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CARRIO); Front for Victory or FV (a broad coalition,
  including elements of the UCR and numerous provincial parties)
  [Cristina FERNANDEZ DE KIRCHNER]; Interbloque Federal or IF (a broad
  coalition of approximately 12 parties including PRO); Justicialist
  Front or FJ; Justicialist Party or PJ (Peronist umbrella political
  organization); Radical Civic Union or UCR [Gerardo MORALES];
  Republican Proposal 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
  Armenian National Movement or ANM [Ararat ZURABYAN];
  Armenian People's Party [Tigran KARAPETYAN]; Armenian Ramkavar
  Azadagan Party Alliance or HRAK (includes former Dashink Party,
  National Revival Party, and Ramkavar Liberal Party); Armenian
  Revolutionary Federation ("Dashnak" Party) or ARF [Hrant MARKARYAN];
  Heritage Party [Raffi HOVHANNISYAN]; National Democratic Party
  [Shavarsh KOCHARIAN]; National Democratic Union or NDU [Vazgen
  MANUKIAN]; National Unity Party [Artashes GEGHAMYAN]; People's Party
  of Armenia [Stepan DEMIRCHYAN]; Prosperous Armenia [Gagik
  TSAROUKYAN]; Republic Party [Aram SARKISYAN]; Republican Party of
  Armenia or HHK [Serzh SARGSIAN]; Rule of Law Party (Orinats Yerkir)
  [Artur BAGHDASARIAN]; 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
  [Malcolm TURNBULL]; The Nationals [Warren TRUSS]

Austria
  Alliance for the Future of Austria or BZOe [Stefan PETZNER];
  Austrian People's Party or OeVP [Wilhelm MOLTERER]; Freedom Party of
  Austria or FPOe [Heinz Christian STRACHE]; Social Democratic Party
  of Austria or SPOe [Werner FAYMANN]; The Greens [Alexander VAN DER
  BELLEN]

Azerbaijan
  Azadliq (Freedom) coalition (Popular Front Party, Liberal
  Party, Citizens' Development Party); Azerbaijan Democratic Party or
  ADP [Sardar JALALOGLU]; Azerbaijan Democratic Reforms Party (ADRP)
  Youth Movement [Ramin HAJILI]; Azerbaijan Popular Front or APF, now
  split in two [Ali KARIMLI, leader of "Reform" APF party; Mirmahmud
  MIRALI-OGLU, leader of "Classic" APF party]; Azerbaijan Public Forum
  [Eldar NAMAZOV]; Citizens' Development Party [Ali ALIYEV]; Civil
  Solidarity Party or CSP [Sabir RUSTAMKHANLY]; Dalga Youth Movement
  [Vafa JAFAROVA]; Green Party [Mais GULALIYEV and Tarana MAMMADOVA];
  Hope (Umid) Party [Iqbal AGAZADE]; Ireli Youth Movement [Jeyhun
  OSMANLI, Roya TALIBOVA, Farhad MAMMADOV, Elnara GARIBOVA, Elnur
  MAMMADOV, Ziya ALIYEV]; Justice Party [Ilyas ISMAILOV]; Liberal
  Party of Azerbaijan [Lala Shovkat HACIYEVA]; Magam Youth Movement
  [Emin HUSEYNOV]; Motherland Party [Fazail AGAMALI]; Musavat
  (Equality) [Isa GAMBAR, chairman]; Musavat Party Youth Movement
  [Elnur MAMMADLI]; National Democratic Party or Grey Wolves
  (Nationalist, Pan-Turkic) [Iskender HAMIDOV]; Open Society Party
  [Rasul GULIYEV, in exile in the US]; Party for National Independence
  of Azerbaijan or PNIA [Ayaz RUSTAMOV]; Popular Front Party Youth
  Movement [Seymur KHAZIYEV]; Social Democratic Party of Azerbaijan or
  SDP [Araz ALIZADE and Ayaz MUTALIBOV (in exile)]; Turkish
  Nationalist Party [Vugar BAYTURAN]; United Azerbaijan Party [Karrar
  ABILOV]; United Azerbaijan National Unity Party [Hajibaba AZIMOV];
  United Party [Tahir KARIMLI]; Yeni (New) Azerbaijan Party [President
  Ilham ALIYEV]; Yeni Azerbaijan Party Youth Movement [Ramil HASANOV];
  Yox (No) Youth Movement [Ali ISMAYILOV]
  note: opposition parties regularly factionalize and form new parties;

Bahamas, The
  Free National Movement or FNM [Hubert INGRAHAM];
  Progressive Liberal Party or PLP [Perry CHRISTIE]

