gas 1,097 km; oil 82 km; refined products 415 km (2006)
Lebanon
gas 43 km (2006)
Libya
condensate 882 km; gas 3,481 km; oil 6,916 km (2006)
Liechtenstein
gas 20 km (2006)
Lithuania
gas 1,696 km; oil 228 km; refined products 121 km (2006)
Luxembourg
gas 155 km (2006)
Macedonia
gas 268 km; oil 120 km (2006)
Malaysia
condensate 282 km; gas 5,372 km; oil 1,715 km;
oil/gas/water 19 km; refined products 114 km (2006)
Mexico
gas 22,705 km; liquid petroleum gas 1,875 km; oil 8,688 km;
oil/gas/water 228 km; refined products 6,520 km (2006)
Moldova
gas 606 km (2006)
Morocco
gas 715 km; oil 285 km (2006)
Mozambique
gas 918 km; refined products 294 km (2006)
Netherlands
condensate 81 km; gas 7,229 km; oil 578 km; refined
products 716 km (2006)
New Zealand
condensate 224 km; gas 1,693 km; liquid petroleum gas 45
km; oil 280 km; refined products 288 km (2006)
Nicaragua
oil 54 km (2006)
Nigeria
condensate 126 km; gas 2,812 km; liquid petroleum gas 125
km; oil 4,278 km; refined products 3,517 km (2006)
Norway
condensate 508 km; gas 5,910 km; oil 2,557 km; oil/gas/water
746 km (2006)
Oman
gas 4,072 km; oil 3,405 km (2006)
Pakistan
gas 10,257 km; oil 2,001 km (2006)
Papua New Guinea
oil 264 km (2006)
Peru
gas 983 km; gas/lpg 61 km; liquid natural gas 106 km; liquid
petroleum gas 517 km; oil 1,754 km; refined products 13 km (2006)
Philippines
gas 565 km; oil 135 km; refined products 105 km (2006)
Poland
gas 13,552 km; oil 1,384 km; refined products 777 km (2006)
Portugal
gas 1,099 km; oil 8 km; refined products 174 km (2006)
Qatar
condensate 319 km; condensate/gas 209 km; gas 1,024 km; liquid
petroleum gas 87 km; oil 844 km (2006)
Romania
gas 3,508 km; oil 2,427 km (2006)
Russia
condensate 122 km; gas 156,285 km; oil 72,283 km; refined
products 13,658 km (2006)
Saudi Arabia
condensate 212 km; gas 1,880 km; liquid petroleum gas
1,183 km; oil 4,531 km; refined products 1,150 km (2006)
Senegal
gas 43 km (2006)
Serbia
gas 3,177 km; oil 393 km (2006)
Singapore
gas 139 km; refined products 8 km (2006)
Slovakia
gas 6,769 km; oil 416 km (2006)
Slovenia
gas 2,526 km; oil 11 km (2006)
South Africa
condensate 100 km; gas 1,062 km; oil 966 km; refined
products 1,354 km (2006)
Spain
gas 7,962 km; oil 622 km; refined products 3,447 km (2006)
Sudan
gas 156 km; oil 3,930 km; refined products 1,613 km (2006)
Suriname
oil 51 km (2006)
Sweden
gas 798 km (2006)
Switzerland
gas 1,831 km; oil 94 km; refined products 7 km (2006)
Syria
gas 2,764 km; oil 2,000 km (2006)
Taiwan
condensate 25 km; gas 661 km (2006)
Tajikistan
gas 549 km; oil 38 km (2006)
Tanzania
gas 254 km; oil 872 km (2006)
Thailand
gas 3,760 km; refined products 379 km (2006)
Trinidad and Tobago
condensate 253 km; gas 1,278 km; oil 571 km
(2006)
Tunisia
gas 2,945 km; oil 1,227 km; refined products 351 km (2006)
Turkey
gas 4,621 km; oil 3,543 km (2006)
Turkmenistan
gas 6,441 km; oil 1,361 km (2006)
Ukraine
gas 19,951 km; oil 4,514 km; refined products 4,211 km (2006)
United Arab Emirates
condensate 520 km; gas 2,580 km; liquid
petroleum gas 300 km; oil 2,950 km; oil/gas/water 5 km; refined
products 156 km (2006)
United Kingdom
condensate 565 km; condensate/gas 6 km; gas 21,575
km; liquid petroleum gas 59 km; oil 5,094 km; oil/gas/water 161 km;
refined products 4,444 km (2006)
United States
petroleum products 244,620 km; natural gas 548,665 km
(2003)
Uruguay
gas 257 km; oil 160 km (2006)
Uzbekistan
gas 9,594 km; oil 868 km (2006)
Venezuela
extra heavy crude 992 km; gas 5,369 km; oil 7,607 km;
refined products 1,681 km; unknown (oil/water) 141 km (2006)
Vietnam
condensate/gas 432 km; gas 163 km; oil 50 km; refined
products 206 km (2006)
Yemen
gas 71 km; liquid petroleum gas 22 km; oil 1,284 km (2006)
Zambia
oil 771 km (2006)
Zimbabwe
refined products 261 km (2006)
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@2118 Political parties and leaders
Afghanistan
note - includes only political parties approved by the
Ministry of Justice: Afghan Millat [Anwarul Haq AHADI]; De
Afghanistan De Solay Ghorzang Gond [Shahnawaz TANAI]; De Afghanistan
De Solay Mili Islami Gond [Shah Mahmood Polal ZAI]; Harakat-e-Islami
Afghanistan [Mohammad Asif MOHSINEE];
Hezb-e-Aarman-e-Mardum-e-Afghanistan [Iihaj Saraj-u-din ZAFAREE];
Hezb-e-Aazadee Afghanistan [Abdul MALIK]; Hezb-e-Adalat-e-Islami
Afghanistan [Mohammad Kabeer MARZBAN]; Hezb-e-Afghanistan-e-Wahid
[Mohammad Wasil RAHEEMEE]; Hezb-e-Afghan Watan Islami Gond;
Hezb-e-Congra-e-Mili Afghanistan [Latif PEDRAM];
Hezb-e-Falah-e-Mardum-e-Afghanistan [Mohammad ZAREEF];
Hezb-e-Hambastagee Mili Jawanan-e-Afghanistan [Mohammad Jamil
KARZAI]; Hezb-e-Hamnbatagee-e-Afghanistan [Abdul Khaleq NEMAT];
Hezb-e-Harakat-e-Mili Wahdat-e-Afghanistan [Mohammad Nadir AATASH];
Hezb-e-Harak-e-Islami Mardum-e-Afghanistan [Ilhaj Said Hssain
ANWARY]; Hezb-e-Ifazat Az Uqoq-e-Bashar Wa Inkishaf-e-Afghanistan
[Baryalai NASRATEE]; Hezb-e-Istiqlal-e-Afghanistan [Dr. Gh. Farooq
NIJZRABEE]; Hezb-e-Jamhoree Khwahan [Sibghatullah SANJAR];
Hezb-e-Kar Wa Tawsiha-e-Afghanistan [Zulfiar OMID];
Hezb-e-Libral-e-Aazadee Khwa-e-Mardum-e-Afghanistan [Ajmal SOHAIL];
Hezb-e-Mili Afghanistan [Abdul Rasheed AARYAN]; Hezb-e-Mili
Wahdat-e-Aqwam-e-Islami Afghanistan [Mohammad Shah KHOGYANEE];
Hezb-e-Nuhzhat-e-Mili Afghanistan [Ahmad Wali MASOUD];
Hezb-e-Paiwand-e-Mili Afghanistan [Said Mansoor NADIRI];
Hezb-e-Rastakhaiz-e-Islami Mardum-e-Afghanistan [Said ZAHIR];
Hezb-e-Refah-e-Mardum-e-Afghanistan [Mia Gul WASEEQ];
Hezb-e-Risalat-e-Mardum-e-Afghanistan [Noor Aqa ROEEN];
Hezb-e-Sahadat-e-Mardum-e-Afghanistan [Mohammad Zubair PAIROZ];
Hezb-e-Sahadat-e-Mili Wa Islami Afghanistan [Mohammad Usman
SALIGZADA]; Hezb-e-Sulh-e-Mili Islami Aqwam-e-Afghanistan [Abdul
Qahir SHARYATEE]; Hezb-e-Sulh Wa Wahdat-e-Mili Afghanistan [Abdul
Qadir IMAMEE]; Hezb-e-Tafahum-e-Wa Democracy Afghanistan [Ahamad
SHAHEEN]; Hezb-e-Wahdat-e-Islami Afghanistan [Mohammad Karim
KHALILI]; Hezb-e-Wahdat-e-Islami Mardum-e-Afghanistan [Ustad
Mohammad MOHAQQEQ]; Hezb-e-Wahdat-e-Mili Afghanistan [Abdul Rasheed
JALILI]; Jamahat-ul-Dahwat ilal Qurhan-wa-Sunat-ul-Afghanistan
[Mawlawee Samiullah NAJEEBEE]; Jombesh-e Milli [Abdul Rashid
DOSTAM]; Mahaz-e-Mili Islami Afghanistan [Said Ahmad GAILANEE];
Majmah-e-Mili Fahaleen-e-Sulh-e-Afghanistan [Shams ul Haq Noor
SHAMS]; Nuhzat-e-Aazadee Wa Democracy Afghanistan [Abdul Raqeeb
Jawid KUHISTANEE]; Nuhzat-e-Hambastagee Mili Afghanistan [Peer Said
Ishaq GAILANEE]; Sazman-e-Islami Afghanistan-e-Jawan [Siad Jawad
HUSSAINEE]; Tahreek Wahdat-e-Mili [Sultan Mahmood DHAZI] (30 Sep
2004)
Albania
Agrarian Environmentalist Party or PAA [Lufter XHUVELI];
Christian Democratic Party or PDK [Nikolle LESI]; Communist Party of
Albania or PKSH [Hysni MILLOSHI]; Democratic Alliance Party or DAP
[Neritan CEKA]; Democratic Party or PD [Sali BERISHA]; Legality
Movement Party or PLL [Ekrem SPAHIU]; Liberal Union Party or PBL
[Arjan STAROVA]; National Front Party (Balli Kombetar) or BNK
[Adriatik ALIMADHI]; New Democratic Party or PDR [Genc POLLO]; Party
of National Unity or PUK [Idajet BEQIRI]; Renewed Democratic Party
or PDRN [Dashamir SHEHI]; Republican Party or PR [Fatmir MEDIU];
Social Democracy Party or PDS [Paskal MILO]; Social Democratic Party
or PSD [Skender GJINUSHI]; Socialist Movement for Integration or LSI
[Ilir META]; Socialist Party or PS [Edi RAMA]; Union for Human
Rights Party or PBDNj [Vangjel DULE]
Algeria
Algerian National Front or FNA [Moussa TOUATI]; National
Democratic Rally (Rassemblement National Democratique) or RND [Ahmed
OUYAHIA, secretary general]; Islamic Salvation Front or FIS
(outlawed April 1992) [Ali BELHADJ, Dr. Abassi MADANI, Rabeh KEBIR];
National Entente Movement or MEN [Ali BOUKHAZNA]; National
Liberation Front or FLN [Abdelaziz BELKHADEM, secretary general];
National Reform Movement or Islah (formerly MRN) [Abdellah
DJABALLAH]; National Renewal Party or PRA [Yacine TERKMANE];
Progressive Republican Party [Khadir DRISS]; Rally for Culture and
Democracy or RCD [Said SADI]; Renaissance Movement or EnNahda
Movement [Fatah RABEI]; Socialist Forces Front or FFS [Hocine Ait
AHMED, secretary general]; Social Liberal Party or PSL [Ahmed
KHELIL]; Society of Peace Movement or MSP [Boudjerra SOLTANI];
Workers Party or PT [Louisa HANOUN]
note: a law banning political parties based on religion was enacted
in March 1997
American Samoa
Democratic Party [Oreta M. TOGAFAU]; Republican Party
[Tautai A. F. FAALEVAO]
Andorra
Andorran Democratic Center Party or CDA (formerly Democratic
Party or PD); Century 21 or S21 [Enric TARRADO]; Liberal Party of
Andorra or PLA (formerly Liberal Union or UL) [Albert PINTAT];
Social Democratic Party or PS (formerly part of National Democratic
Group or AND) [Jaume BARTUMEU CASSANY]
Angola
Liberal Democratic Party or PLD [Analia de Victoria PEREIRA];
National Front for the Liberation of Angola or FNLA [disputed
leadership: Lucas NGONDA, Holden ROBERTO]; National Union for the
Total Independence of Angola or UNITA [Isaias SAMAKUVA] (largest
opposition party); Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola or
MPLA [Jose Eduardo DOS SANTOS] (ruling party in power since 1975);
Social Renewal Party or PRS [disputed leadership: Eduardo KUANGANA,
Antonio MUACHICUNGO]
note: about a dozen minor parties participated in the 1992 elections
but only won a few seats; they and the other 115 smaller parties
have little influence in the National Assembly
Anguilla
Anguilla United Movement or AUM [Hubert HUGHES]; The
Anguilla United Front or AUF [Osbourne FLEMING, Victor BANKS], a
coalition of the Anguilla Democratic Party or ADP and the Anguilla
National Alliance or ANA; Anguilla Progressive Party or APP [Roy
ROGERS]; Anguilla Strategic Alternative or ANSA [Edison BAIRD]
Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua Labor Party or ALP [Lester Bryant BIRD];
Barbuda People's Movement or BPM [Thomas H. FRANK]; National
Democratic Congress [Tillman THOMAS]; United Progressive Party or
UPP [Baldwin SPENCER] (a coalition of three opposition parties -
Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement or ACLM, Progressive Labor
Movement or PLM, United National Democratic Party or UNDP)
Argentina
Alternative for a Republic of Equals or ARI [Elisa
CARRIO]; Front for Victory or FV [Nestor KIRCHNER]; Interbloque
Federal or IF (a broad coalition of approximately 12 parties
including RECREAR); Justicialist Front or FJ [Eduardo DUHALDE];
Justicialist Party or PJ (Peronist umbrella political organization);
Radical Civic Union or UCR [Roberto IGLESIAS]; Republican Initiative
Alliance or PRO (including Federal Recreate Movement or RECREAR
[Ricardo LOPEZ MURPHY] and Commitment for Change or CPC [Mauricio
MACRI]); Socialist Party or PS [Ruben GIUSTINIANI]; Union For All
[Patricia BULLRICH]; several provincial parties
Armenia
Agro-Industrial Party [Vladimir BADALYAN]; Armenia Party
[Myasnik MALKHASYAN]; Armenian National Movement or ANM [Alex
ARZUMANYAN, chairman]; Armenian Ramkavar Liberal Party or HRAK
[Harutyun MIRZAKHANYAN, chairman]; Armenian Revolutionary Federation
("Dashnak" Party) or ARF [Levon MKRTCHYAN]; Democratic Party [Aram
SARKISYAN]; Justice Bloc (comprised of the Democratic Party,
National Democratic Party, National Democratic Union, the People's
Party, and the Republic Party) [Stepan DEMIRCHYAN]; National
Democratic Party [Shavarsh KOCHARIAN]; National Democratic Union or
NDU [Vazgen MANUKIAN]; National Revival Party [Albert BAZEYAN];
National Unity Party [Artashes GEGHAMYAN, chairman]; People's Party
of Armenia [Stepan DEMIRCHYAN]; Republic Party [Aram SARKISYAN,
chairman]; Republican Party or RPA [Andranik MARGARYAN]; Rule of Law
Party [Samvel BALASANYAN]; Union of Constitutional Rights [Hrant
KHACHATURYAN]; United Labor Party [Gurgen ARSENYAN]
Aruba
Aliansa/Aruban Social Movement or MSA [Robert WEVER]; Aruban
Liberal Organization or OLA [Glenbert CROES]; Aruban Patriotic
Movement or MPA [Monica ARENDS-KOCK]; Aruban Patriotic Party or PPA
[Benny NISBET]; Aruban People's Party or AVP [Mike EMAN]; People's
Electoral Movement Party or MEP [Nelson O. ODUBER]; Real Democracy
or PDR [Andin BIKKER]; RED [Rudy LAMPE]; Workers Political Platform
or PTT [Gregorio WOLFF]
Australia
Australian Democrats [Lyn ALLISON]; Australian Greens [Bob
BROWN]; Australian Labor Party [Kevin RUDD]; Country Liberal Party
[Jodeen CARNEY]; Family First Party [Steve FIELDING]; Liberal Party
[John Winston HOWARD]; The Nationals [Mark VAILE]
Austria
Alliance for the Future of Austria or BZOe [Joerg HAIDER];
Austrian People's Party or OeVP [Wolfgang SCHUESSEL]; Freedom Party
of Austria or FPOe [Heinz Christian STRACHE]; Social Democratic
Party of Austria or SPOe [Alfred GUSENBAUER]; The Greens [Alexander
VAN DER BELLEN]
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan Popular Front or APF [Ali KARIMLI, leader of
"Reform" faction; Mirmahmud MIRALI-OGLU, leader of "Classic"
faction]; Civic Solidarity Party or CSP [Sabir RUSTAMKHANLY]; Civic
Union Party [Ayaz MUTALIBOV]; Communist Party of Azerbaijan or CPA
[Ramiz AHMADOV]; Compatriot Party [Mais SAFARLI]; Democratic Party
for Azerbaijan or DPA [Rasul QULIYEV, chairman]; Justice Party
[Ilyas ISMAILOV]; Liberal Party of Azerbaijan [Lala Shovkat
HACIYEVA]; Motherland Party; Musavat [Isa GAMBAR, chairman]; Yeni
Azerbaijan Party; Party for National Independence of Azerbaijan or
PNIA [Etibar MAMMADLI, chairman]; Social Democratic Party of
Azerbaijan or SDP [Araz ALIZADE and Ayaz MUTALIBOV]
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 [Saifuddin Ahmed MANIK]; Bangladesh Nationalist Party
or BNP [Khaleda ZIA]; Islami Oikya Jote or IOJ [Mufti Fazlul Haq
AMINI]; Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh or JIB [Motiur 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 [Owen ARTHUR]; Democratic Labor
Party or DLP [David THOMPSON]
Belarus
pro-government parties: Agrarian Party or AP [Mikhail
SHIMANSKY]; Belarusian Communist Party or KPB; Belarusian Patriotic
Movement (Belarusian Patriotic Party) or BPR [Nikolai ULAKHOVICH,
chairman]; Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus [Sergei GAYDUKEVICH];
Party of Labor and Justice [Viktor SOKOLOV]; Social-Sports Party
[Vladimir ALEXANDROVICH]
opposition parties: 10 Plus Coalition [Alyaksandr MILINKEVICH],
includes: Belarusian Party of Communists or PKB [Syarhey KALYAKIN];
Belarusian Party of Labor (unregistered) [Aleksandr BUKHVOSTOV,
Leonid LEMESHONAK]; Belarusian Popular Front or BPF [Vintsyuk
VYACHORKA]; Belarusian Social-Democratic Gramada [Stanislav
SHUSHKEVICH]; Green Party [Oleg GROMYKO]; Party of Freedom and
Progress (unregistered) [Vladimir NOVOSYAD]; United Civic Party or
UCP [Anatol LYABEDKA]; Women's Party "Nadezhda" [Valentina
MATUSEVICH, chairperson]
other opposition includes: Belarusian Social-Democratic Party
Nardonaya Hromada or BSDP NH [Alyaksandr KOZULIN, chairman];
Christian Conservative BPF [Zyanon PAZNIAK]; Ecological Party of
Greens [Mikhail KARTASH]; Party of Popular Accord [Sergei YERMAKK];
Republican Party [Vladimir BELAZOR]
Belgium
Flemish parties: Christian Democrats and Flemish or CD & V
[Jo VANDEURZEN]; Flemish Liberal Democrats or VLD [Bart SOMERS];
GROEN! (formerly AGALEV, Flemish Greens) [Vera DUA]; New Flemish
Alliance or NVA [Bart DE WEVER]; Social Progressive Alternative or
SP.A [Johan Vande LANOTTE]; Spirit [Geert LAMBERT] (new party now
associated with SP.A); Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) or VB [Frank
VANHECKE]
Francophone parties: Ecolo (Francophone Greens) [Jean-Michel JAVAUX,
Isabelle DURANT, Claude BROUIR]; Humanist and Democratic Center of
CDH [Joelle MILQUET]; National Front or FN [Daniel FERET]; Reform
Movement or MR [Didier REYNDERS]; Socialist Party or PS [Elio DI
RUPO]; other minor parties
Belize
People's United Party or PUP [Said MUSA]; United Democratic
Party or UDP [Dean BARROW, party leader; Douglas SINGH, party
chairman]
Benin
Alliance of Progress Forces or AFP; African Movement for
Democracy and Progress or MADEP [Sefou FAGBOHOUN]; Democratic
Renewal Party or PRD [Adrien HOUNGBEDJI]; Impulse for Progress and
Democracy or IPD; Key Force or FC; Movement for Development and
Solidarity or MDS; Movement for Development by the Culture-Salute
Party-Congress of People for Progress Alliance or Alliance
MDC-PS-CPP; New Alliance or NA; Rally for Democracy and Progress or
RDP; Renaissance Party du Benin or RB [Nicephore SOGLO]; The Star
Alliance (Alliance E'toile) [Sacca LAFIA]; Union of Tomorrow's Benin
or UBF [Bruno AMOUSSOU]
note: approximately 20 additional minor parties
Bermuda
Progressive Labor Party or PLP [Ewart BROWN]; United Bermuda
Party or UBP [Wayne FURBERT]
Bhutan
no legal parties
Bolivia
Bolivian Socialist Falange or FSB [Romel PANTOJA]; Civic
Solidarity Union or UCS [Johnny FERNANDEZ]; Free Bolivia Movement or
MBL [Franz BARRIOS]; Marshal of Ayacucho Institutional Vanguard or
VIMA [Freddy ZABALA]; Movement of the Revolutionary Left or MIR
[Jaime PAZ Zamora]; Movement Toward Socialism or MAS [Juan Evo
MORALES Ayma]; Movement Without Fear or MSM [Juan DEL GRANADO];
National Revolutionary Movement or MNR [Gonzalo SANCHEZ DE LOZADA];
New Republican Force or NFR [Manfred REYES-VILLA]; Pachakuti
Indigenous Movement or MIP [Felipe QUISPE Huanca]; Poder Democratico
Nacional or PODEMOS [Jorge Fernando QUIROGA Ramirez]; Socialist
Party or PS [Jeres JUSTINIANO]
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Alliance of Independent Social Democrats or
SNSD [Milorad DODIK]; Bosnian Party or BOSS [Mirnes AJANOVIC]; 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 100 or HDZ100;
