The 2008 CIA World Factbook, United States. Central Intelligence Agency [primary phonics books .TXT] 📗

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  Progressive Conservative Party); 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]; Democratic
  Renovation Party or PRD [Victor FIDALGO]; Democratic and Independent
  Cape Verdean Union or UCID [Antonio MONTEIRO]; Movement for
  Democracy or MPD [Agostinho LOPES]; Party for Democratic Convergence
  or PCD [Dr. Eurico MONTEIRO]; Party of Work and Solidarity or PTS
  [Isaias RODRIGUES]; Social Democratic Party or PSD [Joao ALEM]

Cayman Islands
  United Democratic Party or UDP [McKeeva BUSH];
  People's Progressive Movement or PPM [Kurt TIBBETTS]; note - no
  national teams (loose groupings of political organizations) were
  formed for the 2000 elections

Central African Republic
  Alliance for Democracy and Progress or ADP
  [Jacques MBOLIEDAS]; Central African Democratic Rally or RDC [Andre
  KOLINGBA]; Civic Forum or FC [Gen. Timothee MALENDOMA]; Democratic
  Forum for Modernity or FODEM [Charles MASSI]; Liberal Democratic
  Party or PLD [Nestor KOMBO-NAGUEMON]; Londo Association or LONDO;
  Movement for Democracy and Development or MDD [David DACKO];
  Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People or MLPC
  [Ange-Felix PATASSE] (the party of deposed president); National
  Convergence or KNK; Patriotic Front for Progress or FPP [Abel
  GOUMBA]; People's Union for the Republic or UPR [Pierre Sammy
  MAKFOY]; National Unity Party or PUN [Jean-Paul NGOUPANDE]; Social
  Democratic Party or PSD [Enoch LAKOUE]

Chad
  Federation Action for the Republic or FAR [Ngarledjy YORONGAR];
  National Rally for Development and Progress or RNDP [Delwa Kassire
  KOUMAKOYE]; National Union for Democracy and Renewal or UNDR [Saleh
  KEBZABO]; Party for Liberty and Development or PLD [Ibni Oumar
  Mahamat SALEH]; Patriotic Salvation Movement or MPS [Mahamat Saleh
  AHMAT, chairman]; Rally for Democracy and Progress or RDP [Lol
  Mahamat CHOUA]; Union for Renewal and Democracy or URD [Gen. Wadal
  Abdelkader KAMOUGUE]

Chile
  Alliance for Chile (Alianza) or APC (including National
  Renewal or RN [Carlos LARRAIN Pena] and Independent Democratic Union
  or UDI [Hernan LARRAIN Fernandez]); Coalition of Parties for
  Democracy (Concertacion) or CPD (including Christian Democratic
  Party or PDC [Soledad ALVEAR], Socialist Party or PS [Camilo
  ESCALONA Medina], Party for Democracy or PPD [Sergio BITAR Chacra],
  Radical Social Democratic Party or PRSD [Jose Antonio GOMEZ
  Urrutia]); Communist Party or PC [Guillermo TEILLIER]; Humanist
  Party [Marilen CABRERA Olmos]

China
  Chinese Communist Party or CCP [HU Jintao]; eight registered
  small parties controlled by CCP

Christmas Island
  none

Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  none

Colombia
  Colombian Conservative Party or PC [Efrain Jose CEPEDA
  Sarabia]; Alternative Democratic Pole or PDA [Carlos GAVIRIA Diaz];
  Liberal Party or PL [Cesar GAVIRIA Trujillo]; Radical Change or CR
  [German VARGAS Lleras]; Social National Unity Party or U Party
  [Carlos GARCIA Orjuela]
  note: Colombia has 15 formally recognized political parties, and
  numerous unofficial parties that did not meet the vote threshold in
  the March 2006 legislative elections required for recognition

Comoros
  Convention for the Renewal of the Comoros or CRC [AZALI
  Assowmani]; Camp of the Autonomous Islands or CdIA (a coalition of
  parties organized by the islands' presidents in opposition to the
  Union President); Front National pour la Justice or FNJ [Ahmed
  RACHID] (Islamic party in opposition); Mouvement pour la Democratie
  et le Progress or MDP-NGDC [Abbas DJOUSSOUF]; Parti Comorien pour la
  Democratie et le Progress or PCDP [Ali MROUDJAE]; Rassemblement
  National pour le Development or RND [Omar TAMOU, Abdoulhamid
  AFFRAITANE]

