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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]; African National Congress or ANC [Jacob ZUMA]; Democratic
  Alliance or DA [Helen ZILLE]; Freedom Front Plus or FF+ [Pieter
  MULDER]; Inkatha Freedom Party or IFP [Mangosuthu BUTHELEZI]; New
  National Party or NNP; Pan-Africanist Congress or PAC [Motsoko
  PHEKO]; United Democratic Movement or UDM [Bantu HOLOMISA]

Spain
  Aragonese Party or CHA [Bizen FUSTER]; Basque Nationalist
  Party or PNV [Inigo URKULLU]; Basque Solidarity or EA [Begona
  ERRAZTI]; Canarian Coalition or CC [Jose Torres STINGA] (a coalition
  of five parties); 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 i LLEIDA]); Entesa Catalonia de Progress (a
  Senate coalition grouping four Catalan parties - PSC, ERC, ICV,
  EUA); Galician Nationalist Bloc or BNG [Anxo Manuel QUINTANA
  Gonzalez]; Initiative for Catalonia Greens or ICV [Joan SAURA i
  Laporta]; Navarra yes or Na Bai [Uxue BARKOS Berruezo] (a coalition
  of four Navarran parties); Popular Party or PP [Mariano RAJOY Brey];
  Republican Left of Catalonia or ERC [Josep-Lluis CAROD-ROVIRA];
  Spanish Socialist Workers Party or PSOE [Jose Luis Rodriguez
  ZAPATERO]; United Left or IU [Gaspar LLAMAZARES Trigo] (a coalition
  of parties including the PCE and other small parties)

Sri Lanka
  All Ceylon Tamil Congress or ACTC [G.PONNAMBALAM]; Ceylon
  Workers Congress or CWC [Arumugam THONDAMAN]; Communist Party or CP
  [D. GUNASEKERA]; Eelam People's Democratic Party or EPDP [Douglas
  DEVANANDA]; Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front or EPRLF
  [Suresh PREMACHANDRAN]; Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna or JVP [Somawansa
  AMARASINGHE]; Lanka Sama Samaja Party or LSSP [Tissa VITHARANA];
  Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (People's United Front) or MEP [D.
  GUNAWARDENE]; National Heritage Party or JHU [Ellawala METHANANDA];
  National Unity Alliance or NUA [Ferial ASHRAFF]; People's Liberation
  Organization of Tamil Eelam or PLOTE [D. SIDHARTHAN]; Sri Lanka
  Freedom Party or SLFP [Mahinda RAJAPAKSA]; Sri Lanka Muslim Congress
  or SLMC [Rauff HAKEEM]; Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization or TELO
  [Selvam ADAIKALANATHAN]; 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]

Sudan
  National Congress Party or NCP [Umar Hassan al-BASHIR]; 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]; note - all political parties
  listed above in the Government of National Unity

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 that includes A-Combination or A-Com,
  Democratic Alternative 1991 or DA-91, an independent,
  business-oriented party [Winston JESSURUN], National Party Suriname
  or NPS [Ronald VENETIAAN], United Reform Party or VHP [Ramdien
  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
  the status of political parties, previously banned, is
  unclear under the new (2006) Constitution and currently being
  debated - the following are considered political associations;
  African United Democratic Party or AUDP [Stanley MAUNDZISA,
  president]; 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]; Liberal People's Party
  [Jan BJORKLUND]; Moderate Party (conservative) [Fredrik REINFELDT];
  Social Democratic Party [Mona SAHLIN]

Switzerland
  Green Party (Gruene Partei der Schweiz or Gruene, 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 (Christlichdemokratische
  Volkspartei der Schweiz or CVP, Parti Democrate-Chretien Suisse or
  PDC, Partito Democratico-Cristiano Popolare Svizzero or PDC, Partida
  Cristiandemocratica dalla Svizra or PCD) [Christophe DARBELLAY];
  Radical Free Democratic Party (Freisinnig-Demokratische Partei der
  Schweiz or FDP, Parti Radical-Democratique Suisse or PRD, Partitio
  Liberal-Radicale Svizzero or PLR) [Fulvio PELLI]; 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]; 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]; and other minor
  parties

Syria
  legal parties: National Progressive Front or NPF [President
  Bashar al-ASAD, Dr. Suleiman QADDAH] (includes Arab Socialist
  Renaissance (Ba'th) Party [President Bashar al-ASAD]; Socialist
  Unionist Democratic Party [Fadlallah Nasr Al-DIN]; Syrian Arab
  Socialist Union or ASU [Safwan QUDSI]; Syrian Communist Party (two
  branches) [Wissal Farha BAKDASH, Yusuf Rashid FAYSAL]; Syrian Social
  Nationalist Party [Ali QANSU]; Unionist Socialist Party [Fayez
  ISMAIL])
  opposition parties not legally recognized:: Arab Democratic
  Socialist Union Party [Hasan Abdul AZIM]; Arab Socialist Movement;
  Democratic Ba'th Party [Ibrahim MAHKOS]; People's Democratic Party
  [Riad al TURK]; Revolutionary Workers' Party [Abdul Hafeez al HAFEZ]
  Kurdish parties (considered illegal): Kurdish Democratic Front
  [Abdul Hamid DARWISH] (includes four parties); Kurdish Coordination
  [Abdul Hakim BASHAR] (includes Azadi Party [Kheirudin MURAD], Future
  Party [Masha'l TAMMO], Yekity Party [Hasam SALE])
  other parties: Nahda Party [Abdul Aziz al MISLET]; Syrian Democratic
  Party [Mustafa QALAAJI]