Croatian Peoples Union [Milenko BRKIC]; Democratic National Union or
DNZ [Rifet DOLIC]; Democratic Peoples Alliance or DNS [Marko PAVIC];
Liberal Democratic Party or LDS [Rasim KADIC]; 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 of Democratic Progress or PDP [Mladen IVANIC]; Serb
Democratic Party or SDS [Dragan CAVIC]; 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 [Otlaadisa KOOSALETSE];
Botswana Democratic Party or BDP [Festus G. MOGAE]; Botswana
National Front or BNF [Otswoletse MOUPO]; Botswana Peoples Party or
BPP; MELS Movement of Botswana or MELS; New Democratic Front or NDF
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 [Flavio de CASTRO
MARTINEZ]; 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 Tasso
JEREISSATI]; Brazilian Socialist Party or PSB [Federal Deputy
Eduardo Henrique Accioly CAMPOS]; Communist Party of Brazil or PCdoB
[Jose Renato RABELO]; Democratic Labor Party or PDT [Carlos Roberto
LUPI]; Democratic Socialist Party or PSD [Luis Marques MENDES];
Green Party or PV [Jose Luiz de Franca PENNA]; Humanist Party of
Solidarity or PHS [leader NA]; Liberal Party or PL [Federal Deputy
Valdemar COSTA Neto]; National Order Reconstruction Party or PRONA
[Federal Deputy Dr. Eneas Ferreira CARNEIRO]; Partido Municipalista
Renovador or PMR [Natal Wellington Rodrigues FURUCHO]; Popular
Socialist Party or PPS [Federal Deputy Roberto FREIRE]; Progressive
Party or PP [Federal Deputy Pedro CORREA]; 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
Brunei Solidarity National Party (PPKB) [Haji Mohd HATTA bin
Haji Zainal Abidin]; National Development Party (NDP) [YASSIN
Affendi]; People's Awareness Party (PAKAR) [Awang Haji MAIDIN bin
Haji Ahmad]
note: parties are small and have limited activity (2005)
Bulgaria
ATAKA (Attack Coalition) (coalition of parties headed by
the Attack National Union); Attack National Union [Volen Siderov];
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union-People's Union or BANU [Anastasia
MOZER]; Bulgarian People's Union or BPU (coalition of UFD, IMRO, and
BANU); Bulgarian Socialist Party or BSP [Sergei STANISHEV];
Coalition for Bulgaria or CfB (coalition of parties dominated by
BSP) [Sergei STANISHEV]; Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria or DSB
[Ivan KOSTOV]; Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization or
IMRO [Krasimir KARAKACHANOV]; Movement for Rights and Freedoms or
MRF [Ahmed DOGAN]; National Movement for Simeon II or NMS2 [Simeon
SAXE-COBURG-GOTHA]; New Time [Emil KOSHLUKOV]; Union of Democratic
Forces or UDF [Petar STOYANOV]; Union of Free Democrats or UFD
[Stefan SOFIYANSKI]; United Democratic Forces or UtDF (a coalition
of center-right parties dominated by UDF)
Burkina Faso
African Democratic Rally-Alliance for Democracy and
Federation or RDA-ADF [Herman YAMEOGO]; Confederation for Federation
and Democracy or CFD [Amadou Diemdioda DICKO]; Congress for
Democracy and Progress or CDP [Roch Marc-Christian KABORE]; Movement
for Tolerance and Progress or MTP [Nayabtigungou Congo KABORE];
Party for African Independence or PAI [Philippe OUEDRAOGO]; Party
for Democracy and Progress or PDP [Joseph KI-ZERBO]; Socialist Party
or PS; Union of Greens for the Development of Burkina Faso or UVDB
[Ram OVEDRAGO]
Burma
National League for Democracy or NLD [AUNG SHWE, chairman,
AUNG SAN SUU KYI, general secretary]; National Unity Party or NUP
(pro-regime) [THA KYAW] (at last report); Shan Nationalities League
for Democracy or SNLD [HKUN HTUN OO]; and other smaller parties
Burundi
the three national, mainstream, governing parties are:
Burundi Democratic Front or FRODEBU [Leonce NGENDAKUMANA,
president]; National Council for the Defense of Democracy, Front for
the Defense of Democracy or CNDD-FDD [Hussein RADJABU, president];
Unity for National Progress or UPRONA [Aloys RUBUKA, president]
note: a multiparty system was introduced after 1998, included are:
National Council for the Defense of Democracy or CNDD; 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 Pracheachon Party (Cambodian People's Party) or
CPP [CHEA SIM]; National United Front for an Independent, Neutral,
Peaceful, and Cooperative Cambodia or FUNCINPEC [KEV PUT REAKSMEI];
Sam Rangsi Party or SRP [SAM RANGSI]
Cameroon
Cameroonian Democratic Union or UDC [Adamou Ndam NJOYA];
Democratic Rally of the Cameroon People or RDCP [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]; Movement for the Youth of Cameroon or MYC [Dieudonne
TINA]; National Union for Democracy and Progress or UNDP [Maigari
BELLO BOUBA]; Social Democratic Front or SDF [John FRU NDI]; Union
of Cameroonian Populations or UPC [Augustin Frederic KODOCK]
Canada
Bloc Quebecois [Gilles DUCEPPE]; Conservative Party of Canada
(a merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative
Party) [Stephen HARPER]; Green Party [Elizabeth MAY]; Liberal Party
[Stephane DION]; New Democratic Party [Jack LAYTON]
Cape Verde
African Party for Independence of Cape Verde or PAICV
[Jose Maria Pereira NEVES, chairman]; Democratic Alliance for Change
or ADM [Dr. Eurico MONTEIRO] (a coalition of PCD, PTS, and UCID);
Democratic Christian Party or PDC [Manuel RODRIGUES, chairman];
Democratic Renovation Party or PRD [Victor FIDALGO, president];
Democratic and Independent Cape Verdean Union or UCID [Antonio
MONTEIRO]; Movement for Democracy or MPD [Agostinho LOPES,
president]; Party for Democratic Convergence or PCD [Dr. Eurico
MONTEIRO, president]; Party of Work and Solidarity or PTS [Isaias
RODRIGUES, president]; Social Democratic Party or PSD [Joao ALEM,
president]
Cayman Islands
no national teams (loose groupings of political
organizations) were formed for the 2000 elections; United Democratic
Party or UDP [leader McKeeva BUSH]; People's Progressive Movement or
PPM [leader Kurt TIBBETTS]
Central African Republic
Alliance for Democracy and Progress or ADP
[Jacques MBOLIEDAS]; Central African Democratic Assembly 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]; 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
COUMAKOYE]; 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 Democracy and Republic or UDR [Jean
ALINGUE]; Union for Renewal and Democracy or URD [Gen. Wadal
Abdelkader KAMOUGUE]
Chile
Alliance for Chile ("Alianza") or APC (including National
Renewal or RN [Sergio DIEZ Urzia] and Independent Democratic Union
or UDI [Jovino NOVOA Vasquez]); Coalition of Parties for Democracy
("Concertacion") or CPD (including Christian Democratic Party or PDC
[Adolfo ZALDIVAR Larrain], Socialist Party or PS [Ricardo NUNEZ],
Party for Democracy or PPD [Victor BARRUETO], Radical Social
Democratic Party or PRSD [Jose Antonio GOMEZ Urrutia]); Communist
Party or PC [Guillermo TEILLIER]
China
Chinese Communist Party or CCP [HU Jintao]; eight registered
small parties controlled by CCP
Christmas Island
none
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
none
Colombia
Clandestine Communist Party of Colombia or PCC [Jaime
CAICEDO]; Colombian Conservative Party or PC [Carlos HOLGUIN Sardi];
Alternative Democratic Pole or PDA [Samuel MORENO Rojas]; Liberal
Party or PL [Cesar GAVIRIA]; Social National Unity Party or PSUN
[Juan Manuel SANTOS]
note: Colombia has about 60 formally recognized political parties,
most of which do not have a presence in either house of Congress
Comoros
Convention for the Renewal of the Comoros [AZALI Assowmani];
Camp of the Autonomous Islands (a coalition of parties organized by
the island 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
Democratic Social Christian Party
or PDSC [Andre BO-BOLIKO]; Forces for Renovation for Union and
Solidarity or FONUS [Joseph OLENGHANKOY]; National Congolese
Lumumbist Movement or MNC [Francois LUMUMBA]; Popular Movement of
the Revolution or MPR (three factions: MPR-Fait Prive [Catherine
NZUZI wa Mbombo]; MPR/Vunduawe [Felix VUNDUAWE]; MPR/Mananga
[MANANGA Dintoka Mpholo]); Unified Lumumbast Party or PALU [Antoine
GIZENGA]; Union for Democracy and Social Progress or UDPS [Etienne
TSHISEKEDI wa Mulumba]; Union of Federalists and Independent
Republicans or UFERI (two factions: UFERI [Lokambo OMOKOKO];
UFERI/OR [Adolph Kishwe MAYA])
Congo, Republic of the
the most important of the many parties are
the Democratic and Patriotic Forces or FDP [Denis SASSOU-NGUESSO,
president] (an alliance of Convention for Alternative Democracy,
Congolese Labor Party or PCT, Liberal Republican Party, National
Union for Democracy and Progress, Patriotic Union for the National
Reconstruction, and Union for the National Renewal); Congolese
Movement for Democracy and Integral Development or MCDDI [Michel
MAMPOUYA]; Pan-African Union for Social Development or UPADS [Martin
MBERI]; 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; Union of Democratic Forces or UFD [Sebastian EBAO]
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 [Otton SOLIS]; Costa Rican Renovation Party or
PRC [Gerardo Justo OROZCO Alvarez]; Democratic Force Party or PFD
[Vladimir DE LA CRUZ]; 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]; National
Patriotic Party or PPN [Daniel Enrique REYNOLDS Vargas]; National
Restoration Party or PRN [Carlos AVENDANO]; Nationalist Democratic
Alliance or ADN [Jose Miguel VILLALOBOS Umana]; Patriotic Union or
UP [Humberto ARCE Salas]; Social Christian Unity Party or PUSC
[Lorena VASQUEZ Badilla]; 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 [Eg Theodore MEL];
Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire-African Democratic Rally or
PDCI-RDA [Henri Konan BEDIE]; Ivorian Popular Front or FPI [Laurent
GBAGBO]; Ivorian Worker's Party or PIT [Francis WODIE]; Rally of the
Republicans or RDR [Alassane OUATTARA]; Union for Democracy and
Peace or UDPCI [Paul Akoto YAO]; over 20 smaller parties
Croatia
Croatian Bloc or HB [Ivic PASALIC]; Croatian Christian
Democratic Union or HKDU [Anto KOVACEVIC]; Croatian Democratic Union
or HDZ [Ivo SANADER]; Croatian Party of Rights or HSP [Anto DJAPIC];
Croatian Peasant Party or HSS [Josip FRISCIC]; Croatian Pensioner
Party or HSU [Vladimir JORDAN]; Croatian People's Party or HNS
[Vesna PUSIC] (in 2005 party merged with Libra to become Croatian
People's Party-Liberal Democrats or NS-LD [Vesna PUSIC]); Croatian
Social Liberal Party or HSLS [Djurdja ADLESIC]; Croatian True
Revival Party or HIP [Miroslav TUDJMAN]; Democratic Centre or DC
[Vesna SKARE-OZBOLT]; Independent Democratic Serb Party or SDSS
[Vojislav STANIMIROVIC]; Istrian Democratic Assembly or IDS [Ivan
JAKOVCIC]; Social Democratic Party of Croatia or SDP [Ivica RACAN]
Cuba
only party - Cuban Communist Party or PCC [Fidel CASTRO Ruz,
first secretary]
Cyprus
Republic of Cyprus: Democratic Party or DIKO [Tassos
PAPADOPOULOS]; Democratic Rally or DISY [Nikos ANASTASIADHIS];
European Democracy or EURO.DE [Prodromos PRODROMOU] (evolved from
For Europe which merged with New Horizons); European Party or
EURO.KO [Demetris SYLLOURIS]; Fighting Democratic Movement or ADIK
[Dinos MIKHAILIDIS]; Green Party of Cyprus [George PERDIKIS];
Movement for Social Democracy United Democratic Union of Center or
KISOS [Yannakis OMIROU]; Progressive Party of the Working People or
AKEL (Communist Party) [Dimitrios CHRISTOFIAS]; United Democrats
Movement or EDE [Michalis PAPAPETROU]; north Cyprus: Democratic
Party or DP [Serder DENKTASH]; National Birth Party or UDP [Enver
EMIN]; National Unity Party or UBP [Dervis EROGLU]; Our Party or BP
[Okyay SADIKOGLU]; Patriotic Unity Movement or YBH [Alpay DURDURAN];
Peace and Democratic Movement [Mustafa AKINCI]; Republican Turkish
Party or CTP [Mehmet ALI TALAT]
Czech Republic
Christian Democratic Union-Czechoslovak People's
Party or KDU-CSL [Jan KASAL, chairman]; Civic Democratic Alliance or
ODA [Jirina NOVAKOVA, chairwoman]; Civic Democratic Party or ODS
[Mirek TOPOLANEK, chairman]; Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
or KSCM [Vojtech FILIP, chairman]; Czech Social Democratic Party or
CSSD [Jiri PAROUBEK, chairman]; Freedom Union-Democratic Union or
US-DEU [Jan HADRAVA, chairman]; Green Party [Martin BURSIK,
chairman]; Independent Democrats (NEZDEM) [Vladimir ZELEZNY,
chairman]; Party of Open Society (SOS) [Pavel NOVACEK, chairman];
Path of Change [Jiri LOBKOWITZ, chairman]; SNK-European Democrats or
SNK-ED [Jana HYBASKOVA, chairman]
Denmark
Christian Democrats (was Christian People's Party) [Bodil
KORNBEK]; Conservative Party (sometimes known as Conservative
People's Party) [Bendt BENDTSEN]; Danish People's Party [Pia
KJAERSGAARD]; Liberal Party [Anders Fogh RASMUSSEN]; Red-Green Unity
List (bloc includes Left Socialist Party, Communist Party of
Denmark, Socialist Workers' Party) [collective leadership]; Social
Democratic Party [Helle THORNING-SCHMIDT]; Social Liberal Party
(sometimes called the Radical Left) [Marianne JELVED, leader; Soren
BALD, chairman]; 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 Dini AHMED];
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 ATUN]
East Timor
Associacao Social-Democrata Timorense or ASDT [Francisco
Xavier do AMARAL]; Christian Democratic Party of Timor or PDC
[Antonio XIMENES]; Christian Democratic Union of Timor or UDC
[Vicente da Silva GUTERRES]; Democratic Party or PD [Fernando de
ARAUJO]; People's Party of Timor or PPT [Jacob XAVIER];
Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor or FRETILIN [Francisco
Guterres Lu OLO]; Social Democrat Party of East Timor or PSD [Mario
CARRASCALAO]; Socialist Party of Timor or PST [Pedro da COSTA]; Sons
of the Mountain Warriors (also known as Association of Timorese
Heroes) or KOTA [Clementino dos Reis AMARAL]; Timor Democratic Union
or UDT [Joao CARRASCALAO]; Timor Labor Party or PTT [Paulo Freitas
DA SILVA]; Timorese Nationalist Party or PNT [Abilio ARAUJO]
Ecuador
Concentration of Popular Forces or CFP [Averroes BUCARAM];
Democratic Left or ID [Guillermo LANDAZURI]; National Action
Institutional Renewal Party or PRIAN [Alvaro NOBOA]; Pachakutik
Movement [Gilberto TALAHUA]; Patriotic Society Party or PSP [Lucio
GUTIERREZ Borbua]; Popular Democracy or DP [Dr. Juan Manuel
FUERTES]; Popular Democratic Movement or MPD [Gustavo TERAN Acosta];
Radical Alfarista Front or FRA [Fabian ALARCON, director]; Roldosist
Party or PRE [Abdala BUCARAM Ortiz, director]; Social Christian
Party or PSC [Leon FEBRES CORDERO]; Socialist Party - Broad Front or
PS-FA [Victor GRANDA]
Egypt
National Democratic Party or NDP [Mohammed Hosni MUBARAK
(governing party)]; National Progressive Unionist Grouping or
Tagammu [Rifaat EL-SAID]; New Wafd Party or NWP [Mahmoud ABAZA];
Tomorrow Party [Naji AL-GHATRIFI]
note: formation of political parties must be approved by the
government
El Salvador
Christian Democratic Party or PDC [Rodolfo PARKER,
secretary general]; Democratic Convergence or CD (formerly United
Democratic Center or CDU) [Ruben ZAMORA, secretary general];
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front or FMLN [Medardo GONZALEZ,
coordinator general]; National Conciliation Party or PCN [Ciro CRUZ
ZEPEDA, president]; National Republican Alliance or ARENA [Elias
Antonio SACA Gonzalez]; Popular Social Christian Party or PPSC [Rene
AGUILUZ]; Revolutionary Democratic Front or FDR [Julio Cesar
HERNANDEZ Carcamo, coordinator general]
Equatorial Guinea
Convergence Party for Social Democracy or CPDS
[Placido MIKO Abogo]; Democratic Party for Equatorial Guinea or PDGE
[Teodoro OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO] (ruling party); Party for Progress
of Equatorial Guinea or PPGE [Severo MOTO]; Popular Action of
Equatorial Guinea or APGE [Miguel Esono EMAN]; Popular Union or UP
[Andres Moises Bda ADA]; Progressive Democratic Alliance or ADP
[Victorino Bolekia BONAY]; Union of Independent Democrats of UDI
[Daniel OYONO]
Eritrea
People's Front for Democracy and Justice or PFDJ, the only
party recognized by the government [ISAIAS Afworki]; note - a
National Assembly committee drafted a law on political parties in
January 2001, but the full National Assembly has not yet debated or
voted on it
Estonia
Center Party of Estonia (Keskerakond) [Edgar SAVISAAR,
chairman]; Estonian People's Union (Rahvaliit) [Villu REILJAN,
chairman]; Estonian Reform Party (Reformierakond) [Andrus ANSIP];
Estonian United Russian People's Party or EUVRP [Yevgeniy TOMBERG,
chairman]; Social Democratic Party (formerly People's Party Moodukad
or Moderates) [Ivari PADAR, chairman]; Social Liberals (group of
eight parliamentarians, former Center Party members) [Peeter
KREITZBERG]; Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica (Isamaa je Res
Publica Liit) [Tonis LUKAS and Taavi VESKIMAGI, co-chairman]
Ethiopia
Afar National Democratic Party or ANDP; Benishangul Gumuz
People's Democratic Unity Front or BGPDUF [Mulualem BESSE];
Coalition for Unity and Democracy or CUD [HAILU Shawel]; Ethiopian
People's Revolutionary Democratic Front or EPRDF [MELES Zenawi] (an
alliance of Amhara National Democratic Movement or ANDM, Oromo
People's Democratic Organization or OPDO, the South Ethiopean
People's Democratic Front or SEPDF, and TigrAyan Peoples' Liberation
Front or TPLF); Gurage Nationalities' Democratic Movement or GNDM;
Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement or OFDM [BULCHA Demeksa];
Somali People's Democratic Party or SPDP; United Ethopian Democratic
Forces or UEDF [BEYENE Petros]; dozens of small parties
European Union
Confederal Group of the European United Left-Nordic
Green Left or EUL/NGL [Francis WURTZ]; European People's
Party-European Democrats or EPP-ED [Hans-Gert POETTERING]; Group of
the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe or ALDE [Graham R.
