Thailand
Democrat Party or DP (Prachathipat Party) [ABHISIT
Wetchachiwa]; People's Party or PP (Mahachon Party) [ANEK
Laothamatas]; Thai Nation Party or TNP (Chat Thai Party) [BARNHARN
SILPA-ARCHA]; Thai Rak Thai Party or TRT [CHATURON Chaisang]
Togo
Action Committee for Renewal or CAR [Yawovi AGBOYIBO];
Democratic Convention of African Peoples or CDPA; Democratic Party
for Renewal or PDR; Juvento [Monsilia DJATO]; Movement of the
Believers of Peace and Equality or MOCEP; Pan-African Patriotic
Convergence or CPP; Rally for the Support for Development and
Democracy or RSDD [Harry OLYMPIO]; Rally of the Togolese People or
RPT [Faure GNASSINGBE]; Socialist Pact for Renewal or PSR; Union for
Democracy and Social Progress or UDPS [Gagou KOKOU]; Union of Forces
for a Change or UFC [Gilchrist OLYMPIO]
Tokelau
none
Tonga
People's Democratic Party [Tesina FUKO]
Trinidad and Tobago
Congress of the People [Winston Dookeran];
Democratic National Alliance or DNA (coalition of NAR, DDPT, MND)
[Gerald YETMING]; Movement for National Development or MND [Garvin
NICHOLAS]; National Alliance for Reconstruction or NAR [Dr. Carson
CHARLES]; People's National Movement or PNM [Patrick MANNING];
United National Congress or UNC [Basdeo PANDAY]; Democratic Action
Congress or DAC [Hochoy CHARLES], note - only active in Tobago
Tunisia
Al-Tajdid Movement [Ali HALOUANI]; Constitutional Democratic
Rally Party (Rassemblement Constitutionnel Democratique) or RCD
[President Zine El Abidine BEN ALI (official ruling party)]; Green
Party for Progress or PVP [Mongi KHAMASSI]; Liberal Social Party or
PSL [Mounir BEJI]; Movement of Socialist Democrats or MDS [Ismail
BOULAHYA]; Popular Unity Party or PUP [Mohamed BOUCHIHA];
Progressive Democratic Party [Nejib CHEBBI]; Unionist Democratic
Union or UDU [Ahmed INOUBLI]
Turkey
Anavatan Partisi (Motherland Party) or Anavatan [Erkan
MUMCU]; Democratic Left Party or DSP [Mehmet Zeki SEZER]; Democratic
Society Party or DTP [Ahmet TURK]; Felicity Party (sometimes
translated as Contentment Party) or SP [Recai KUTAN]; Justice and
Development Party or AKP [Recep Tayyip ERDOGAN]; Nationalist Action
Party or MHP (sometimes translated as Nationalist Movement Party)
[Devlet BAHCELI]; People's Rise Party (Halkin Yukselisi Partisi) or
HYP [Yasar Nuri OZTURK]; Republican People's Party or CHP [Deniz
BAYKAL]; Social Democratic People's Party or SHP [Murat KARAYALCIN];
True Path Party (sometimes translated as Correct Way Party) or DYP
[Mehmet AGAR]; Young Party or GP [Cem Cengiz UZAN]
note: the parties listed above are some of the more significant of
the 49 parties that Turkey had on 1 December 2004
Turkmenistan
Democratic Party of Turkmenistan or DPT [Saparmurat
NIYAZOV]
note: formal opposition parties are outlawed; unofficial, small
opposition movements exist underground or in foreign countries; the
two most prominent opposition groups-in-exile have been National
Democratic Movement of Turkmenistan (NDMT) and the United Democratic
Party of Turkmenistan (UDPT); NDMT was led by former Foreign
Minister Boris SHIKHMURADOV until his arrest and imprisonment in the
wake of the 25 November 2002 assassination attempt on President
NIYAZOV; UDPT is led by former Foreign Minister Abdy KULIEV and is
based out of Moscow
Turks and Caicos Islands
People's Democratic Movement or PDM [Derek
H. TAYLOR]; Progressive National Party or PNP [Michael Eugene MISICK]
Tuvalu
there are no political parties but members of Parliament
usually align themselves in informal groupings