Congo, Democratic Republic of the
  Christian Democrat Party or PDC
  [Jose ENDUNDO]; Congolese Rally for Democracy or RCD [Azarias
  RUBERWA]; Convention of Christian Democrats or CDC; Forces of
  Renewal or FR [Mbusa NYAMWISI]; Movement for the Liberation of the
  Congo or MLC [Jean-Pierre BEMBA]; People's Party for Reconstruction
  and Democracy or PPRD [Joseph KABILA]; Social Movement for Renewal
  or MSR [Pierre LUMBI]; Unified Lumumbist Party or PALU [Antoine
  GIZENGA]; Union for Democracy and Social Progress or UDPS [Etienne
  TSHISEKEDI]; Union of Mobutuist Democrats or UDEMO [MOBUTU Nzanga]

Congo, Republic of the
  Action Movement for Renewal or MAR; Congolese
  Movement for Democracy and Integral Development or MCDDI [Michel
  MAMPOUYA]; Congolese Labour Party or PCT; Movement for Solidarity
  and Development or MSD; Pan-African Union for Social Development or
  UPADS [Martin MBERI]; Rally for Democracy and Social Progress or
  RDPS [Jean-Pierre Thystere TCHICAYA, president]; Rally for Democracy
  and the Republic or RDR [Raymond Damasge NGOLLO]; Union for
  Democracy and Republic or UDR; United Democratic Forces or FDU
  [Sebastian EBAO]; many less important parties

Cook Islands
  Cook Islands Party or CIP [Henry PUNA]; Democratic
  Party or Demo [Dr. Terepai MAOATE]

Costa Rica
  Authentic Member from Heredia [Jose SALAS]; Citizen
  Action Party or PAC [Epsy CAMPBELL Barr]; Costa Rican Renovation
  Party or PRC [Gerardo Justo OROZCO Alvarez]; Democratic Force Party
  or PFD [Marco NUNEZ Gonzalez]; General Union Party or PUGEN [Carlos
  Alberto FERNANDEZ Vega]; Homeland First or PP [Juan Jose VARGAS
  Fallas]; Independent Worker Party or PIO [Jose Alberto CUBERO
  Carmona]; Libertarian Movement Party or PML [Otto GUEVARA Guth];
  National Christian Alliance Party or ANC [Juan Carlos CHAVEZ Mora];
  National Integration Party or PIN [Walter MUNOZ Cespedes]; National
  Liberation Party or PLN [Francisco Antonio PACHECO Fernandez];
  National Patriotic Party or PPN [Daniel Enrique REYNOLDS Vargas];
  National Restoration Party or PRN [Fabio Enrique DELGADO Hernandez];
  National Union Party or PUN [Arturo ACOSTA Mora]; Nationalist
  Democratic Alliance or ADN [Jose Miguel VILLALOBOS Umana]; Patriotic
  Union or UP [Jose Miguel CORRALES Bolanos]; Social Christian Unity
  Party or PUSC [Luis FISHMAN Zonzinski]; Union for Change Party or
  UPC [Antonio ALVAREZ Desanti]; United Leftist Coalition or IU
  [Humberto VARGAS Carbonel]

Cote d'Ivoire
  Citizen's Democratic Union or UDCY [Theodore MEL EG];
  Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire or PDCI [Henri Konan BEDIE];
  Ivorian Popular Front or FPI [Pascale Affi N'GUESSAN]; Ivorian
  Worker's Party or PIT [Francis WODIE]; Opposition Movement of the
  Future or MFA [Innocent Augustin ANAKY]; Rally of the Republicans or
  RDR [Alassane OUATTARA]; Union for Democracy and Peace in Cote
  d'Ivoire or UDPCI [Toikeuse MABRI]; over 144 smaller registered
  parties

Croatia
  Croatian Democratic Congress of Slavonia and Baranja or
  HDSSB [Vladimir SISLJAGIC]; Croatian Democratic Union or HDZ [Ivo
  SANADER]; Croatian Party of the Right or HSP [Anto DJAPIC]; Croatian
  Peasant Party or HSS [Josip FRISCIC]; Croatian Pensioner Party or
  HSU [Vladimir JORDAN]; Croatian People's Party or HNS [Vesna PUSIC];
  Croatian Social Liberal Party or HSLS [Djurdja ADLESIC]; Independent
  Democratic Serb Party or SDSS [Vojislav STANIMIROVIC]; Istrian
  Democratic Assembly or IDS [Ivan JAKOVCIC]; Social Democratic Party
  of Croatia or SDP [Zoran MILANOVIC]

