Colombia
Colombian Conservative Party or PC [Julio MANZUR Abdala];
Alternative Democratic Pole or PDA [Samuel MORENO Rojas]; Liberal
Party or PL [Cesar GAVIRIA Trujillo]; Social National Unity Party or
PSUN [Carlos GARCIA]; Radical Change or CR [German VARGAS Lleras]
note: Colombia has 15 formally recognized political parties, and
numerous unofficial parties that did not meet the vote threshold in
the March 2006 legislative elections required for recognition
Comoros
Convention for the Renewal of the Comoros [AZALI Assowmani];
Camp of the Autonomous Islands (a coalition of parties organized by
the island Presidents in opposition to the Union President); Front
National pour la Justice or FNJ [Ahmed RACHID] (Islamic party in
opposition); Mouvement pour la Democratie et le Progress or MDP-NGDC
[Abbas DJOUSSOUF]; Parti Comorien pour la Democratie et le Progress
or PCDP [Ali MROUDJAE]; Rassemblement National pour le Development
or RND [Omar TAMOU, Abdoulhamid AFFRAITANE]
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Congolese Rally for Democracy or
RCD [Azaria RUBERWA]; Forces for Renovation for Union and Solidarity
or FONUS [Joseph OLENGHANKOY]; Forces of Renewal or FR [Mbusa
NYAMWISI]; Movement for the Liberation of the Congo or MLC
[Jean-Pierre BEMBA]; National Congolese Lumumbist Movement or MNC
[Francois LUMUMBA]; People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy
or PPRD [Joseph Kabila]; Social Movement for Renewal or MSR; Unified
Lumumbast Party or PALU [Antoine GIZENGA]; Union for Democracy and
Social Progress or UDPS [Etienne TSHISEKEDI wa Mulumba]
Congo, Republic of the
the most important of the many parties are
the Democratic and Patriotic Forces or FDP [Denis SASSOU-NGUESSO,
president] (an alliance of Convention for Alternative Democracy,
Congolese Labor Party or PCT, Liberal Republican Party, National
Union for Democracy and Progress, Patriotic Union for the National
Reconstruction, and Union for the National Renewal); Congolese
Movement for Democracy and Integral Development or MCDDI [Michel
MAMPOUYA]; Pan-African Union for Social Development or UPADS [Martin
MBERI]; Rally for Democracy and Social Progress or RDPS [Jean-Pierre
Thystere TCHICAYA, president]; Rally for Democracy and the Republic
or RDR [Raymond Damasge NGOLLO]; Union for Democracy and Republic or
UDR; Union of Democratic Forces or UFD [Sebastian EBAO]
Cook Islands
Cook Islands Party or CIP [Henry PUNA]; Democratic
Party or Demo [Dr. Terepai MAOATE]
Costa Rica
Authentic Member from Heredia [Jose SALAS]; Citizen
Action Party or PAC [Otton SOLIS]; Costa Rican Renovation Party or
PRC [Gerardo Justo OROZCO Alvarez]; Democratic Force Party or PFD
[Vladimir DE LA CRUZ]; General Union Party or PUGEN [Carlos Alberto
FERNANDEZ Vega]; Homeland First or PP [Juan Jose VARGAS Fallas];
Independent Worker Party or PIO [Jose Alberto CUBERO Carmona];
Libertarian Movement Party or PML [Otto GUEVARA Guth]; National
Christian Alliance Party or ANC [Juan Carlos CHAVEZ Mora]; National
Integration Party or PIN [Walter MUNOZ Cespedes]; National
Liberation Party or PLN [Francisco Antonio PACHECO]; National
Patriotic Party or PPN [Daniel Enrique REYNOLDS Vargas]; National
Restoration Party or PRN [Carlos AVENDANO]; Nationalist Democratic
Alliance or ADN [Jose Miguel VILLALOBOS Umana]; Patriotic Union or
UP [Humberto ARCE Salas]; Social Christian Unity Party or PUSC [Luis
FILMAN]; Union for Change Party or UPC [Antonio ALVAREZ Desanti];
United Leftist Coalition or IU [Humberto VARGAS Carbonel]
Cote d'Ivoire
Citizen's Democratic Union or UDCY [Theodore MEL EG];
Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire-African Democratic Rally or
PDCI-RDA [Henri Konan BEDIE]; Ivorian Popular Front or FPI [Laurent
GBAGBO]; Ivorian Worker's Party or PIT [Francis WODIE]; Opposition
Movement of the Future or MFA [Anaky KOBENAN]; Rally of the
Republicans or RDR [Alassane OUATTARA]; Union for Democracy and
Peace in Cote d'Ivoire or UDPCI [Mabri TOIKEUSE]; over 20 smaller
parties
Croatia
Croatian Bloc or HB [Ivic PASALIC]; Croatian Christian
Democratic Union or HKDU [Anto KOVACEVIC]; Croatian Democratic
Congress of Slavonia and Baranja or HDSSB [Branimir GLAVAS];
Croatian Democratic Union or HDZ [Ivo SANADER]; Croatian Party of
Rights or HSP [Anto DJAPIC]; Croatian Peasant Party or HSS [Josip
FRISCIC]; Croatian Pensioner Party or HSU [Vladimir JORDAN];
Croatian People's Party or HNS [Vesna PUSIC] (in 2005 party merged
with Libra to become Croatian People's Party-Liberal Democrats or
NS-LD [Vesna PUSIC]); Croatian Social Liberal Party or HSLS [Djurdja
ADLESIC]; Croatian True Revival Party or HIP [Miroslav TUDJMAN];
Democratic Centre or DC [Vesna SKARE-OZBOLT]; Independent Democratic
Serb Party or SDSS [Vojislav STANIMIROVIC]; Istrian Democratic
Assembly or IDS [Ivan JAKOVCIC]; Social Democratic Party of Croatia
or SDP [Ivica RACAN]
Cuba
only party - Cuban Communist Party or PCC [Fidel CASTRO Ruz,
first secretary]
Cyprus
area under government control: Democratic Party or DIKO
[Marios KAROYIAN]; Democratic Rally or DISY [Nikos ANASTASIADHIS];
European Democracy or EURO.DI [Prodromos PRODROMOU] (evolved from
For Europe which merged with New Horizons); European Party or
EURO.KO [Demetris SYLLOURIS]; Fighting Democratic Movement or ADIK
[Dinos MIKHAILIDIS]; Green Party of Cyprus [George PERDIKIS];
Movement for Social Democrats or EDEK [Yannakis OMIROU]; Political
Movement of Hunters [Michalis PAFITANIS]; Progressive Party of the
Working People or AKEL (Communist Party) [Dimitrios CHRISTOFIAS];
United Democrats or EDI [Michalis PAPAPETROU]; area administered by
Turkish Cypriots: Communal Liberation Party or TKP [Huseyin
ANGOLEMLI]; Cyprus Socialist Party or KSP [Kazim ONGEN]; Democratic
Party or DP [Serder DENKTASH]; Freedom and Reform Party or OP
[Turgay AVCI]; National Unity Party or UBP [Tahsin ERTUGRULOGLU];
Nationalist Justice Party or MAP [Ata TEPE]; New Party or YP
[Huseyin TURAN]; Our Party or BP [Okyay SADIKOGLU]; Patriotic Unity
Movement or YBH [Oguz OZEN]; Peace and Democratic Movement or BDH
[Mustafa AKINCI]; Renewal Progress Party or YAP [Ertugrul
HASIPOGLU]; Republican Turkish Party or CTP [Ferdi Sabit SOYER];
United Cyprus Party or BKP [Isset IZCAN]