Niue
Alliance of Independents or AI; Niue People's Action Party or
NPP [Young VIVIAN]
Norfolk Island
none
Northern Mariana Islands
Covenant Party [Benigno R. FITIAL];
Democratic Party [Dr. Carlos S. CAMACHO]; Republican Party [Juan S.
REYES]
Norway
Center Party [Aslaug Marie HAGA]; Christian People's Party
[Dagfinn HOYBRATEN]; Coastal Party [Roy WAAGE]; Conservative Party
[Erna SOLBERG]; Labor Party [Jens STOLTENBERG]; Liberal Party [Lars
SPONHEIM]; Progress Party [Siv JENSEN]; Red Electoral Alliance
[Torstein DAHLE]; Socialist Left Party [Kristin HALVORSEN]
Oman
none
Pakistan
Awami National Party or ANP [Asfandyar Wali KHAN];
Balochistan National Party/Hayee Group or BNP/H [Dr. Hayee BALUCH];
Baluch National Party/Awami or BNP/Awami [Moheem Khan BALOCH];
Baluch National Party-Mengal or BNP/M [Sardar Ataullah MENGAL];
Jamhoori Watan Party or JWP; Jamiat-al-Hadith or JAH [Sajid MIR];
Jamiat-i-Islami or JI [Qazi Hussain AHMED]; Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam,
Fazlur Rehman faction or JUI/F [Fazlur REHMAN]; Jamiat
Ulema-i-Islam, Sami ul-HAQ faction or JUI/S [Sami ul-HAQ]; Jamiat
Ulema-i-Pakistan or JUP [Shah Faridul HAQ]; Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal
or MMA [Qazi Hussain AHMED]; Muttahida Qaumi Movement, or MQM [Altaf
HUSSAIN]; National Alliance or NA [Ghulam Mustapha JATOI] (merged
with PML); Pakhtun Khwa Milli Awami Party or PkMAP [Mahmood Khan
ACHAKZAI]; Pakistan Awami Tehrik or PAT [Tahir ul QADRI]; Pakistan
Muslim League, Functional Group or PML/F [Pir PAGARO]; Pakistan
Muslim League, Nawaz Sharif faction or PML/N [Nawaz SHARIF];
Pakistan Muslim League or PML [Chaudhry Shujaat HUSSAIN]; note - as
of May 2004, the PML/Q changed its name to PML and absorbed the
PML/J, PML/Z, and NA; Pakistan People's Party or PPP [Aftab Ahmed
Khan SHERPAO]; Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians or PPPP
[Benazir BHUTTO]; Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf or PTI [Imran KHAN];
Tehrik-i-Islami [Allama Sajid NAQVI]
note: political alliances in Pakistan can shift frequently
Palau
none
Panama
Democratic Change or CD [Ricardo MARTINELLI]; Democratic
Revolutionary Party or PRD [Hugo GUIRAUD]; Liberal Party or PL
[Joaquin F. Franco VASQUEZ]; Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement
or MOLIRENA [Gisela CHUNG]; Panamenista Party or PA (formerly the
Arnulfista Party) [Juan Carlos VARELA]; Patriotic Union Party or PUP
[Jose Raul MULINO and Anibal GALINDO]; Popular Party or PP (formerly
Christian Democratic Party or PDC) [Rene ORILLAC]
Papua New Guinea
Christian Democratic Party [Dr. Banare BUN];
Melanesian Alliance Party or MAP [Sir Moi AVEL]; National Alliance
Party or NA [Michael SOMARE]; National Party; Papua and Niugini
Union Party or PANGU [Rabbie NAMALIU]; Papua New Guinea First Party
[Cecilking DORUBA]; Papua New Guinea Labor Party [Bob DANAYA]; Papua
New Guinea Party or PNGP (was People's Democratic Movement or PDM)
[Sir Mekere MORAUTA]; People's Action Party or PAP [Moses MALADINA];
People's Labor Party or PLP [Ekis ROPENU]; People's National
Congress or PNC [Peter O'NEILL]; People's Progress Party or PPP
[Byron CHAN]; Pipol First Party [Luther WENGE]; United Party [Bire
KIMASOPA]; United Resources Party or URP [Tim NEVILLE] (2007)
Paraguay
Asociacion Nacional Republicana - Colorado Party or ANR
[Jose A. ALDERETE, interim president]; Movimiento Union Nacional de
Ciudadanos Eticos or UNACE [Enrique GONZALEZ Quintana, acting
chairman]; Patria Querida (Beloved Fatherland Party) or PQ [Pedro
Nicolas Maraa FADUL Niella]; Partido Encuentro Nacional or PEN [Luis
TORALES Kennedy]; Partido Liberal Radical Autentico or PLRA [Blas
LLANO]; Partido Pais Solidario or PPS [Carlos Alberto FILIZZOLA
Pallares]
note: Nicanor DUARTE FRUTOS on leave as party leader of the Colorado
Party or ANR while serving as President of Paraguay; Lino Cesar
OVIEDO Silva, leader of UNACE, is currently serving a ten-year
prison term