WATSON]; Group of Greens/European Free Alliance or Greens/EFA
[Monica FRASSONI and Daniel Marc COHN-BENDIT];
Independence/Democracy Group or IND/DEM [Jens-Peter BONDE and Nigel
FARAGE]; Socialist Group in the European Parliament or PES [Martin
SCHULZ]; Union for Europe of the Nations Group or UEN [Brian CROWLEY
and Cristiana MUSCARDINI]
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
none; all independents
Faroe Islands
Center Party [Jenis A. RANA]; Independence Party [Kari
P. HOJGAARD]; People's Party [Anfinn KALLSBERG]; Republican Party
[Hogni HOYDAL]; Social Democratic Party [Joannes EIDESGAARD]; Union
Party [Kaj Leo JOHANNESEN]
Fiji
Conservative Alliance Party/Matanitu Vanua or CAMV [Ratu Josefa
DIMURI]; 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 (primarily Fijian)
[Sitiveni RABUKA], 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 (primarily Indian) [Pramond
RAE]; 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 General Party or UGP [Millis Mick
BEDDOES]
Finland
Center Party or Kesk [Matti VANHANEN]; Christian Democrats
or KD [Paivi RASANEN]; Green League or VIHR [Tarja CRONBERG]; Left
Alliance or VAS composed of People's Democratic League and
Democratic Alternative [Martti KORHONEN]; National Coalition
(conservative) Party or Kok [Jyrki KATAINEN]; Social Democratic
Party or SDP [Eero HEINALUOMA]; Swedish People's Party or SFP
[Stefan WALLIN]
France
Citizen and Republican Movement or MRC [Jean Pierre
CHEVENEMENT]; Democratic and European Social Rally or RDSE (mainly
Radical Republican and Socialist Parties, and PRG) [Jacques
PELLETIER]; French Communist Party or PCF [Marie-George BUFFET];
Greens [Yan WEHRLING, national secretary]; Left Radical Party or PRG
(previously Radical Socialist Party or PRS and the Left Radical
Movement or MRG) [Jean-Michel BAYLET]; Movement for France or MPF
[Philippe DE VILLIERS]; National Front or FN [Jean-Marie LE PEN];
Rally for France or RPF [Charles PASQUA]; Socialist Party or PS
[Francois HOLLANDE]; Union for French Democracy or UDF [Francois
BAYROU]; Union for a Popular Movement or UMP [Nicolas SARKOZY]
French Guiana
Guyana Democratic Forces or FDG [Georges OTHILY];
Guyanese Democratic Action or ADG [Andre LECANTE]; Guyanese
Socialist Party or PSG [Marie-Claude VERDAN]; Popular National
Guyanese Party or PNPG [Jose DORCY]; Socialist Party or PS [Alix
LABBE]; Union for French Democracy or UDF [Georges HABRAN-MERY];
Union for a Popular Movement or UMP (includes RPR) [Remi Louis
DUBOC]; Walwari Committee (aligned with the PRG in France)
[Christine TAUBIRA-DELANON]
French Polynesia
Alliance for a New Democracy or ADN [Nicole BOUTEAU
and Philip SCHYLE](includes the parties The New Star and This
Country is Yours); Independent Front for the Liberation of Polynesia
(Tavini Huiraatira) [Oscar TEMARU]; New Fatherland Party (Ai'a Api)
[Emile VERNAUDON]; People's Rally for the Republic of Polynesia or
RPR (Tahoeraa Huiraatira) [Gaston FLOSSE]; Union for Democracy or
UPD [Oscar TEMARU]
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 [Pierre-Louis AGONDJO-OKAWE]; National Rally of
Woodcutters or RNB; National Rally of Woodcutters-Rally for Gabon or
RNB-RPG (Bucherons) [Fr. Paul M'BA-ABESSOLE]; People's Unity Party
or PUP [Louis Gaston MAYILA]; Rally for Democracy and Progress or
RDP [Pierre EMBONI]; Social Democratic Party or PSD [Pierre Claver
MAGANGA-MOUSSAVOU]; Union for Democracy and Social Integration or
UDIS; Union of Gabonese People or UPG [Pierre MAMBOUNDOU]
Gambia, The
Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction or
APRC [Yahya A. J. J. JAMMEH] (the ruling party); Gambian People's
Party-Progressive People's Party-United Democratic Party or
GPP-PPP-UDP Coalition [Ousainou DARBOE]; 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 [Sidia JATTA]
note: in August 2001, an independent electoral commission allowed
the reregistration of the GPP, NCP, and PPP, three parties banned
since 1996
Georgia
Burjanadze-Democrats [Nino BURJANADZE]; Georgian People's
Front [Nodar NATADZE]; Georgian United Communist Party or UCPG
[Panteleimon GIORGADZE]; Greens [Giorgi GACHECHILADZE]; Industry
Will Save Georgia (Industrialists) or IWSG [Georgi TOPADZE]; Labor
Party [Shalva NATELASHVILI]; National Democratic Party or NDP
[Bachuki KARDAVA]; National Movement Democratic Front [Mikheil
SAAKASHVILI] bloc composed of National Movement and
Burjanadze-Democrats; National Movement [Mikheil SAAKASHVILI]; New
Rights [David GAMKRELIDZE]; Republican Party [David USUPASHVILI];
Rightist Opposition [David GAMKRELIDZE] bloc composed of
Industrialists and New Right Party; Socialist Party or SPG [Irakli
MINDELI]; Traditionalists [Akaki ASATIANI]; Union of National
Forces-Conservatives [Koba DAVITASHVILI and Zviad DZIDZIGURI]
Germany
Alliance '90/Greens [Claudia ROTH and Reinhard BUETIKOFER];
Christian Democratic Union or CDU [Angela MERKEL]; Christian Social
Union or CSU [Edmund STOIBER, chairman]; Free Democratic Party or
FDP [Guido WESTERWELLE, chairman]; Left Party (Linkspartei. was
Party of Democratic Socialism) or PDS [Lothar BISKY]; Social
Democratic Party or SPD [Kurt BECK]
Ghana
Convention People's Party or CPP [Nii Noi DOWUONA, general
secretary]; Every Ghanaian Living Everywhere or EGLE [Owuraku AMOFA,
chairman]; Great Consolidated Popular Party or GCPP [Dan LARTY];
National Convention Party or NCP [Sarpong KUMA-KUMA]; National
Democratic Congress or NDC [Dr. Huudu YAHAYA, general secretary];
New Patriotic Party or NPP [Samuel Arthur ODOI-SYKES]; People's
Convention Party or PCP [P. K. DONKOH-AYIFI, acting chairman];
People's Heritage Party or PHP [Emmanuel Alexander ERSKINE];
People's National Convention or PNC [Edward MAHAMA]; Reform Party
[Kyeretwie OPUKU, general secretary]
Gibraltar
Gibraltar Liberal Party [Joseph GARCIA]; Gibraltar Social
Democrats or GSD [Peter CARUANA]; Gibraltar Socialist Labor Party or
GSLP [Joseph John BOSSANO]
Greece
Coalition of the Left and Progress (Synaspismos) [Alekos
ALAVANOS]; Communist Party of Greece or KKE [Aleka PAPARIGA]; New
Democracy or ND (conservative) [Konstandinos KARAMANLIS];
Panhellenic Socialist Movement or PASOK [Yiorgos PAPANDREOU];
Popular Orthodox Rally or LAOS [Yeoryios KARATZAFERIS]
Greenland
Atassut Party (Solidarity, a conservative party favoring
continuing close relations with Denmark) [Finn KARLSEN]; Demokratiit
[Per BERTHELSEN]; Inuit Ataqatigiit or IA (Eskimo Brotherhood, a
leftist party favoring complete independence from Denmark rather
than home rule) [Josef MOTZFELDT]; Issituup (Polar Party) [Nicolai
HEINRICH]; Kattusseqatigiit (Candidate List, an independent
right-of-center party with no official platform; Siumut (Forward
Party, a social democratic party advocating more distinct
Greenlandic identity and greater autonomy from Denmark) [Hans
ENOKSEN]
Grenada
Good Old Democracy or GOD [Justin MCBURNIE]; Grenada United
Labor Party or GULP [Gloria Payne BANFIELD]; National Democratic
Congress or NDC [Tillman THOMAS]; New National Party or NNP [Keith
MITCHELL]; People Labor Movement or PLM [Dr. Francis ALEXIS]
Guadeloupe
Communist Party of Guadeloupe or PCG [Mona CADOCE]; FGPS
[Dominique LARIFLA]; Left Radical Party or PRG [Flavien FERRANT];
Progressive Democratic Party or PPDG [Henri BANGOU]; Socialist Party
or PS [Jules OTTO]; Union for French Democracy or UDF [Claudine
LACAVE]; Union for a Popular Movement or UMP (including
Rassemblement pour la Republique or RPR) [Gabrielle LOUIS-CARABIN]
Guam
Democratic Party [leader Michael PHILLIPS]; Republican Party
(controls the legislature) [leader Philip J. FLORES]
Guatemala
Authentic Integral Development or DIA [Eduardo SUGER];
Grand National Alliance or GANA (an alliance of smaller parties)
[Alfredo VILA Giron, secretary general]; Green Party or LOV [Rodolfo
ROSALES Garcis-Salaz]; Guatemalan Christian Democracy or DCG
[Vinicio CEREZO Arevalo]; Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity or
URNG [Alba ESTELA Maldonado, secretary general]; Guatemalan
Republican Front or FRG [Efrain RIOS Montt]; Movement for Guatemalan
Unity or MGU [Jacobo ARBENZ Villanueva]; Movement for Principals and
Values or MPV [Francisco BIANCHI]; National Advancement Party or PAN
[Leonel LOPEZ Rodas, secretary general]; National Unity for Hope or
UNE [Alvarado COLOM Caballeros]; New Nation Alliance or ANN (formed
by an alliance of DIA, URNG, and several splinter groups most of
whom subsequently defected) [led by three co-equal partners - Nineth
Varenca MONTENEGRO Cottom, Rodolfo BAUER Paiz, and Jorge Antonio
BALSELLS TUT]; Patriot Party or PP [Ret. Gen. Otto PEREZ Molina];
Progressive Liberator Party or PLP [Acisclo VALLADARES Molina];
Reform Movement or MR [Alfredo SKINNER-KLEE, secretary general];
Unionista Party
Guernsey
none; all independents
Guinea
Democratic Party of Guinea-African Democratic Rally or
PDG-RDA [El Hadj Ismael Mohamed Gassim GUSHEIN]; National Union for
Progress or UPN [Mamadou Bhoye BARRY]; Party for Unity and Progress
or PUP [Lansana CONTE] (the governing party); People's Party of
Guinea or PPG [Pascal TOLNO]; Rally for the Guinean People or RPG
[Alpha CONDE]; Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea or UFDG [Mamadou
BA]; Union of Republican Forces or UFR [Sidya TOURE]; Union for
Progress of Guinea or UPG [Jean-Marie DORE, secretary-general];
Union for Progress and Renewal or UPR [Ousmane BAH]
Guinea-Bissau
African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau
and Cape Verde or PAIGC [Carlos GOMES Junior]; Democratic Social
Front or FDS; Electoral Union or UE; Party for Democratic
Convergence or PCD [Victor MANDINGA]; Social Renovation Party or PRS
[Alberto NAMBEIA]; Union for Change or UM [Jorge MANDINGA,
president, Dr. Anne SAAD, secretary general]; United Platform or UP
(coalition formed by PCD, FDS, FLING, and RGB-MB); United Popular
Alliance or APU; United Social Democratic Party or PUSD [Francisco
Jose FADUL]
Guyana
Alliance for Change or AFC [Raphael TROTMAN and Khemraj
RAMJATTAN]; Guyana Action Party or GAP [Paul HARDY]; Justice for All
Party [C.N. SHARMA]; People's National Congress/Reform or PNC/R
[Robert Herman Orlando CORBIN]; People's Progressive Party/Civic or
PPP/C [Bharrat JAGDEO]; Rise, Organize, and Rebuild or ROAR [Ravi
DEV]; The United Force or TUF [Manzoor NADIR]; The Unity Party [Joey
JAGAN]; Vision Guyana [Peter RAMSAROOP]; Working People's Alliance
or WPA [Rupert ROOPNARAINE]
Haiti
Artibonite in Action or LAAA [Youri LATORTUE]; Assembly of
Progressive National Democrats or RDNP [Leslie MANIGAT]; Convention
for Democratic Unity or KID [Evans PAUL]; Cooperative Action to
Build Haiti or KONBA [Evans LESCOUFALIR]; Democratic Alliance or
ALYANS (coalition composed of KID and PPRH) [Evans PAUL]; Effort and
Solidarity to Create an Alternative for the People or ESKAMP [Joseph
JASME]; For Us All or PONT [Jean-Marie CHERESTAL]; Front for Hope or
L'ESPWA (alliance of ESKAMP, PLB, and grass-roots organizations
Grand-Anse Resistance Committee, the Central Plateau Peasants'
Group, and Kombit Sudest) [Rene PREVAL]; Grand Center Right Front
coalition (composed of MDN, MRN, and PDCH) [Hubert de RONCERAY];
Haitian Christian Democratic Party or PDCH [Osner FEVRY and
Marie-Denise CLAUDE]; Haitian Democratic and Reform Movement or
MODEREH [Dany TOUSSAINT and Pierre Soncon PRINCE]; Heads Together or
Tet-Ansanm [Dr. Gerard BLOT]; Independent Movement for National
Reconciliation or MIRN [Luc FLEURINORD]; Justice for Peace and
National Development or JPDN [Rigaud DUPLAN]; Fanmi Lavalas or FL
[Rudy HERIVEAUX]; Liberal Party of Haiti or PLH [Gehy MICHEL];
Merging of Haitian Social Democratic Parties or FUSION or FPSDH
(merged Ayiti Capable, Haitian National Revolutionary Party, and
National Congress of Democratic Movements) [Serge GILLES];
Mobilization for Haiti's Development or MPH [Samir MOURRA];
Mobilization for National Development or MDN [Hubert de RONCERAY];
Movement for National Reconstruction or MRN [Jean Henold BUTEAU];
Movement for the Installation of Democracy in Haiti or MIDH [Marc
BAZIN]; National Christian Union for the Reconstruction of Haiti or
UNCRH [Marie Claude GERMAIN]; National Front for the Reconstruction
of Haiti or FRN [Guy PHILIPPE]; New Christian Movement for a New
Haiti or MOCHRENA [Luc MESADIEU]; Open the Gate Party or PLB [Anes
LUBIN]; Popular Party for the Renewal of Haiti or PPRH [Claude
ROMAIN and Daniel SUPPLICE]; Struggling People's Organization or OPL
[Edgard LEBLANC]; Union for Haiti or UPH (coalition of MIDH and FL)
[Marc BAZIN]; Union of Nationalist and Progressive Haitians or UNITE
[Edouard FRANCISQUE]
Holy See (Vatican City)
none
Honduras
Christian Democratic Party or PDC [Saul ESCOBAR Andrade];
Democratic Unification Party or PUD [Matias FUNES]; Liberal Party or
PL [Patricia RODAS]; National Innovation and Unity Party or PINU
[Olban F. VALLADARES]; National Party of Honduras or PN [Gilberto
GOLDSTEIN]
Hong Kong
Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood or ADPL
[Frederick FUNG Kin-kee]; Citizens Party [Alex CHAN Kai-chung];
Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong or
DAB [MA Lik]; Democratic Party [LEE Wing-tat]; Frontier Party [Emily
LAU Wai-hing]; Liberal Party [James TIEN Pei-chun]
note: political blocs include: pro-democracy - ADPL, Democratic
Party, Frontier Party; pro-Beijing - DAB, Liberal Party
Hungary
Alliance of Free Democrats or SzDSz [Gabor KUNCZE];
Christian Democratic People's Party or KDNP [Zsolt SEMJEN];
Hungarian Civic Alliance or Fidesz [Viktor ORBAN, chairman];
Hungarian Democratic Forum or MDF [Ibolya DAVID]; Hungarian
Socialist Party or MSzP [Istvan HILLER, chairman]
Iceland
Independence Party or IP [Geir HAARDE]; Left-Green Movement
or LGM [Steingrimur SIGFUSSON]; Liberal Party or LP [Gudjon
KRISTJANSSON]; Progressive Party or PP [Halldor ASGRIMSSON - will
step down in August 2006]; Social Democratic Alliance (includes
People's Alliance or PA, Social Democratic Party or SDP, Women's
List) or SDA [Ingibjorg Solrun GISLADOTTIR]
India
note - India has dozens of national and regional political
parties; only parties with four or more seats in the People's
Assembly are listed; Bahujan Samaj Party or BSP [MAYAWATI];
Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP [Rajnath SINGH]; Biju Janata Dal or
BJD [Naveen PATNAIK]; Communist Party of India or CPI [Ardhendu
Bhushan BARDHAN]; Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI (M)
[Prakash KARAT]; Dravida Munnetra Kazagham or DMK [M. KARUNANIDHI];
Indian National Congress or INC [Sonia GANDHI]; Janata Dal (United)
or JD(U) [Sharad YADEV]; Jharkhand Mukti Morcha or JMM [Shibu
SOREN]; Lok Jan Shakti Party or LJSP [Ram Vilas PASWAN];
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam or MDMK [VAIKU]; Nationalist
Congress Party or NCP [Sharad PAWAR]; Pattali Makkal Katchi or PMK
[S. RAMADOSS]; Rashtriya Janata Dal or RJD [Laloo Prasad YADAV];
Samajwadi Party or SP [Mulayam Singh YADAV]; Shiromani Akali Dal or
SAD [Prakash Singh BADAL]; Shiv Sena or SS [Bal THACKERAY];
Telangana Rashtra Samithi or TRS [K. Chandrasekhar RAO]; Telugu
Desam Party or TDP [Chandrababu NAIDU]
Indonesia
Crescent Moon and Star Party or PBB [Yusril Ihza
MAHENDRA]; Democratic Party or PD [Subur BUDHISANTOSO]; Functional
Groups Party or Golkar [Yusuf KALLA]; Indonesia Democratic
Party-Struggle or PDI-P [MEGAWATI Sukarnoputri]; National Awakening
Party or PKB [Alwi SHIHAB]; National Mandate Party or PAN [Sutrisno
BACHIR]; Prosperous Justice Party or PKS [Tifatul SEMBIRING]; United
Development Party or PPP [Hamzah HAZ]
Iran
formal political parties are a relatively new phenomenon in
Iran and most conservatives still prefer to work through political
pressure groups rather than parties; a loose pro-reform coalition
called the 2nd Khordad Front, which includes political parties as