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

Cyprus
  area under government control: Democratic Party or DIKO
  [Marios KAROYIAN]; Democratic Rally or DISY [Nikos ANASTASIADHIS];
  European Democracy or EURO.DI [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 Democrats or EDEK [Yannakis OMIROU]; Political
  Movement of Hunters [Michalis PAFITANIS]; Progressive Party of the
  Working People or AKEL (Communist Party) [Dimitris CHRISTOFIAS];
  United Democrats or EDI [Michalis PAPAPETROU]
  area administered by Turkish Cypriots: Communal Liberation Party or
  TKP [Huseyin ANGOLEMLI]; Cyprus Socialist Party or KSP [Kazim
  ONGEN]; Democratic Party or DP [Serder DENKTASH]; Freedom and Reform
  Party or OP [Turgay AVCI]; National Unity Party or UBP [Tahsin
  ERTUGRULOGLU]; Nationalist Justice Party or MAP [Ata TEPE]; New
  Party or YP [Huseyin TURAN]; Our Party or BP [Okyay SADIKOGLU];
  Patriotic Unity Movement or YBH [Oguz OZEN]; Peace and Democratic
  Movement or BDH [Mustafa AKINCI]; Renewal Progress Party or YAP
  [Ertugrul HASIPOGLU]; Republican Turkish Party or CTP [Ferdi Sabit
  SOYER]; United Cyprus Party or BKP [Isset IZCAN]

Czech Republic
  Association of Independent Candidates-European
  Democrats or SNK-ED [Helmut DOHNALEK]; Christian Democratic
  Union-Czechoslovak People's Party or KDU-CSL [Jiri CUNEK]; Civic
  Democratic Party or ODS [Mirek TOPOLANEK]; Communist Party of
  Bohemia and Moravia or KSCM [Vojtech FILIP]; Czech Social Democratic
  Party or CSSD [Jiri PAROUBEK]; Union of Freedom-Democratic Union or
  US-DEU [Jan CERNY]; Green Party [Martin BURSIK]; Independent
  Democrats (NEZDEM) [Vladimir ZELEZNY]; Party of Open Society (SOS)
  [Pavel NOVACEK]; Path of Change [Jiri LOBKOWITZ]

Denmark
  Christian Democrats [Bjarne Hartung KIRKEGAARD] (was
  Christian People's Party); Conservative Party [Bendt BENDTSEN]
  (sometimes known as Conservative People's Party); Danish People's
  Party [Pia KJAERSGAARD]; Liberal Party [Anders Fogh RASMUSSEN]; New
  Alliance [Naser KHADER]; Red-Green Unity List (Alliance) [collective
  leadership] (bloc includes Left Socialist Party, Communist Party of
  Denmark, Socialist Workers' Party); Social Democratic Party [Helle
  THORNING-SCHMIDT]; Social Liberal Party [Margrethe VESTAGER];
  Socialist People's Party [Villy SOEVNDAL]

Djibouti
  Democratic National Party or PND [ADEN Robleh Awaleh];
  Democratic Renewal Party or PRD [Abdillahi HAMARITEH]; Djibouti
  Development Party or PDD [Mohamed Daoud CHEHEM]; Front pour la
  Restauration de l'Unite Democratique or FRUD [Ali Mohamed DAOUD];
  People's Progress Assembly or RPP [Ismail Omar GUELLEH] (governing
  party); Peoples Social Democratic Party or PPSD [Moumin Bahdon
  FARAH]; Republican Alliance for Democracy or ARD; Union for a
  Presidential Majority or UMP (a coalition of parties including RPP,
  FRUD, PND, and PPSD); Union for Democracy and Justice or UDJ

Dominica
  Dominica Freedom Party or DFP [Charles SAVARIN]; Dominica
  Labor Party or DLP [Roosevelt SKERRIT]; Dominica United Workers
  Party or UWP [Earl WILLIAMS]

Dominican Republic
  Dominican Liberation Party or PLD [Leonel
  FERNANDEZ Reyna]; Dominican Revolutionary Party or PRD [Ramon
  ALBURQUERQUE]; National Progressive Front [Vincent CASTILLO,
  Pelegrin CASTILLO]; Social Christian Reformist Party or PRSC
  [Enrique ANTUN]