Bahrain
  political parties prohibited but political societies were
  legalized per a July 2005 law

Bangladesh
  Awami League or AL [Sheikh HASINA]; Bangladesh Communist
  Party or BCP [Manjurul A. KHAN]; Bangladesh Nationalist Party or BNP
  [Khaleda ZIA]; Islami Oikya Jote or IOJ [Mufti Fazlul Haq AMINI];
  Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh or JIB [Matiur Rahman NIZAMI]; Jatiya
  Party or JP (Ershad faction) [Hussain Mohammad ERSHAD]; Jatiya Party
  (Manzur faction) [Naziur Rahman MANZUR]; Liberal Democratic Party or
  LDP [Badrudozza CHOWDHURY and Oli AHMED]

Barbados
  Barbados Labor Party or BLP [Mia MOTTLEY]; Democratic Labor
  Party or DLP [David THOMPSON]; People's Empowerment Party or PEP
  [David COMISSIONG]

Belarus
  pro-government parties: Agrarian Party or AP [Mikhail
  SHIMANSKY]; Belarusian Communist Party or KPB; Belarusian Patriotic
  Movement (Belarusian Patriotic Party) or BPR [Nikolay ULAKHOVICH,
  chairman]; Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus [Sergey GAYDUKEVICH];
  Party of Labor and Justice [Viktor SOKOLOV]; Social-Sports Party
  [Vladimir ALEXANDROVICH]
  opposition parties: Belarusian Christian Democracy Party
  (unregistered) [Pavel SEVERINETS]; Belarusian Party of Communists or
  PKB [Sergey KALYAKIN]; Belarusian Party of Labor (unregistered)
  [Aleksandr BUKHVOSTOV, Leonid LEMESHONAK]; Belarusian Popular Front
  or BPF [Vintsyuk VYACHORKA]; Belarusian Social-Democratic Gramada
  [Stanislav SHUSHKEVICH]; Belarusian Social Democratic Party Hramada
  (People's Assembly) or BSDPH [Aleksandr KOZULIN; Anatoliy LEVKOVICH,
  acting]; Green Party [Oleg GROMYKO]; Party of Freedom and Progress
  (unregistered) [Vladimir NOVOSYAD]; United Civic Party or UCP
  [Anatoliy LEBEDKO]; Women's Party "Nadezhda" [Valentina MATUSEVICH,
  chairperson]
  other opposition includes: Christian Conservative BPF [Zyanon
  PAZNIAK]; Ecological Party of Greens [Mikhail KARTASH]; Party of
  Popular Accord [Sergey YERMAKK]; Republican Party [Vladimir BELAZOR]

Belgium
  Flemish parties: Christian Democratic and Flemish or CDV
  [Marianne THYSSEN]; Dedecker List [Jean-Marie DEDECKER]; Flemish
  Liberals and Democrats or Open VLD [Bart SOMERS]; Groen! [Mieke
  VOGELS] (formerly AGALEV, Flemish Greens); New Flemish Alliance or
  N-VA [Bart DE WEVER]; Social Progressive Alternative or SP.A
  [Caroline GENNEZ]; VlaamsProgressieven (Flemish Progressives) or VP
  [Bettina GEYSEN] - formerly Spirit; Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest)
  or VB [Bruno VALKENIERS]
  Francophone parties: Ecolo (Francophone Greens) [Jean-Michel JAVAUX,
  Isabelle DURANT, Claude BROUIR]; Humanist and Democratic Center or
  CDH [Joelle MILQUET]; National Front or FN [Daniel HUYGENS]; Reform
  Movement or MR [Didier REYNDERS]; Socialist Party or PS [Elio DI
  RUPO]; other minor parties

Belize
  National Alliance for Belizean Rights or NABR; National
  Reform Party or NRP [Cornelius DUECK]; People's National Party or
  PNP [Wil MAHEIA]; People's United Party or PUP [Said MUSA]; United
  Democratic Party or UDP [Dean BARROW]; Vision Inspired by the People
  or VIP [Paul MORGAN]; We the People Reform Movement or WTP [Hipolito
  BAUTISTA]

Benin
  Alliance for Dynamic Democracy or ADD; Alliance of Progress
  Forces or AFP; African Movement for Democracy and Progress or MADEP
  [Sefou FAGBOHOUN]; Benin Renaissance or RB [Rosine SOGLO];
  Democratic Renewal Party or PRD [Adrien HOUNGBEDJI]; Force Cowrie
  for an Emerging Benin or FCBE; Impulse for Progress and Democracy or
  IPD [Theophile NATA]; Key Force or FC [Lazare SÈHOUÉTO]; Movement
  for the People's Alternative or MAP [Olivier CAPO-CHICHI]; Rally for
  Democracy and Progress or RDP [Dominique HOUNGNINOU]; Social
  Democrat Party or PSD [Bruno AMOUSSOU]; Union for the Relief or UPR
  [Issa SALIFOU]; Union for Democracy and National Solidarity or UDS
  [Sacca LAFIA]
  note: approximately 20 additional minor parties

