rty [Bob BROWN]; Liberal Party [John
Winston HOWARD]; National Party [John ANDERSON]; One Nation Party
[Pauline HANSON]

Austria:
Austrian People's Party or OeVP [Wolfgang SCHUESSEL];
Freedom Party of Austria or FPOe [Susanne RIESS-PASSER]; Social
Democratic Party of Austria or SPOe [Alfred GUSENBAUER]; The Greens
Alternative or GA [Alexander VAN DER BELLEN]

Azerbaijan:
Alliance for Azerbaijan Party [Abutalyb SAMADOV];
Azerbaijani Democratic Party or ADP [Sardar JALAL]; Azerbaijani
Independent Democratic Party or AMDP [Leyla YUNUSOVA]; Azerbaijan
Popular Front or APF [Ali KERIMOV, leader of "reform faction";
Mirmahmud FATTAYEV, leader of "traditionalist" faction]; Civic
Solidarity Party or CSP [Sabir RUSTAMKHANLY]; Civic Union Party
[Ayaz MUTALIBOV]; Communist Party of Azerbaijan or CPA [Ramiz
AHMADOV]; Communist Party of Azerbaijan or CPA-2 [Firudin HASANOV];
Compatriot Party [Mais SAFARLI]; Democratic Enlightenment Party
[Mammadhanifu MUSAYEV]; Democratic Party for Azerbaijan or DPA
[Ilyus ISMAILOV and Rasul QULIYEV, co-chairman]; Democratic World
Party of Azerbaijan [Mamnad ALIZADE]; Liberal Party of Azerbaijan
[Lala Shvkat HAJIYEVA]; Motherland Party [Fazail AGAMALI]; National
Congress Party of Azerbaijan [Ihtiyar SHIRIN]; National Movement
Party [Samir JAFAROV]; National Statehood Party [Sabir
TARIVERDIYEV]; Musavat [Isa GAMBAR, chairman]; New Azerbaijan Party
or NAP [Heydar ALIYEV, chairman]; Party for National Independence of
Azerbaijan or PNIA [Etibar MAMMADOV, chairman]; People's Democratic
Party of Azerbaijan or PDPA [Rafig TURABKHANOGLU]; Social Democratic
Party of Azerbaijan or SDP [Zardusht ALIZADE, chairman]

note: opposition parties regularly factionalize and form new parties

Bahamas, The:
Free National Movement or FNM [Hubert Alexander
INGRAHAM]; Progressive Liberal Party or PLP [Perry CHRISTIE]

Bahrain:
political parties prohibited

Bangladesh:
Awami League or AL [Sheikh HASINA]; Bangladesh Communist
Party or BCP [Saifuddin Ahmed MANIK]; Bangladesh Nationalist Party
or BNP [Khaleda ZIAur Rahman]; Islami Oikya Jote or IOJ [Azizol
HAQ]; Jamaat-E-Islami or JI [Motiur Rahman NIZAMI]; Jatiya Party or
JP [Hussain Mohammad ERSHAD]

Barbados:
Barbados Labor Party or BLP [Owen ARTHUR]; Democratic
Labor Party or DLP [David THOMPSON]; National Democratic Party or
NDP [Richard HAYNES]

Belarus:
Agrarian Party or AP [S