France:
Citizens Movement or MdC [Jean Pierre CHEVENEMENT]; French
Communist Party or PCF [Robert HUE]; Independent Ecological Movement
or MEI [Antoine WAECHTER]; Left Radical Party or PRG (previously
Radical Socialist Party or PRS and the Left Radical Movement or MRG)
[Jean-Michel BAYLET]; Liberal Democracy or DL (originally Republican
Party or PR) [Alain MADELIN]; Movement for France or MPF [Philippe
DEVILLIERS]; National Front or FN [Jean-Marie LE PEN]; Rally for the
Republic or RPR [Michelle ALLIOT-MARIE]; Socialist Party or PS
[Francois HOLLANDE]; Union for French Democracy or UDF (coalition of
UDC, FD, RRRS, PPDF) [Francois BAYROU]; Union of the Center or UDC
[leader NA]
French Guiana:
Guianese Socialist Party or PSG [Antoine KARAM];
Guyana Democratic Forces or FDG [Georges OTHILY]; Rally for the
Republic or RPR [Roland HO-WEN-SZE]; Socialist Party or PS [Pierre
RIBARDIERE] (may be a subset of PSG); Walwari Committee [Christine
TAUBIRA-DELANON]
French Polynesia:
Centrist Union or UC [leader NA]; Independent
Front for the Liberation of Polynesia (Tavini Huiraatira) [Oscar
TEMARU]; New Fatherland Party (Ai'a Api) [Emile VERNAUDON]; People's
Rally for the Republic (Tahoeraa Huiraatira) [Gaston FLOSSE]
Gabon:
African Forum for Reconstruction or FAR [Leon MBOU-YEMBI];
Circle of Liberal Reformers or CLR [General Jean Boniface ASSELE];
Democratic and Republican Alliance or ADERE [Divungui-di-Ndinge
DIDJOB]; Gabonese Democratic Party or PDG, former sole party
[Simplice Nguedet MANZELA, secretary general]; Gabonese Party for
Progress or PGP [Pierre-Louis AGONDJO-OKAWE, president]; Gabonese
People's Union or UPG [Pierre MAMBOUNDOU]; Gabonese Socialist Union
or USG [Serge MBA BEKALE]; National Rally of Woodcutters (Bucherons)
or RNB [Fr. Paul M'BA-ABESSOLE]; People's Unity Party or PUP [Louis
Gaston MAYILA]; Rally for Democracy and Progress or RDP [Pierre
EMBONI]; Social Democratic Party or PSD [Pierre Claver
MAGANGA-MOUSSAVOU]
Gambia, The:
Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction
or APRC [Yahya A. J. J. JAMMEH]; 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]
note: in August 1996 the government banned the following from
participation in the elections of 1996: People's Progressive Party
or PPP [former President Dawda K. JAWARA (in exile)], and two
opposition parties - the National Convention Party or NCP [former
Vice President Sheriff DIBBA] and the Gambian People's Party or GPP
[Hassan Musa CAMARA]
Georgia:
Citizen's Union of Georgia or CUG [Eduard SHEVARDNADZE];
Georgian United Communist Party or UCPG [Panteleimon GIORGADZE,
chairman]; Industry Will Save Georgia or IWSG [Georgi TOPADZE];
National Democratic Party or NDP [Irina SARISHVILI-CHANTURIA];
Socialist Party or SPG [Temur GAMTSEMLIDZE]; Union for "Revival"
Party or AGUR [Alsan ABASHIDZE]; United Republican Party or URP
[Nodar NATADZE, chairman]
Germany:
Alliance '90/Greens [Renate KUENAST and Fritz KUHN];
Christian Democratic Union or CDU [Angela MERKEL]; Christian Social
Union or CSU [Edmund STOIBER, chairman]; Free Democratic Party or
FDP [Wolfgang GERHARDT, chairman]; note - Wolfgang GERHARDT will
probably be replaced by Guido WESTERWELLE in May 2001; Party of
Democratic Socialism or PDS [Gabi ZIMMER]; Social Democratic Party
or SPD [Gerhard SCHROEDER, chairman]
Ghana:
Every Ghanaian Living Everywhere or EGLE [Owuraku AMOFA,
chairman]; National Convention Party or NCP [Sarpong KUMA-KUMA];
National Democratic Congress or NDC [Dr. Huudu YAHAYA, general
secretary]; New Patriotic Party or NPP [Samuel Arthur ODOI-SYKES];
People's Convention Party or PCP [P. K. DONKOH-AYIFI, acting
chairman]; People's Heritage Party or PHP [Emmanuel Alexander
ERSKINE]; People's National Convention or PNC [Edward MAHAMA]
Gibraltar:
Gibraltar Social Democrats or GSD [Peter CARUANA];
Gibraltar Socialist Labor Party or GSLP [Joseph John BOSSANO]