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

Bhutan
  Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party (Druk Phuensum Tshogpa) or
  DPT [Jigme THINLEY]; People's Democratic Party or PDP [Sangay NGEDUP]

Bolivia
  Free Bolivia Movement or MBL [Franz BARRIOS]; Movement
  Toward Socialism or MAS [Juan Evo MORALES Ayma]; Movement Without
  Fear or MSM [Juan DEL GRANADO]; National Revolutionary Movement or
  MNR [Mirta QUEVEDO]; National Unity [Samuel DORIA MEDINA Arana];
  Poder Democratico Nacional or PODEMOS [Jorge Fernando QUIROGA
  Ramirez]; Social Alliance [Rene JOAQUINO]

Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Alliance of Independent Social Democrats or
  SNSD [Milorad DODIK]; Bosnian Party or BOSS [Mirnes AJANOVIC]; Civic
  Democratic Party or GDS [Ibrahim SPAHIC]; Croat Christian Democratic
  Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina or HKDU [Marin TOPIC]; Croat Party
  of Rights or HSP [Zvonko JURISIC]; Croat Peasants Party or HSS
  [Marko TADIC]; Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  or HDZ-BH [Dragan COVIC]; Croatian Democratic Union 1990 or HDZ1990
  [Bozo LJUBIC]; Croatian 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 SBH
  [Haris SILAJDZIC]; Party for Democratic Action or SDA [Sulejman
  TIHIC]; Party of Democratic Progress or PDP [Mladen IVANIC]; Serb
  Democratic Party or SDS [Mladen BOSIC]; Serb Radical Party of the
  Republika Srpska or SRS-RS [Milanko MIHAJLICA]; Serb Radical
  Party-Dr. Vojislav Seselj or SRS-VS [Radislav KANJERIC]; Social
  Democratic Party of BIH or SDP [Zlatko LAGUMDZIJA]; Social
  Democratic Union or SDU [Sejfudin TOKIC]; Socialist Party of
  Republika Srpska or SPRS [Petar DJOKIC]

Botswana
  Botswana Alliance Movement or BAM [Ephraim Lepetu
  SETSHWAELO]; Botswana Congress Party or BCP [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 [Roberto JEFFERSON];
  Brazilian Renewal Labor Party or PRTB [Jose Levy FIDELIX da Cruz];
  Brazilian Republican Party or PRB [Vitor Paulo Araujo DOS SANTOS];
  Brazilian Social Democracy Party or PSDB [Senator Sergio GUERRA];
  Brazilian Socialist Party or PSB [Governor Eduardo Henrique Accioly
  CAMPOS]; Christian Labor Party or PTC [Daniel TOURINHO]; Communist
  Party of Brazil or PCdoB [Jose Renato RABELO]; Democratic Labor
  Party or PDT [Carlos Roberto LUPI]; the Democrats or DEM (formerly
  Liberal Front Party or PFL) [Federal Deputy Rodrigo MAIA]; Freedom
  and Socialism Party or PSOL [Heloisa HELENA]; Green Party or PV
  [Jose Luiz de Franca PENNA]; Humanist Party of Solidarity or PHS
  [Paulo Roberto MATOS]; Labor Party of Brazil or PTdoB [Luis Henrique
  de Oliveira RESENDE]; Liberal Front Party or PFL (now known as the
  Democrats or DEM); National Mobilization Party or PMN [Oscar Noronha
  FILHO]; Party of the Republic or PR [Sergio TAMER]; Popular
  Socialist Party or PPS [Federal Deputy Fernando CORUJA]; Progressive
  Party or PP [Francisco DORNELLES]; Social Christian Party or PSC
  [Vitor Jorge Abdala NOSSEIS]; Workers' Party or PT [Ricardo Jose
  Ribeiro BERZOINI]

British Virgin Islands
  Concerned Citizens Movement or CCM [Ethlyn
  SMITH]; National Democratic Party or NDP [Orlando SMITH]; United
  Party or UP [Gregory MADURO]; Virgin Islands Party or VIP [Ralph T.
  O'NEAL]

Brunei
  National Development Party or NDP [YASSIN Affendi]
  note: Brunei National Solidarity Party or PPKB [Abdul LATIF bin
  Chuchu] and People's Awareness Party or PAKAR [Awang Haji MAIDIN bin
  Haji Ahmad] were deregistered; parties are small and have limited
  activity

