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

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 Peoples Party or UPP [Millis Mick BEDDOES]

Finland
  Center Party or Kesk [Matti VANHANEN]; Christian Democrats
  or KD [Paivi RASANEN]; Green Party or VIHR [Tarja CRONBERG]; Left
  Alliance or VAS [Martti KORHONEN] (composed of People's Democratic
  League and Democratic Alternative); National Coalition
  (conservative) Party or Kok [Jyrki KATAINEN]; Social Democratic
  Party or SDP [Eero HEINALUOMA]; Swedish People's Party or SFP
  [Stefan WALLIN]; True Finns [Timo SOINI]

France
  Democratic Movement or MoDem [Francois BAYROU] (previously
  Union for French Democracy or UDF); Democratic and Social European
  Rally or RDSE [Pierre LAFFITTE] (mainly Radical Republican and
  Socialist Parties, and PRG); French Communist Party or PCF
  [Marie-George BUFFET]; Greens [Cecile DUFLOT]; Left Radical Party or
  PRG [Jean-Michel BAYLET] (previously Radical Socialist Party or PRS
  and the Left Radical Movement or MRG); Movement for France or MPF
  [Philippe DE VILLIERS]; National Front or FN [Jean-Marie LE PEN];
  New Center or NC [Herve MORIN]; Rally for France or RPF [Charles
  PASQUA]; Republican and Citizen Movement or MRC [Jean Pierre
  CHEVENEMENT and Georges SARRE]; Socialist Party or PS [Francois
  HOLLANDE]; Union for a Popular Movement or UMP [Patrick DEVEDJIAN,
  Jean-Claude GAUDIN, Jean-Pierre RAFFARIN, Pierre MEHAIGNERIE];
  Radical Party [Jean-Louis BORLOO]

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]; Our Home alliance; People's Rally for the
  Republic of Polynesia or RPR (Tahoeraa Huiraatira) [Gaston FLOSSE];
  Union for Democracy alliance 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
  (former sole party) [Simplice Nguedet MANZELA]; Gabonese Party for
  Progress or PGP [Benoit Mouity NZAMBA]; Gabonese Union for Democracy
  and Development or UGDD [Zacherie MYBOTO]; National Rally of
  Woodcutters or RNB; National Rally of Woodcutters-Rally for Gabon or
  RNB-RPG (Bucherons) [Fr. Paul M'BA-ABESSOLE]; Party of Development
  and Social Solidarity or PDS [Seraphin Ndoat REMBOGO]; People's
  Unity Party or PUP [Louis Gaston MAYILA]; Social Democratic Party or
  PSD [Pierre Claver MAGANGA-MOUSSAVOU]; Union for Democracy and
  Social Integration or UDIS; Union of Gabonese Patriots or UPG
  [Pierre MAMBOUNDOU]

Gambia, The
  Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction or
  APRC (the ruling party) [Yahya A. J. J. JAMMEH]; Gambia People's
  Democratic Party or GPDP [Henry GOMEZ]; National Alliance for
  Democracy and Development or NADD [Halifa SALLAH]; National
  Convention Party or NCP [Sheriff DIBBA]; National Reconciliation
  Party or NRP [Hamat N. K. BAH]; People's Democratic Organization for
  Independence and Socialism or PDOIS [Sidia JATTA]; United Democratic
  Party or UDP [Ousainou DARBOE]

Georgia
  Burjanadze-Democrats [Nino BURJANADZE]; Georgian People's
  Front [Nodar NATADZE]; Georgian United Communist Party or UCPG
  [Panteleimon GIORGADZE]; Georgia's Way Party [Salome ZOURABICHVILI];
  Greens [Giorgi GACHECHILADZE]; Industry Will Save Georgia
  (Industrialists) or IWSG [Georgi TOPADZE]; Labor Party [Shalva
  NATELASHVILI]; National Council-New Rights (a bloc uniting a
  nine-party alliance with New Rights); 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];
  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 Cem OEZDEMIR];
  Christian Democratic Union or CDU [Angela MERKEL]; Christian Social
  Union or CSU [Horst SEEHOFER]; Free Democratic Party or FDP [Guido
  WESTERWELLE]; Left Party or Die Linke [Lothar BISKY and Oskar
  LAFONTAINE]; Social Democratic Party or SPD [Franz MUENTEFERING]

