alist Party or PPS [Piotr
IKONOWICZ]; Solidarity Electoral Action or AWS (includes RS-AWS and
Solidarity) [Marian KRZAKLEWSKI]; Social Movement-Solidarity
Electoral Action or RS-AWS [Jerzy BUZEK]

Portugal:
The Greens or PEV [leader NA]; Popular Party or PP [Paulo
PORTAS]; Portuguese Communist Party/United Democratic Coalition or
PCP/CDU [Carlos CARVALHAS]; Portuguese Socialist Party or PS
[Antonio GUTERRES]; Social Democratic Party or PSD [leader vacant];
The Left Bloc [no leader]

Puerto Rico:
National Democratic Party [Celeste BENITEZ]; National
Republican Party of Puerto Rico [Luis FERRE]; New Progressive Party
or PNP [Pedro ROSSELLO]; Popular Democratic Party or PPD [Hector
Luis ACEVEDO]; Puerto Rican Independence Party or PIP [Ruben BERRIOS
Martinez]

Qatar:
none

Reunion:
Communist Party of Reunion or PCR [Paul VERGES]; Rally for
the Republic or RPR [Andre Maurice PIHOUEE]; Socialist Party or PS
[Jean-Claude FRUTEAU]; Union for French Democracy or UDF [Gilbert
GERARD]

Romania:
Democratic Party or PD [Petre ROMAN]; Democratic Union of
Hungarians in Romania or UDMR [Bela MARKO]; National Liberal Party
or PNL [Mircea IONESCU-QUINTUS]; Party of Social Democracy in
Romania or PDSR [Adrian NASTASE]; Romania Mare Party (Greater
Romanian Party) or PRM [Corneliu Vadim TUDOR]; The Democratic
Convention or CDR [Ion DIACONESCU]

Russia:
Agrarian Party [Mikhail Ivanovich LAPSHIN]; Communist Party
of the Russian Federation or KPRF [Gennadiy Andreyevich ZYUGANOV];
Fatherland-All Russia or OVR [Yuriy Mikhailovich LUZHKOV]; Liberal
Democratic Party of Russia or LDPR [Vladimir Volfovich
ZHIRINOVSKIY]; Union of Right Forces [Anatoliy Borisovich CHUBAYS,
Yegor Timurovich GAYDAR, Irina Mutsuovna KHAKAMADA, Boris Yefimovich
NEMTSOV]; Unity [Sergey Kuzhugetovich SHOYGU]; Yabloko Bloc
[Grigoriy Alekseyevich YAVLINSKIY]

note: some 150 political parties, blocs, and movements registered
with the Justice Ministry as of the 19 December 1998 deadline to be
eligible to participate in the 19 December 1999 Duma elections; of
these, 36 political organizations actually qualified to run slates
of candidates on the Duma party list ballot, 6 parties cleared the
5% threshold to win a proportional share of the 225 party seats in
the Duma, 9 other organizations hold seats in the Duma: Bloc of
Nikolayev and Academician Fedorov, Congress of Russian Communiti