Botswana:
Botswana Democratic Party or BDP [Festus MOGAE]; Botswana
National Front or BNF [Kenneth KOMA]; Botswana Congress Party or BCP
[Michael DINGAKE]; Botswana Alliance Movement or BAM [Ephraim Lepetu
SETSHWAELO]
note: main parties are: BDP, BNF, BCP; other minor parties joined
forces in 1999 to form the Botswana Alliance Movement or BAM
[Ephraim SETSHWAELO, chairman] but did not capture any parliamentary
seats; the BAM parties are: the United Action Party [Ephraim Lepetu
SETSHWAELO], the Botswana Peoples Party, the Independence Freedom
Party [Motsamai MPHO], and the Botswana Progressive Union [D. K.
KWELE]
Brazil:
Brazilian Democratic Movement Party or PMDB [Jader BARBALHO,
president]; Brazilian Labor Party or PTB [Roberto JEFFERSON];
Brazilian Social Democracy Party or PSDB [Teotonio VILELA Filno];
Brazilian Socialist Party or PSB [Miguel ARRAES, president];
Brazilian Progressive Party or PPB [Paulo Salim MALUF]; Communist
Party of Brazil or PCdoB [Sergio Roberto Gomes SOUZA, chairman];
Democratic Labor Party or PDT [Leonel BRIZOLA, president]; Liberal
Front Party or PFL [Jorge BORNHAUSEN, president]; Liberal Party or
PL [Francisco Teixeira de OLIVEIRA]; Popular Socialist Party or PPS
[Ciro GOMEZ, president]; Worker's Party or PT [Jose DIRCEU,
president]
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:
Brunei Solidarity National Party or PPKB in Malay [Haji Mohd
HATTA bin Haji Zainal Abidin, president]; the PPKB is the only legal
political party in Brunei; it was registered in 1985, but became
largely inactive after 1988, it was revived in 1995 and again in
1998; it has less than 200 registered party members; other parties
include Brunei People's Party or PRB (banned in 1962) and Brunei
National Democratic Party (registered in May 1965, deregistered by
the Brunei Government in 1988)
Bulgaria:
Alliance for National Salvation or ANS (coalition led
mainly by Movement for Rights and Freedoms or MRF) [Ahmed DOGAN];
Bulgarian Business Bloc or BBB [Georgi GANCHEV]; Bulgarian Socialist
Party or BSP [Georgi PURVANOV, chairman]; Democratic Left or DL
(bloc led by BSP, includes Ecoglasnost Political Club and Bulgarian
Agrarian National Union) [leader NA]; Euro-left [Aleksandur TOMOV];
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization or UMRO [Aleksander
KARAKACHNOV]; Kingdom of Bulgaria Federation [leader NA]; Movement
for Rights and Freedom or DPS [Ahmed DOGAN]; National Movement for
Simeon II [Simeon II, former king]; New Civic Party for Bulgaria
[Bogomil BONEV]; People's Union or PU (includes Bulgarian Agrarian
People's Union and Democratic Party) [Anastasiya MOZER]; St.
George's Day [Lyuben DILOV]; Union of Democratic Forces or UDF (an
alliance of pro-democratic parties) [Ivan KOSTOV]
Burkina Faso:
African Democratic Rally-Alliance for Democracy and
Federation or RDA-ADF [Herman YAMEOGO]; Congress for Democracy and
Progress or CDP [Roch Marc-Christian KABORE]; Movement for Tolerance
and Progress or MTP [Noyabtigungu Congo KABORE]; Party for African
Independence or PAI [Philippe OUEDRAOGO]; Party for Democracy and
Progress or PDP [Joseph KI-ZERBO]; Union of Greens for the
Development of Burkina Faso or UVDB [Ram OVEDRAGO]
Burma:
National League for Democracy or NLD [AUNG SHWE, chairman,
AUNG SAN SUU KYI, general secretary]; National Unity Party or NUP
(proregime) [THA KYAW]; Shan Nationalities League for Democracy or
SNLD [U KHUN TUN OO]; Union Solidarity and Development Association
or USDA (proregime, a social and political organization) [THAN AUNG,
general secretary]; and other smaller parties
Burundi:
Two national, mainstream governing parties are: Unity for
National Progress or UPRONA [Luc RUKINGAMA, president]; Burundi
Democratic Front or FRODEBU [Jean MINANI, president]
note: A multiparty system was introduced after 1998, included are:
Burundi African Alliance for the Salvation or ABASA [Terrence
NSANZE]; Rally for Democracy and Economic and Social Development or
RADDES [Joseph NZENZIMANA]; Party for National Redress or PARENA
[Jean-Baptiste BAGAZA]; People's Reconciliation Party or PRP
[Mathias HITIMANA]