Barbados
Barbados Labor Party or BLP [Owen ARTHUR]; Democratic Labor
Party or DLP [Freundel STUART]; People's Empowerment Party or PEP
[David COMISSIONG]
Belarus
pro-government parties: Belarusian Agrarian Party or AP
[Mikhail SHIMANSKY]; Belarusian Patriotic Movement (Belarusian
Patriotic Party) or BPR [Nikolay ULAKHOVICH, chairman]; Communist
Party of Belarus or KPB [Tatsyana HOLUBEVA]; Liberal Democratic
Party or LDP [Sergey GAYDUKEVICH]; Republican Party of Labor and
Justice [Vasiliy ZADNEPRYANYY]
opposition parties: Belarusian Christian Democracy Party [Pavel
SEVERINETS] (unregistered); Belarusian Party of Communists or PKB
[Sergey KALYAKIN]; Belarusian Party of Labor [Aleksandr BUKHVOSTOV]
(unregistered); Belarusian Popular Front or BPF [Aleksey
YANUKEVICH]; Belarusian Social-Democratic Hramada [Stanislav
SHUSHKEVICH]; Belarusian Social Democratic Party Hramada
("Assembly") or BSDPH [Anatoliy LEVKOVICH]; Belarusian Social
Democratic Party People's Assembly ("Narodnaya Hramada") [Nikolay
STATKEVICH] (unregistered); Belarusian Women's Party Nadzeya
("Hope") [Yelena YESKOVA, chairperson]; Christian Conservative Party
or BPF [Zyanon PAZNIAK]; European Belarus Campaign [Andrey
SANNIKOV]; Party of Freedom and Progress [Vladimir NOVOSYAD]
(unregistered); "Tell the Truth" Campaign [Vladimir NEKLYAYEV];
United Civic Party or UCP [Anatoliy LEBEDKO]
Belgium
Flemish parties: Christian Democratic and Flemish or CDV
[Wouter BEKE]; Dedecker List or LDD [Lode VEREECK]; Flemish Liberals
and Democrats or Open VLD [Alexander DE CROO]; Groen! [Wouter VAN
BESIEN] (formerly AGALEV, Flemish Greens); New Flemish Alliance or
N-VA [Bart DE WEVER]; Social Progressive Alternative or SP.A
[Caroline GENNEZ]; Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) or VB [Bruno
VALKENIERS]
Francophone parties: Ecolo (Francophone Greens) [Jean-Michel JAVAUX,
Sarah TURINE]; Humanist and Democratic Center or CDH [Joelle
MILQUET]; Popular Party or PP [ Mischael MODRIKAMEN]; Reform
Movement or MR [Didier REYNDERS]; Socialist Party or PS [Elio DI
RUPO]; other minor parties
Belize
National Alliance for Belizean Rights or NABR; National
Reform Party or NRP [Cornelius DUECK]; People's National Party or
PNP [Wil MAHEIA]; People's United Party or PUP [John BRICENO];
United Democratic Party or UDP [Dean BARROW]; Vision Inspired by the
People or VIP [Paul MORGAN]; We the People Reform Movement or WTP
[Hipolito BAUTISTA]
Benin
African Movement for Democracy and Progress or MADEP [Sefou
FAGBOHOUN]; Alliance for Dynamic Democracy or ADD; Alliance of
Progress Forces or AFP; Benin Renaissance or RB [Rosine SOGLO];
Democratic Renewal Party or PRD [Adrien HOUNGBEDJI]; Force Cowrie
for an Emerging Benin or FCBE; Impulse for Progress and Democracy or
IPD [Theophile NATA]; Key Force or FC [Lazare SEHOUETO]; Movement
for the People's Alternative or MAP [Olivier CAPO-CHICHI]; Rally for
Democracy and Progress or RDP [Dominique HOUNGNINOU]; Social
Democrat Party or PSD [Bruno AMOUSSOU]; Union for Democracy and
