Turkmenistan
Democratic Party of Turkmenistan or DPT [Gurbanguly
BERDIMUHAMEDOW]
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 attack on President NYYAZOW's motorcade
Turks and Caicos Islands
People's Democratic Movement or PDM [Floyd
SEYMOUR]; Progressive National Party or PNP [Michael Eugene MISICK]
Tuvalu
there are no political parties but members of Parliament
usually align themselves in informal groupings
Uganda
Conservative Party or CP [Ken LUKYAMUZI]; Democratic Party or
DP [Kizito SSEBAANA]; Forum for Democratic Change or FDC [Kizza
BESIGYE]; Justice Forum or JEEMA [Muhammad Kibirige MAYANJA];
National Resistance Movement or NRM [Yoweri MUSEVENI]; Peoples
Progressive Party or PPP [Bidandi SSALI]; Ugandan People's Congress
or UPC [Miria OBOTE]
note: a national referendum in July 2005 opened the way for Uganda's
transition to a multi-party political system
Ukraine
Christian Democratic Union [Volodymyr STRETOVYCH]; Communist
Party of Ukraine or CPU [Petro SYMONENKO]; European Party of Ukraine
[Mykola KATERYNCHUK]; Fatherland Party (Batkivshchyna) [Yuliya
TYMOSHENKO]; Forward Ukraine! [Viktor MUSIYAKA]; Labor Party of
Ukraine [Mykola SYROTA]; People's Union Our Ukraine [Vyacheslav
KYRYLENKO]; Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs [Anatoliy
KINAKH]; Party of the Defenders of the Fatherland [Yuriy Karmazin];
People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh) [Borys TARASYUK]; People's Party
[Volodymyr LYTVYN]; PORA! (It's Time!) party [Vladyslav KASKIV];
Progressive Socialist Party [Natalya VITRENKO]; Reforms and Order
Party [Viktor PYNZENYK]; Party of Regions [Viktor YANUKOVYCH];
Republican Party [Yuriy BOYKO]; Sobor [Anatoliy MATVIYENKO]; Social
Democratic Party [Yevhen KORNICHUK]; Social Democratic Party
(United) or SDPU(o) [Yuriy ZAHORODNIY]; Socialist Party of Ukraine
or SPU [Oleksandr MOROZ]; Ukrainian People's Party [Yuriy KOSTENKO];
Viche [Inna BOHOSLOVSKA]
United Arab Emirates
none
United Kingdom
Conservative [David CAMERON]; Democratic Unionist
Party (Northern Ireland) [Peter ROBINSON]; Labor Party [Gordon
BROWN]; Liberal Democrats [Nick CLEGG]; Party of Wales (Plaid Cymru)
[Ieuan Wyn JONES]; Scottish National Party or SNP [Alex SALMOND];
Sinn Fein (Northern Ireland) [Gerry ADAMS]; Social Democratic and
Labor Party or SDLP (Northern Ireland) [Mark DURKAN]; Ulster
Unionist Party (Northern Ireland) [Sir Reg EMPEY]
United States
Democratic Party [Howard DEAN]; Green Party;
Libertarian Party [William (Bill) REDPATH]; Republican Party [Robert
M. (Mike) DUNCAN]
Uruguay
Broad Front (Frente Amplio) - formerly known as the
Progressive Encounter/Broad Front Coalition or EP-FA [Jorge
BROVETTO] (a broad governing coalition that includes Movement of the
Popular Participation or MPP [Jose MUJICA], New Space Party (Nuevo
Espacio) [Rafael MICHELINI], Progressive Alliance (Alianza
Progresista) [Rodolfo NIN NOVOA], Socialist Party [Eduardo
FERNANDEZ], the Communist Party [Marina ARISMENDI], Uruguayan
Assembly (Asamblea Uruguay) [Danilo ASTORI], and Vertiente
Artiguista [Mariano ARANA]); Colorado Party (Foro Batllista) [Julio
Maria SANGUINETTI]; National Party or Blanco [Luis Alberto LACALLE
and Jorge LARRANAGA]
Uzbekistan
Adolat (Justice) Social Democratic Party [Dilorom
TASHMUHAMMEDOVA]; Democratic National Rebirth Party (Milly
Tiklanish) or MTP [Hurshid DOSMUHAMMEDOV]; Fidokorlar National
Democratic Party (Self-Sacrificers) [Ahtam TURSUNOV]; Liberal
Democratic Party of Uzbekistan or LDPU [Adham SHADMANOV; People's
Democratic Party or NDP (formerly Communist Party) [Asliddin
RUSTAMOV]