Serbia and Montenegro
Democratic Opposition of Serbia or DOS (a
coalition of many small parties including DSS) [leader NA]; Alliance
of Vojvodina Hungarians or SVM [Jozsef KASZA]; Democratic League of
Kosovo or LDK [Dr. Ibrahim RUGOVA, president]; Democratic List for
European Montenegro or DLECG [Milo DJUKANOVIC, Ranko KRIVOKAPIC];
Democratic Party or DS [collective interim leadership led by Cedomir
JOVANOVIC]; Democratic Party of Serbia or DSS [Vojislav KOSTUNICA];
Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro or DPS [Milo
DJUKANOVIC]; Party of Serb Unity or SSJ [Borislav PELEVIC]; Serbian
Radical Party or SRS [Tomislav NIKOLIC]; Serbian Socialist Party or
SPS (former Communist Party and party of Slobodan MILOSEVIC) [Zoran
ANDJELKOVIC, general secretary]; Social Democratic Party or SDP
[Rasim LJAJIC]; Together for Changes or ZP [leader NA]
Seychelles
Democratic Party or DP [James MANCHAM, Daniel BELLE];
Mouvement Seychellois pour la Democratie [Jacques HODOUL];
Seychelles National Party or SNP (formerly the United Opposition or
UO) [Wavel RAMKALAWAN]; Seychelles People's Progressive Front or
SPPF [France Albert RENE, James MICHEL] - the governing party
Sierra Leone
All People's Congress or APC [Alhaji Sat KOROMA,
interim chairman]; Citizens United for Peace and Progress or CUPP
[Alfred Musa CONTEH, interim chairman]; Coalition for Progress Party
or CPP [Jeridine WILLIAM-SARHO, interim leader]; Democratic Center
Party or DCP [Adu Aiah KOROMA]; Democratic Labor Party or DLP
[George E. L. PALMER]; Democratic Party or DP [Henry BALO, acting
chairman]; National Alliance Democratic Party or NADP [Mohamed Yahya
SILLAH, chairman]; National Democratic Alliance or NDA [Amadu M. B.
JALLOH]; National People's Party or NPP [Andrew TURAY]; National
Republican Party or NRP [Stephen Sahr MAMBU]; National Unity
Movement or NUM [Sam LEIGH, interim chairman]; National Unity Party
or NUP [John BENJAMINE, interim leader]; Peace and Liberation Party
or PLP [Darlington MORRISON, interim chairman]; People's Democratic
Alliance or PDA [Cpl. (Ret.) Abdul Rahman KAMARA, interim chairman];
People's Democratic Party or PDP [Osman KAMARA]; People's National
Convention or PNC [Edward John KARGBO]; People's Progressive Party
or PPP [Abass Chernok BUNDU, chairman]; Revolutionary United Front
Party or RUFP [Foday Saybana SANKOH, chairman]; Social Democratic
Party or SDP [Andrew Victor LUNGAY]; Sierra Leone People's Party or
SLPP [Ahmad Tejan KABBAH, chairman]; United National People's Party
or UNPP [John KAREFA-SMART in exile, Raymond KAMARA, acting leader];
Young People's Party or YPP [Cornelius DEVEAUS, interim chairman]
Singapore
governing party: People's Action Party or PAP [GOH Chok
Tong]; opposition parties: Democratic Progressive Party or DPP
[leader NA]; National Solidarity Party or NSP [Steve CHIA];
Singapore Democratic Alliance or SDA [CHIAM See Tong] (includes SPP,
PKMS, NSP, SJP); Singapore Democratic Party or SDP [CHEE Soon Juan];
Singapore Justice Party or SJP [leader NA]; Singapore National Malay
Organization or PKMS [Muhammad ALI Aman]; Singapore People's Party
or SPP [CHIAM See Tong]; Workers' Party or WP [LOW Thia Kiang]
Slovakia
Christian Democratic Movement or KDH [Pavol HRUSOVSKY];
Democratic Party or DS [Ludovit KANIK]; Direction (Smer) [Robert
FICO]; Movement for a Democratic Slovakia-People's Party or HZDS-LS
[Vladimir MECIAR]; New Citizens Alliance or ANO [Pavol RUSKO]; Party
of the Hungarian Coalition or SMK [Bela BUGAR]; Slovak Communist
Party or KSS [Jozef SEVC]; Slovak Democratic and Christian Union or
SDKU [Mikulas DZURINDA]; Slovak National Party or SNS [Jan SLOTA]
Slovenia
Democratic Party of Retired (Persons) of Slovenia or DeSUS
[Anton ROUS]; Liberal Democratic or LDS [Anton ROP]; New Slovenia or
NSi [Andrej BAJUK]; Slovene National Party or SNS [Zmago JELINCIC];
Slovene People's Party or SLS [Franc BUT]; Slovene Youth Party or
SMS [Dominic CERNJAK]; Social Democratic Party of Slovenia or SDS
[Janez JANSA]; United List of Social Democrats or ZLSD [Borut PAHOR]
Solomon Islands
Association of Independents [Snyder RINI]; People's
Alliance Party or PAP [Allan KEMAKEZA]; People's Progressive Party
or PPP [Mannaseh Damukana SOGAVARE]; Solomon Islands Alliance for
Change Coalition or SIACC [Bartholomew ULUFA'ALU]; Solomon Islands
Labor Party or SILP [Joses TUHANUKU]
note: in general, Solomon Islands politics is characterized by fluid
coalitions
Somalia
none
South Africa
African Christian Democratic Party or ACDP [Kenneth
MESHOE, president]; African National Congress or ANC [Thabo MBEKI,
president]; Democratic Alliance (formed from the merger of the
Democratic Party or DP and the New National Party or NNP; note - NNP
split from DP in 2001) [Anthony LEON]; Freedom Front or FF [Dr.
Pieter MULDER, president]; Inkatha Freedom Party or IFP [Mangosuthu
BUTHELEZI, president]; New National Party or NNP [Marthinus VAN
SCHALKWYK]; Pan-Africanist Congress or PAC [Stanley MOGOBA,
president]; United Democratic Movement or UDM [Bantu HOLOMISA]
Spain
Basque Nationalist Party or PNV [Xabier ARZALLUS Antia];
Canarian Coalition or CC (a coalition of five parties) [Paulino
RIVERO]; Convergence and Union or CiU [Jordi PUJOL i Soley,
secretary general] (a coalition of the Democratic Convergence of
Catalonia or CDC [Jordi PUJOL i Soley] and the Democratic Union of
Catalonia or UDC [Josep Antoni DURAN y LLEIDA]); Galician
Nationalist Bloc or BNG [Xose Manuel BEIRAS]; Party of Independents
from Lanzarote or PIL [Dimas MARTIN Martin]; Popular Party or PP
[Mariano RAJOY]; Spanish Socialist Workers Party or PSOE [Jose Luis
RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO]; United Left or IU (a coalition of parties
including the PCE and other small parties) [Gaspar LLAMAZARES]