Mauritania
Action for Change or AC (no longer active) [Messoud Ould
BOULKHEIR]; Alliance for Justice and Democracy or AJD [Cisse Amadou
CHEIKHOU]; National Union for Democracy and Development or UNDD
[Tidjane KOITA]; Party for Liberty, Equality, and Justice or PLEJ
[Ba Mamdou ALASSANE]; Party of Democratic Convergence or PCD [Cheikh
Ould HORMA]; Popular Front or FP [Ch'bih Ould CHEIKH MALAININE];
Popular Progressive Alliance or APP [Messoud Ould BOULKHEIR];
Progress Force Union or UFP (no longer active) [Mohamed Ould
MAOULOUD]; Rally of Democratic Forces or RFD [Ahmed Ould DADDAH];
Rally for Democracy and Unity or RDU [Ahmed Ould SIDI BABA];
Republican Party for Democracy and Renewal or PRDR (formerly ruling
Democratic and Social Republican Party or PRDS) [Boullah Ould
MOGUEYA]; Right Way or SAWAB [Cheikh Ould Sidi Ould HANANA]; Union
for Democracy and Progress or UDP [Naha Mint MOUKNASS]; Union of
Forces of Progress or UFP [Mohamed Ould MAOULOUD]
note: the Party of Democratic Convergence was banned in October 2005
because it was regarded as Islamist and therefore in breach of
Mauritanian law
Mauritius
Alliance Sociale or AS; Hizbullah [Cehl Mohamed
FAKEEMEEAH]; Mauritian Labor Party or MLP [Navinchandra RAMGOOLAM];
Mauritian Militant Movement or MMM [Paul BERENGER] (in coalition
with MSM); Mauritian Social Democrat Party or PMSD [Charles
Xavier-Luc DUVAL]; Militant Socialist Movement or MSM [Pravind
JUGNAUTH] (the governing party); Rodrigues Movement or MR [Joseph
(Nicholas) Von MALLY]; Rodrigues Peoples Organization or OPR [Serge
CLAIR]
Mayotte
Democratic Front or FD [Youssouf MOUSSA]; Mahoran Popular
Movement or MPM [Ahmed MADI]; Federation of Mahorans or RPR (UMP)
[Mansour KAMARDINE]; Force of the Rally and the Alliance for
Democracy or FRAP; Movement for Department Status Mayotte or MDM
[Mouhoutar SALIM]; Renewed Communist Party of Mayotte or MRC [Omar
SIMBA]; Socialist Party or PS (local branch of French Parti
Socialiste) [Ibrahim ABUBACAR]; Union for French Democracy or UDF
[Henri JEAN-BAPTISTE]
Mexico
Convergence for Democracy or CD [Dante DELGADO Ranauro];
Institutional Revolutionary Party (Institutional Revolutionary
Party) or PRI [leader NA]; Mexican Green Ecological Party or PVEM
[Jorge Emilio GONZALEZ Martinez]; National Action Party (Partido
Accion Nacional) or PAN [Manuel ESPINO Barrientos]; New Alliance
Party (Partido Nueva Alianza) or PNA [Miguel Angel JIMENEZ Godines];
Party of the Democratic Revolution (Partido de la Revolucion
Democratica) or PRD [Leonel COTA Montano]; Workers Party or PT
[Alberto ANAYA Gutierrez]
Micronesia, Federated States of
no formal parties
Moldova
Braghis Faction [Dumitru BRAGHIS]; Christian Democratic
People's Party or PPCD [Iurie ROSCA]; Communist Party of the
Republic of Moldova or PCRM [Vladimir VORONIN, first chairman];
Democratic Moldova Bloc (comprised of the AMN, Democratic Party, and
PSL); Democratic Party [Dumitru DIACOV]; Our Moldova Alliance or AMN
[Serafim URECHEANU]; Social Liberal Party or PSL [Oleg SEREBRIAN]
Monaco
National and Democratic Union or UND [Guy MAGNAN]; Union for
Monaco or UPM (including National Union for the Future of Monaco or
UNAM)
Mongolia
Citizens' Will Republican Party or CWRP (also called Civil
Courage Republican Party or CCRP) [Sanjaasurengiin OYUN]; Democratic
Party or DP [Tsakhiagiyn ELBEGDORJ]; Motherland-Mongolian New
Socialist Democratic Party or M-MNSDP [Badarchyn ERDENEBAT];
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party or MPRP [Miegombyn ENKHBOLD];
Mongolian Republican Party or MRP [Bazarsadyn JARGALSAIKHAN];
People's Party or PP [Lamjav GUNDALAI]
note: DP and M-MNSDP formed Motherland-Democracy Coalition (MDC) in
2003 and with CWRP contested June 2004 elections as single party;
MDC's leadership dissolved coalition in December 2004
Montenegro
Albanian Alternative or AA; Bosniak Party or BS [Rafet
HUSOVIC]; Coalition for a European Montenegro (Democratic Party of
Socialists or DPS and Social Democratic Party or SDP) [Milo
DJUKANOVIC]; Coalition SPP/NS/DSS; Democratic League-Party of
Democratic Prosperity [Mehmet BARHDI]; Democratic Serbian Party of
Montenegro or DSS; Democratic Union of Albanians or DUA [Ferhat
DINOSA]; Liberal Party of Montenegro or LP [Miodrag ZIVKOVIC];
Movement for Changes or PZP [Nebojsa MEDOJEVIC]; People's Party of
Montenegro or NS [Predrag POPOVIC]; Serbian People's Party of
Montenegro or SNS [Andrija MANDIC]; Social Democratic Party or SDP
[Ranko KRIVOKAPIC]; Social Democratic Party of Montenegro or DPS
[Milo DJUKANOVIC]; Socialist People's Party or SNP [Predrag
BULATOVIC]
Montserrat
Montserrat Democratic Party or MDP [Lowell LEWIS];
Movement for Change and Prosperity or MCAP [Roselyn CASSELL-SEALY];
New People's Liberation Movement or NPLM [John A. OSBORNE]