well as less formal pressure groups and organizations, achieved
considerable success at elections to the sixth Majles in early 2000;
groups in the coalition include: Islamic Iran Participation Front
(IIPF), Executives of Construction Party (Kargozaran), Solidarity
Party, Islamic Labor Party, Mardom Salari, Mojahedin of the Islamic
Revolution Organization (MIRO), and Militant Clerics Society
(Ruhaniyun); the coalition participated in the seventh Majles
elections in early 2004; following his defeat in the 2005
presidential elections, former MCS Secretary General Mehdi KARRUBI
formed the National Trust Party; a new apparently conservative
group, the Builders of Islamic Iran, took a leading position in the
new Majles after winning a majority of the seats in February 2004
Iraq
Al-Sadr Movement [Muqtada Al-SADR]; Assyrian Democratic
Movement [Yunadim KANNA]; Conference of Iraqi People [Adnan
al-DULAYMI]; Constitutional Monarchy Movement or CMM [Sharif Ali Bin
al-HUSAYN]; Da'wa Party [Ibrahim al-JA'FARI]; Independent Iraqi
Alliance or IIA [Falah al-NAQIB]; Iraqi Communist Party [Hamid
al-MUSA]; Iraqi Hizballah [Karim Mahud al-MUHAMMADAWI]; Iraqi
Independent Democrats or IID [Adnan PACHACHI, Mahdi al-HAFIZ]; Iraqi
Islamic Party or IIP [Muhsin Abd al-HAMID, Hajim al-HASSANI]; Iraqi
National Accord or INA [Ayad ALLAWI]; Iraqi National Congress or INC
[Ahmad CHALABI]; Iraqi National Council for Dialogue or INCD [Khalaf
Ulayan al-Khalifawi al-DULAYMI]; Iraqi National Unity Movement or
INUM [Ahmad al-KUBAYSI, chairman]; Islamic Action Organization or
IAO [Ayatollah Muhammad al-MUDARRISI]; Jama'at al Fadilah or JAF
[Ayatollah Muhammad Ali al-YAQUBI]; Kurdistan Democratic Party or
KDP [Masud BARZANI]; Muslim Ulama Council or MUC [Harith Sulayman
al-DARI, secretary general]; National Iraqi Front [Salih al-MUTLAQ];
National Reconciliation and Liberation Party [Mishan al-JABBURI];
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan or PUK [Jalal TALABANI]; Supreme
Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq or SCIRI [Abd al-Aziz
al-HAKIM]
note: the Kurdistan Alliance, Iraqi National List, Iraqi Consensus
Front, Iraqi Front for National Dialogue, and United Iraqi Alliance
were only electoral slates consisting of the representatives from
the various Iraqi political parties
Ireland
Fianna Fail [Bertie AHERN]; Fine Gael [Enda KENNY]; Green
Party [Trevor SARGENT]; Labor Party [Pat RABITTE]; Progressive
Democrats [Michael McDOWELL]; Sinn Fein [Gerry ADAMS]; Socialist
Party [Joe HIGGINS]; The Workers' Party [Sean GARLAND]
Isle of Man
Alliance for Progressive Government; Man Labor Party;
Man Nationalist Party (branch of the British National Party)
note: most members sit as independents
Israel
Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (HADASH) [Muhammad
BARAKA]; GIL (Pensioners) [Rafael EITAN]; Kadima [Ehud OLMERT];
Labor Party [Amir PERETZ]; Likud Party [Binyamin NETANYAHU];
Meretz-YAHAD [Yossi BEILIN]; National Democratic Assembly (Balad)
[Azmi BISHARA]; National Union (NU)/National Religious Party (NRP)
[Binyamin ELON]; SHAS [Eliyahu YISHAI]; Torah and Shabbat Judaism
[Yaakov LITZMAN]; United Arab List [Ibrahim SARSOUR]; Yisrael
Beiteinu [Avigdor LIEBERMAN]; Yisrael Ba'Aliya (merged with Likud)
Italy
Center-Left Union Coalition [Romano PRODI]: Ulivo Alliance
(including Democrats of the Left or DS [Piero FASSINO];
Daisy-Democracy is Freedom or DL [Francesco RUTELLI]); Rose in the
Fist (including Italian Social Democrats or SDI [Enrico BOSELLI];
Italian Radical Party [Emma BONINO]); Italian Communist Party or
PdCI [Oliviero DILIBERTO]; Green Federation [Alfonso PECORARO
SCANIO]; Communist Renewal or RC [Fausto BERTINOTTI]; Italy of
Values or IdV [Antonio DI PIETRO]; Union of Democrats for Europe or
UDEUR [Clemente MASTELLA]; Republican European Movement or MRE
[Luciana SBARBATI]
Center-Right Freedom House Coalition [Silvio BERLUSCONI]: Forza
Italia or FI [Silvio BERLUSCONI]; National Alliance or AN
[Gianfranco FINI]; Union of Christian Democrats of the Center or UDC
[Pier Ferdinando CASINI]; Northern League or LEGA [Umberto BOSSI];
Christian Democracy (Per la Autonomie) [Publio FIORI]
other non-allied parties: New Italian Socialist Party or New PSI
[Gianni DE MICHELIS]; Italian Republican Party or PRI [Giorgio LA
MALFA]; Social Alternative [Alessandra MUSSOLINI]; Social
Movement-Tricolor Flame or MSI-Fiamma [Luca ROMAGNOLI]; Social Idea
Movement with Rauti or MIS [Pino RAUTI]; South Tyrol People's Party
or SVP (German speakers) [Elmar Pichler ROLLE]; Union of Valley
Aosta Region or UV [Guido CESAL]
Jamaica
Jamaica Labor Party or JLP [Bruce GOLDING]; National
Democratic Movement or NDM [Hyacinth BENNETT]; People's National
Party or PNP [Percival James PATTERSON]
Japan
Democratic Party of Japan or DPJ [Ichiro OZAWA]; Japan
Communist Party or JCP [Kazuo SHII]; Komeito [Akihoro OTA]; Liberal
Democratic Party or LDP [Shinzo ABE]; Social Democratic Party or SDP
[Mizuho FUKUSHIMA]
Jersey
none; all independents
Jordan
al-Ahd Party; Arab Islamic Democratic Movement [Yusuf ABU
BAKR, president]; Arab Land Party [Dr. Ayishah Salih HIJAZAYN,
secretary general]; Arab Socialist Ba'th Party [Taysir al-HIMSI,
secretary general]; Ba'th Arab Progressive Party [Fu'ad DABBUR,
secretary general]; Freedom Party; Future Party; Islamic Action
Front or IAF [Zaki Sa'ed BANI IRSHEID, secretary general]; Islamic
Center Party [Marwan al-FAURI, secretary general]; Jordanian Arab
Ansar Party; Jordanian Arab New Dawn Party; Jordanian Arab Party;
Jordanian Citizens' Rights Movement; Jordanian Communist Party
[Munir HAMARINAH, secretary general]; Jordanian Communist Workers
Party; Jordanian Democratic Left Party [Musa MA'AYTEH, secretary
general]; Jordanian Democratic Popular Unity Party [Sa'id Dhiyab Ali
MUSTAFA, secretary general]; Jordanian Generations Party [Muhammad
KHALAYLEH, secretary general]; Jordanian Green Party [Muhammad
BATAYNEH, secretary general]; Jordanian Labor Party [Dr. Mazin
Sulayman Jiryis HANNA, secretary general]; Jordanian Peace Party;
Jordanian People's Committees Movement; Jordanian People's
Democratic Party (Hashd) [Ahmad YUSUF, secretary general]; Jordanian
Rafah Party; Jordanian Renaissance Party; Mission Party; Nation
Party [Ahmad al-HANANDEH, secretary general]; National Action Party
(Haqq) [Tariq al-KAYYALI, secretary general]; National
Constitutional Party [Abdul Hadi MAJALI, secretary general];
National Popular Democratic Movement [Mahmud al-NUWAYHI, secretary
general]; Progressive Party [Fawwaz al-ZUBI, secretary general]
Kazakhstan
Adilet (Justice) [Maksut NARIKBAYEV, co-chair, Zeynulla
ALSHIMBAYEV, co-chair, Bakhytbek AKHMETZHAN, co-chair, Yerkin
ONGARBAYEV, co-chair, Tolegan SYDYKOV, co-chair] (formerly
Democratic Party of Kazakhstan); Aq Zhol Party (Bright Path)
[Alikhan BAIMENOV, chairman]; AUL (Village) [Gani KALIYEV,
chairman]; Communist Party of Kazakhstan or KPK [Serikbolsyn
ABDILDIN, first secretary]; Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan
[Vladislav KOSAREV, first secretary]; Otan [Bakhytzhan ZHUMAGULOV,
acting chairman] (the Agrarian, Asar, and Civic parties merged with
Otan); Patriots' Party [Gani KASYMOV, chairman]; Rukhaniyat
(Spirituality) [Altynshash ZHAGANOVA, chairwoman]
Kenya
Forum for the Restoration of Democracy-People or FORD-People
[Kimaniwa NYOIKE, chairman]; Kenya African National Union or KANU
[Uhuru KENYATTA]; National Rainbow Coalition or NARC [Mwai KIBAKI]
(the governing party)
Kiribati
Boutokaan Te Koaua Party or BTK [Taberannang TIMEON];
Maneaban Te Mauri Party or MTM [Teburoro TITO]; Maurin Kiribati Pati
or MKP; National Progressive Party or NPP [Dr. Harry TONG]
note: there is no tradition of formally organized political parties
in Kiribati; they more closely resemble factions or interest groups
because they have no party headquarters, formal platforms, or party
structures
Korea, North
major party - Korean Workers' Party or KWP [KIM Jong
Il]; minor parties - Chondoist Chongu Party [RYU Mi Yong] (under KWP
control), Social Democratic Party [KIM Yong Dae] (under KWP control)
Korea, South
Democratic Labor Party or DLP [MOON Seong-hyun];
Democratic Party or DP [HAHN Hwa-kap]; Grand National Party or GNP
[KANG Jae-sup]; People-Centered Party or PCP [SHIN Kook-hwan]; Uri
Party [KIM Geun-tae]
Kuwait
none; formation of political parties is illegal
Kyrgyzstan
Adilet (Justice) Party [Toychubek KASYMOV]; Agrarian
Labor Party of Kyrgyzstan [Uson SYDYKOV]; Agrarian Party of
Kyrgyzstan [Erkin ALIYEV]; Alga, Kyrgyzstan (Forward, Kyrgyzstan)
[Bolot BEGALIYEV]; Ar-Namys (Dignity) Party [Emil ALIYEV]; Asaba
(Banner National Revival Party) [Azimbek BEKNAZAROV]; Ata-Meken
(Fatherland) [Omurbek TEKEBAYEV]; Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan
[Klara ADZHIBEKOVA]; Democratic Movement of Kyrgyzstan or DDK [Jypar
JEKSHEYEV]; Erkin Kyrgyzstan Progressive and Democratic Party
[Bektur ASANOV]; Erkindik (Freedom) Party [Topchubek TURGUNALIYEV];
Future of Kyrgyzstan [Balbak TULEBAYEV]; Jany Kyrgyzstan (New
Kyrgyzstan) [Dosbol NUR UULU]; Kairan El [Dooronbek SADYKOV]; Kyrgyz
National Party [Bakyt BESHIMOV]; Kyrgyzstan Kelechegi [Ruslan
CHYNYBAYEV]; Manas El (Party of Spiritual Restoration) [Chingiz
AITMATOV]; Moya Strana (My Country Party of Action) [Joomart
OTORBAYEV]; Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan or KCP [Bakytbek
BEKBOYEV]; Party of Justice and Progress [Muratbek IMANALIEV]; Party
of Peasants [Esengul ISAKOV]
Laos
Lao People's Revolutionary Party or LPRP [CHOUMMALY Sayasone];
other parties proscribed
Latvia
First Party of Latvia or LPP [Juris LUJANS]; For Human Rights
in a United Latvia or PCTVL [Tatjana ZDANOKA, Jakovs PLINERS]; For
the Fatherland and Freedom/Latvian National Independence Movement or
TB/LNNK [Janis STRAUME]; Harmony Center or SC [Sergejs DOLGOPOLOVS];
Latvian Green Party or ZZS [Indulis EMSIS, Viesturs SILENIEKS,
Raimonds VEJONIS]; Latvian Farmer's Union or LZS [Augusts
BRIGMANIS]; Latvian Social Democratic Workers Party (Social
Democrats) or LSDSP [Juris BOJARS]; Latvian Socialist Party or LSP
[Alfreds RUBIKS]; Latvia's Way or LC [Ivars GODMANIS]; New Democrats
or JD [Maris GULBIS]; New Era Party or JL [Einars REPSE]; People's
Harmony Party or TSP [Aivars DATAVS]; People's Party or TP [Atis
SLAKTERIS]; Social Democratic Union or SDS [Egils BALDZENS]
Lebanon
Ba'th Party; Democratic Gathering [Walid JUMBLATT];
Democratic Left [Ilyas ATALLAH]; Democratic Renewal Movement [Nassib
LAHUD]; Development and Resistance Bloc [Nabih BERRI, Amal Movement
leader/Speaker of the National Assembly]; Free Patriotic Movement
[Michel AWN]; Future Movement Bloc [Sa'ad HARIRI]; Kataeb Party
[Karim PAKRADONI]; Kataeb Reform Movement [Amine GEMAYAL]; Lebanese
Forces [Samir JA'JA]; Loyalty to the Resistance [Mohammad RA'AD];
Metn Bloc [Michel MURR]; Nasserite Popular Movement [Ussama SAAD];
National Bloc [Carlos EDDE]; Popular Bloc [Elias SKAFF]; Qornet
Shewan Gathering [a grouping with no individual leader]; Syrian
National Socialist Party [Ali QANSU]; Tachnaq Party; Tripoli
Independent Bloc [a grouping with no individual leader]
Lesotho
Basotholand African Congress or BAC [Khauhelo RALITAPOLE];
Basotholand Congress Party or BCP [Ntsukunyane MPHANYA]; Basotho
National Party or BNP [Maj. Gen. Justine Metsing LEKHANYA]; Kopanang
Basotho Party or KPB [MOSALA]; Lesotho Congress for Democracy or LCD
[Pakalitha MOSISILI] (the governing party); Lesotho Education Party
or LEP [Thabo PITSO]; Lesotho People's Congress or LPC [Kelebone
MAOPE]; Lesotho Workers Party of LWP [Macaefa BILLY]; Marematlou
Freedom Party or MFP [Vincent MALEBO]; National Independent Party or
NIP [Anthony MANYELI]; National Progressive Party or NPP [Chief
Peete Nkoebe PEETE]; Popular Front for Democracy or PFD [Lekhetho
RAKUOANE]; Sefate Democratic Union or SDU [Bofihla NKUEBE]; Social
Democratic Party of SDP [Masitise SELESO]; United Democratic Party
or UDP [C.D. MOFELI]; United Party or UP [Makara SEKAUTU]
Liberia
Alliance for Peace and Democracy or APD [Togba-na TIPOTEH];
Coalition for the Transformation of Liberia or COTOL; Congress for
Democratic Change or CDC [George WEAH]; Liberian Action Party or LAP
[H. Varney SHERMAN]; Liberty Party or LP [Charles BRUMSKINE];
National Patriotic Party or NPP [Cyril ALLEN]; Unity Party or UP
[Charles CLARKE]
Libya
none
Liechtenstein
Patriotic Union (was Fatherland Union) or VU [Adolf
HEEB]; Progressive Citizens' Party or FBP [Otmar HASLER]; The Free
List or FL
Lithuania
Civil Democracy Party [Viktor MUNTIANAS, chairman];
Electoral Action of Lithuanian Poles [Valdemar TOMASZEVSKI,
chairman]; National Farmer's Union [Kazimiera PRUNSKIENE, chairman];
Homeland Union/Conservative Party or TS [Andrius KUBILIUS,
chairman]; Labor Party; Liberal and Center Political Group [Arturas
ZUOKAS, chairman]; Liberal Democratic Party [Valentinas MAZURONIS,
chairman]; Liberal Movement; Lithuanian Christian Democrats or LKD
[Valentinas STUNDYS, chairman]; Lithuanian People's Union for a Fair
Lithuania; Lithuanian Social Democratic Coalition [Algirdas
BRAZAUSKAS, chairman] consists of the Lithuanian Democratic Labor
Party or LDDP and the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party or LSDP;
Social Liberal/New Union [Arturas PAULAUSKAS, chairman]; Social
Union of Christian Conservatives [Gediminas VAGNORIUS, chairman];
Young Lithuania and New Nationalists
Luxembourg
Action Committee for Democracy and Justice or ADR [Gast
GIBERYEN]; Christian Social People's Party or CSV (also known as
Christian Social Party or PCS) [Francois BILTGEN]; Democratic Party
or DP [Claude MEISCH]; Green Party [Francois BAUSCH]; Luxembourg
Socialist Workers' Party or LSAP [Alex BODRY]; Marxist and Reformed
Communist Party dei Lenk/la Gauche (the Left) [no formal
leadership]; other minor parties
Macau
Civil Service Union [Jose Maria Pereira COUTINHO]; Development
Union [KWAN Tsui-hang]; Macau Development Alliance [Angela LEONG
On-kei]; Macau United Citizens' Association [CHAN Meng-kam]; New
Democratic Macau Association [Antonio NG Kuok-cheong]; United Forces
Macedonia
Democratic Alliance [Pavle TRAJANOV]; Democratic
Alternative or DA [Vasil TUPURKOVSKI]; Democratic League of the
Bosniaks [Rafet MUMINOVIC]; Democratic Party of Albanians or
PDSH/DPA [Arben XHAFERI]; Democratic Party of Serbs [Ivan
STOILJKOVIC]; Democratic Party of Turks [Kenan HASIPI]; Democratic
Renewal of Macedonia [Liljana POPOVSKA]; Democratic Republican Union
of Macedonia or DRUM [Goran RAFAJLOVSKI]; Democratic Union of Vlachs
for Macedonia [Mitko KOSTOV]; Democratic Union for Integration or
DUI [Ali AHMETI]; Internal Macedonian Revolutionary
Organization-Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity or
VMRO-DPMNE [Nikola GRUEVSKI]; Internal Macedonian Revolutionary
Organization-Macedonian [Boris STOJMENOV]; Internal Macedonian
Revolutionary Organization-People's Party or VMRO-Narodna [Vesna
JANEVSKA, acting]; League for Democracy [Gjorgi MARJANOVIC]; Liberal
Democratic Party or LDP [Risto PENOV]; Liberal Party [Stojan ANDOV];
National Alternative [Harun ALIU]; National Democratic Party or PDK
[Basri HALITI]; National Farmers' Party [Vejljo TANTAROV]; New
Democratic Forces [Hysni SHAQIRI]; New Social Democratic Party or
NSDP [Tito PETKOVSKI]; Party for Democratic Future [Alajdin DEMIRI];
Party for Democratic Prosperity or PPD/PDP [Abduljhadi VEJSELI];
Social Democratic Alliance of Macedonia or SDSM [Vlado BUCKOVSKI];
Socialist Party of Macedonia or SP [Ljubisav IVANOV-ZINGO]; United
Party for Emancipation or OPE [Nezdet MUSTAFA]
Madagascar
Association for the Rebirth of Madagascar or AREMA
[Pierrot RAJAONARIVO]; Economic Liberalism and Democratic Action for
National Recovery or LEADER/Fanilo [Herizo RAZAFIMAHALEO]; Fihaonana
Party or FP [Guy-Willy RAZANAMASY]; I Love Madagascar or TIM [Marc
