Dominican Republic
Dominican Liberation Party or PLD [Leonel
FERNANDEZ Reyna]; Dominican Revolutionary Party or PRD [Ramon
ALBURQUERQUE]; National Progressive Front [Vincent CASTILLO,
Pelegrin CASTILLO]; Social Christian Reformist Party or PRSC
[Enrique ANTUN]

Ecuador
Alianza PAIS Movement [Rafael Vicente CORREA Delgado];
Christian Democratic Union or UDC [Diego ORDONEZ Guerrero];
Democratic Left or ID [Andres PAEZ Benalcazar]; Ethical and
Democratic Network or RED [Leon ROLDOS]; Institutional Renewal and
National Action Party or PRIAN [Alvaro NOBOA]; Pachakutik
Plurinational Unity Movement - New Country or MUPP-NP [Jorge
GUAMAN]; Patriotic Society Party or PSP [Lucio GUTIERREZ Borbua];
Popular Democratic Movement or MPD [Ciro GUZMAN Aldaz]; Roldosist
Party or PRE [Abdala BUCARAM Ortiz, director]; Social Christian
Party or PSC [Pascual DEL CIOPPO]; Socialist Party - Broad Front or
PS-FA [Gustavo AYALA Cruz]

Egypt
National Democratic Party or NDP (governing party) [Mohamed
Hosni MUBARAK]; National Progressive Unionist Grouping or Tagammu
[Rifaat EL-SAID]; New Wafd Party or NWP [Mahmoud ABAZA]; Tomorrow
Party [Moussa Mustafa MOUSSA]
note: formation of political parties must be approved by the
government; only parties with representation in elected bodies are
listed

El Salvador
Christian Democratic Party or PDC [Rodolfo PARKER];
Democratic Convergence or CD [Hector DADA HIREZI] (formerly United
Democratic Center or CDU); Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front
or FMLN [Medardo GONZALEZ]; National Conciliation Party or PCN [Ciro
CRUZ ZEPEDA]; Nationalist Republican Alliance or ARENA [Rodrigo
AVILA]; Popular Social Christian Party or PPSC [Rene AGUILUZ];
Revolutionary Democratic Front or FDR [Julio Cesar HERNANDEZ Carcamo]

Equatorial Guinea
Convergence Party for Social Democracy or CPDS
[Placido MICO Abogo]; Democratic Party for Equatorial Guinea or PDGE
(ruling party) [Teodoro OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO]; Electoral Coalition
or EC; Party for Progress of Equatorial Guinea or PPGE [Severo
MOTO]; Popular Action of Equatorial Guinea or APGE [Avelino
MOCACHE]; Popular Union or UP

Eritrea
People's Front for Democracy and Justice or PFDJ [ISAIAS
Afworki] (the only party recognized by the government); note - a
National Assembly committee drafted a law on political parties in
January 2001, but the full National Assembly has yet to debate or
vote on it

Estonia
Center Party of Estonia (Keskerakond) [Edgar SAVISAAR];
Estonian Greens (Rohelised) [Marek STRANDBERG]; Estonian People's
Union (Rahvaliit) [Villu REILJAN]; Estonian Reform Party
(Reformierakond) [Andrus ANSIP]; Social Democratic Party (formerly
People's Party Moodukad or Moderates) [Ivari PADAR]; Union of Pro
Patria and Res Publica (Isamaa je Res Publica Liit) [Mart LAAR]

Ethiopia
Afar National Democratic Party or ANDP [Mohammed Kedir];
Benishangul Gumuz People's Democratic Unity Front or BGPDUF
[Mulualem BESSE]; Coalition for Unity and Democratic Party or CUDP;
Gurage Nationalities' Democratic Movement or GNDM; Oromo Federalist
Democratic Movement or OFDM [BULCHA Demeksa]; Omoro People's
Congress or OPC [IMERERA Gudina]; Somali People's Democratic Party
or SPDP; United Ethiopian Democratic Forces or UEDF [BEYENE Petros]

European Union
Confederal Group of the European United Left-Nordic
Green Left or GUE/NGL [Francis WURTZ]; European People's
Party-European Democrats or EPP-ED [Joseph DAUL]; Group of the
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe or ALDE [Graham R.
WATSON]; Group of Greens/European Free Alliance or Greens/EFA
[Monica FRASSONI and Daniel Marc COHN-BENDIT]; Identity, Tradition,
Sovereignty Group or ITS [Bruno GOLLNISCH]; Independence/Democracy
Group or IND/DEM [Hanne DAHL and Nigel FARAGE]; Socialist Group in
the European Parliament or PES [Martin SCHULZ]; Union for Europe of
the Nations Group or UEN [Brian CROWLEY and Cristiana MUSCARDINI]

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
none; all independents