National Solidarity or UDS [Sacca LAFIA]; Union for the Relief or
UPR [Issa SALIFOU]
note: approximately 20 additional minor parties
Bermuda
Progressive Labor Party or PLP [Ewart BROWN]; United Bermuda
Party or UBP [Kim SWAN]
Bhutan
Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party (Druk Phuensum Tshogpa) or
DPT [Jigme THINLEY]; People's Democratic Party or PDP [Tshering
TOBGAY]
Bolivia
Bolivia-National Convergence or PPB-CN [Manfred REYES
VILLA]; Fearless Movement or MSM [Juan DE GRANADO Cosio]; Movement
Toward Socialism or MAS [Juan Evo MORALES Ayma]; National Unity or
UN [Samuel DORIA MEDINA Arana]; People or Gente [Roman LOAYZA];
Social Alliance or AS [Rene JOAQUINO]
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Alliance for a Better Future of BiH or
SBB-BiH [ Fahrudin RADONCIC]; Alliance of Independent Social
Democrats or SNSD [Milorad DODIK]; Bosnian Party or BOSS [Mirnes
AJANOVIC]; Bosnian Patriotic Party or BPS [Sefer HALILOVIC]; Civic
Democratic Party or GDS [Ibrahim SPAHIC]; Croat Party of Rights or
HSP [Zvonko JURISIC]; Croat Peasants' Party-New Croat Initiative or
HSS-NHI [Ante COLAK]; Croatian Christian Democratic Union of Bosnia
and Herzegovina or HKDU [Ivan MUSA]; Croatian Democratic Union of
Bosnia and Herzegovina or HDZ-BiH [Dragan COVIC]; Croatian
Democratic Union 1990 or HDZ-1990 [Bozo LJUBIC]; Croatian Peoples
Union [Milenko BRKIC]; Democratic National Union or DNZ [Rifat
DOLIC]; Democratic Party or DP [Dragan CAVIC]; Democratic Peoples'
Alliance or DNS [Marko PAVIC]; Liberal Democratic Party or LDS
[Rasim KADIC]; Nasa Stranka or NS [NA; leadership elections late
2010/early 2011]; New Socialist Party or NSP [Zdravko KRSMANOVIC];
Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina or SBiH [Haris SILAJDZIC]; Party of
Democratic Action or SDA [Sulejman TIHIC]; Party of Democratic
Progress or PDP [Mladen IVANIC]; Peoples' Party of Work for Progress
or NSRzB [Mladen IVANKOVIC-LIJANOVIC]; Serb Democratic Party or SDS
[Mladen BOSIC]; Serb Radical Party of the Republika Srpska or SRS-RS
[Milanko MIHAJLICA]; Serb Radical Party-Dr. Vojislav Seselj or
SRS-VS [Mirko BLAGOJEVIC]; Social Democratic Party of BiH or SDP BiH
[Zlatko LAGUMDZIJA]; Social Democratic Union or SDU [Nermin
PECANAC]; Socialist Party of Republika Srpska or SPRS [Petar DJOKIC]
Botswana
Botswana Alliance Movement or BAM [Ephraim Lepetu
SETSHWAELO]; Botswana Congress Party or BCP [Gilson SALESHANDO];
Botswana Democratic Party or BDP [Daniel KWELAGOBE]; Botswana
National Front or BNF [Otswoletse MOUPO]; Botswana Peoples Party or
BPP [Bernard BALIKANI]; MELS Movement of Botswana or MELS [Themba
JOINA]; New Democratic Front or NDF [Dick BAYFORD]
note: a number of minor parties joined forces in 1999 to form the
BAM but did not capture any parliamentary seats - includes the
United Action Party [Ephraim Lepetu SETSHWAELO]; the Independence
Freedom Party or IFP [Motsamai MPHO]; the Botswana Progressive Union
[D. K. KWELE]