Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua Labor Party or ALP [Lester Bryant BIRD];
Barbuda People's Movement or BPM [Thomas H. FRANK]; Barbuda People's
Movement for Change [Arthur NIBBS]; Barbudans for a Better Barbuda
[Ordrick SAMUEL]; United Progressive Party or UPP [Baldwin SPENCER]
(a coalition of three parties - Antigua Caribbean Liberation
Movement or ACLM, Progressive Labor Movement or PLM, United National
Democratic Party or UNDP)
Argentina
Civic and Social Accord or ACyS (a broad center-left
alliance-including the CC, UCR, and Socialist parties-created ahead
of the 2009 legislative elections); Civic Coalition or CC (a broad
coalition loosely affiliated with Elisa CARRIO); Dissident Peronists
or PJ Disidente (a sector of the Justicialist Party opposed to the
Kirchners); Front for Victory or FpV (a broad coalition, including
elements of the UCR and numerous provincial parties) [Cristina
FERNANDEZ DE KIRCHNER]; Interbloque Federal or IF (a broad coalition
of approximately 12 parties including PRO); Justicialist Party or PJ
[Daniel SCIOLI]; Radical Civic Union or UCR [Ernesto SANZ];
Republican Proposal or PRO [Mauricio MACRI] (including Federal
Recreate Movement or RECREAR [Esteban BULLRICH]; Socialist Party or
PS [Ruben GIUSTINIANI]; Union For All [Patricia BULLRICH]
(associated with the Civic Coalition); numerous provincial parties
Armenia
Armenian National Congress or ANC (bloc of independent and
opposition parties) [Levon TER-PETROSSIAN]; Armenian National
Movement or ANM [Ararat ZURABIAN]; Armenian Revolutionary Federation
("Dashnak" Party) or ARF [Hrant MARKARIAN]; Heritage Party [Raffi
HOVHANNISIAN]; People's Party of Armenia [Stepan DEMIRCHIAN];
Prosperous Armenia [Gagik TSARUKIAN]; Republican Party of Armenia or
HHK [Serzh SARGSIAN]; Rule of Law Party (Orinats Yerkir) [Artur
BAGHDASARIAN]
Aruba
Aliansa/Aruban Social Movement or MSA [Robert WEVER]; Aruban
Liberal Organization or OLA [Glenbert CROES]; Aruban Patriotic
Movement or MPA [Monica ARENDS-KOCK]; Aruban Patriotic Party or PPA
[Benny NISBET]; Aruban People's Party or AVP [Mike EMAN]; People's
Electoral Movement Party or MEP [Nelson O. ODUBER]; Real Democracy
or PDR [Andin BIKKER]; RED [Rudy LAMPE]; Workers Political Platform
or PTT [Gregorio WOLFF]
Australia
Australian Greens [Bob BROWN]; Australian Labor Party
[Julia GILLARD]; Family First Party [Steve FIELDING]; Liberal Party
[Tony ABBOTT]; The Nationals [Warren TRUSS]
Austria
Alliance for the Future of Austria or BZOe [Josef BUCHER];
Austrian People's Party or OeVP [Josef PROELL]; Freedom Party of
Austria or FPOe [Heinz Christian STRACHE]; Social Democratic Party
of Austria or SPOe [Werner FAYMANN]; The Greens [Eva GLAWISCHNIG]
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan Democratic Party or ADP [Sardar JALALOGLU];
Civil Solidarity Party or CSP [Sabir RUSTAMKHANLI]; Civil Unity
Party [Sabir HACIYEV]; Classic People's Front of Azerbaijan
[Mirmahmud MIRALI-OGLU]; Democratic Reform Party [Asim MOLLAZADE];
Great Creation Party [Fazil Gazanfaroglu MUSTAFAYEV]; Hope (Umid)
Party [Iqbal AGAZADE]; Justice Party [Ilyas ISMAYILOV]; Liberal
Party of Azerbaijan [Lala Shovkat HACIYEVA]; Motherland Party
[Fazail AGAMALI]; Musavat (Equality) [Isa GAMBAR, chairman]; Open
Society Party [Rasul GULIYEV, in exile in the US]; Social Democratic
Party of Azerbaijan or SDP [Araz ALIZADE and Ayaz MUTALIBOV (in
exile)]; Social Welfare Party [Hussein KAZIMLI]; United Popular
Azerbaijan Front Party or AXCP [Ali KARIMLI]; Whole Azerbaijan
Popular Front Party [Gudrat HASANGULIYEV]; Yeni (New) Azerbaijan
Party or YAP [President Ilham ALIYEV]
note: opposition parties regularly factionalize and form new parties
Bahamas, The
Free National Movement or FNM [Hubert INGRAHAM];
Progressive Liberal Party or PLP [Perry CHRISTIE]
Bahrain
political parties prohibited but political societies were
legalized per a July 2005 law
Bangladesh
Awami League or AL [Sheikh HASINA]; Bangladesh Communist
Party or BCP [Manjurul A. KHAN]; Bangladesh Nationalist Party or BNP
[Khaleda ZIA]; Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh or BDB [Badrudozza
CHOWDHURY]; Islami Oikya Jote or IOJ [multiple leaders];
Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh or JIB [Matiur Rahman NIZAMI]; Jatiya
Party or JP (Ershad faction) [Hussain Mohammad ERSHAD]; Liberal
Democratic Party or LDP [Oli AHMED]