RAVALOMANANA]; Renewal of the Social Democratic Party or RPSD
[Evariste MARSON]
Malawi
Alliance for Democracy or AFORD [Chakufwa CHIHANA]; Congress
for National Unity or CONU; Democratic Progressive Party or DPP
[Bingu wa MUTHARIKA]; Malawi Congress Party or MCP [John TEMBO];
Malawi Democratic Party or MDP [Kampelo KALUA]; Malawi Forum for
Unity and Development or MAFUNDE [George MNESA]; Mgwirizano
Coalition or MC [Gwandaguluwe CHAKUAMBA] (coalition of MAFUNDE, MDP,
MGODE, NUP, PETRA, PPM, RP); Movement for Genuine Democratic Change
or MGODE [Sam Kandodo BANDA]; National Democratic Alliance or NDA
[Brown MPINGANJIRA]; National Unity Party or NUP [Harry CHIUME];
People's Progressive Movement or PPM [Aleke BANDA]; People's
Transformation Movement or PETRA [Kamuzu CHIBAMBO]; Republican Party
or RP [Gwandaguluwe CHAKUAMBA]; United Democratic Front or UDF
Malaysia
ruling-coalition National Front (Barisan Nasional) or BN,
consisting of the following parties: Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia Party
or PGRM [LIM Keng Yaik]; Liberal Democratic Party (Parti Liberal
Demokratik - Sabah) or LDP [LIEW Vui Keong]; Malaysian Chinese
Association (Persatuan China Malaysia) or MCA [ONG Ka Ting];
Malaysian Indian Congress (Kongresi India Malaysia) or MIC [S. Samy
VELLU]; Parti Bersatu Pakyat Sabah or PBRS [Joseph KURUP]; Parti
Bersatu Sabah or PBS [Joseph PAIRIN Kitingan]; Parti Pesaka
Bumiputra Bersatu or PBB [Patinggi Haji Abdul TAIB Mahmud]; Parti
Rakyat Sarawak or PRS [James MASING]; Sabah Progressive Party (Parti
Progresif Sabah) or SAPP [YONG Teck Lee]; Sarawak United People's
Party (Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sarawak) or SUPP [George CHAN Hong Nam];
United Malays National Organization or UMNO [ABDULLAH bin Ahmad
Badawi]; United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organization
(Pertubuhan Pasko Momogun Kadazan Dusun Bersatu) or UPKO [Bernard
DOMPOK]; People's Progressive Party (Parti Progresif Penduduk
Malaysia) or PPP [M.Keyveas]; Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party
or SPDP [William MAWANI]; opposition parties: Democratic Action
Party (Parti Tindakan Demokratik) or DAP [KARPAL Singh]; Islamic
Party of Malaysia (Parti Islam se Malaysia) or PAS [Abdul HADI
Awang]; People's Justice Party (Parti Keadilan Rakyat) or PKR [WAN
AZIZAH Wan Ismael]; Sarawak National Party or SNAP [Edwin DUNDANG];
opposition coalition Alternative Front (Barisan Alternatif) or BA -
consists of PAS and PKR
Maldives
political parties were allowed to register in June 2005;
the first entrants are: Adhaalath (Justice) Party or AP [Abdul
Majeed Abdul BARI]; Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (Maldivian People's
Party) or DRP [Maumoon Abdul GAYOOM]; Islamic Democratic Party or
IDP [Omar NASEER]; Maldivian Democratic Party or MDP [Mohamed
NASHEED]
Mali
Alliance for Democracy or ADEMA [Diounconda TRAORE, party
chairman]; 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 Idrissa
TRAORE]; Party for National Renewal or PARENA [Tiebile DRAME,
secretary general]; Patriotic Movement for Renewal or MPR [Choguel
MAIGA]; Rally for Democracy and Labor or RDT; Rally for Mali or RPM
[Ibrahim Boubacar KEITA, chairman]; Sudanese Union/African
Democratic 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]
Malta
Alternativa Demokratika/Alliance for Social Justice or AD
[Harry VASSALLO]; Malta Labor Party or MLP [Alfred SANT];
Nationalist Party or PN [Lawrence GONZI]
Marshall Islands
traditionally there have been no formally organized
political parties; what has existed more closely resembles factions
or interest groups because they do not have party headquarters,
formal platforms, or party structures; the following two "groupings"
have competed in legislative balloting in recent years - Aelon Kein
Ad Party [Michael KABUA] and United Democratic Party or UDP [Litokwa
TOMEING]
Martinique
Martinique Communist Party or PCM [Georges ERICHOT];
Martinique Independence Movement or MIM [Alfred MARIE-JEANNE];
Martinique Progressive Party or PPM [Pierre SUEDILE]; Martinique
Socialist Party or PMS [Ernest WAN-AJOUHU]; Movement of Democrats
and Ecologists for a Sovereign Martinique or Modemas [Garcin MALSA];
Rally for the Republic or RPR [Michel CHARLONE]; Socialist
Revolution Group or GRS [Philippe PIERRE-CHARLES]; Union for French
Democracy or UDF [Jean MAREN]
Mauritania
Action for Change or AC (no longer active) [Messoud Ould
BOULKHEIR]; Alliance for Justice and Democracy or AJD [Cisse Amadou
CHEIKHOU]; 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 [Cheikh
Ould 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 Ould
MAOULOUD]; 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 ruling
Democratic and Social Republican Party or PRDS) [Boullah Ould
MOGUEYA]; Right Way or SAWAB [Cheikh Ould Sidi Ould HANANA]; Union
for Democracy and Progress or UDP [Naha Mint MOUKNASS]; Union of
Forces of Progress or UFP [Mohamed Ould MAOULOUD]
note: the Party of Democratic Convergence was banned in October 2005
because it was regarded as Islamist and therefore in breach of
Mauritanian law
Mauritius
Alliance Sociale or AS; Hizbullah [Cehl Mohamed
FAKEEMEEAH]; Mauritian Labor Party or MLP [Navinchandra RAMGOOLAM];
Mauritian Militant Movement or MMM [Paul BERENGER] (in coalition
with MSM); Mauritian Social Democrat Party or PMSD [Charles
Xavier-Luc DUVAL]; Militant Socialist Movement or MSM [Pravind
JUGNAUTH] (the governing party); Rodrigues Movement or MR [Joseph
(Nicholas) Von MALLY]; Rodrigues Peoples Organization or OPR [Serge
CLAIR]
Mayotte
Democratic Front or FD [Youssouf MOUSSA]; Mahoran Popular
Movement or MPM [Ahmed MADI]; Federation of Mahorans or RPR (UMP)
[Mansour KAMARDINE]; Force of the Rally and the Alliance for
Democracy or FRAP; Movement for Department Status Mayotte or MDM
[Mouhoutar SALIM]; Renewed Communist Party of Mayotte or MRC [Omar
SIMBA]; Socialist Party or PS (local branch of French Parti
Socialiste) [Ibrahim ABUBACAR]; Union for French Democracy or UDF
[Henri JEAN-BAPTISTE]
Mexico
Convergence for Democracy or CD [Dante DELGADO Ranauro];
Institutional Revolutionary Party (Institutional Revolutionary
Party) or PRI [leader NA]; Mexican Green Ecological Party or PVEM
[Jorge Emilio GONZALEZ Martinez]; National Action Party (Partido
Accion Nacional) or PAN [Manuel ESPINO Barrientos]; New Alliance
Party (Partido Nueva Alianza) or PNA [Miguel Angel JIMENEZ Godines];
Party of the Democratic Revolution (Partido de la Revolucion
Democratica) or PRD [Leonel COTA Montano]; Workers Party or PT
[Alberto ANAYA Gutierrez]
Micronesia, Federated States of
no formal parties
Moldova
Braghis Faction [Dumitru BRAGHIS]; Christian Democratic
People's Party or PPCD [Iurie ROSCA]; Communist Party of the
Republic of Moldova or PCRM [Vladimir VORONIN, first chairman];
Democratic Moldova Bloc (comprised of the AMN, Democratic Party, and
PSL); Democratic Party [Dumitru DIACOV]; Our Moldova Alliance or AMN
[Serafim URECHEANU]; Social Liberal Party or PSL [Oleg SEREBRIAN]
Monaco
National and Democratic Union or UND [Guy MAGNAN]; Union for
Monaco or UPM (including National Union for the Future of Monaco or
UNAM)
Mongolia
Citizens' Will Republican Party or CWRP (also called Civil
Courage Republican Party or CCRP) [Sanjaasurengiin OYUN]; Democratic
Party or DP [Tsakhiagiyn ELBEGDORJ]; Motherland-Mongolian New
Socialist 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) in
2003 and with CWRP contested June 2004 elections as single party;
MDC's leadership dissolved coalition in December 2004
Montenegro
Albanian Alternative or AA; Bosniak Party or BS [Rafet
HUSOVIC]; Coalition for a European Montenegro (Democratic Party of
Socialists or DPS and Social Democratic Party or SDP) [Milo
DJUKANOVIC]; Coalition SPP/NS/DSS; Democratic League-Party of
Democratic Prosperity [Mehmet BARHDI]; Democratic Serbian Party of
Montenegro or DSS; Democratic Union of Albanians or DUA [Ferhat
DINOSA]; Liberal Party of Montenegro or LP [Miodrag ZIVKOVIC];
Movement for Changes or PZP [Nebojsa MEDOJEVIC]; People's Party of
Montenegro or NS [Predrag POPOVIC]; Serbian People's Party of
Montenegro 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 [Predrag
BULATOVIC]
Montserrat
Montserrat 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]
Morocco
Action Party or PA [Muhammad EL IDRISSI]; Alliance of
Liberties or ADL [Ali BELHAJ]; Annahj Addimocrati or Annahj
[Abdellah EL HARIF]; Avant Garde Social Democratic Party or PADS
[Ahmed BENJELLOUN]; Citizen Forces or FC [Abderrahman LAHJOUJI];
Citizen's Initiatives for Development [Mohamed BENHAMOU];
Constitutional Union or UC [Mohamed ABIED (interim)]; Democratic and
Independence Party or PDI [Abdelwahed MAACH]; Democratic and Social
Movement or MDS [Mahmoud ARCHANE]; Democratic Socialist Party or PSD
[Aissa OUARDIGHI]; Democratic Union or UD [Bouazza IKKEN];
Environment and Development Party or PED [Ahmed EL ALAMI]; Front of
Democratic Forces or FFD [Thami EL KHYARI]; Istiqlal Party
(Independence Party) or PI [Abbas El FASSI]; Justice and Development
Party 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 Rally
of Independents or RNI [Ahmed OSMAN]; National Union of Popular
Forces or UNFP [Abdellah IBRAHIM]; Parti Al Ahd or Al Ahd [Najib EL
OUAZZANI, chairman]; Party of Progress and Socialism or PPS [Ismail
ALAOUI]; Party of Renewal and Equity or PRE [Chakir ACHABAR]; Party
of the Unified Socialist Left or GSU [Mohamed Ben Said AIT IDDER];
Popular Movement or MP [Mohamed LAENSER]; Reform and Development
Party or PRD [Abderrahmane EL KOUHEN]; Social Center Party or PSC
[Lahcen MADIH]; Socialist Union of Popular Forces or USFP [Mohammed
El-YAZGHI]
Mozambique
Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frente de
Liberatacao de Mocambique) or FRELIMO [Armando Emilio GUEBUZA,
president]; Mozambique National Resistance-Electoral Union
(Resistencia Nacional Mocambicana-Uniao Eleitoral) or RENAMO-UE
[Afonso DHLAKAMA, president]
Namibia
Congress of Democrats or COD [Ben ULENGA]; Democratic
Turnhalle Alliance of Namibia or DTA [Katuutire KAURA, president];
Monitor Action Group or MAG [Jurie VILJOEN]; South West Africa
People's Organization or SWAPO [Sam Shafishuna NUJOMA]; United
Democratic Front or UDF [Justus GAROEB]; Republican Party or RP
[Henk MUDGE]; National Unity Democratic Organization or NUDO [Kuaima
RIRUAKO]
Nauru
loose multiparty system; Democratic Party [Kennan ADEANG];
Nauru Party (informal); Nauru First (Naoero Amo) Party
Nepal
Communist Party of Nepal/United Marxist-Leninist or CPN/UML
[Madhav Kumar NEPAL, general secretary]; National Democratic Party
or NDP (also called Rastriya Prajantra Party or RPP) [Pashupati
Shumsher RANA, chairman]; Nepali Congress-Democratic [Sher Bahadur
DEUBA, president]; Nepali Congress or NC [Girija Prasad KOIRALA,
party president, Sushil KOIRALA, vice president]; Nepal Sadbhavana
(Goodwill) Party or NSP - Mandal [Bhadri Prasad MANDAL, party
president]; Nepal Sadbhavana Party - Ananda Devi [Ananda DEVI,
president]; Nepal Workers and Peasants Party or NWPP [Narayan Man
BIJUKCHHE, party chairman]; People's Front Nepal (Rastriya Jana
Morcha) [Amik SHERCHAN, chairman]; Rastriya Janashakti Party or RJP
[Surya Bahadur THAPA, chairman]; note - split from RPP in March
2005; Samyukta Janmorcha Nepal [leader NA]; note - merged with
People's Front Nepal or PFN in 2002
Netherlands
Christian Democratic Appeal or CDA [Ernst Hirsch
BALLIN]; Christian Union Party [Andre ROUVOET]; Democrats 66 or D66
[Lousewies VAN DER LAAN]; Green Party [Femke HALSEMA]; Labor Party
or PvdA [Wouter BOS]; List Pim Fortuyn [Ton VAN DILLEN]; Party for
Freedom [Geert WILDERS]; People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
(Liberal) or VVD [Pieter WINSEMIUS]; Socialist Party [Jan
MARIJNISSEN]; plus a few minor parties
Netherlands Antilles
Bonaire: 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]; Democratic
Party of Curacao or DP [Errol HERNANDEZ]; E Mayoria [Aurelio PEDRO];
Forsa Korsou [Nelson NAVARRO]; Liste Ni'un Paso Atras [Nelson
PIERRE]; Movemiento Patriotiko Korsou [Reginald LAK]; New Antilles
Movement or MAN [Charles COOPER]; Partido Akshon Pa Prosperidat I
Seguridat [Sonja BERKEMEYER]; Partido Laboral Krusada Popular or
PLKP [Errol COVA]; Party for the Restructured Antilles or PAR [Emily
de JONGH-ELHAGE]; People's National Party or PNP [Ersilia DE
LANNOOY]; Pidjin [Jasmin PINEDO]; Pueblo Soberano [Herman WIELS];
Workers' Liberation Front or FOL [Anthony GODETT]
Saba: Saba Labor Party [Akilah LEVENSTONE]; Windward Islands
People'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 [Sarah
WESCOTT-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 Caledonia
Alliance pour la Caledonie or APLC [Didier LE ROUX];
Caledonian Union or UC; Federation des Comites de Coordination des
Independantistes or FCCI [Francois BURCK]; Front National or FN [Guy
GEORGE]; Front Uni de Liberation Kanak or FULK [Ernest UNE]; Kanak
Socialist Front for National Liberation or FLNKS [leader NA]
(includes PALIKA, UNI, UC, and UPM); Parti de Liberation Kanak or
PALIKA [Paul NEAOUTYINE and Elie POIGOUNE]; Rally for Caledonia in
the Republic (anti independent) or RPCR-UMP [Jacques LAFLEUR]; The
Future Together or AE [Harold MARTIN]; Union Nationale pour
l'Independance or UNI [Paul NEAOUTYINE]; note - may no longer exist,
but Paul NEAOUTYINE has since become a president of Parti de
Liberation Kanak or PALIKA; Union Progressiste Melanesienne or UPM
[Victor TUTUGORO]
New Zealand
ACT New Zealand [Rodney HIDE]; Green Party [Jeanette
FITZSIMONS]; Maori Party [Whatarangi WINIATA]; National Party or NP
[Don BRASH]; New Zealand First Party or NZFP [Winston PETERS]; New
Zealand Labor Party or NZLP [Helen CLARK]; Progressive Party [James
(Jim) ANDERTON]; United Future or UF [Peter DUNNE]
Nicaragua
Alliance for the Republic or APRE [Miguel LOPEZ Baldizon];
Central American Unionist Party or PUCA [Blanca ROJAS]; Christian
Alternative Party or AC [Orlando TARDENCILLA Espinoza]; Conservative
Party or PC [Mario Sebastian RAPPACCIOLI]; Independent Liberal Party
or PLI [Anibal MARTINEZ Nunez, Pedro REYES Vallejos]; Independent
Liberal Party for National Unity or PLIUN [Carlos GUERRA Gallardo];
Liberal Constitutional Party or PLC [Jorge CASTILLO Quant]; Liberal
Salvation Movement or MSL [Eliseo NUNEZ Hernandez]; New Liberal
Party or PALI [Adolfo GARCIA Esquivel]; Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance
or ALN [Eduardo MONTEALEGRE]; Nicaraguan Party of the Christian Path
or PCCN [Guillermo OSORNO Molina]; Nicaraguan Resistance Party or
PRN [Salvador TALAVERA]; Sandinista National Liberation Front or
FSLN [Daniel ORTEGA Saavedra]; Sandinista Renovation Movement or MRS
[Dora Maria TELLEZ]; Unity Alliance or AU
Niger
Democratic and Social Convention-Rahama or CDS-Rahama
[Mahamane OUSMANE]; National Movement for a Developing
Society-Nassara or MNSD-Nassara [Hama AMADOU]; Niger Social
Democratic Party or PSDN; Nigerien Alliance for Democracy and Social
Progress-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 [Issifou
MAHAMADOU]; 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]
Nigeria
Alliance for Democracy or AD [Mojisoluwa AKINFENWA]; All
Nigeria Peoples' Party or ANPP [Don ETIEBET]; All Progressives Grand
Alliance or APGA [disputed leadership]; National Democratic Party or
NDP [Aliyu Habu FARI]; Peoples Democratic Party or PDP [Dr. Ahmadu
ALI]; Peoples Redemption Party or PRP [Abdulkadir Balarabe MUSA];
Peoples Salvation Party or PSP [Lawal MAITURARE]; United Nigeria
Peoples Party or UNPP [disputed leadership]
Niue
Alliance of Independents or AI; Niue People's Action Party or
NPP [Young VIVIAN]
Norfolk Island
none
Northern Mariana Islands
Covenant Party [Benigno R. FITIAL];
Democratic Party [Dr. Carlos S. CAMACHO]; Republican Party [Juan S.