Taiwan
  Democratic Progressive Party or DPP [TSAI Ing-wen];
  Kuomintang or KMT (Nationalist Party) [WU Po-hsiung]; Non-Partisan
  Solidarity Union or NPSU [CHANG Po-ya]; People First Party or PFP
  [James SOONG]

Tajikistan
  Agrarian Party of Tajikistan or APT [Amir KARAKULOV];
  Democratic Party or DPT [Mahmadruzi ISKANDAROV (imprisoned October
  2005); Rahmatullo VALIYEV, deputy]; Islamic Revival Party [Muhiddin
  KABIRI]; Party of Economic Reform or PER [Olimzon BOBOYEV]; People's
  Democratic Party of Tajikistan or PDPT [Emomali RAHMON]; Social
  Democratic Party or SDPT [Rahmatullo ZOYIROV]; Socialist Party or
  SPT [Mirhuseyn NARZIYEV]; 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, also spelled ABHISIT Vejjajiva]; Matchima Thippatai
  (Middle Way Party) [ANONGWAN Therpsuthin] - disbanded; Motherland
  Party (Peua Pandin Party); People's Power Party (Palang Prachachon
  Party) or PPP [SOMCHAI Wongsawat, acting] - disbanded; Royalist
  People's Party (Pracharaj) [SANOH Thienthong]; Ruam Jai Thai Party
  (Thai Unity Party) [CHETTA Thanacharo, also spelled CHETTHA
  Thanajaro]; Thai Nation Party or TNP (Chat Thai Party) [BARNHARN
  SILPA-ARCHA] - disbanded

Timor-Leste
  Democratic Party or PD [Fernando de ARAUJO]; National
  Congress for Timorese Reconstruction or CNRT [Xanana GUSMAO];
  National Democratic Union of Timorese Resistance or UNDERTIM
  [Cornelio DA Conceicao GAMA]; National Unity Party or PUN [Fernanda
  BORGES]; People's Party of Timor or PPT [Jacob XAVIER];
  Revolutionary Front of Independent Timor-Leste or FRETILIN [Mari
  ALKATIRI]; Social Democratic Association of Timor or ASDT [Francisco
  Xavier do AMARAL]; Social Democratic Party or PSD [Mario
  CARRASCALAO]; Sons of the Mountain Warriors or KOTA [Manuel TILMAN]
  (also known as Association of Timorese Heroes)

Togo
  Action Committee for Renewal or CAR [Yawovi AGBOYIBO];
  Democratic Convention of African Peoples or CDPA; Democratic Party
  for Renewal or PDR; Juvento [Monsilia DJATO]; Movement of the
  Believers of Peace and Equality or MOCEP; Pan-African Patriotic
  Convergence or CPP; Rally for the Support for Development and
  Democracy or RSDD [Harry OLYMPIO]; Rally of the Togolese People or
  RPT [Faure GNASSINGBE]; Socialist Pact for Renewal or PSR; Union for
  Democracy and Social Progress or UDPS [Gagou KOKOU]; Union of Forces
  for a Change or UFC [Gilchrist OLYMPIO]

Tokelau
  none

Tonga
  Tonga Human Rights and Democracy Movement or THRDM [Uliti
  UATA]; People's Democratic Party or PDP [Tesina FUKO]

Trinidad and Tobago
  Congress of the People [Winston DOOKERAN];
  Democratic Action Congress or DAC [Hochoy CHARLES] (only active in
  Tobago); Democratic National Alliance or DNA [Gerald YETMING]
  (coalition of NAR, DDPT, MND); Movement for National Development or
  MND [Garvin NICHOLAS]; National Alliance for Reconstruction or NAR
  [Dr. Carson CHARLES]; People's National Movement or PNM [Patrick
  MANNING]; United National Congress or UNC [Basdeo PANDAY]