Ghana
  Convention People's Party or CPP [Ladi NYLANDER]; Democratic
  Freedom Party or DFP [Alhaji Abudu Rahman ISSAKAH]; Every Ghanaian
  Living Everywhere or EGLE; Great Consolidated Popular Party or GCPP
  [Dan LARTEY]; National Democratic Congress or NDC [Dr. Kwabena
  ADJEI]; New Patriotic Party or NPP [Peter MAC-MANU]; People's
  National Convention or PNC [Alhaji Amed RAMADAN]; Reform Party
  [Kyeretwie OPUKU]; United Renaissance Party or URP [Charles WAYO]

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) [Finn KARLSEN] (a conservative
  party favoring continuing close relations with Denmark); Demokratiit
  [Per BERTHELSEN]; Inuit Ataqatigiit or IA (Eskimo Brotherhood)
  [Josef MOTZFELDT] (a leftist party favoring complete independence
  from Denmark rather than home rule); Kattusseqatigiit (Candidate
  List) (an independent right-of-center party with no official
  platform); Siumut (Forward Party) [Hans ENOKSEN] (a social
  democratic party advocating more distinct Greenlandic identity and
  greater autonomy from Denmark)

Grenada
  Grenada United Labor Party or GULP [Gloria Payne BANFIELD];
  National Democratic Congress or NDC [Tillman THOMAS]; New National
  Party or NNP [Keith MITCHELL]

Guam
  Democratic Party [leader Michael PHILLIPS]; Republican Party
  [Philip J. FLORES] (controls the legislature)

Guatemala
  Center of Social Action or CASA [Eduardo SUGER]; Democracy
  Front or FRENTE [Alfonso CABRERA]; Democratic Union or UD [Manuel
  CONDE Orellana]; Encounter for Guatemala or EG [Nineth MONTENGRO];
  Grand National Alliance or GANA [Alfredo VILLA]; Guatemalan National
  Revolutionary Unity or URNG [Hector NUILA]; Guatemalan Republican
  Front or FRG [Efrain RIOS Montt]; National Advancement Party or PAN
  [Ruben Dario MORALES]; National Unity for Hope or UNE [Alvaro COLOM
  Caballeros]; Patriot Party or PP [Ret. Gen. Otto PEREZ Molina];
  Unionista Party or PU [Fritz GARCIA]; Unity of National Change or
  UCN [Sidney SHAW]

Guernsey
  none; all independents

Guinea
  National Union for Progress or UPN [Mamadou Bhoye BARRY];
  Party for Unity and Progress or PUP (the governing party) [Lansana
  CONTE]; People's Party of Guinea or PPG [Charles Pascal TOLNO];
  Rally for the Guinean People or RPG [Alpha CONDE]; Union of
  Democratic Forces of Guinea or UFDG [Cellou Dalein DIALLO]; 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]; Party for Social
  Renewal or PRS [Kumba YALA]; Democratic Social Front or FDS;
  Electoral Union or UE; Guinea-Bissau Civic Forum/Social Democracy or
  FCGSD [Antonieta Rosa GOMES]; Guinea-Bissau Democratic Party or PDG;
  Guinea-Bissau Socialist Democratic Party or PDSG [Serifo BALDE];
  Labor and Solidarity Party or PST [Iancuba INDJAI]; Party for
  Democratic Convergence or PCD [Victor MANDINGA]; Party for Renewal
  and Progress or PRP; Progress Party or PP [Ibrahima SOW]; Union for
  Change or UM [Amine SAAD]; Union of Guinean Patriots or UPG
  [Francisca VAZ]; United Platform or UP (coalition formed by PCD,
  FDS, FLING, and RGB-MB); United Popular Alliance or APU; United
  Social Democratic Party or PUSD

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 [Evans PAUL] (coalition composed of KID and PPRH); 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 [Rene PREVAL] (alliance of ESKAMP, PLB, and grass-roots
  organizations Grand-Anse Resistance Committee, the Central Plateau
  Peasants' Group, and Kombit Sudest); 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 [Serge GILLES] (coalition of Ayiti
  Capable, Haitian National Revolutionary Party, and National Congress
  of Democratic Movements); 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]; Struggling People's Organization or
  OPL [Edgard LEBLANC]; Union of Nationalist and Progressive Haitians
  or UNITE [Edouard FRANCISQUE]