REYES]
Norway
Center Party [Aslaug Marie HAGA]; Christian People's Party
[Dagfinn HOYBRATEN]; Coastal Party [Roy WAAGE]; Conservative Party
[Erna SOLBERG]; Labor Party [Jens STOLTENBERG]; Liberal Party [Lars
SPONHEIM]; Progress Party [Siv JENSEN]; Red Electoral Alliance
[Torstein DAHLE]; Socialist Left Party [Kristin HALVORSEN]
Oman
none
Pakistan
Awami 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]; Jamiat
Ulema-i-Islam, Sami ul-HAQ faction or JUI/S [Sami ul-HAQ]; Jamiat
Ulema-i-Pakistan or JUP [Shah Faridul HAQ]; Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal
Pakistan 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 Afzal
KHAN]; Pakistan Awami Tehrik or PAT [Tahir ul QADRI]; Pakistan
Muslim League, Functional Group or PML/F [Pir PAGARO]; Pakistan
Muslim League, Nawaz Sharif faction or PML/N [Nawaz SHARIF];
Pakistan Muslim League or PML [Chaudhry Shujaat HUSSAIN]; note - as
of May 2004, the PML/Q changed its name to PML and absorbed the
PML/J, PML/Z, and NA; Pakistan National Party or PNP [Hasil
BIZENJO]; 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
Palau
none
Panama
Democratic Change or CD [Ricardo MARTINELLI]; Democratic
Revolutionary Party or PRD [Hugo GUIRAUD]; National Liberal Party or
PLN [Anibal GALINDO]; Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement or
MOLIRENA [Jesus ROSAS]; Panamenista Party or PA (formerly the
Arnulfista Party) [Marco AMEGLIO]; Popular Party or PP (formerly
Christian Democratic Party or PDC) [Ricardo ARIAS Calderon];
Solidarity Party or PS [Jose Raul MULINO]
Papua New Guinea
Christian Democratic Party [Dr. Banare BUN];
Melanesian Alliance Party or MAP [Sir Moi AVEL]; National Alliance
Party or NA [Michael SOMARE]; National Party [Melcher PEP]; Papua
and Niugini Union Party or PANGU [Rabbie NAMALIU]; Papua New Guinea
First Party [Cecilking DORUBA]; Papua New Guinea Labor Party [Bob
DANAYA]; Papua New Guinea Party or PNGP (was People's Democratic
Movement 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 Progress
Party or PPP [Byron CHAN]; Pipol First Party [Luther WENGE]; United
Party [Bire KIMASOPA]; United Resources Party or URP [Tim NEVILLE]
(2005)
Paraguay
Asociacion Nacional Republicana - Colorado Party or ANR
[Herminio CACERES, interim president]; Movimiento Union Nacional de
Ciudadanos Eticos or UNACE [Enrique GONZALEZ Quintana, acting
chairman]; Patria Querida (Beloved Fatherland Party) or PQ [Pedro
Nicolas Maraa FADUL Niella]; Partido Encuentro Nacional or PEN [Luis
TORALES Kennedy]; Partido Liberal Radical Autentico or PLRA [Blas
LLANO]; Partido Pais Solidario or PPS [Carlos Alberto FILIZZOLA
Pallares]
note: Nicanor DUARTE FRUTOS on leave as party leader of the Colorado
Party or ANR while serving as President of Paraguay; Lino Cesar
OVIEDO Silva, leader of UNACE, is currently serving a ten-year
prison term
Peru
Alliance For Progress (Alianza Para El Progreso) [Cesar ACUNA
Peralta]; Alliance For The Future (Alianza Por El Futuro) or AF - a
coalition of pro-FUJIMORI parties including Cambio 90, Nueva
Mayoria, and Si Cumple [Martha CHAVEZ Cossio]; Centrist Front
(Frente Del Centro) or FC - a coalition of Accion Popular, Somos
Peru, and Coordinadora Nacional de Independientes [Valentin PANIAGUA
Corazoa]; Independent Moralizing Front (Frente Independiente
Moralizador) or FIM [Fernando OLIVERA Vega]; Nationalist Party
Uniting Peru (Partido Nacionalista Uniendo al Peru) or UPP - a
coalition of Union for Peru (UPP) and Peruvian Nationalist Party
(PNP) [Ollanta HUMALA Tasso]; National Restoration (Restauracion
Nacional) 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) or
PAP - also referred to by its original name Alianza Popular
Revolucionaria Americana or APRA [Alan GARCIA]
Philippines
Kabalikat Ng Malayang Pilipino (Kampi) [Ronaldo PUNO];
Laban Ng Demokratikong Pilipino (Struggle of Filipino Democrats) or
LDP [Edgardo ANGARA]; Lakas Ng Edsa (National Union of Christian
Democrats) or Lakas [Jose DE VENECIA]; Liberal Party or LP [Franklin
DRILON/Eli QUINTO]; Nacionalista [Manuel VILLAR]; National People's
Coalition or NPC [Frisco SAN JUAN]; PDP-Laban [Aquilino PIMENTEL];
People's Reform Party [Miriam Defensor SANTIAGO]; PROMDI [Emilio
OSMENA]; Pwersa Ng Masang Pilipino (Party of the Philippine Masses)
or PMP [Joseph ESTRADA]; Reporma [Renato DE VILLA]
Pitcairn Islands
none
Poland
Catholic-National Movement or RKN [Antoni MACIEREWICZ]; Civic
Platform or PO [Donald TUSK]; Conservative Peasants Party or SKL
[Artur BALASZ]; Democratic Left Alliance or SLD [Wojciech
OLEJNICZAK]; Democratic Party or PD [Wladyslaw FRASYNIUK]; Dom
Ojczysty (Fatherland Home); German Minority of Lower Silesia or MNSO
[Henryk KROLL]; Law and Justice or PiS [Jaroslaw KACZYNSKI]; League
of Polish Families or LPR [Marek KOTLINOWSKI]; Peasant-Democratic
Party or PLD [Roman JAGIELINSKI]; Polish Accord or PP [Jan
LOPUSZANSKI]; Polish Peasant Party or PSL [Waldemar PAWLAK]; Ruch
Patriotyczny or RP [Jan OLSZEWSKI]; Samoobrona or SO [Andrzej
LEPPER]; Social Democratic Party of Poland or SDPL [Marek BOROWSKI];
Social Movement or RS [Krzysztof PIESIEWICZ]; Union of Labor or UP
[Andrzej SPYCHALSKI]
Portugal
Green Ecologist Party or PEV [Heloisa APOLONIA]; Popular
Party or PP [Jose Ribeiro e CASTRO]; Portuguese Communist Party or
PCP [Jeronimo de SOUSA]; Portuguese Socialist Party or PS [Jose
SOCRATES Carvalho Pinto de Sousa]; Social Democratic Party or PSD
[Luis Marques MENDES]; The Left Bloc or BE [Franciso Anacleto
LOUCA]; Unitarian Democratic Coalition or CDU (includes PEV and PCP)
[Jeronimo de SOUSA]
Puerto Rico
National Democratic Party [Roberto PRATS]; National
Republican Party of Puerto Rico [Dr. Tiody FERRE]; New Progressive
Party or PNP (pro-US statehood) [Pedro ROSSELLO]; Popular Democratic
Party or PPD (pro-commonwealth) [Anibal ACEVEDO-VILA]; Puerto Rican
Independence Party or PIP (pro-independence) [Ruben BERRIOS Martinez]
Qatar
none
Reunion
Communist Party of Reunion or PCR [Elie HOARAU]; Rally for
the 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
Romania
Conservative Party or PC [Dan VOICULESCU], formerly Humanist
Party or PUR; Democratic Party or PD [Emil BOC]; Democratic Union of
Hungarians in Romania or UDMR [Bela MARKO]; National Liberal Party
or PNL [Calin Popescu-TARICEANU]; Romania Mare Party (Greater
Romanian Party) or PRM [Corneliu Vadim TUDOR]; Social Democratic
Party or PSD [Mircea Dan GEOANA], formerly Party of Social Democracy
in Romania or PDSR
Russia
A Just Russia or JR [Sergei MIRONOV] (formed from the merger
of three small political parties: Motherland Party (Rodina),
Pensioner's Party, and Party of Life); Communist Party of the
Russian Federation or CPRF [Gennadiy Andreyevich ZYUGANOV]; Liberal
Democratic Party of Russia or LDPR [Vladimir Volfovich
ZHIRINOVSKIY]; People's Party [Gennady RAIKOV]; Union of Right
Forces or SPS [Nikita BELYKH]; United Russia or UR [Boris
Vyacheslavovich GRYZLOV]; Yabloko Party [Grigoriy Alekseyevich
YAVLINSKIY]
Rwanda
Centrist Democratic Party or PDC [Alfred MUKEZAMFURA];
Democratic Popular Union of Rwanda or UDPR [Adrien RANGIRA];
Democratic Republican Movement or MDR [Celestin KABANDA] (officially
banned); Islamic Democratic Party or PDI [Andre BUMAYA]; Liberal
Party or PL [Prosper HIGIRO]; Party for Democratic Renewal
(officially banned); Rwandan Patriotic Front or RPF [Paul KAGAME];
Social Democratic Party or PSD [Vincent BIRUTA]
Saint Helena
none
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Concerned Citizens Movement or CCM [Vance
AMORY]; Nevis Reformation Party or NRP [Joseph PARRY]; People's
Action Movement or PAM [Lindsey GRANT]; Saint Kitts and Nevis Labor
Party or SKNLP [Dr. Denzil DOUGLAS]
Saint Lucia
National Alliance or NA [George ODLUM]; Saint Lucia
Freedom Party or SFP [Martinus FRANCOIS]; Saint Lucia Labor Party or
SLP [Kenneth ANTHONY]; Sou Tout Apwe Fete Fini or STAFF [Christopher
HUNTE]; United Workers Party or UWP [Sir John COMPTON]
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Left Radical Party or PRG; Rassemblement
pour la Republique or RPR (now UMP); Socialist Party or PS; Union
pour la Democratie Francaise or UDF
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
New Democratic Party or NDP [Arnhim
EUSTACE]; Unity Labor Party or ULP [Ralph GONSALVES] (formed by the
coalition of Saint Vincent Labor Party or SVLP and the Movement for
National Unity or MNU)
Samoa
Human Rights Protection Party or HRPP [Sailele Malielegaoi
TUILA'EPA]; Samoa Christian Party or TCP [Tuala Tiresa MALIETOA];
Samoa Democratic United Party or SDUP [LE MAMEA Ropati]; Samoa Party
or SP [Su'a Rimoni Ah CHONG]; Samoa Progressive Political Party or
SPPP [Toeolesulusulu SIUEVA]
San Marino
Communist Refoundation or RC [Ivan FOSHI]; Ideas in
Movement or IM [Alessandro ROSSI]; National Alliance or AN; New
Socialist 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 [Roberto
GIORGETTI]; San Marino Socialist Party or PSS [Alberto CECCHETTI];
Socialists for Reform or SR [Renzo GIARDI]; United Left
Sao Tome and Principe
Democratic Renovation Party [Armindo GRACA];
Force for Change Democratic Movement or MDFM; Independent Democratic
Action or ADI [Carlos NEVES]; Movement for the Liberation of Sao
Tome and Principe-Social Democratic Party or MLSTP-PSD [Manuel Pinto
Da COSTA]; Party for Democratic Convergence or PCD [Aldo BANDEIRA];
Ue-Kedadji coalition; other small parties
Saudi Arabia
none
Senegal
African Party for Democracy and Socialism or And Jef (also
known as PADS/AJ) [Landing SAVANE, secretary general]; African Party
of Independence [Majhemout DIOP]; Alliance of Forces of Progress or
AFP [Moustapha NIASSE]; Democratic and Patriotic Convention or CDP
(also known as Garab-Gi) [Dr. Iba Der THIAM]; Democratic
League-Labor Party Movement or LD-MPT [Dr. Abdoulaye BATHILY]; Front
for Socialism and Democracy or FSD [Cheikh Abdoulaye DIEYE]; Gainde
Centrist Bloc or BGC [Jean-Paul DIAS]; Independence and Labor Party
or PIT [Amath DANSOKHO]; National Democratic Rally or RND [Madier
DIOUF]; Senegalese Democratic Party or PDS [Abdoulaye WADE];
Socialist Party or PS [Ousmane Tanor DIENG]; SOPI Coalition
[Abdoulaye WADE] (a coalition led by the PDS); Union for Democratic
Renewal or URD [Djibo Leyti KA]; other small parties
Serbia
Democratic Party of Serbia or DSS [Vojislav KOSTUNICA];
Democratic Party or DS [Boris TADIC]; G17 Plus [Mladjan DINKIC is
acting leader]; Serbian Radical Party or SRS [Vojislav SESELJ, but
Tomislav NIKOLIC is acting leader]; Socialist Party of Serbia or SPS
[vacant, but Ivica DACIC is head of the SPS Main Board]; New Serbia
or NS [Velimir ILIC]; Serbian Renewal Movement or SPO [Vuk DRASKOVIC]
Seychelles
Democratic Party or DP [James MANCHAM, Daniel BELLE];
Mouvement Seychellois pour la Democratie [Jacques HODOUL];
Seychelles National Party or SNP [Wavel RAMKALAWAN] (formerly the
United Opposition or UO); Seychelles People's Progressive Front or
SPPF [France Albert RENE, James MICHEL] (the governing party)
Sierra Leone
All People's Congress or APC [Ben KANU]; Peace and
Liberation Party or PLP [Darlington MORRISON, interim chairman];
Sierra Leone People's Party or SLPP [Sama BANYA]; numerous others
Singapore
People's Action Party or PAP [LEE Hsien Loong]; Singapore
Democratic Alliance or SDA [CHIAM See Tong]; Singapore Democratic
Party or SDP [CHEE Soon Juan]; Workers' Party or WP [Sylvia LIM Swee
Lian]
note: SDA includes National Solidarity Party or NSP, Singapore
Justice Party or SJP, Singapore National Malay Organization or PKMS,
Singapore People's Party or SPP
Slovakia
Christian 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]; Party
of 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]
Slovenia
Democratic Party of Retired (Persons) of Slovenia or DeSUS
[Karl ERJAVEC]; Liberal Democratic Party or LDS [Jelko KACIN]; New
Slovenia 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 Party
or SMS [Darko KRANJC]; Social Democrats or SD [Borut PAHOR]
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, president]; African National Congress or ANC [Thabo MBEKI,
president]; Democratic Alliance or DA [Anthony LEON] (formed from
the merger of the Democratic Party or DP and the Freedom Alliance or
FA); Inkatha Freedom Party or IFP [Mangosuthu BUTHELEZI, president];
Pan-Africanist Congress or PAC [Stanley MOGOBA, president]; New
National Party or NNP; United Democratic Movement or UDM [Bantu
HOLOMISA]
Spain
Basque Nationalist Party or PNV [Josu Jon IMAZ]; Canarian
Coalition or CC (a coalition of five parties) [Paulino RIVERO
Baute]; 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 y LLEIDA]); Entesa Catalonia de Progress (a Senate
coalition grouping four Catalan parties - PSC, ERC, ICV, EUA);
Galician Nationalist Bloc or BNG [Anxo Manuel QUINTANA]; Party of
Independents from Lanzarote or PIL [Dimas MARTIN Martin]; Popular
Party 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 of
parties including the PCE and other small parties) [Gaspar
LLAMAZARES]
Sri Lanka
All Ceylon Tamil Congress or ACTC [KUMARGURUPARAM]; Ceylon
Workers Congress or CWC [Arumugam THONDAMAN]; Communist Party or CP
[D. GUNASEKERA]; Democratic United National (Lalith) Front or DUNLF
[Shrimani ATULATHMUDALI]; Eelam People's Democratic Party or EPDP
[Douglas DEVANANDA]; Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front
or EPRLF [Suresh PREMACHANDRAN]; Janatha Vimukthi Perumuna or JVP
[Somawansa AMARASINGHE]; Lanka Sama Samaja Party or LSSP; Mahajana
Eksath Peramuna (People's United Front) or MEP [D. GUNAWARDENE];
National Heritage Party or JHU [Tilak KARUNARATNE]; National Unity
Alliance or NUA [Ferial ASHRAFF]; People's Liberation Organization
of Tamil Eelam or PLOTE [D. SIDHARTHAN]; Sihala Urumaya or SU; Sri
Lanka Freedom Party or SLFP [Chandrika Bandaranaike KUMARATUNGA];
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress or SLMC [Rauff HAKEEM]; Sri Lanka
Progressive Front or SLPF [P. Nelson PERERA]; Tamil Eelam Liberation
Organization or TELO [SABARATNAM]; Tamil National Alliance or TNA
[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]; several ethnic Tamil and Muslim parties,
represented in either Parliament or provincial councils
Sudan
political parties in the Government of National Unity include:
National Congress Party or NCP [Ibrahim Ahmed OMAR]; Sudan People's
Liberation Movement or SPLM [Salva Mayardit KIIR]; and elements of
the National Democratic Alliance or NDA including factions of the
Democratic Union Party [Muhammad Uthman al-MIRGHANI] and Umma Party
[SADIQ Siddiq al-Mahdi]
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 which includes A-Combination or A-Com
[leader NA], Democratic Alternative 1991 or DA-91 which split from
the A-1 before the elections of May 2005 and are an independent,
business-oriented party [Winston JESSURUN], National Party Suriname
or NPS [Ronald VENETIAAN], United Reform Party or VHP [Ram 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
political parties are banned by the government under an
emergency decree that will be revoked when the new constitution
takes effect (January 2006)- the following are considered political
associations; 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]; Moderate Party
(conservative) [Fredrik REINFELDT]; People's Party [Lars
LEIJONBORG]; Social Democratic Party [Goran PERSSON]
Switzerland
Green Party (Grune Partei der Schweiz or Grune, Parti
Ecologiste Suisse or Les Verts, Partito Ecologista Svizzero or I
Verdi, Partida Ecologica Svizra or La Verda) [Ruth GENNER];
Christian Democratic People's Party (Christichdemokratische
Volkspartei der Schweiz or CVP, Parti Democrate-Chretien Suisse or
PDC, Partito Democratico-Cristiano Popolare Svizzero or PDC, Partida
Cristiandemocratica dalla Svizra or PCD) [Doris LEUTHARD,
president]; Radical Free Democratic Party (Freisinnig-Demokratische
Partei der Schweiz or FDP, Parti Radical-Democratique Suisse or PRD,
Partitio Liberal-Radicale Svizzero or PLR) [Marianne
KLEINER-SCHLAEPFER, president]; Social Democratic Party
(Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz or SPS, Parti Socialist
Suisse or PSS, Partito Socialista Svizzero or PSS, Partida
Socialdemocratica de la Svizra or PSS) [Hans-Juerg FEHR, president];
Swiss People's Party (Schweizerische Volkspartei or SVP, Union
Democratique du Centre or UDC, Unione Democratica de Centro or UDC,
Uniun Democratica dal Center or UDC) [Ueli MAURER, president]; and
other minor parties
Syria
Arab Socialist Unionist Movement [Ahmed al-AHMED]; National
Progressive Front or NPF (includes Arab Socialist Renaissance
(Ba'th) Party; the governing party) [President Bashar al-ASAD,
secretary general]; Socialist Unionist Democratic Party [Fadlallal
Nasr Al-DIN]; Syrian Arab Socialist Party or ASP [Safwan QUDSI];
Syrian Communist Party (two branches) [Wissal Farha BAKDASH, Yuusuf
Rashid FAYSAL]; Syrian Social National Party [Jubran URAYJI];
Unionist Socialist Party [Fayez ISMAIL]
Taiwan
Democratic Progressive Party or DPP [YU Shyi-kun]; Kuomintang
or KMT (Nationalist Party) [MA Ying-jeou]; People First Party or PFP
[James SOONG (SOONG Chu-yu)]; Taiwan Solidarity Union or TSU [SU
Chin-chiang]; other minor parties including the Chinese New Party or
NP
Tajikistan
Agrarian Party of Tajikistan or APT [Amir KARAKULOV];
Democratic Party or DPT [Mahmadruzi ISKANDAROV]; Islamic Revival
Party [Said Abdullo NURI]; Party of Economic Reform or PER [Olimjon
BOBOYEV]; People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan or PDPT [Emomali
RAHMONOV]; Social Democratic Party or SDPT [Rahmatullo ZOYIROV];
Socialist Party or SPT [Abdualim GHAFFOROV]; 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
Democrat Party or DP (Prachathipat Party) [ABHISIT
Wetchachiwa]; People's Party or PP (Mahachon Party) [ANEK
Laothamatas]; Thai Nation Party or TNP (Chat Thai Party) [BARNHARN
SILPA-ARCHA]; Thai Rak Thai Party or TRT [CHATURON Chaisang]
Togo
Juvento [Monsilia DJATO]; Movement of the Believers of Peace
and Equality or MOCEP; Rally for the Support for Development and
Democracy or RSDD [Harry OLYMPIO]; Rally of the Togolese People or
RPT [Faure GNASSINGBE]; Union for Democracy and Social Progress or
UDPS [Gagou KOKOU]
Tokelau
none
Tonga
People's Democratic Party [Tesina FUKO]
Trinidad and Tobago
National Alliance for Reconstruction or NAR
[Lennox SANKERSINGH]; People's National Movement or PNM [Patrick
MANNING]; Team Unity or TU [Ramesh MAHARAJ]; United National
Congress or UNC [Basdeo PANDAY]; Democratic Action Committee or DAC
[Hochoy CHARLES], note - only active in Tobago
Tunisia
Al-Tajdid Movement [Ali HALOUANI]; Constitutional Democratic
Rally Party (Rassemblement Constitutionnel Democratique) or RCD
[President Zine El Abidine BEN ALI (official ruling party)]; Liberal
Social Party or PSL [Mounir BEJI]; Movement of Socialist Democrats
or MDS [Ismail BOULAHYA]; Popular Unity Party or PUP [Mohamed
BOUCHIHA]; Progressive Democratic Party [Nejib CHEBBI]; Unionist
Democratic Union or UDU [Ahmed INOUBLI]
Turkey
Anavatan 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 [Necmettin
ERBAKAN]; Justice and Development Party or AKP [Recep Tayyip
ERDOGAN]; Liberal Democratic Party or LDP; Nationalist Action Party
or MHP [Devlet BAHCELI]; People's Rise Party (Halkin Yukselisi
Partisi) or HYP [Yasr Nuri OZTURK]; Republican People's Party or CHP
[Deniz BAYKAL]; Social Democratic People's Party or SHP [Murat
KARAYALCIN]; True Path Party (sometimes translated as Correct Way
Party) or DYP [Mehmet AGAR]
note: the parties listed above are some of the more significant of
the 49 parties that Turkey had on 1 December 2004
Turkmenistan
Democratic Party of Turkmenistan or DPT [Saparmurat
NIYAZOV]
note: formal opposition parties are outlawed; unofficial, small
opposition movements exist underground or in foreign countries; the
two most prominent opposition groups-in-exile have been National
Democratic Movement of Turkmenistan (NDMT) and the United Democratic
Party of Turkmenistan (UDPT); NDMT was led by former Foreign
Minister Boris SHIKHMURADOV until his arrest and imprisonment in the
wake of the 25 November 2002 assassination attempt on President
NIYAZOV; UDPT is led by former Foreign Minister Abdy KULIEV and is
based out of Moscow
Turks and Caicos Islands
People's Democratic Movement or PDM [Derek
H. TAYLOR]; Progressive National Party or PNP [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 Democrats Forum [Chapaa KARUHANGA]; National Resistance
Movement or NRM [Yoweri MUSEVENI]; 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
Communist Party of Ukraine or CPU [Petro SYMONENKO];
Fatherland Party (Batkivshchyna) [Yuliya TYMOSHENKO]; Lytyvn-led
People'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's
Time!) party [Vladyslav KASKIV]; Progressive Socialist Party
[Natalya VITRENKO]; Reforms and Order Party [Viktor PYNZENYK]; Party
of 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 [Bohdan
HUBSKYY]; Vidrodzhennya (Revival) [Anton KISSE]
United Arab Emirates
none
United Kingdom
Conservative and Unionist Party [David CAMERON];
Democratic Unionist Party (Northern Ireland) [Rev. Ian PAISLEY];
Labor Party [Anthony (Tony) BLAIR]; Liberal Democrats [Sir Menzies
CAMPBELL]; Party of Wales (Plaid Cymru) [Dafydd IWAN]; 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 [Howard DEAN]; Green Party;
Libertarian Party [Steve DAMERELL]; Republican Party [Ken MEHLMAN]
Uruguay
Colorado Party [Julio Maria SANGUINETTI]; Independent Party
(Partido Independiente) [Pablo MIERES]; Movement of Popular
Participation or MPP [Jose MUJICA]; National Party or Blanco [Jorge
LARRANAGA]; New Sector/Space Coalition (Nuevo Espacio) [Rafael
MICHELINI]; Progressive Encounter/Broad Front Coalition (Encuentro
Progresista/Frente Amplio) or EP-FA [Tabare VAZQUEZ]; Socialist
Party of Uruguay or Socialists [Reinaldo GARGANO]; Uruguayan
Assembly or Asamblea Uruguay [Danilo ASTORI]
Uzbekistan
Adolat (Justice) Social Democratic Party [Dilorom
TOSHMUHAMMADOVA, chairman]; Democratic National Rebirth Party (Milly
Tiklanish) or MTP [Xurshid DOSTMUHAMMADOV, chief]; Liberal
Democratic Party of Uzbekistan or LDPU [Adham SHODMONOV, chairman];
People's Democratic Party or NDP (formerly Communist Party)
[Asliddin RUSTAMOV, first secretary]; Self-Sacrificers Party or
Fidokorlar National Democratic Party [Ahtam TURSUNOV, chief]; note -
Fatherland Progress Party merged with Self-Sacrificers Party
Vanuatu
Jon Frum Movement [Song KEASPAI]; Melanesian Progressive
Party or MPP [Barak SOPE]; National United Party or NUP [Hem LINI];
Union of Moderate Parties or UMP [Serge VOHOR]; Vanua'aku Pati (Our
Land Party) or VP [Edward NATAPEI]; Vanuatu Greens Party or VGP
[Moana CARCASSES]; Vanuatu Republican Party or VRP [Maxime Carlot
KORMAN]
Venezuela
Christian Democrats or COPEI [Eduardo FERNANDEZ];
Democratic Action or AD [Jesus MENDEZ Quijada]; Fatherland for All
or PPT [Jose ALBORNOZ]; Fifth Republic Movement or MVR [Hugo
CHAVEZ]; Justice First [Julio BORGES]; Movement Toward Socialism or
MAS [Hector MUJICA]; Venezuela Project or PV [Henrique SALAS Romer];
We Can or PODEMOS [Ismael GARCIA]
Vietnam
only party - Communist Party of Vietnam or CPV [Nong Duc
MANH]
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
there are more than 12 political parties active in Yemen, some
of the more prominent are: General People's Congress or GPC
[President Ali Abdallah SALIH]; Islamic Reform Grouping or Islah
[Shaykh Abdallah bin Husayn al-AHMAR]; Nasserite Unionist Party
[Abdal Malik al-MAKHLAFI]; National Arab Socialist Ba'th Party [Dr.