Tunisia
  Al-Tajdid Movement [Ahmed IBRAHIM]; Constitutional
  Democratic Rally Party (Rassemblement Constitutionnel Democratique)
  or RCD (official ruling party) [President Zine El Abidine BEN ALI];
  Democratic Forum for Labor and Liberties or FDTL [Mustapha Ben
  JAFAAR]; Green Party for Progress or PVP [Mongi KHAMASSI]; Liberal
  Social Party or PSL [Mondher THABET]; Movement of Socialist
  Democrats or MDS [Ismail BOULAHYA]; Popular Unity Party or PUP
  [Mohamed BOUCHIHA]; Progressive Democratic Party [Maya JERIBI];
  Unionist Democratic Union or UDU [Ahmed INOUBLI]; note - the
  Islamist party, Al Nahda (Renaissance), is outlawed

Turkey
  Anavatan Partisi (Motherland Party) or Anavatan [Erkan
  MUMCU]; Democratic Left Party or DSP [Mehmet Zeki SEZER]; Democratic
  Society Party or DTP [Nurettin DEMIRTAS]; Felicity Party or SP
  [Recai KUTAN] (sometimes translated as Contentment Party); Justice
  and Development Party or AKP [Recep Tayyip ERDOGAN]; Nationalist
  Action Party or MHP [Devlet BAHCELI] (sometimes translated as
  Nationalist Movement Party); People's Rise Party (Halkin Yukselisi
  Partisi) or HYP [Yasar Nuri OZTURK]; Republican People's Party or
  CHP [Deniz BAYKAL]; Social Democratic People's Party or SHP [Murat
  KARAYALCIN]; True Path Party or DYP [Mehmet AGAR] (sometimes
  translated as Correct Way Party); Young Party or GP [Cem Cengiz UZAN]
  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 [Gurbanguly
  BERDIMUHAMEDOW]
  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 attack on President NYYAZOW's motorcade

Turks and Caicos Islands
  People's Democratic Movement or PDM [Floyd
  SEYMOUR]; 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 Resistance Movement or NRM [Yoweri MUSEVENI]; Peoples
  Progressive Party or PPP [Bidandi SSALI]; 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
  Christian Democratic Union [Volodymyr STRETOVYCH]; Communist
  Party of Ukraine or CPU [Petro SYMONENKO]; European Party of Ukraine
  [Mykola KATERYNCHUK]; Fatherland Party (Batkivshchyna) [Yuliya
  TYMOSHENKO]; Forward Ukraine! [Viktor MUSIYAKA]; Labor Party of
  Ukraine [Mykola SYROTA]; People's Union Our Ukraine [Vyacheslav
  KYRYLENKO]; Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs [Anatoliy
  KINAKH]; Party of the Defenders of the Fatherland [Yuriy Karmazin];
  People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh) [Borys TARASYUK]; People's Party
  [Volodymyr LYTVYN]; 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]; Sobor [Anatoliy MATVIYENKO]; Social
  Democratic Party [Yevhen KORNICHUK]; Social Democratic Party
  (United) or SDPU(o) [Yuriy ZAHORODNIY]; Socialist Party of Ukraine
  or SPU [Oleksandr MOROZ]; Ukrainian People's Party [Yuriy KOSTENKO];
  Viche [Inna BOHOSLOVSKA]

United Arab Emirates
  none

United Kingdom
  Conservative [David CAMERON]; Democratic Unionist
  Party (Northern Ireland) [Peter ROBINSON]; Labor Party [Gordon
  BROWN]; Liberal Democrats [Nick CLEGG]; Party of Wales (Plaid Cymru)
  [Ieuan Wyn JONES]; 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 [William (Bill) REDPATH]; Republican Party [Robert
  M. (Mike) DUNCAN]

Uruguay
  Broad Front (Frente Amplio) - formerly known as the
  Progressive Encounter/Broad Front Coalition or EP-FA [Jorge
  BROVETTO] (a broad governing coalition that includes Movement of the
  Popular Participation or MPP [Jose MUJICA], New Space Party (Nuevo
  Espacio) [Rafael MICHELINI], Progressive Alliance (Alianza
  Progresista) [Rodolfo NIN NOVOA], Socialist Party [Eduardo
  FERNANDEZ], the Communist Party [Marina ARISMENDI], Uruguayan
  Assembly (Asamblea Uruguay) [Danilo ASTORI], and Vertiente
  Artiguista [Mariano ARANA]); Colorado Party (Foro Batllista) [Julio
  Maria SANGUINETTI]; National Party or Blanco [Luis Alberto LACALLE
  and Jorge LARRANAGA]

Uzbekistan
  Adolat (Justice) Social Democratic Party [Dilorom
  TASHMUHAMMEDOVA]; Democratic National Rebirth Party (Milly
  Tiklanish) or MTP [Hurshid DOSMUHAMMEDOV]; Fidokorlar National
  Democratic Party (Self-Sacrificers) [Ahtam TURSUNOV]; Liberal
  Democratic Party of Uzbekistan or LDPU [Adham SHADMANOV; People's
  Democratic Party or NDP (formerly Communist Party) [Asliddin
  RUSTAMOV]

Vanuatu
  Greens Confederation or