Holy See (Vatican City)
  none

Honduras
  Christian Democratic Party or PDC [Felicito AVILA];
  Democratic Unification Party or PUD [Cesar HAM]; Liberal Party or PL
  [Patricia RODAS]; National Innovation and Unity Party or PINU [Jorge
  AQUILAR Paredes]; National Party of Honduras or PN [Porfirio LOBO]

Hong Kong
  Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood or ADPL
  [Frederick FUNG Kin-kee]; Citizens Party [Alex CHAN Kai-chung];
  Civic Party [KUAN Hsin-chi]; Democratic Alliance for the Betterment
  and Progress of Hong Kong or DAB [TAM Yiu Cheng]; Democratic Party
  [Albert HO]; Frontier Party [Emily LAU Wai-hing]; League of Social
  Democrats [Raymond WONG]; Liberal Party [James TIEN Pei-chun]
  note: political blocs include: pro-democracy - ADPL, Democratic
  Party, Frontier Party, League of Social Democrats; pro-Beijing -
  DAB, Liberal Party, The Alliance (a group of five generally
  pro-government and pro-business Legco members from functional
  constituencies); there is no political party ordinance, so there are
  no registered political parties; politically active groups register
  as societies or companies

Hungary
  Alliance of Free Democrats or SzDSz [Gabor FODOR]; 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
  [Ferenc GYURCSANY]

Iceland
  Independence Party or IP [Geir H. HAARDE]; Left-Green
  Movement or LGM [Steingrimur SIGFUSSON]; Liberal Party or LP [Gudjon
  KRISTJANSSON]; Progressive Party or PP [Gudni AGUSTSSON]; Social
  Democratic Alliance or SDA [Ingibjorg Solrun GISLADOTTIR] (includes
  People's Alliance or PA, Social Democratic Party or SDP, Women's
  List)

India
  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 YADAV];
  Jharkhand Mukti Morcha or JMM [Shibu SOREN]; Left Front (an alliance
  of Indian leftist parties); Lok Jan Shakti Party or LJSP [Ram Vilas
  PASWAN]; Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam or MDMK [V.
  Gopalswamy VAIKO]; 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 [Parkash Singh BADAL]; Shiv Sena
  or SS [Bal THACKERAY]; Telangana Rashtriya Samithi or TRS [K.
  Chandrashekhar RAO]; Telugu Desam Party or TDP [Chandrababu NAIDU];
  United Progressive Alliance or UPA [Sonia GANDHI] (India's ruling
  party coalition of 12 political parties); note - India has dozens of
  national and regional political parties; only parties or coalitions
  with four or more seats in the People's Assembly are listed

Indonesia
  Crescent Moon and Star Party or PBB [MS KABAN]; Democratic
  Party or PD [Hadi UTOMO]; Functional Groups Party or Golkar [Yusuf
  KALLA]; Indonesia Democratic Party-Struggle or PDI-P [MEGAWATI
  Sukarnoputri]; National Awakening Party or PKB; National Mandate
  Party or PAN [Sutrisno BACHIR]; Prosperous Justice Party or PKS
  [Tifatul SEMBIRING]; United Development Party or PPP [Suryadharma
  ALI]

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, and often political parties or
  coalitions are formed prior to elections and disbanded soon
  thereafter; a loose pro-reform coalition called the 2nd Khordad
  Front, which includes political parties as well as less formal
  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 and
  sixth Majles Speaker Mehdi KARUBI formed the National Trust Party; a
  new conservative group, Islamic Iran Developers Coalition
  (Abadgaran), took a leading position in the new Majles after winning
  a majority of the seats in February 2004; following the 2004 Majles
  elections, traditional and hardline conservatives have attempted to
  close ranks under the United Front of Principlists; the IIPF has
  repeatedly complained that the overwhelming majority of its
  candidates have been unfairly disqualified from the 2008 elections

Iraq
  Assyrian Democratic Movement [Yunadim KANNA]; Badr Organization
  [Hadi al-AMIRI]; Constitutional Monarchy Movement or CMM [Sharif Ali
  Bin al-HUSAYN]; Da'wa al-Islamiya Party [Ibrahim al-JA'FARI];
  General Conference of Iraqi People [Adnan al-DULAYMI]; Independent
  Iraqi Alliance or IIA [Falah al-NAQIB];