Ecuador
  Alianza PAIS Movement [Rafael Vicente CORREA Delgado];
  Christian Democratic Union or UDC [Diego ORDONEZ Guerrero];
  Democratic Left or ID [Andres PAEZ Benalcazar]; Ethical and
  Democratic Network or RED [Leon ROLDOS]; Institutional Renewal and
  National Action Party or PRIAN [Alvaro NOBOA]; Pachakutik
  Plurinational Unity Movement - New Country or MUPP-NP [Jorge
  GUAMAN]; Patriotic Society Party or PSP [Lucio GUTIERREZ Borbua];
  Popular Democratic Movement or MPD [Ciro GUZMAN Aldaz]; Roldosist
  Party or PRE [Abdala BUCARAM Ortiz, director]; Social Christian
  Party or PSC [Pascual DEL CIOPPO]; Socialist Party - Broad Front or
  PS-FA [Gustavo AYALA Cruz]

Egypt
  National Democratic Party or NDP (governing party) [Mohamed
  Hosni MUBARAK]; National Progressive Unionist Grouping or Tagammu
  [Rifaat EL-SAID]; New Wafd Party or NWP [Mahmoud ABAZA]; Tomorrow
  Party [Moussa Mustafa MOUSSA]
  note: formation of political parties must be approved by the
  government; only parties with representation in elected bodies are
  listed

El Salvador
  Christian Democratic Party or PDC [Rodolfo PARKER];
  Democratic Convergence or CD [Ruben ZAMORA] (formerly United
  Democratic Center or CDU); Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front
  or FMLN [Medardo GONZALEZ]; National Conciliation Party or PCN [Ciro
  CRUZ ZEPEDA]; 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]

Equatorial Guinea
  Convergence Party for Social Democracy or CPDS
  [Placido MICO Abogo]; Democratic Party for Equatorial Guinea or PDGE
  (ruling party) [Teodoro OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO]; Party for Progress
  of Equatorial Guinea or PPGE [Severo MOTO]; Popular Action of
  Equatorial Guinea or APGE [Avelino MOCACHE]; Popular Union or UP

Eritrea
  People's Front for Democracy and Justice or PFDJ [ISAIAS
  Afworki] (the only party recognized by the government); note - a
  National Assembly committee drafted a law on political parties in
  January 2001, but the full National Assembly has yet to debate or
  vote on it

Estonia
  Center Party of Estonia (Keskerakond) [Edgar SAVISAAR];
  Estonian Greens (Rohelised) [Marek STRANDBERG]; Estonian People's
  Union (Rahvaliit) [Villu REILJAN]; Estonian Reform Party
  (Reformierakond) [Andrus ANSIP]; Estonian United Russian People's
  Party or EUVRP [Yevgeniy TOMBERG]; Social Democratic Party (formerly
  People's Party Moodukad or Moderates) [Ivari PADAR]; Union of Pro
  Patria and Res Publica (Isamaa je Res Publica Liit) [Mart LAAR]

Ethiopia
  Afar National Democratic Party or ANDP; Benishangul Gumuz
  People's Democratic Unity Front or BGPDUF [Mulualem BESSE];
  Coalition for Unity and Democratic Party or CUDP [AYELE Chamisso]
  (awarded to AYELE by the National Electoral Board on 11 January
  2008, but AYELE has virtually no support among former CUD MPs, other
  CUD MPs must now be affiliated with their original CUD-precursor
  parties); 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
  Ethiopian 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]; Omoro People's Congress or OPC [IMERERA Gudina]; Somali
  People's Democratic Party or SPDP; United Ethiopian Democratic
  Forces or UEDF [BEYENE Petros]

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 [Joseph DAUL]; 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]; Identity, Tradition,
  Sovereignty Group or ITS [Bruno GOLLNISCH]; 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 [Jorgen NICLASEN]; Republican Party
  [Hogni HOYDAL]; Social Democratic Party [Joannes EIDESGAARD]; Union
  Party [Kaj Leo JOHANNESEN]

Fiji
  Dodonu Ni Taukei Party or DNT [Fereti S. DEWA]; Fiji Democratic
  Party or FDP [Filipe BOLE] (a merger of the Christian Democrat
  Alliance or VLV [Poesci Waqalevu BUNE], Fijian Association Party or
  FAP, Fijian Political Party or SVT (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