Qasim SALAM]; Yemeni Socialist Party or YSP [Ali Salih MUQBIL]
Zambia
Agenda for Zambia or AZ [Inonge MBIKUSITA-LEWANIKA]; Forum
for Democracy and Development or FDD [Christon TEMBO]; Heritage
Party or HP [Godfrey MIYANDA]; Liberal Progressive Front or LPF
[Roger CHONGWE, president]; Movement for Multiparty Democracy or MMD
[Levy MWANAWASA, acting president]; National Leadership for
Development or NLD [Yobert SHAMAPANDE]; National Party or NP [Dr.
Sam CHIPUNGU]; Patriotic Front or PF [Michael SATA]; Social
Democratic Party or SDP [Gwendoline KONIE]; United National
Independence Party or UNIP [Francis NKHOMA, president]; United Party
for National Development or UPND [Anderson MAZOKA]; Zambian
Republican Party or ZRP [Benjamin MWILA]
Zimbabwe
African National Party or ANP; Movement for Democratic
Change or MDC [Morgan TSVANGIRAI]; Peace Action is Freedom for All
or PAFA; United Parties [Abel MUZOREWA]; United People's Party
[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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@2119 Population
Afghanistan
31,056,997 (July 2006 est.)
Akrotiri
no indigenous inhabitants
note: approximately 1,300 military personnel are on the base; there
are another 5,000 British citizens who are families of military
personnel or civilian staff on both Akrotiri and Dhekelia; Cyprus
citizens work on the base, but do not live there
Albania
3,581,655 (July 2006 est.)
Algeria
32,930,091 (July 2006 est.)
American Samoa
57,794 (July 2006 est.)
Andorra
71,201 (July 2006 est.)
Angola
12,127,071 (July 2006 est.)
Anguilla
13,477 (July 2006 est.)
Antarctica
no indigenous inhabitants, but there are both permanent
and summer-only staffed research stations
note: 26 nations, all signatory to the Antarctic Treaty, operate
through their National Antarctic Program a number of seasonal-only
(summer) and year-round research stations on the continent and its
nearby islands south of 60 degrees south latitude (the region
covered by the Antarctic Treaty); these stations' population of
persons doing and supporting science or engaged in the management
and protection of the Antarctic region varies from approximately
4,000 in summer to 1,000 in winter; in addition, approximately 1,000
personnel, including ship's crew and scientists doing onboard
research, are present in the waters of the treaty region; peak
summer (December-February) population - 3,822 total; Argentina 417,
Australia 213, Brazil 40, Bulgaria 15, Chile 224, China 70, Ecuador
22, Finland 20, France 123, Germany 78, India 65, Italy 112, Japan
150, South Korea 60, NZ 85, Norway 44, Peru 28, Poland 40, Russia
429, South Africa 80, Spain 28, Sweden 20, Ukraine 24, UK 205, US
1,170, Uruguay 60 (2005-2006); winter (June-August) station
population - 1,028 total; Argentina 176, Australia 62, Brazil 12,
Chile 88, China 29, France 37, Germany 9, India 25, Italy 2, Japan
40, South Korea 15, NZ 10, Norway 7, Poland 12, Russia 148, South
Africa 10, Ukraine 12, UK 37, US 288, Uruguay 9 (2005); research
stations operated within the Antarctic Treaty area (south of 60
degrees south latitude) by members of the Council of Managers of
National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP): year-round stations - 37
total; Argentina 6, Australia 3, Brazil 1, Chile 3, China 2, France
1, 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, Uruguay
1, 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 austral
summer some nations have numerous occupied locations such as tent
camps, summer-long temporary facilities, and mobile traverses in
support of research
Antigua and Barbuda
69,108 (July 2006 est.)
Argentina
39,921,833 (July 2006 est.)
Armenia
2,976,372 (July 2006 est.)
Aruba
71,891 (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.)
Australia
20,264,082 (July 2006 est.)
Austria
8,192,880 (July 2006 est.)
Azerbaijan
7,961,619 (July 2006 est.)
Bahamas, The
303,770
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Bahrain
698,585
note: includes 235,108 non-nationals (July 2006 est.)
Baker Island
uninhabited
note: American civilians evacuated in 1942 after Japanese air and
naval attacks during World War II; occupied by US military during
World War II, but abandoned after the war; public entry is by
special-use permit from US Fish and Wildlife Service only and
generally restricted to scientists and educators; a cemetery and
remnants of structures from early settlement are located near the
middle of the west coast; visited annually by US Fish and Wildlife
Service (2005 est.)
Bangladesh
147,365,352 (July 2006 est.)
Barbados
279,912 (July 2006 est.)
Bassas da India
uninhabited (July 2006 est.)
Belarus
10,293,011 (July 2006 est.)
Belgium
10,379,067 (July 2006 est.)
Belize
287,730 (July 2006 est.)
Benin
7,862,944
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Bermuda
65,773 (July 2006 est.)
Bhutan
2,279,723
note: other estimates range as low as 810,000 (July 2006 est.)
Bolivia
8,989,046 (July 2006 est.)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
4,498,976 (July 2006 est.)
Botswana
1,639,833
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Bouvet Island
uninhabited (July 2006 est.)
Brazil
188,078,227
note: Brazil conducted a census in August 2000, which reported a
population of 169,799,170; that figure was about 3.3% lower than
projections by the US Census Bureau, and is close to the implied
underenumeration of 4.6% for the 1991 census; estimates for this
country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality
due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant
mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and
changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would
otherwise be expected (July 2006 est.)
British Indian Ocean Territory
no indigenous inhabitants
note: approximately 1,200 former agricultural workers resident in
the Chagos Archipelago, often referred to as Chagossians or Ilois,
were relocated to Mauritius and the Seychelles in the 1960s and
1970s; in November 2000 they were granted the right of return by a
British High Court ruling, though no timetable has been set; in
November 2004, there were approximately 4,000 UK and US military
personnel and civilian contractors living on the island of Diego
Garcia (July 2006 est.)
British Virgin Islands
23,098 (July 2006 est.)
Brunei
379,444 (July 2006 est.)
Bulgaria
7,385,367 (July 2006 est.)
Burkina Faso
13,902,972
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Burma
47,382,633
note: estimates for this country take into account the effects of
excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life
expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Burundi
8,090,068
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Cambodia
13,881,427
note: estimates for this country take into account the effects of
excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life
expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Cameroon
17,340,702
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Canada
33,098,932 (July 2006 est.)
Cape Verde
420,979 (July 2006 est.)
Cayman Islands
45,436
note: most of the population lives on Grand Cayman (July 2006 est.)
Central African Republic
4,303,356
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Chad
9,944,201 (July 2006 est.)
Chile
16,134,219 (July 2006 est.)
China
1,313,973,713 (July 2006 est.)
Christmas Island
1,493 (July 2006 est.)
Clipperton Island
uninhabited (July 2006 est.)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
574 (July 2006 est.)
Colombia
43,593,035 (July 2006 est.)
Comoros
690,948 (July 2006 est.)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
62,660,551
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Congo, Republic of the
3,702,314
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Cook Islands
21,388 (July 2006 est.)
Coral Sea Islands
no indigenous inhabitants
note: there is a staff of three to four at the meteorological
station (2005 est.)
Costa Rica
4,075,261 (July 2006 est.)
Cote d'Ivoire
17,654,843
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Croatia
4,494,749 (July 2006 est.)
Cuba
11,382,820 (July 2006 est.)
Cyprus
784,301 (July 2006 est.)
Czech Republic
10,235,455 (July 2006 est.)
Denmark
5,450,661 (July 2006 est.)
Dhekelia
no indigenous personnel
note: approximately 2,200 military personnel are on the base; there
are another 5,000 British citizens who are families of military
personnel or civilian staff on both the bases of Akrotiri and
Dhekelia; Cyprus citizens work on the base, but do not live there
Djibouti
486,530 (July 2006 est.)
Dominica
68,910 (July 2006 est.)
Dominican Republic
9,183,984 (July 2006 est.)
East Timor
1,062,777
note: other estimates range as low as 800,000 (July 2006 est.)
Ecuador
13,547,510 (July 2006 est.)
Egypt
78,887,007 (July 2006 est.)
El Salvador
6,822,378 (July 2006 est.)
Equatorial Guinea
540,109 (July 2006 est.)
Eritrea
4,786,994 (July 2006 est.)
Estonia
1,324,333 (July 2006 est.)
Ethiopia
74,777,981
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Europa Island
no indigenous inhabitants
note: there is a small French military garrison and a few
meteorologists; visited by scientists (July 2006 est.)
European Union
456,953,258 (July 2006 est.)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
2,967 (July 2006 est.)
Faroe Islands
47,246 (July 2006 est.)
Fiji
905,949 (July 2006 est.)
Finland
5,231,372 (July 2006 est.)
France
60,876,136 (July 2006 est.)
French Guiana
199,509 (July 2006 est.)
French Polynesia
274,578 (July 2006 est.)
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
no indigenous inhabitants
note: in 2002, there were 145 researchers whose numbers vary from
winter (July) to summer (January) (July 2006 est.)
Gabon
1,424,906
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Gambia, The
1,641,564 (July 2006 est.)
Gaza Strip
1,428,757 (July 2006 est.)
Georgia
4,661,473 (July 2006 est.)
Germany
82,422,299 (July 2006 est.)
Ghana
22,409,572
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Gibraltar
27,928 (July 2006 est.)
Glorioso Islands
no indigenous inhabitants
note: there is a small French military garrison along with a few
meteorologists; visited by scientists (July 2006 est.)
Greece
10,688,058 (July 2006 est.)
Greenland
56,361 (July 2006 est.)
Grenada
89,703 (July 2006 est.)
Guadeloupe
452,776 (July 2006 est.)
Guam
171,019 (July 2006 est.)
Guatemala
12,293,545 (July 2006 est.)
Guernsey
65,409 (July 2006 est.)
Guinea
9,690,222 (July 2006 est.)
Guinea-Bissau
1,442,029 (July 2006 est.)
Guyana
767,245
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Haiti
8,308,504
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
uninhabited (July 2006 est.)
Holy See (Vatican City)
932 (July 2006 est.)
Honduras
7,326,496
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Hong Kong
6,940,432 (July 2006 est.)
Howland Island
uninhabited
note: American civilians evacuated in 1942 after Japanese air and
naval attacks during World War II; occupied by US military during
World War II, but abandoned after the war; public entry is by
special-use permit from US Fish and Wildlife Service only and
generally restricted to scientists and educators; visited annually
by US Fish and Wildlife Service (July 2006 est.)
Hungary
9,981,334 (July 2006 est.)
Iceland
299,388 (July 2006 est.)
Iles Eparses
Bassas da India: uninhabitable
Europa Island, Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova Island: a small French
military garrison and a few meteorologists on each possession;
visited by scientists
Tromelin Island: uninhabited, except for visits by scientists
India
1,095,351,995 (July 2006 est.)
Indonesia
245,452,739 (July 2006 est.)
Iran
68,688,433 (July 2006 est.)
Iraq
26,783,383 (July 2006 est.)
Ireland
4,062,235 (July 2006 est.)
Isle of Man
75,441 (July 2006 est.)
Israel
6,352,117
note: includes about 187,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank,
about 20,000 in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and fewer than
177,000 in East Jerusalem (July 2006 est.)
Italy
58,133,509 (July 2006 est.)
Jamaica
2,758,124 (July 2006 est.)
Jan Mayen
no indigenous inhabitants
note: personnel operate the Long Range Navigation (Loran-C) base and
the weather and coastal services radio station (July 2006 est.)
Japan
127,463,611 (July 2006 est.)
Jarvis Island
uninhabited
note: Millersville settlement on western side of island occasionally
used as a weather station from 1935 until World War II, when it was
abandoned; reoccupied in 1957 during the International Geophysical
Year by scientists who left in 1958; public entry is by special-use
permit from US Fish and Wildlife Service only and generally
restricted to scientists and educators; visited annually by US Fish
and Wildlife Service (July 2006 est.)
Jersey
91,084 (July 2006 est.)
Johnston Atoll
uninhabited
note: in previous years, there was an average of 1,100 US military
and civilian contractor personnel present; as of September 2001,
population had decreased significantly when US Army Chemical
Activity Pacific (USACAP) departed; as of May 2005 all US government
personnel had left the island (July 2006 est.)
Jordan
5,906,760 (July 2006 est.)
Juan de Nova Island
no indigenous inhabitants
note: there is a small French military garrison along with a few
meteorologists; occasionally visited by scientists (July 2006 est.)
Kazakhstan
15,233,244 (July 2006 est.)
Kenya
34,707,817
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Kingman Reef
uninhabited (July 2006 est.)
Kiribati
105,432 (July 2006 est.)
Korea, North
23,113,019 (July 2006 est.)
Korea, South
48,846,823 (July 2006 est.)
Kuwait
2,418,393
note: includes 1,291,354 non-nationals (July 2006 est.)
Kyrgyzstan
5,213,898 (July 2006 est.)
Laos
6,368,481 (July 2006 est.)
Latvia
2,274,735 (July 2006 est.)
Lebanon
3,874,050 (July 2006 est.)
Lesotho
2,022,331
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Liberia
3,042,004 (July 2006 est.)
Libya
5,900,754
note: includes 166,510 non-nationals (July 2006 est.)
Liechtenstein
33,987 (July 2006 est.)
Lithuania
3,585,906 (July 2006 est.)
Luxembourg
474,413 (July 2006 est.)
Macau
453,125 (July 2006 est.)
Macedonia
2,050,554 (July 2006 est.)
Madagascar
18,595,469 (July 2006 est.)
Malawi
13,013,926
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Malaysia
24,385,858 (July 2006 est.)
Maldives
359,008 (July 2006 est.)
Mali
11,716,829 (July 2006 est.)
Malta
400,214 (July 2006 est.)
Marshall Islands
60,422 (July 2006 est.)
Martinique
436,131 (July 2006 est.)
Mauritania
3,177,388 (July 2006 est.)
Mauritius
1,240,827 (July 2006 est.)
Mayotte
201,234 (July 2006 est.)
Mexico
107,449,525 (July 2006 est.)
Micronesia, Federated States of
108,004 (July 2006 est.)
Midway Islands
no indigenous inhabitants; approximately 40 people
make up the staff of US Fish and Wildlife Service and their services
contractor living at the atoll (July 2006 est.)
Moldova
4,466,706 (July 2006 est.)
Monaco
32,543 (July 2006 est.)
Mongolia
2,832,224 (July 2006 est.)
Montenegro
630,548 (2004)
Montserrat
9,439
note: an estimated 8,000 refugees left the island following the
resumption of volcanic activity in July 1995; some have returned
(July 2006 est.)
Morocco
33,241,259 (July 2006 est.)
Mozambique
19,686,505
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected; the 1997
Mozambican census reported a population of 16,099,246 (July 2006
est.)
Namibia
2,044,147
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Nauru
13,287 (July 2006 est.)
Navassa Island
uninhabited
note: transient Haitian fishermen and others camp on the island
(July 2006 est.)
Nepal
28,287,147 (July 2006 est.)
Netherlands
16,491,461 (July 2006 est.)
Netherlands Antilles
221,736 (July 2006 est.)
New Caledonia
219,246 (July 2006 est.)
New Zealand
4,076,140 (July 2006 est.)
Nicaragua
5,570,129 (July 2006 est.)
Niger
12,525,094 (July 2006 est.)
Nigeria
131,859,731
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Niue
2,166 (July 2006 est.)
Norfolk Island
1,828 (July 2006 est.)
Northern Mariana Islands
82,459 (July 2006 est.)
Norway
4,610,820 (July 2006 est.)
Oman
3,102,229
note: includes 577,293 non-nationals (July 2006 est.)
Pakistan
165,803,560 (July 2006 est.)
Palau
20,579 (July 2006 est.)
Palmyra Atoll
no indigenous inhabitants; 4 to 20 Nature Conservancy
staff, US Fish and Wildlife staff (July 2006 est.)
Panama
3,191,319 (July 2006 est.)
Papua New Guinea
5,670,544 (July 2006 est.)
Paracel Islands
no indigenous inhabitants
note: there are scattered Chinese garrisons
Paraguay
6,506,464 (July 2006 est.)
Peru
28,302,603 (July 2006 est.)
Philippines
89,468,677 (July 2006 est.)
Pitcairn Islands
45 (July 2006 est.)
Poland
38,536,869 (July 2006 est.)
Portugal
10,605,870 (July 2006 est.)
Puerto Rico
3,927,188 (July 2006 est.)
Qatar
885,359 (July 2006 est.)
Reunion
787,584 (July 2006 est.)
Romania
22,303,552 (July 2006 est.)
Russia
142,893,540 (July 2006 est.)
Rwanda
8,648,248
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Saint Helena
7,502
note: only Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha islands are
inhabited (July 2006 est.)
Saint Kitts and Nevis
39,129 (July 2006 est.)
Saint Lucia
168,458 (July 2006 est.)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
7,026 (July 2006 est.)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
117,848 (July 2006 est.)
