoit Mouity NZAMBA]; Gabonese Union for Democracy
and Development or UGDD [Zacherie MYBOTO]; National Rally of
Woodcutters or RNB; National Rally of Woodcutters-Rally for Gabon or
RNB-RPG (Bucherons) [Fr. Paul M'BA-ABESSOLE]; Party of Development
and Social Solidarity or PDS [Seraphin Ndoat REMBOGO]; People's
Unity Party or PUP [Louis Gaston MAYILA]; Social Democratic Party or
PSD [Pierre Claver MAGANGA-MOUSSAVOU]; Union for Democracy and
Social Integration or UDIS; Union of Gabonese Patriots or UPG
[Pierre MAMBOUNDOU]
Gambia, The
Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction or
APRC [Yahya A. J. J. JAMMEH] (the ruling party); Gambia People's
Democratic Party or GPDP [Henry GOMEZ]; National Alliance for
Democracy and Development or NADD [Halifa SALLAH]; National
Convention Party or NCP [Sheriff DIBBA]; National Reconciliation
Party or NRP [Hamat N. K. BAH]; People's Democratic Organization for
Independence and Socialism or PDOIS [Halifa SALLAH]; United
Democratic Party or UDP [Ousainou DARBOE]