Bulgaria
  ATAKA (Attack Coalition) (coalition of parties headed by
  the Attack National Union); Attack National Union [Volen SIDEROV];
  Bulgarian Agrarian National Union-People's Union or BANU [Anastasia
  MOZER]; Bulgarian New Democracy [Borislav RALCHEV]; Bulgarian
  People's Union or BPU (coalition of UFD, IMRO, and BANU); Bulgarian
  Socialist Party or BSP [Sergei STANISHEV]; Citizens for the European
  Development of Bulgaria or GERB [Tsvetan TSVETANOV]; Coalition for
  Bulgaria or CfB (coalition of parties dominated by BSP) [Sergei
  STANISHEV]; Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria or DSB [Ivan KOSTOV];
  Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization or IMRO [Krasimir
  KARAKACHANOV]; Movement for Rights and Freedoms or MRF [Ahmed
  DOGAN]; National Movement for Stability and Progress or NMSS [Simeon
  SAXE-COBURG-GOTHA] (formerly National Movement Simeon II or NMS2);
  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 ADF-RDA [Gilbert OUEDRAOGO]; Citizen's Popular Rally
  or RPC [Antoine QUARE]; Coalition of Democratic Forces of Burkina or
  CFD-B [Amadou Diemdioda DICKO]; Congress for Democracy and Progress
  or CDP [Roch Marc-Christian KABORE]; Movement for Tolerance and
  Progress or MTP [Nayabtigungou Congo KABORE]; Party for African
  Independence or PAI [Philippe OUEDRAOGO]; Party for Democracy and
  Progress/Socialist Party or PDP/PS [Ali LANKOANDE]; Party for
  Democracy and Socialism or PDS [Felix SOUBEIGA]; Party for National
  Rebirth or PAREN [Oumar DJIGUIMDE]; Rally for the Development of
  Burkina or RDB [Antoine KARGOUGOU]; Rally of Ecologists of Burkina
  Faso or RDEB [Ram OUEDRAGO]; Republican Party for Integration and
  Solidarity or PARIS [Cyril GOUNGOUNGA]; Union for Democracy and
  Social Progress or UDPS [Fidele HIEN]; Union for Rebirth - Sankarist
  Movement or UNIR-MS [Benewende STANISLAS]; Union for the Republic or
  UPR [Toussaint Abel COULIBALY]; Union of Sankarist Parties or UPS
  [Ernest Nongma OUEDRAOGO]

Burma
  National League for Democracy or NLD [AUNG SHWE, AUNG SAN SUU
  KYI]; National Unity Party or NUP (pro-regime) [TUN YE]; Shan
  Nationalities League for Democracy or SNLD [HKUN HTUN OO]; and other
  smaller parties

Burundi
  governing parties: Burundi Democratic Front or FRODEBU
  [Leonce NGENDAKUMANA]; National Council for the Defense of Democracy
  - Front for the Defense of Democracy or CNDD-FDD [Jeremie
  NGENDAKUMANA]; Unity for National Progress or UPRONA [Aloys RUBUKA]
  note: a multiparty system was introduced after 1998, included are:
  National Council for the Defense of Democracy or CNDD [Leonard
  NYANGOMA]; National Resistance Movement for the Rehabilitation of
  the Citizen or MRC-Rurenzangemero [Epitace BANYAGANAKANDI]; Party
  for National Redress or PARENA [Jean-Baptiste BAGAZA]

Cambodia
  Cambodian People's Party or CPP [CHEA SIM]; National United
  Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful, and Cooperative
  Cambodia or FUNCINPEC [KEV PUT REAKSMEI]; Norodom Ranariddh Party or
  NRP [Norodom RANARIDDH]; Sam Rangsi Party or SRP [SAM RANGSI]

Cameroon
  Cameroonian Democratic Union or UDC [Adamou Ndam NJOYA];
  Cameroon People's Democratic Movement or RDPC [Paul BIYA]; Movement
  for the Defense of the Republic or MDR [Dakole DAISSALA]; Movement
  for the Liberation and Development of Cameroon or MLDC [Marcel
  YONDO]; National Union for Democracy and Progress or UNDP [Maigari
  BELLO BOUBA]; Progressive Movement or MP; Social Democratic Front or
  SDF [John FRU NDI]; Union of Peoples of Cameroon or UPC [Augustin
  Frederic KODOCK]

Canada
  Bloc Quebecois [Gilles DUCEPPE]; Conservative Party of Canada
  [Stephen HARPER] (a merger of the Canadian Alliance and

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