Samoa
176,908 (July 2006 est.)
San Marino
29,251 (July 2006 est.)
Sao Tome and Principe
193,413 (July 2006 est.)
Saudi Arabia
27,019,731
note: includes 5,576,076 non-nationals (July 2006 est.)
Senegal
11,987,121 (July 2006 est.)
Serbia
9,396,411 (2002 census)
Seychelles
81,541 (July 2006 est.)
Sierra Leone
6,005,250 (July 2006 est.)
Singapore
4,492,150 (July 2006 est.)
Slovakia
5,439,448 (July 2006 est.)
Slovenia
2,010,347 (July 2006 est.)
Solomon Islands
552,438 (July 2006 est.)
Somalia
8,863,338
note: this estimate was derived from an official census taken in
1975 by the Somali Government; population counting in Somalia is
complicated by the large number of nomads and by refugee movements
in response to famine and clan warfare (July 2006 est.)
South Africa
44,187,637
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
no indigenous
inhabitants
note: the small military garrison on South Georgia withdrew in March
2001, to be replaced by a permanent group of scientists of the
British Antarctic Survey, which also has a biological station on
Bird Island; the South Sandwich Islands are uninhabited (July 2006
est.)
Spain
40,397,842 (July 2006 est.)
Spratly Islands
no indigenous inhabitants
note: there are scattered garrisons occupied by personnel of several
claimant states (2004)
Sri Lanka
20,222,240
note: since the outbreak of hostilities between the government and
armed Tamil separatists in the mid-1980s, several hundred thousand
Tamil civilians have fled the island and more than 200,000 Tamils
have sought refuge in the West (July 2006 est.)
Sudan
41,236,378 (July 2006 est.)
Suriname
439,117 (July 2006 est.)
Svalbard
2,701 (July 2006 est.)
Swaziland
1,136,334
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Sweden
9,016,596 (July 2006 est.)
Switzerland
7,523,934 (July 2006 est.)
Syria
18,881,361
note: in addition, about 40,000 people live in the Israeli-occupied
Golan Heights - 20,000 Arabs (18,000 Druze and 2,000 Alawites) and
about 20,000 Israeli settlers (July 2006 est.)
Taiwan
23,036,087 (July 2006 est.)
Tajikistan
7,320,815 (July 2006 est.)
Tanzania
37,445,392
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Thailand
64,631,595
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Togo
5,548,702
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Tokelau
1,392 (July 2006 est.)
Tonga
114,689 (July 2006 est.)
Trinidad and Tobago
1,065,842 (July 2006 est.)
Tromelin Island
uninhabited, except for visits by scientists (July
2006 est.)
Tunisia
10,175,014 (July 2006 est.)
Turkey
70,413,958 (July 2006 est.)
Turkmenistan
5,042,920 (July 2006 est.)
Turks and Caicos Islands
21,152 (July 2006 est.)
Tuvalu
11,810 (July 2006 est.)
Uganda
28,195,754
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Ukraine
46,710,816 (July 2006 est.)
United Arab Emirates
2,602,713 (July 2006 est.)
United Kingdom
60,609,153 (July 2006 est.)
United States
298,444,215 (July 2006 est.)
United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges
no indigenous
inhabitants
note: public entry is by special-use permit from US Fish and
Wildlife Service only and generally restricted to scientists and
educators; visited annually by US Fish and Wildlife Service
Johnston Atoll: in previous years, an average of 1,100 US military
and civilian contractor personnel were present; as of May 2005 all
US government personnel had left the island
Midway Islands: approximately 40 people make up the staff of US Fish
and Wildlife Service and their services contractor living at the
atoll
Palmyra Atoll: four to 20 Nature Conservancy and US Fish and
Wildlife staff
Uruguay
3,431,932 (July 2006 est.)
Uzbekistan
27,307,134 (July 2006 est.)
Vanuatu
208,869 (July 2006 est.)
Venezuela
25,730,435 (July 2006 est.)
Vietnam
84,402,966 (July 2006 est.)
Virgin Islands
108,605 (July 2006 est.)
Wake Island
no indigenous inhabitants
note: US military personnel have left the island, but contractor
personnel remain; as of October 2001, 200 contractor personnel were
present (July 2006 est.)
Wallis and Futuna
16,025 (July 2006 est.)
West Bank
2,460,492
note: in addition, there are about 187,000 Israeli settlers in the
West Bank and fewer than 177,000 in East Jerusalem (July 2004 est.)
Western Sahara
273,008 (July 2006 est.)
World
6,525,170,264 (July 2006 est.)
Yemen
21,456,188 (July 2006 est.)
Zambia
11,502,010
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
Zimbabwe
12,236,805
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower
life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower
population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July
2006 est.)
This page was last updated on 19 December, 2006
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@2120 Ports and terminals
Afghanistan
Kheyrabad, Shir Khan
Albania
Durres, Sarande, Shengjin, Vlore
Algeria
Algiers, Annaba, Arzew, Bejaia, Djendjene, Jijel,
Mostaganem, Oran, Skikda
American Samoa
Pago Pago
Angola
Cabinda, Luanda, Soyo
Anguilla
Blowing Point, Road Bay
Antarctica
there are no developed ports and harbors in Antarctica;
most coastal stations have offshore anchorages, and supplies are
transferred from ship to shore by small boats, barges, and
helicopters; a few stations have a basic wharf facility; US coastal
stations include McMurdo (77 51 S, 166 40 E), and Palmer (64 43 S,
64 03 W); government use only except by permit (see Permit Office
under "Legal System"); all ships at port are subject to inspection
in accordance with Article 7, Antarctic Treaty; offshore anchorage
is sparse and intermittent; relevant legal instruments and
authorization procedures adopted by the states parties to the
Antarctic Treaty regulating access to the Antarctic Treaty area, to
all areas between 60 and 90 degrees of latitude south, have to be
complied with (see "Legal System"); The Hydrographic Committee on
Antarctica (HCA), a special hydrographic commission of International
Hydrographic Organization (IHO), is responsible for hydrographic
surveying and nautical charting matters in Antarctic Treaty area; it
coordinates and facilitates provision of accurate and appropriate
charts and other aids to navigation in support of safety of
navigation in region; membership of HCA is open to any IHO Member
State whose government has acceded to the Antarctic Treaty and which
contributes resources and/or data to IHO Chart coverage of the area;
members of HCA are Argentina, Australia, Chile, China, France,
Germany, Greece, India, Italy, NZ, Norway, Russia, South Africa,
Spain, and the UK (2005)
Antigua and Barbuda
Saint John's
Arctic Ocean
Churchill (Canada), Murmansk (Russia), Prudhoe Bay (US)
Argentina
Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, Concepcion del Uruguay, La
Plata, Punta Colorada, Rosario, San Lorenzo-San Martin, San Nicolas
Aruba
Barcadera, Oranjestad, Sint Nicolaas
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
none; offshore anchorage only
Atlantic Ocean
Alexandria (Egypt), Algiers (Algeria), Antwerp
(Belgium), Barcelona (Spain), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Casablanca
(Morocco), Colon (Panama), Copenhagen (Denmark), Dakar (Senegal),
Gdansk (Poland), Hamburg (Germany), Helsinki (Finland), Las Palmas
(Canary Islands, Spain), Le Havre (France), Lisbon (Portugal),
London (UK), Marseille (France), Montevideo (Uruguay), Montreal
(Canada), Naples (Italy), New Orleans (US), New York (US), Oran
(Algeria), Oslo (Norway), Peiraiefs or Piraeus (Greece), Rio de
Janeiro (Brazil), Rotterdam (Netherlands), Saint Petersburg
(Russia), Stockholm (Sweden)
Australia
Brisbane, Dampier, Fremantle, Gladstone, Hay Point,
Melbourne, Newcastle, Port Hedland, Port Kembla, Port Walcott, Sydney
Austria
Enns, Krems, Linz, Vienna
Azerbaijan
Baku (Baki)
Bahamas, The
Freeport, Nassau, South Riding Point
Bahrain
Mina' Salman, Sitrah
Baker Island
none; offshore anchorage only; note - there is one
small boat landing area along the middle of the west coast
Bangladesh
Chittagong, Mongla Port
Barbados
Bridgetown
Bassas da India
none; offshore anchorage only
Belarus
Mazyr
Belgium
Antwerp, Brussels, Gent, Liege, Oostende, Zeebrugge
Belize
Belize City
Benin
Cotonou
Bermuda
Hamilton, Saint George
Bolivia
Puerto Aguirre (on the Paraguay/Parana waterway, at the
Bolivia/Brazil border); also, Bolivia has free port privileges in
maritime ports in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosanska Gradiska, Bosanski Brod, Bosanski
Samac, and Brcko (all inland waterway ports on the Sava), Orasje
Bouvet Island
none; offshore anchorage only
Brazil
Gebig, Itaqui, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande, San Sebasttiao,
Santos, Sepetiba Terminal, Tubarao, Vitoria
British Indian Ocean Territory
Diego Garcia
British Virgin Islands
Road Town
Brunei
Lumut, Muara, Seria
Bulgaria
Burgas, Varna
Burma
Moulmein, Rangoon, Sittwe
Burundi
Bujumbura
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Cameroon
Douala, Limboh Terminal
Canada
Fraser River Port, Halifax, Montreal, Port Cartier, Quebec,
Saint John's (Newfoundland), Sept Isles, Vancouver
Cape Verde
Mindelo, Praia, Tarrafal
Cayman Islands
Cayman Brac, George Town
Central African Republic
Bangui, Nola, Salo, Nzinga
Chile
Antofagasta, Arica, Huasco, Iquique, Lirquen, San Antonio, San
Vicente, Valparaiso
China
Dalian, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Ningbo, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao,
Shanghai
Christmas Island
Flying Fish Cove
Clipperton Island
none; offshore anchorage only
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Port Refuge
Colombia
Barranquilla, Buenaventura, Cartagena, Muelles El Bosque,
Puerto Bolivar, Santa Marta, Turbo
Comoros
Mayotte, Moutsamoudou
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Banana, Boma, Bukavu, Bumba, Goma,
Kalemie, Kindu, Kinshasa, Kisangani, Matadi, Mbandaka
Congo, Republic of the
Brazzaville, Djeno, Impfondo, Ouesso, Oyo,
Pointe-Noire
Cook Islands
Avatiu
Coral Sea Islands
none; offshore anchorage only
Costa Rica
Caldera, Puerto Limon
Cote d'Ivoire
Abidjan, Aboisso, Dabou, San-Pedro
Croatia
Omisalj, Ploce, Rijeka, Sibenik, Vukovar (on Danube)
Cuba
Cienfuegos, Havana, Matanzas
Cyprus
Famagusta, Kyrenia, Larnaca, Limassol, Vasilikos
Czech Republic
Decin, Prague, Usti nad Labem
Denmark
Aalborg, Aarhus, Asnaesvaerkets, Copenhagen, Elsinore,
Ensted, Esbjerg, Fredericia, Frederikshavn, Kalundborg, Odense,
Roenne
Djibouti
Djibouti
Dominica
Portsmouth, Roseau
Dominican Republic
Boca Chica, Puerto Plata, Rio Haina, Santo Domingo
East Timor
Dili
Ecuador
Esmeraldas, Guayaquil, La Libertad, Manta, Puerto Bolivar
Egypt
Alexandria, Damietta, El Dekheila, Port Said, Suez, Zeit
El Salvador
Acajutla, Puerto Cutuco
Equatorial Guinea
Malabo
Eritrea
Assab, Massawa
Estonia
Kopli, Kuivastu, Muuga, Tallinn, Virtsu
Ethiopia
Ethiopia is landlocked and has used ports of Assab and
Massawa in Eritrea and port of Djibouti
Europa Island
none; offshore anchorage only
European Union
Antwerp (Belgium), Barcelona (Spain), Bremen
(Germany), Copenhagen (Denmark), Gdansk (Poland), Hamburg (Germany),
Helsinki (Finland), Las Palmas (Canary Islands, Spain), Le Havre
(France), Lisbon (Portugal), London (UK), Marseille (France), Naples
(Italy), Peiraiefs or Piraeus (Greece), Riga (Latvia), Rotterdam
(Netherlands), Stockholm (Sweden), Talinn (Estonia)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
Stanley
Faroe Islands
Torshavn
Fiji
Lambasa, Lautoka, Suva
Finland
Hamina, Hanko, Helsinki, Kotka, Naantali, Pori, Porvoo,
Raahe, Rauma, Turku
France
Bordeaux, Calais, Dunkerque, La Pallice, Le Havre, Marseille,
Nantes, Paris, Rouen, Strasbourg
French Guiana
Degrad des Cannes
French Polynesia
Papeete
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
none; offshore anchorage only
Gabon
Gamba, Libreville, Lucinda, Owendo, Port-Gentil
Gambia, The
Banjul
Gaza Strip
Gaza
Georgia
Bat'umi, P'ot'i
Germany
Bremen, Bremerhaven, Brunsbuttel, Duisburg, Frankfurt,
Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Mainz, Rostock, Wilhemshaven
Ghana
Takoradi, Tema
Gibraltar
Gibraltar
Glorioso Islands
none; offshore anchorage only
Greece
Agioitheodoroi, Aspropyrgos, Irakleion, Pachi, Piraeus,
Thessaloniki
Greenland
Sisimiut
Grenada
Saint George's
Guadeloupe
Basse-Terre, Gustavia, Pointe-a-Pitre
Guam
Apra Harbor
Guatemala
Puerto Quetzal, Santo Tomas de Castilla
Guernsey
Saint Peter Port, Saint Sampson
Guinea
Kamsar
Guinea-Bissau
Bissau, Buba, Cacheu, Farim
Guyana
Georgetown
Haiti
Cap-Haitien
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
none; offshore anchorage only
Honduras
Puerto Castilla, Puerto Cortes, San Lorenzo, Tela
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Howland Island
none; offshore anchorage only; note - there is one
small boat landing area along the middle of the west coast
Hungary
Budapest, Dunaujvaros, Gyor-Gonyu, Csepel, Baja, Mohacs
(2003)
Iceland
Grundartangi, Hafnarfjordur, Hornafjordhur, Reykjavik,
Seydhisfjordhur
Iles Eparses
none; offshore anchorage only
India
Chennai, Haldia, Jawaharal Nehru, Kandla, Kolkata (Calcutta),
Mumbai (Bombay), New Mangalore, Vishakhapatnam
Indian Ocean
Chennai (Madras; India), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Durban
(South Africa), Jakarta (Indonesia), Kolkata (Calcutta; India)
Melbourne (Australia), Mumbai (Bombay; India), Richards Bay (South
Africa)
Indonesia
Banjarmasin, Belawan, Ciwandan, Krueg Geukueh, Palembang,
Panjang, Sungai Pakning, Tanjung Perak, Tanjung Priok
Iran
Assaluyeh, Bushehr
Iraq
Al Basrah, Khawr az Zubayr, Umm Qasr
Ireland
Cork, Dublin, New Ross, Shannon Foynes, Waterford
Isle of Man
Castletown, Douglas, Ramsey
Israel
Ashdod, Elat (Eilat), Hadera, Haifa
Italy
Augusta, Genoa, Livorno, Melilli Oil Terminal, Ravenna,
Taranto, Trieste, Venice
Jamaica
Kingston, Port Esquivel, Port Kaiser, Port Rhoades, Rocky
Point
Jan Mayen
none; offshore anchorage only
Japan
Chiba, Kawasaki, Kiire, Kisarazu, Kobe, Mizushima, Nagoya,
Osaka, Tokyo, Yohohama
Jarvis Island
none; offshore anchorage only; note - there is one
small boat landing area in the middle of the west coast and another
near the southwest corner of the island
Jersey
Gorey, Saint Aubin, Saint Helier
Johnston Atoll
Johnston Island
Jordan
Al 'Aqabah
Juan de Nova Island
none; offshore anchorage only
Kazakhstan
Aqtau (Shevchenko), Atyrau (Gur'yev), Oskemen
(Ust-Kamenogorsk), Pavlodar, Semey (Semipalatinsk)
Kenya
Mombasa
Kingman Reef
none; offshore anchorage only
Kiribati
Betio
Korea, North
Ch'ongjin, Haeju, Hungnam (Hamhung), Kimch'aek, Kosong,
Najin, Namp'o, Sinuiju, Songnim, Sonbong (formerly Unggi), Ungsang,
Wonsan
Korea, South
Inch'on, Masan, P'ohang, Pusan, Ulsan
Kuwait
Ash Shu'aybah, Ash Shuwaykh, Az Zawr (Mina' Sa'ud), Mina'
'Abd Allah, Mina' al Ahmadi
Kyrgyzstan
Balykchy (Ysyk-Kol or Rybach'ye)
Latvia
Riga, Ventspils
Lebanon
Beirut, Chekka, Jounie, Tripoli
Liberia
Buchanan, Monrovia
Libya
As Sidrah, Az Zuwaytinah, Marsa al Burayqah, Ra's Lanuf,
Tripoli, Zawiyah
Liechtenstein
none
Lithuania
Klaipeda
Luxembourg
Mertert
Macau
Macau
Madagascar
Antsiranana, Mahajanga, Toamasina, Toliara
Malawi
Chipoka, Monkey Bay, Nkhata Bay, Nkhotakota, Chilumba
Malaysia
Bintulu, Johor, Labuan, Lahad Datu, Lumut, Miri, George
Town (Penang), Port Kelang, Tanjung Pelepas
Maldives
Male
Mali
Koulikoro
Malta
Marsaxlokk, Valletta
Marshall Islands
Majuro
Martinique
Fort-de-France, La Trinite, Marin
Mauritania
Nouadhibou, Nouakchott
Mauritius
Port Louis
Mayotte
Dzaoudzi
Mexico
Altamira, Manzanillo, Morro Redondo, Salina Cruz, Tampico,
Topolobampo, Veracruz
Micronesia, Federated States of
Tomil Harbor
Midway Islands
Sand Island
Monaco
Monaco
Montenegro
Bar
Montserrat
Plymouth
Morocco
Agadir, Casablanca, Mohammedia, Nador, Safi, Tangier
Mozambique
Beira, Maputo, Nacala
Namibia
Luderitz, Walvis Bay
Nauru
Nauru
Navassa Island
none; offshore anchorage only
Netherlands
Amsterdam, Groningen, IJmuiden, Rotterdam, Terneuzen,
Vlissingen, Zaanstad
Netherlands Antilles
Bopec Terminal, Fuik Bay, Kralendijk, Willemstad
New Caledonia
Noumea
New Zealand
Auckland, Lyttelton, Tauranga, Wellington, Whangarei
Nicaragua
Bluefields, Corinto, El Bluff
Niger
none
Nigeria
Bonny Inshore Terminal, Calabar, Lagos, Port Harcourt
Niue
none; offshore anchorage only
Norfolk Island
none; loading jetties at Kingston and Cascade
Northern Mariana Islands
Saipan, Tinian
Norway
Borg Havn, Bergen, Mo i Rana, Molde, Mongstad, Narvik, Oslo,
Sture
Oman
Mina' Qabus, Salalah
Pacific Ocean
Bangkok (Thailand), Hong Kong (China), Kao-hsiung
(Taiwan), Los Angeles (US), Manila (Philippines), Pusan (South
Korea), San Francisco (US), Seattle (US), Shanghai (China),
Singapore, Sydney (Australia), Vladivostok (Russia), Wellington
(NZ), Yokohama (Japan)
Pakistan
Karachi, Port Muhammad Bin Qasim
Palau
Koror
Palmyra Atoll
West Lagoon
Panama
Balboa, Colon, Cristobal
Papua New Guinea
Kimbe, Lae, Rabaul
Paracel Islands
small Chinese port facilities on Woody Island and
Duncan Island being expanded
Paraguay
Asuncion, Villeta, San Antonio, Encarnacion
Peru
Callao, Iquitos, Matarani, Pucallpa, Yurimaguas; note -
Iquitos, Pucallpa, and Yurimaguas are on the upper reaches of the
Amazon and its tributaries
Philippines
Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iligan, Iloilo, Manila,
Surigao
Pitcairn Islands
Adamstown (on Bounty Bay)
Poland
Gdansk, Gdynia, Swinoujscie, Szczecin
Portugal
Leixoes, Lisbon, Setubal, Sines
Puerto Rico
Las Mareas, Mayaguez, San Juan
Qatar
Doha
Reunion
Le Port
Romania
Braila, Constanta, Galati, Tulcea