Armenia:
Armenia Party [Myasnik ALKHASYAN]; Armenian Communist Party
or ACP [Vladimir DARBINYAN]; Armenian Revolutionary Federation
("Dashnak" Party) or ARF [Hrant MARKARYAN]; Christian Democratic
Union or CDU [Azat ARSHAKYN, chairman]; Democratic Liberal Party
[Ramkavar AZATAKAN, chairman]; Free Armenian's Mission [Ruben
MNATSANIAN, chairman]; Law and Unity Party [Artashes GEGAMIAN,
chairman]; Law-Governed Party [Artur BAGDASARIAN, chairman]; Mission
Party [Artush PAPOIAN, chairman]; National Democratic Union or NDU
[Vazgen MANUKIAN]; National State Party [Samvel SHAGINIAN];
Pan-Armenian National Movement or PANM [Vano SIRADEGHYAN]; People's
Party of Armenia [Stepan DEMIRCHYAN]; Republican Party or RPA
[Andranik MARKARYAN]; Shamiram Women's Movement or SWM [Gayane
SARUKHYAN]; Social Democratic (Hnchakian) Party [Ernst SOGOMONYAN];
Stability Group [Vartan AYVAZIAN, chairman]; Union of National
Self-Determination or NSDU [Paruir HAIRIKIAN, chairman]; Unity Bloc
[Stepan DEMIRCHIAN and Andranik MARKARYAN] (a coalition of the
Republican Party and People's Party of Armenia)
Aruba:
Aruba Solidarity Movement or MAS [leader NA]; Aruban
Democratic Party or PDA [Leo BERLINSKI]; Aruban Liberal Party or OLA
[Glenbert CROES]; Aruban Patriotic Party or PPA [Benny NISBET];
Aruban People's Party or AVP [Tico CROES]; Electoral Movement Party
or MEP [Nelson ODUBER]; For a Restructured Aruba Now or PARA [leader
NA]; National Democratic Action or ADN [Pedro Charro KELLY]
Australia:
Australian Democratic Party [Meg LEES]; Australian Labor
Party [Kim BEAZLEY]; Green Party [Bob BROWN]; Liberal Party [John
Winston HOWARD]; National Party [John ANDERSON]; One Nation Party
[Pauline HANSON]
Austria:
Austrian People's Party or OeVP [Wolfgang SCHUESSEL];
Freedom Party of Austria or FPOe [Susanne RIESS-PASSER]; Social
Democratic Party of Austria or SPOe [Alfred GUSENBAUER]; The Greens
Alternative or GA [Alexander VAN DER BELLEN]
Azerbaijan:
Alliance for Azerbaijan Party [Abutalyb SAMADOV];
Azerbaijani Democratic Party or ADP [Sardar JALAL]; Azerbaijani
Independent Democratic Party or AMDP [Leyla YUNUSOVA]; Azerbaijan
Popular Front or APF [Ali KERIMOV, leader of "reform faction";
Mirmahmud FATTAYEV, leader of "traditionalist" faction]; Civic
Solidarity Party or CSP [Sabir RUSTAMKHANLY]; Civic Union Party
[Ayaz MUTALIBOV]; Communist Party of Azerbaijan or CPA [Ramiz
AHMADOV]; Communist Party of Azerbaijan or CPA-2 [Firudin HASANOV];
Compatriot Party [Mais SAFARLI]; Democratic Enlightenment Party
[Mammadhanifu MUSAYEV]; Democratic Party for Azerbaijan or DPA
[Ilyus ISMAILOV and Rasul QULIYEV, co-chairman]; Democratic World
Party of Azerbaijan [Mamnad ALIZADE]; Liberal Party of Azerbaijan
[Lala Shvkat HAJIYEVA]; Motherland Party [Fazail AGAMALI]; National
Congress Party of Azerbaijan [Ihtiyar SHIRIN]; National Movement
Party [Samir JAFAROV]; National Statehood Party [Sabir
TARIVERDIYEV]; Musavat [Isa GAMBAR, chairman]; New Azerbaijan Party
or NAP [Heydar ALIYEV, chairman]; Party for National Independence of
Azerbaijan or PNIA [Etibar MAMMADOV, chairman]; People's Democratic
Party of Azerbaijan or PDPA [Rafig TURABKHANOGLU]; Social Democratic
Party of Azerbaijan or SDP [Zardusht ALIZADE, chairman]
note: opposition parties regularly factionalize and form new parties
Bahamas, The:
Free National Movement or FNM [Hubert Alexander
INGRAHAM]; Progressive Liberal Party or PLP [Perry CHRISTIE]
Bahrain:
political parties prohibited
Bangladesh:
Awami League or AL [Sheikh HASINA]; Bangladesh Communist
Party or BCP [Saifuddin Ahmed MANIK]; Bangladesh Nationalist Party
or BNP [Khaleda ZIAur Rahman]; Islami Oikya Jote or IOJ [Azizol
HAQ]; Jamaat-E-Islami or JI [Motiur Rahman NIZAMI]; Jatiya Party or
JP [Hussain Mohammad ERSHAD]
Barbados:
Barbados Labor Party or BLP [Owen ARTHUR]; Democratic
Labor Party or DLP [David THOMPSON]; National Democratic Party or
NDP [Richard HAYNES]